Magnetic Reconnection and Turbulence

Presentations

• Instability of the Sweet Parker reconnection layer and onset of fast turbulent reconnection

  ORAL

  Nov. 2, 2009, 2:00 PM – Nov. 2, 2009, 2:12 PM

  Authors

  • Marina Skender

    • KU Leuven

  • Giovanni Lapenta

    • KU Leuven
    • Centre for Space Weather, Leuven, Belgium

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• ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

  Nov. 2, 2009, 2:12 PM – Nov. 2, 2009, 2:24 PM

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• Electron scale structure of thin current sheets in collisionless magnetic reconnection

  ORAL

  Nov. 2, 2009, 2:24 PM – Nov. 2, 2009, 2:36 PM

  Authors

  • Neeraj Jain

    • University of Maryland, College Park, MD-20742

  • Surjalal Sharma

    • University of Maryland, College Park, MD-20742
    • Univ. of Maryland

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• Fast magnetic reconnection in fluid models of collisionless pair plasma

  ORAL

  Nov. 2, 2009, 2:36 PM – Nov. 2, 2009, 2:48 PM

  Authors

  • Evan Johnson

    • UW-Madison

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• Phase-space signature of electron diffusion in collisionless magnetic reconnection: A standing electron phase-space hole

  ORAL

  Nov. 2, 2009, 2:48 PM – Nov. 2, 2009, 3:00 PM

  Authors

  • Li-Jen Chen

    • Space Science Center and Center for Integrated Computation and Analysis of Reconnection and Turbulence, University of New Hampshire

  • William Daughton

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • LANL

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• Electron holes in PIC Simulations with Physical Mass Ratio

  ORAL

  Nov. 2, 2009, 3:00 PM – Nov. 2, 2009, 3:12 PM

  Authors

  • Giovanni Lapenta

    • KU Leuven
    • Centre for Space Weather, Leuven, Belgium

  • Martin Goldman

    • University of Colorado

  • David Newman

    • University of Colorado

  • Andrey Divin

    • KU Leuven

  • S. Markidis

    • UIUC

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• Dynamo action with flow shear and magnetic shear

  ORAL

  Nov. 2, 2009, 3:12 PM – Nov. 2, 2009, 3:24 PM

  Authors

  • N. Leprovost

    • University of Sheffield

  • E. Kim

    • University of Sheffield

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• The effect of two-dimensional turbulence on resistive-MHD reconnection

  ORAL

  Nov. 2, 2009, 3:24 PM – Nov. 2, 2009, 3:36 PM

  Authors

  • Nuno Loureiro

    • IPFN, IST Lisbon

  • Dmitri Uzdensky

    • Princeton University/CMSO
    • Princeton Univ./CMSO

  • Alexander Schekochihin

    • University of Oxford
    • R.Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford
    • R. Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford

  • Stephen Cowley

    • EURATOM/UKAEA Culham Science Centre

  • Tarek Yousef

    • Imperial College London

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• Fast 3D Reconnection of Weakly Stochastic Magnetic Field: Prospects of the Research

  ORAL

  Nov. 2, 2009, 3:36 PM – Nov. 2, 2009, 3:48 PM

  Authors

  • Alex Lazarian

    • University of Wisconsin
    • University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Ethan Vishniac

    • McMaster University

  • Grzegorz Kowal

    • Jagiellonian University
    • University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Hoang Thiem

    • University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Reinaldo Lima

    • University of Sao Paolo

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• Spectrum of weak MHD turbulence

  ORAL

  Nov. 2, 2009, 3:48 PM – Nov. 2, 2009, 4:00 PM

  Authors

  • Stanislav Boldyrev

    • University of Wisconsin-Madison
    • U. Wisconsin-Madison

  • Jean Carlos Perez

    • University of Wisconsin-Madison
    • Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    • U. Wisconsin-Madison

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• Numerical studies of weak MHD turbulence

  ORAL

  Nov. 2, 2009, 4:00 PM – Nov. 2, 2009, 4:12 PM

  Authors

  • Jean Carlos Perez

    • University of Wisconsin-Madison
    • Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    • U. Wisconsin-Madison

  • Stanislav Boldyrev

    • University of Wisconsin-Madison
    • U. Wisconsin-Madison

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• Theory of incompressible MHD turbulence with scale dependent alignment and cross-helicity

  ORAL

  Nov. 2, 2009, 4:12 PM – Nov. 2, 2009, 4:24 PM

  Authors

  • J.J. Podesta

    • LANL

  • A. Bhattacharjee

    • University of New Hampshire
    • Center for Integrated Computation and Analysis of Reconnection and Turbulence, University of New Hampshire
    • Center for Integrated Computation and Analysis of Reconnection and Turbulence, UNH, Durham, NH
    • UNH

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• Scaling criteria for high Reynolds number MHD turbulence

  ORAL

  Nov. 2, 2009, 4:24 PM – Nov. 2, 2009, 4:36 PM

  Authors

  • Ye Zhou

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, 94551

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• Thermodynamics, Vertical Structure, and Coronal Power of Optically-Thick MRI-Turbulent Accretion Disks

  ORAL

  Nov. 2, 2009, 4:36 PM – Nov. 2, 2009, 4:48 PM

  Authors

  • Dmitri Uzdensky

    • Princeton University/CMSO
    • Princeton Univ./CMSO

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• Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling through Plasma Turbulence in Electrojet

  ORAL

  Nov. 2, 2009, 4:48 PM – Nov. 2, 2009, 5:00 PM

  Authors

  • Y.S. Dimant

    • Boston University

  • M.M. Oppenheim

    • Boston University

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