scientific program

SUMMER SCHOOL WEEK 1 (May 3 - 7)
WORKSHOP WEEK 2 (May 9 - 14)




SUMMER SCHOOL WEEK 1 (May 3 - 7)
Lectures Material

Sunday, May 2  
   
18.00 - 20.00 Registration
19.00 - Reception with food and beverages
   
   
Monday, May 3  
   
08.15 - 08.30 Opening by Organizers
   
08.30 - 10.30 Chris Jones (University of Leeds)
  Dynamo theory (Part I)
   
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
   
11.00 - 12.00 John A. Krommes (Princeton University)
  Plasma turbulence (Part I)
   
12.00 Lunch break
   
14.00 - 16.00 Alain Brizard (Saint Michael's College, Colchester)
  Gyrokinetic theory (Part I)
   
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break
   
  Chairperson: Roderich Moessner
   
16.30 - 17.30
MPI-Colloquium
  Ulrich Schollwöck (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
  Playing with Superlattices: Ultracold atoms out of equilibrium
   
18.30 Supper
   
19.30 Poster session (including beverages)
   
   
Tuesday, May 4  
08.30 - 10.30 Alain Brizard (Saint Michael's College, Colchester)
  Gyrokinetic theory (Part II)
   
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
   
11.00 - 12.00 Gregory Falkovich (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot)
  Turbulence theory (Part I)
   
12.00 Lunch break
   
13.30 - 15.30 Eberhard Bodenschatz (MPI für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation, Göttingen)
  Turbulence experiments
   
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break
   
16.00 - 18.00 Chris Jones (University of Leeds)
  Dynamo theory (Part II)
   
18.30 Supper
   
   
Wednesday, May 5  
   
08.30 - 10.30 Gregory Falkovich (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot)
  Turbulence theory (Part II)
   
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
   
11.00 - 12.00 John A. Krommes (Princeton University)
  Plasma turbulence (Part II)
   
12.00 Lunch break
   
13.30 - 15.30 Jean-François Pinton (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
  Dynamo experiments
   
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break
   
16.00 - Excursion - is going to Schloss Moritzburg
19.00 - conference dinner takes place in the Schlossrestaurant Moritzburg

   
   
Thursday, May 6  
   
08.30 - 10.30 Gregory Falkovich (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot)
  Turbulence theory (Part III)
   
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
   
11.00 - 12.00 Chris Jones (University of Leeds)
  Dynamo theory (Part III)
   
12.00 Lunch break
   
13.30 - 15.30 John A. Krommes (Princeton University)
  Plasma turbulence (Part III)
   
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break
   
16.00 - 18.00 Rainer Grauer (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
  Computational physics
   
18.30 Supper
   
   
Friday, May 7  
   
08.30 - 10.30 Bruno Eckhardt (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
  Structure formation
   
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
   
11.00 - 12.00 John A. Krommes (Princeton University)
  Plasma turbulence (Part IV)
   
12.00 Lunch
   
18.30 Supper
   
   



WORKSHOP WEEK 2 (May 9 - 14)

 
Sunday, May 9  
   
18:00 - 20:00 Registration
19:00 - Reception with food and beverages
   
   
Monday, May 10  
   
08:15 - 08:30 Frank Jülicher (Director MPIPKS Dresden) &
  Scientific Coordinators
  Opening
   
  Fluid and plasma turbulence
   
08.30 - 09.00 Gregory Falkovich (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot)
  New flux relations in compressible and incompressible turbulence
   
09.00 - 09.15 Kirill Zybin (Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow)
  Structure functions in fully-developed hydrodynamic turbulence. Analytic approach
   
09.15 - 09.30 Michael Wilczek (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Münster)
  Modeling PDF Closures in Turbulence
   
09.30 - 10.00 Raul Sanchez (ORNL, Oak Ridge / Universidad Carlos III Madrid)
  Physics of transport across sheared flows self-generated by turbulence in fluids and plasmas
   
10.00 - 10.15 Alexander Milovanov (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Rome)
  Aspects of complex behavior in geo-space and fusion plasma systems
   
10.15 - 10.30 Johan Anderson (Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Greifswald)
  Statistical properties of heat flux in toroidal ITG turbulence
   
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
  Shear flows in plasmas and fluids
   
11.00 - 11.30 Steven Cowley (UK Atomic Energy Authority, Abingdon)
  Hear flow instabilities and fusion
   
11.30 - 12.00 Bruno Eckhardt (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
  Turbulence transition in pipe flow and other shear flows
   
12.00 - 12.15 Marc Avila (MPI für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation, Göttingen)
  Transient growth and the regeneration cycle of shear flow turbulence
   
12.15 - 12.30 Alberto de Lozar (MPI für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation, Göttingen)
  Universality at the onset of turbulence in shear flows
   
