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Tuesday May 13th 2003
Morning Session: Shear Flows and Turbulence |
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| 9:00 am | Welcome, Introduction, Meeting goals Professor Steve Cowley (Imperial) |
| 9:25 am | "Shear sheltering mechanisms and implications
for turbulence and geophysical flows" Professor Julian Hunt (UCL) |
| 10:00 am | "Key issues in the theory of zonal flow and
transport barrier dynamics" Professor Patrick Diamond (UCSD) |
| 10:35 am | Coffee |
| 10:50 am | "Turbulence in the sun" Professor Douglas Gough (Cambridge) |
| 11:30 am | "Kinetic measurements of shear flows and the
transition to turbulence" Professor Greg Morfill (MaxPlanck –Garching) |
| 12:00 pm | "Coherent Structures in Shear Flow" Dr.Tim Nickels (Cambridge) |
| 12:10 pm | "Future work on singularities of the Euler
equations and fast hydrodynamic vortex reconnection" Professor Robert Kerr, (Warwick) |
| 12:20 pm | "Shear flow generation in drift wave turbulence" Dr. Chris Lashmore-Davies (Culham) |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:00 pm | Posters session Posters remain up during the remainder of the meeting. |
Afternoon Session: Structure and Turbulence |
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| 1:20 pm | "New results on stably stratified turbulence
and an enduring perspective on coherent structures" Professor Jim McWilliams (UCLA) |
| 2:00 pm | "Integral invariants of hydrodynamic, MHD,
and stratified turbulence" Dr. Peter Davidson (Cambridge) |
| 2:30 pm | "The zeroth law of turbulence: experimental
results" Dr. Bruce Pearson (Nottingham) |
| 2:40 pm | "Anisotropic heat transport in a rotating
turbulent MHD medium" Professor Paul Roberts (UCLA) |
| 3:00 pm | "Flux separation in compressible magnetoconvection" Professor Michael Proctor (Cambridge) |
| 3:30 pm | "Vorticity and coherent structures in dynamos" Dr. Steve Tobias. (Leeds) |
| 4:00 pm | Tea |
| 4:10 pm | "Sandpiles and plasma phenomenology" Professor Richard Dendy (Culham & Warwick) |
| 4:40 pm | "The origin of universal fluctuations in correlated
systems: explicit calculation for an intermittent turbulent cascade" Prof. Sandra Chapman, (Warwick) |
| 4:50 pm | "SOC vs. turbulence in space physics" Dr. Mervyn Freeman (BAS) |
| 4:55 pm | "A multi-loop reconnection model for Solar
Activity" Dr. Maya Paczuski (Imperial) |
| 5:10 pm | "A quasi-particle description of plasma turbulence" Professor Bob Bingham (RAL) |
| 5:20 pm | "Stochastic characterisation and modelling
of complex systems" Dr. Keith Hopcraft (Nottingham) |
| 5:50 pm | Wine and discussion |
Wednesday May 14th 2003
Morning Session: Flows, Turbulence and Transport. |
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| Posters up all day. | |
| 9:00 am | "Physics of transport barriers in magnetized
plasmas" Dr. Xavier Garbet (JET) |
| 9:25 am | "Problems in predictive modelling of plasmas
with transport barriers" Dr. V. Parail (JET) |
| 9:35 am | "Jets and transport barriers in atmospheric
flows" Professor Peter Haynes (Cambridge) |
| 10:05 am | "Perspectives on shear flow in turbulence" Professor Paul Terry (Wisconsin) |
| 10:35 am | Coffee |
| 10:45 am | "Constructing high reynolds number turbulence" Dr. Christos Vasilicos (Imperial) |
| 11:15 am | "Scalar variance decay and backtransfer to
low frequencies" Dr. David Thomson (Met. Office) |
| 11:25 am | "Large-scale eigenfunctions and mixing" Dr Jean-Luc Thiffeault (Imperial) |
| 11:35 am | "Transport effects in mean field dynamos" Professor David Hughes (Leeds) |
| 12:05 am | Discussion Chair: Dr. A. Thyagaraja (Culham) |
| 1:00 pm | Lunch |
Afternoon Session: Magnetic Fields and Turbulence. |
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| 1:50 pm | "Flux pumping and penumbral structure in sunspots" Professor Nigel Weiss (Cambridge) |
| 2:30 pm | "Structures in fusion turbulence" Professor Bill Dorland (Maryland) |
| 3:00 pm | "Fusion alpha-particle populations with strongly
nonlinear phase-space evolution" Dr. Roderick Vann (Warwick) |
| 3:05 pm | "Properties of compressible MHD turbulence
in cold interstellar clouds" Professor Jim Stone (Cambridge) |
| 3:35 pm | End of Meeting |
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