From space, solar and laboratory plasmas to plasma astrophysics

 

International Symposium organized by the  "Theory and Simulation of Solar System Plasmas" (TSSSP) group of the MPS on the occasion of its move to the Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Technical University of Berlin

Date: 18. - 19. June 2018

Address: Justus-von-Liebig Weg 3, 37077 Göttingen

Venue: Gauss-Auditorium of the Max-Planck-Institute for Solar System Research

 

 

 

PROGRAM


Monday 18th of June


Time Speaker Affiliation Talk
10:00 S.K. Solanki MPS Göttingen, Germany J. Büchner - Life and Science
Chair: J. Büchner
10:30 C. Kennel Scripps Institution, UCSD San Diego, CA, USA The birth of space plasma physics
11:00 A. Petrukovich Institute for Space Research (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia Multispacecraft observations of current sheets: from geophysics to plasmas
11:20 A. Vaivads Swedish Institute for Space Research (IRF), Uppsala, Sweden Magnetic reconnection and turbulence: space observations from CLUSTER to MMS
11:40 H. Ji PPPL & Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA Laboratory investigation of  reconnection and turbulence: from MRX to FLARE
12:00 A. Otto University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, USA MHD simulations from magnetospheres to the Sun
12:20 H. Peter MPS Göttingen, Germany Understanding the active solar corona: achievements and challenges
12:40 - 13:40 Lunch break
Chair: H. Peter
13:40 W. Gan Purple Mountain Observatoryof the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China ASO-S - the First Chinese Solar Space Mission
14:00 V. Bothmer Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany Parker Solar Probe: exploring the plasma of the solar corona
14:20 F. Jenko Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching, Germany Plasma turbulence: from fusion research to astrophysics
14:40 B. Heber IEAP, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany Energetic particles in the solar system and beyond
15:00 M. Hoshino University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan Kinetic problems in plasma astrophysics: Acceleration, MRI, shocks and reconnection
15:20 F. Spanier North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa PiC simulation of astrophysical plasmas
15:40 -16:10 Coffee Break
 Chair: M. Hoshino  
16:10 U. Motschmann Technical University Braunschweig, Germany Plasma interaction between exoplanets and host stars
16:30 H. Zhang National Hoairu Astronomical Observatory, Beijing, China The role of the solar magnetic helicity
16:50 T. Wiegelmann MPS Göttingen, Germany Force-free extrapolation of stellar magnetic fields
17:10 S. Liu Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China Solar radio diagnostics of electron beams
17:30 M. Bárta Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Ondrejov, Czech Republic Stucture formation in and radiodiagnostics of the Solar corona , the ALMA project

 


Tuesday 19th of June


Time Speaker Affiliation Talk
Chair: P. Muñoz
09:00 J. C. Santos Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil Observation-based MHD simulations of rotating sunspots
09:20 S. Yang National Astronomical Observatoy CAS, Beijing, China Magnetic helicity evolution in the solar corona - a precursor of eruptions?
09:40 G. Choe Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Korea Roll effect in solar eruptions - a mysterious symmetry breaking
10:00 I. Zimovets ISSI Beijing, China Magnetic structures of solar flare regions with and without hard X-ray pulsations
10:20 -10:50 Coffee Break
Chair: N. Jain  
10:50 N. Yokoi University of Tokyo, Japan         Turbulent dynamo research beyond heuristic modelling   
11:10 M. Käpylä Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland & MPS Göttingen, Germany The future of global magnetoconvection simulation
11:30 J. Warnecke MPS Göttingen, Germany Open questions and the future of the dynamo simulation
11:50 J. Büchner MPS Göttingen, Germany Acknowledgement, outlook, adjorn
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