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Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Time Event  
08:30 - 09:00 Registration - Registration  
09:00 - 09:10 Welcome  
09:10 - 10:35 Astrophysical MHD  
09:10 - 09:50 › The surprising simplicity of the global solar dynamo - Manfred Schüssler, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research  
09:50 - 10:05 › Non-axisymmetric evolution of the Sun's toroidal flux - David Martin Belda, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research  
10:05 - 10:20 › Exploring a new regime of a delayed Babcock-Leighton dynamo - Yori Fournier, Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics  
10:20 - 10:35 › Numerically modelling coronal structures associated with rotating sunspots - Mayukh Panja, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Goettingen, Center of Excellence in Space Sciences India, IISER Kolkata  
10:35 - 11:00 Coffee break  
11:00 - 12:30 Astrophysical MHD  
11:00 - 11:15 › Searching for asymptotics in convection-driven dynamos - Petri Käpylä, Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam, ReSoLVE Centre for Excellence, Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, Max-Planck-Institut fur Sonnensystemforschung  
11:15 - 11:30 › Dynamics of solar supergranulation - Jan Langfellner, Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung  
11:30 - 11:45 › Angular momentum transport by magnetic instabilities in post-main sequence low-mass stars - Federico Spada, Leibniz-Institut fuer Astrophysik Potsdam  
11:45 - 12:00 › Mass loss of massive stars with strong surface magnetic fields - Manfred Küker, Leibniz-Insitut für Astrophysik Potsdam  
12:00 - 12:15 › A new MHD-assisted Stokes inversion technique - Tino Riethmüller, Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung  
12:15 - 12:30 › Stellar dynamo models with harmonic coronal fields - Alfio Bonanno, INAF Catania Astrophysical Observatory  
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 14:45 Astrophysical MHD  
14:00 - 14:15 › Observing Stellar Dynamos in Action - Thomas Hackman, University of Helsinki  
14:15 - 14:30 › A deep-seated mechanism for cycle-dependent sunspot group tilt angles - Emre Isik, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research  
14:30 - 14:45 › On the inverse transfer of nonhelical magnetic energy in a decaying magnetohydrodynamic turbulence - Kiwan Park, University of Heidelberg  
14:45 - 15:45 Plasma physics  
14:45 - 15:00 › Heat and momentum transfer for magnetoconvection in a vertical external magnetic field - Joerg Schumacher, Technische Universität Ilmenau  
15:00 - 15:15 › Flux rope stability analysis - Jan Skala, Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung  
15:15 - 15:30 › Kinetic scale turbulence and magnetic reconnection in laboratory and space plasmas - Patricio A. Muñoz Sepúlveda, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research  
15:30 - 15:45 › The Lie-Taylor Approach to MHD Transients - Wayne Arter, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy  
15:45 - 16:15 Coffee break  
16:15 - 17:45 Engineering MHD  
16:15 - 16:30 › Testing of MHD generator prototype for Space applications - Artūrs Brēķis, Institute of Physics of University of Latvia  
16:30 - 16:45 › Role of droplets in interfacial MHD instabilities - Abdellah Kharicha  
16:45 - 17:00 › Magneto-convective flows in rectangular ducts with internal cylindrical obstacles - Chiara Mistrangelo, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology  
17:00 - 17:15 › Electrically coupled 3D MHD flows in manifolds for helium cooled lead lithium fusion blankets - Leo Bühler, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology  
17:15 - 17:30 › Maximum electromagnetic drag configurations for a translating conducting cylinder with distant magnetic dipoles - Thomas Boeck, Technische Universität Ilmenau  
17:30 - 17:45 › Numerical aspects of Large eddy simulations for turbulent magnetohydrodynamic duct flows - Sebastian Prinz, Technische Universität Ilmenau  
18:00 - 20:00 Poster Session and Ice breaker  