12.30 Lunch break
   
  Liquid metal and plasma dynamos
   
14.00 - 14.30 Frank Stefani (Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
  Liquid metal experiments on dynamo action and related magnetic instabilities
   
14.30 - 15.00 Klaus Reuter (Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Garching)
  Hydrodynamic waves and turbulence in a spherical MHD dynamo model
   
15.00 - 15.15 Jean Boisson (CEA/IRAMIS/SPEC, Gif sur Yvette Cedex)
  Magnetic field reconstruction in the VKS experiment
   
15.15 - 15.45 Cary B. Forest (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
  Plasma Dynamo Experiments: Initial results, simulations and plans
   
15.45 - 16.00 Marco Onofri (Università della Calabria, Rende)
  Compressible magnetohydrodynamics simulations of the reversed-field pinch
   
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break
   
16.30 - 17.30
TURB10-Colloquium
  Günther Hasinger (MPI für Plasmaphysik, Garching)
  The way to a fusion power station
   
18.30 Supper
   
19.30 Poster session (including beverages)
   
   
Tuesday, May 11  
  How universal is fluid turbulence?
   
08.30 - 09.00 Gert-Jan van Heijst (Eindhoven University of Technology)
  Adventures in 2D turbulence
   
09.00 - 09.30 Arkady Tsinober (Tel Aviv University)
  The need for sub-Kolmogorov resolution - The necessity of studying turbulence as an undecomposable whole - A fundamentally novel approach
   
09.30 - 10.00 Christos Vassilicos (Imperial College London)
  More than one class of small-scale turbulence?
   
10.00 - 10.30 Joachim Peinke (Universität Oldenburg)
  How universal in turbulence
   
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
   
  How universal is plasma turbulence?
   
11.00 - 11.30 Paolo Ricci (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
  The simulation effort for the basic plasma physics experiment TORPEX
   
11.30 - 12.00 Tobias Görler (Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Garching)
  Multiscale features of plasma microturbulence
   
12.00 - 12.30 Gregory Hammett (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
  Statistics of Truncated Gyrokinetics, and Simulations of ST Experiments
   
12.30 Lunch break
  Energetics in turbulent plasmas?
   
14.00 - 14.30 Alain J. Brizard (Saint Michael's College, Colchester)
  A guided tour of gyrokinetic theory
   
14.30 - 15.00 Alexander Schekochihin (University of Oxford)
  Energy flow and phase mixing in gyrokinetic turbulence
   
15.00 - 15.30 Daniele Carati (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
  On the modelling of sub-grid scale physics in under-resolved gyrokinetic simulations
   
15.30 - 16.00 Paul Terry (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  Saturation of plasma microturbulence by damped eigenmodes
   
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break
   
  Planetary dynamos
   
16.30 - 17.00 Daniel Perry Lathrop (University of Maryland)
  Rotating turbulence and precession in a laboratory model of the Earth's core
   
17.00 - 17.30 Ulrich Christensen (Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Katlenburg-Lindau)
  Mode selection in MHD models of planetary dynamos
   
17.30 - 18.00 Ulrich Hansen (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
  Convection in planetary interiors - The high rayleigh number - Infinite prandtl number scenario
   
18.00 - 18.15 Martin Breuer (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
  Thermo-chemically driven planetary core convection and dynamos
   
18.30 Supper
   
   
Wednesday, May 12  
  Lagrangian turbulence I
   
08.30 - 09.00 Jean-François Pinton (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
  Inertial participles in turbulence: Size matters
   
09.00 - 09.30 Rainer Grauer (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
  Puzzles in Eulerian and Lagrangian turbulence
   
09.30 - 09.45 Wolf-Christian Müller (Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Garching)
  Lagrangian frequency spectra of MHD turbulence
   
09.45 - 10.15 Kai Schneider (Université de Provence, Marseille)
  On Lagrangian dynamics of drift-wave turbulence
   
10.15 - 10.30 Kyle Gustafson (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
  Dispersion of ion gyrocenters in models of anisotropic plasma turbulence
   
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
   
  Turbulence, rotation, and helicity
   
11.00 - 11.30 Chris Jones (University of Leeds)
  Helicity generation and subcritical behaviour in rapidly rotating dynamos
   
11.30 - 11.45 Nikolay Vitanov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
  On the bounds on heat transport and power-law scaling in the nonlinear convection in rapidly rotating fluid layer
   
11.45 - 12.00 Arakel Petrosyan (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)
  Vortical dynamo in turbulent multiphase flows
   
12.00 - 12.15 Tomas Teitelbaum (Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA))
  Large scale effects on the decay of rotating helical and non-helical turbulence
   
12.15 - 12.30 Paola Carolina Rodriguez Imazio (Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA))
  Cancellation exponents in helical and non-helical flows
   
12.30 Lunch break
   
  Convection, MHD flows, and dynamos
   
14.00 - 14.30 Jörg Schumacher (Technische Universität Ilmenau)
  Numerical studies in shallow moist convection
   
