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 |