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Cosmic rays, astrophysical turbulence and magnetic reconnection

Workshop | Monday, December 05, 2016 - Friday, December 09, 2016

Directors: Jose Renan de Medeiros, Alexander Lazarian
Date Time Speakers Name Talk Title

Monday

December 05, 2016

09:15 am - 09:30 am

REGISTRATION

09:30 am - 10:00 am

Coffee-Break, Poster Session/Free Discussion

10:00 am - 10:10 am

Alvaro Ferraz

International Institute of Physics - UFRN (Brazil)

Opening of the Conference

10:10 am - 10:50 am

Alexander Lazarian
Invited speaker

University of Wisconsin (United States of America)

Astrophysical Turbulence and Magnetic fields

10:50 am - 11:30 am

Burkhart, Blakesley
Invited speaker

Harvard University (United States of America)

The Origins and Implications of MHD Turbulence

11:30 am - 12:10 pm

Beresnyak, Andrey
Invited speaker

Naval Research Laboratory (United States of America)

MHD Turbulence and particle acceleration

12:00 pm - 01:00 pm

LUNCH

01:10 pm - 01:50 pm

Clark, Susan
Invited speaker

Columbia University (United States of America)

Magnetic fields in the interstellar medium: what we can learn from neutral hydrogen

01:50 pm - 02:30 pm

Li, Hui
Invited speaker

Los Alamos Laboratory (United States of America)

Dynamics of Current Sheets in Turbulent Plasmas and Their Associated Particle Acceleration

02:30 pm - 03:00 pm

Coffee Break

03:00 pm - 03:40 pm

Suzuki, Tareku
Invited speaker

University of Tokyo (Japan)

Magnetic Activity in the Galactic Centre Region

03:40 pm - 04:20 pm

Philip Mocz
Invited speaker

Harvard University (United States of America)

Moving mesh simulations of star forming cores in magneto-gravo-turbulence

04:20 pm - 04:25 pm

Carolina Gribel de Vasconcelos Ferreira
Poster Presentation

National Institute for Space Research (Brazil)

Cosmic Star Formation Rate described by supersonic turbulence

04:25 pm - 04:30 pm

Nina Sanches Sartório
Poster Presentation

INPE (Brazil)

Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence and stellar feedback simulations of star forming regions

04:30 pm - 04:35 pm

Lorena Do Carmo Jesus
Poster Presentation

National Institute for Space Research (Brazil)

The role of gravity in the turbulence and magnetic fields in star formation regions

04:35 pm - 05:15 pm

Discussion of the effects of turbulence

Tuesday

December 06, 2016

09:30 am - 10:00 am

Coffee-Break, Poster Session/Free Discussion

10:00 am - 10:40 am

Grzegorz Kowal
Invited speaker

UNICSUL (Brazil)

Numerical Testing of Turbulent Magnetic Reconnection

10:40 am - 11:20 am

Fu, Huishan
Invited speaker

Beihang University (China)

Topology of turbulent reconnection from in situ measurements

11:20 am - 12:00 pm

Xu, Siyao
Invited speaker

Peking University (China)

Magnetic field’s travels from Lilliput to Brobdingnag: turbulent dynamo in a partially ionized plasma

12:00 pm - 01:00 pm

LUNCH

01:00 pm - 01:40 pm

Takasao, Shinsuke
Invited speaker

Kyoto University (Japan)

Observations and theories of magnetic reconnection in the solar atmosphere

01:40 pm - 02:20 pm

Forest, Cary
Invited speaker

University of Wisconsin-Madison (United Kingdom)

Energy Transformation between forms in the Big Red Plasma Ball

02:20 pm - 03:00 pm

Esquivel, Alejandro
Invited speaker

National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico)

Velocity anisotropy in the ISM: signature of the different MHD modes

03:00 pm - 03:30 pm

Coffee Break

03:30 pm - 04:10 pm

Girart, Josep Miquel
Invited speaker

Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (CSIC-IEEC) ()

Magnetic fields in star forming regions: an update from ALMA

04:10 pm - 04:50 pm

Lin, Jun
Invited speaker

Yunnan Observatory (China)

Formation of the CME/Flare Current Sheet and the Resultant Turbulent Reconnection

04:50 pm - 05:30 pm

Discussion

Wednesday

December 07, 2016

12:00 am - 12:00 am

Cultural Program - Buggy

07:00 pm - 10:00 pm

WORKSHOP DINNER

Thursday

December 08, 2016

09:30 am - 10:00 am

Coffee-Break, Poster Session/Free Discussion

10:00 am - 10:40 am

Elisabete de Gouveia Dal Pino
Invited speaker

Sao Paulo University (Brazil)

Magnetic reconnection and Particle Acceleration around Black Holes and Relativistic Jets

10:40 am - 11:20 am

Medvedev, Michail
Invited speaker

Kansas University (United States of America)

Quasicollisional Magneto-optic Effects in Turbulent Plasmas

12:00 pm - 01:00 pm

LUNCH

01:00 pm - 01:20 pm

Singh, Chandra Bahadur
Oral Contribution

USP - São Paulo (Brazil)

Onset of turbulence in low angular momentum flow onto the black hole and possible origin of flare phenomena

01:20 pm - 02:00 pm

Guo, Fan
Invited speaker

Los Alamos (United States of America)

Kinetic Simulations of Particle Acceleration in Magnetic Reconnection: Particle Acceleration Mechanism and Formation of Power-law Distributions

02:00 pm - 02:40 pm

Bai, Xuening
Invited speaker

Harvard University (United States of America)

Cosmic-ray-driven Streaming Instabilities

02:40 pm - 03:10 pm

Coffee Break

03:10 pm - 03:50 pm

Zimbardo, Gaetano
Invited speaker

Università della Calabria (Italy)

Superdiffusive transport in space and astrophysical plasmas: theory and observations

03:50 pm - 04:30 pm

Vishniac, Ethan
Invited speaker

Johns Hopkins University (United States of America)

Turbulence, Dynamos and the Magnetic Fields of Stars and Galaxies

04:30 pm - 04:35 pm

Laís de Souza Alves
Poster Presentation

University of Brasília (Brazil)

Simulation of impact-generated plasma

04:35 pm - 04:40 pm

Tania Elizabeth Medina Torrejón
Poster Presentation

University of Sao Paulo (Brazil)

Studies of Cosmic Ray Acceleration and Propagation in Magnetized Turbulent

04:40 pm - 05:20 pm

Discussion of Cosmic ray physics

Friday

December 09, 2016

09:30 am - 10:00 am

Coffee-Break, Poster Session/Free Discussion

10:00 am - 10:40 am

Novak, Giles
Invited speaker

Northwestern University (United States of America)

Linking Planck B-fields to ALMA B-fields: Dust Emission Polarimetry with Kilo-pixel Instruments

10:40 am - 11:20 am

Thiem, Hoang
Invited speaker

KASI (Korea, South)

Quantitative Polarimetry in Star Formation Studies

11:20 am - 12:00 pm

Andersson, B-G
Invited speaker

SOFIA Science Center ()

Observational Testing and New Application of Interstellar Grain Alignment

12:00 pm - 01:00 pm

LUNCH

01:00 pm - 01:40 pm

Diego Falceta-Goncalves
Invited speaker

University of Sao Paulo (Brazil)

Magnetic fields and turbulence in star forming regions: statistics of polarization and Zeeman measurements

01:40 pm - 02:20 pm

Final discussion