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ISIMA 2010: Transport Processes in Astrophysics

UC Santa Cruz, July 6th - August 13th, 2010

College 9/10 Community Room

From Week 2 to 6 of the program, ISIMA will be hosting one talk per day on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and two talks per day on Tuesday and Thursday. The week-by-week program will be updated as the summer progresses. For the Week 1 program, see the conference website.

Student talks will be during week 6, and are indicated by yellow.

Week 2

  • Monday: no seminar. Student presentations from 3:00-4:30, community room.
  • Tuesday:
    • 11:30 - 12:30: Francis Nimmo. "What is going on at Enceladus?"
    • 4:00 - 5:00: Francesco Rubini. "Jets and numerical simulations"
  • Wednesday
    • 11:30 - 12:30: Geoffrey Vasil. "Dynamic bifurcations and melting-boundary convection"
  • Thursday:
    • 11:30 - 12:30: Patrick Diamond. "How wave turbulence induces flows and rotation in fluids and plasmas"
    • 4:00 - 5:00: Andreas Burkert. "Physics of the turbulent, multi-phase ISM "
  • Friday
    • 11:30 - 12:30: Pawel Artymowicz. "Analytical and numerical migration of large planets"

Week 3

  • Monday:
    • 11:30 - 12:00: Gary Glatzmaier. "Transport of angular momentum in stars and giant planets"
  • Tuesday:
    • 11:30 - 12:30: Francois Lignieres. "Wave chaos in rapidly rotating stars"
    • 4:00 - 5:00: Douglas Gough. "Observations of the magnetic field and the meridional circulation in the solar convection zone"
  • Wednesday
    • 11:30 - 12:30: Richard Stancliffe. "Mixing processes in Carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars"
  • Thursday:
    • 11:30 - 12:30: James Stone. "Recent results from numerical simulations of the magnetorotational instability"
    • 4:00 - 5:00: Pascale Garaud. "Gyroscopic pumping and the Li dip"
  • Friday
    • 11:30 - 12:30: Mark Rast. "Toward a mixed Eulerian-Lagrangian turbulent transport model"

Week 4

  • Monday:
    • 11:30 - 12:30: Henrik Latter. "The magnetorotational instability and the structure of protoplanetary disks"
  • Tuesday:
    • 11:30 - 12:30: Michel Rieutord. "Rapidly rotating stars and their waves"
    • 4:00 - 5:00: Andrew Youdin. "The formation (and size distribution) of planetesimals"
  • Wednesday
    • 11:30 - 12:30: Mike Proctor. "Influence of shear on dynamo action in a convective layer"
  • Thursday:
    • 11:30 - 12:30: Stephan Stellmach. "Staircase formation and fingering convection"
    • 4:00 - 5:00: David Harrington. "Stellar spectropolarimetry as a diagnostic of circumstellar material"
  • Friday
    • 11:30 - 12:30: Jean-Paul Zahn. "Tides in close binary stars"

Week 5

  • Monday:
    • 11:30 - 12:30: David Hughes. "Self-consistent mean field MHD"
  • Tuesday:
    • 11:30 - 12:30: Patricia Tissera. "Chemical evolution in galaxy formation"
    • 4:00 - 5:00: Neal Turner. "Dust transport in magnetized protostellar disks"
  • Wednesday
    • 11:30 - 12:30: Avishai Dekel. "Galaxy formation at high redshift: A paradigm shift"
    • 2:00 - 3:15: Piero Madau. "Radiative transfer in a clumpy universe: The UVB". Part of the HIPACC conference taking place in Oakes 105.
  • Thursday:
    • 11:30 - 12:30: Subhanjoy Mohanty. "Angular momentum transport in the Star-Disk interaction: X-winds and disk winds"
    • 4:00 - 5:00: Clément Baruteau. "Planetary migration: Basics, recent results and challenges"
  • Friday
    • 11:30 - 12:30: Don Korycansky. "Asteroids and planetesimals: Rigid-body dynamical modeling"

Week 6

  • Monday:
    • 11:30 - 12:30: Mark Krumholz. "High-mass star formation"
  • Tuesday:
    • 11:30 - 12:30: Shigeru Ida. "Modeling of post-formation dynamical interactions among planets"
    • 4:00 - 4:30: Jeffrey Fung. "The orbital decay of a retrograde planet in a protoplanetary disk"
    • 4:30 - 5:00: Farzana Meru. "Planet migration in self-gravitating disks"
  • Wednesday
    • 4:00 - 4:30: CJ Donnelly. "Singular tidal modes and the regularisation of the crossing singularity"
    • 4:30 - 5:00: Shangfei Liu. "Searching for radiative instabilities in massive star envelopes"
  • Thursday:
    • 10:00 - 10:30: Nadège Lagarde. "Thermohaline mixing with the small-Péclet approximation"
    • 10:30 - 11:00: Silvia Verdolini. "The role of radiation pressure in the dynamics of HII regions at z>1"
    • 11:00 - 11:30: Jeremy McCaslin. "The Sun's meridional circulation and interior magnetic field"
    • 11:30 - 12:00: Min-Kai Lin. "Spin-down of protostars through gravitiational torques"
    • 3:00 - 3:30: Julian Mak. "Geostrophic turbulence with a magnetic field"
    • 3:30 - 4:00: Yusuke Kosuga. "Quenching of jets in magnetised fluid"
    • 4:00 - 4:30: Jennifer Stone. "Stoked dynamos"
    • 4:30 - 5:00: Xuening Bai. "Sweet-Parker reconnection with anomalous resistivity"
  • Friday