Thursday, December 1, 2016

Time Event  
09:00 - 10:30 Planetary MHD  
09:00 - 09:15 › Realistic force balance in geodynamo simulations - Ulrich Christensen, Max-Planck Institute for Solar System Reseach  
09:15 - 09:30 › Physical Conditions for Jupiter-like Dynamos - Johannes Wicht, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research  
09:30 - 09:45 › A sandwich stable layer in Saturn's deep interior - Wieland Dietrich, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research  
09:45 - 10:00 › Dynamos in precessing cubes - Oliver Goepfert, University of Goettingen  
10:00 - 10:15 › Non-axisymmetric magnetorotational instability in the spherical Couette system - Domenico Meduri, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie  
10:15 - 10:30 › Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence and the Geodynamo - John Shebalin, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Johnson Space Center  
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break  
11:00 - 12:30 Planetary MHD  
11:00 - 11:15 › Hydrodynamic regimes of the spherical Couette flow - Ankit Barik, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research  
11:15 - 11:30 › The dynamics of magnetic Rossby waves in spherical dynamo simulations - Kumiko Hori, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds  
11:30 - 11:45 › Using geomagnetic data and dynamo models to constrain the Earth's magnetic field through the last three millennia - Sabrina Sanchez, Max-Planck Institute for Solar System Research  
11:45 - 12:00 › The time asymmetry of the magnetic field variations - Maxim Reshetnyak, Institute of the Physics of the Earth of RAS  
12:00 - 12:30 Astrophysical MHD  
12:00 - 12:15 › Saturation of the Dynamo in the turbulent ISM - Detlef Elstner, Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam  
12:15 - 12:30 › On the effects of helicity in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence - Ganapati Sahoo, University of Rome "Tor Vergeta"  
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 16:00 Astrophysical MHD  
14:00 - 15:00 › Mean-field electrodynamics and dynamo theory: the old concept and some recent developments - Karl-Heinz Raedler, Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam  
15:00 - 16:00 › Coherent Structures of Turbulence Modelled by Sequences of Bifurcations - Friedrich Busse, Universität Bayreuth  
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break  
16:30 - 18:00 Laboratory experiments  
16:30 - 16:45 › Simulations for the precession experiment at HZDR - Andre Giesecke, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf [Allemagne]  
16:45 - 17:00 › Nonmodal dynamics of helical magnetorotational instability - George Mamatsashvili, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf  
17:00 - 17:15 › First experimental insights into the transition from AMRI to HMRI - Martin Seilmayer, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf  
17:15 - 17:30 › INVESTIGATION OF THE ELECTROVORTEX FLOW IN THE EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD - Irina B Klementyeva, Joint Institute for High Temperatures of RAS  
17:30 - 17:45 › Towards a new liquid metal experiment in super-rotating TC flows - Marcus Gellert, Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam  
17:45 - 18:00 › Ultrasonic flow measurements in a 1:6 downscaled water mockup of the DRESDYN dynamo experiment - Thomas Gundrum, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf  
18:15 - 19:15 Tour de MPS - Tour showing the laboratories of the MPS  
19:30 - 22:00 Banquet  
21:00 - 22:00 MPS Band MegaGauss giving a concert  

Friday, December 2, 2016

Time Event  
09:00 - 10:30 Astrophysical MHD  
09:00 - 09:45 › From solar to stellar dynamos combining observations and modelling - Maarit Käpylä, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research  
09:45 - 10:00 › Activity cycles and active longitudes on stolar-type stars - Jyri Lehtinen, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research  
10:00 - 10:15 › Understanding dynamo mechanisms and torsional oscillations from 3D convection simulations of the Sun - Jörn Warnecke, Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung  
10:15 - 10:30 › The role of helicity inversion in cyclical magnetism in global dynamo simulations - Lucia Duarte, College of Engineering , Mathematics and Physical Sciences [Exeter]  
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break  
11:00 - 12:30 Astrophysical MHD  
11:00 - 11:15 › Scaling regimes in spherical shell rotating convection - Thomas Gastine, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris  
11:15 - 11:30 › Magnetorotational instability in Taylor-Couette flow: transport properties and dynamo action - Anna Guseva, Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity, University of Bremen  
11:30 - 11:45 › Large eddy simulations of decaying supersonic MHD turbulence - Philipp Grete, Michigan State University (USA)  
11:45 - 12:00 › Formation of dense gas cores due to supernova remnant-cloud interactions - Philipp Gast, Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam  
12:00 - 12:15 › Tidally synchronized Tayler-Spruit dynamos - Frank Stefani, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf  
12:15 - 12:30 › Effects of a guided-field on particle diffusion in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence - Yue-Kin Tsang, Centre for Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, University of Exeter  
12:30 - 12:35 End of the meeting  
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