14.30 - 14.45 Michael Sinhuber (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
  Direct numerical simulation of Rayleigh-Bénard-Equations using volume penalization
   
14.45 - 15.00 Thomas Boeck (Technische Universität Ilmenau)
  Transition and turbulence in MHD flows at low magnetic Reynolds number
   
15.00 - 15.30 Jonathan Pietarila Graham (Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Katlenburg-Lindau)
  Small-scale dynamo action in solar surface simulations
   
15.30 - 15.45 Luiz Andrade (UERJ, Rio de Janeiro)
  Mean field cosmic dynamos in Riemannian geometry
   
15.45 - 16.00 Giuseppina Nigro (University of Calabria, Cosenza)
  A shell model for magnetic dynamo
   
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break
   
16.30 - Excursion - Guided city tour through Dresden
19.00 - conference dinner takes place in the Sophienkeller
   
   
Thursday, May 13  
  Turbulence control
   
08.30 - 09.00 Björn Hof (MPI für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation, Göttingen)
  Eliminating turbulence in spatially intermittent flows
   
09.00 - 09.30 John A. Krommes (Princeton University)
  Zonal-flow generation in turbulent magnetized plasmas, and its relation to eddy viscosity in 2D turbulent fluids
   
09.30 - 10.00 Ulrich Stroth (Universität Stuttgart)
  Experimental investigation of structure formation in drift-wave turbulence
   
10.00 - 10.30 Michael Shats (The Australian National University, Canberra)
  Inverse energy transfer in self-organization in fluids and plasma
   
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
   
  Turbulent structures
   
11.00 - 11.30 Marie Farge (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
  Coherent fluctuations and turbulent dissipation in fluid and plasma flows
   
11.30 - 11.45 Romain Nguyen van yen (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
  Tomographic reconstruction of Tore-Supra edge plasma radiation by wavelet-vaguelette decomposition
   
11.45 - 12.00 Timothy Stoltzfus-Dueck (Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Garching)
  Weakly-nonadiabatic modeling of Hasegawa-Wakatani turbulence
   
12.00 - 12.15 Holger Angenent (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
  The dimits shift in gyrokinetic simulations
   
12.30 Lunch break
  Instabilities in turbulent systems
   
14.00 - 14.30 Andreas Tilgner (Universität Göttingen)
  Instabilities in turbulent systems
   
14.30 - 15.00 Günther Rüdiger (Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam)
  The stability of magnetic fields in Taylor-Couette flows of conducting fluids
   
15.00 - 15.15 Marcus Gellert (Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam)
  Magnetic instability pattern in Taylor Couette-flows
15.15 - 15.45 Brian A. Grierson (Princeton University)
  Transport induced by large scale convective structures in a dipole-confined plasma
   
15.45 - 16.00 Vladimir A. Dobrynskii (National academy of sciences of Ukraine, Kiev)
  Remark to blow-up of the exect solutions to the Euler equations
   
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break
   
  Turbulence in astrophysical systems
   
16.30 - 17.00 Reinhard Schlickeiser (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
  Decoding solar wind turbulence with kinetic plasma instability theory - A clue to cosmic magnetic field equipartition
   
17.00 - 17.15 Hassan Shah (GC University, Lahore)
  The effect of trapping in relativistic degenerate plasmas
   
17.15 - 17.45 Jörg Büchner (Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Katlenburg-Lindau)
  Large scale structure formation by magnetic reconnection due to small-scale plasma turbulence
   
17.45 - 18.00 Yurii Dumin (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)
  The model of self-sustained propagation of a magnetic reconnection along the flux tube
   
18.30 Supper
   
   
Friday, May 14  
   
  Lagrangian turbulence II
   
08.30 - 09.00 Gaetano Zimbardo (Universita' della Calabria, Rende)
  Anomalous and percolative transport regimes in astrophysical plasmas
   
09.00 - 09.30 Alain Pumir (École Normale Supérieure, Lyon)
  Lagrangian tetrads and structures in turbulence
   
09.30 - 10.00 Oliver Kamps (Universität Münster)
  Lagrangian statistics in 2D and 3D turbulence - Differences and similarities
   
10.00 - 10.15 Holger Homann (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
  Direct numerical simulations of finite-size particles in turbulent flow
   
10.15 - 10.30 Michael Wilkinson (Open University, Milton Keynes)
  Fingerprints of random flows?
   
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
   
  Turbulence and chaos
   
11.00 - 11.30 Sekar Iyengar (Saha Insititute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata)
  Gottwald-Melbourne test for chaos of nonlinear fluctuations in complex laboratory plasmas
   
11.30 - 11.45 Inna Elyukhina (South Ural State University / Institute of problems of chemical physics RAS)
  Long-term development and interaction of perturbations in processes of self-organization and turbulence
   
11.45 - 12.00 Closing remarks
   
12.00 Lunch
   


Last updated: April 16, 2010