9th MHD Days 2006

December 4 - 5, 2006
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Heidelberg
Introduction
Registration
Programme
Participants
Conference location
Travel and accomodation
The programme:

==========================================
Talks are supposed to be 10 min long plus 5 min discussion
==========================================

Monday
12:15BUS TRANSPORT from Heidelberg Bergheimerstr./Bismarkplatz, orientir: bus-stop near Citybank, Cafe Gecko. (map)
13 - 14Lunch (2nd floor MPIA building Königstuhl)
14:00-14:10Organizing details, announcements
*Taylor-Couette, Poiseuille flows: experiment and simulations*
14:10-14:25 Thomas Gundrum:
"Observation of Magnetorotational Instability in a Liquid"
14:25-14:40 Jacek Szklarski:
"Nonlinear simulations of MHD Taylor-Couette flow with helical magnetic fields"
14:40-14:55 Thomas Boeck:
"Stability of MHD channel flow with spanwise magnetic field"
14:55-15:10 Christian Klingenberg:
"A new numerical method for solving ideal MHD flow"
15:10-16:10Coffee break
*Earth*
16:10-16:25 Frank Stefani:
"Reversals made simple: Some new results"
16:25-16:40 Ralf Kaiser:
"On the geomagnetic direction problem"
16:40-16:55 Andre Giesecke:
"Turbulent heat flux in weakly stratified rotating magnetoconvection"
*Sun*
16:55-17:10 Rainer Arlt:
"New results on the stability of the magnetic tachocline"
17:10-18:10Coffee break
18:10-18:25 Dan Skandera:
"Quasi-oscillations between two turbulent regimes in 2D magnetoconvection"
18:25-18:40 Marcel Fuhrmann:
"Extrapolation of coronal magnetic fields from photospheric measurements"
19:00-BUS TRANSPORT to Heidelberg Altstadt
20:00Conference dinner in "Palmbraeu Gasse"
(map)
Tuesday
08:15BUS TRANSPORT from Heidelberg Bergheimerstr./Bismarkplatz, orientir: bus-stop near Citybank, Cafe Gecko. (map)
*Stars*
09:00-09:15 Manfred Kueker:
"Differential rotation and meridional flow of main-sequence stars"
09:15-09:30 Sven Bingert:
"3D MHD model of an active region"
09:30-09:45 Emre Isik:
"Magnetic flux transport and spot lifetimes on active cool stars"
09:45-10:00 Oleg Kirillov:
"Resonance effects in MHD $\\alpha^2-$dynamos"
10:00-11:00Coffee break
*Accretion disks*
11:00-11:15 Wladimir Lyra:
"Forming planets in magnetized global disks"
11:15-11:30 Daniel Marik:
"3D Simulation of MHD Turbulence in Accretion Disks"
11:30-11:45 Zaza Osmanov:
"Non linear analysis of the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability for relativistic magnetohydrodynamics flows"
11:45-12:00 Anders Johansen:
"Measuring the Schmidt number of magnetorotational turbulence"
12:00-14:00Lunch and poster session
*Jets & Galaxies*
14:00-14:15 Volker Gaibler:
"Extragalactic Jets in Dense Cluster Media"
14:15-14:30 Sebastian Jester:
"The jet in 3C273 with Chandra, Hubble and Spitzer: synchrotron X-rays from a multi-zone jet?"
14:30-14:45 Christian Fendt:
"MHD jet collimation - the role of the disk magnetic flux"
14:45-15:00 Detlef Elstner:
"Magnetic field excitation in galaxies by MHD instabilities"
15:00-16:00Coffee break
16:00-16:15 Oliver Gressel:
"SN-Driven MHD-Turbulence"
16:15-16:30 Natalia Dzyurkevich:
"3D protoplanetary disks: global models with ZeusMP"
16:30-16:45 Hubert Klahr: closing of Workshop
17:00BUS TRANSPORT to Heidelberg Hbf