MAGNETIC FIELDS IN THE UNIVERSE II:
From Laboratory and Stars to the Primordial Universe
Cozumel, Mexico, January 28th to February 1st, 2008

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Conference Program

MAGNETIC FIELDS IN THE UNIVERSE II:
From Laboratory and Stars to the Primordial Universe
Cozumel, Mexico, January 28th to February 1st, 2008

 

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Final Program (*Invited talk).


Monday, January 28th, morning session

08:30-09:00 Conference Opening

Observational Projects

09:00-09:30 R. Beck: Magnetic Visions: Mapping Cosmic Magnetism with LOFAR and SKA.*

09:30-09:50 M. Huarte Espinosa: The evolution of cluster magnetic fields probed by the SKA.

09:50-10:10 E. Carretti: PGMS: to study the Galactic magnetism out of the Galactic plane

10:10-10:40 C. Escobar: Recent results from the Auger Observatory: what can we learn from them?*

10:40-11:00 J. Aumont: Studying Magnetic fields with Planck satellite experiment

11:00-11:30 Coffee break & posters

Magnetic fields in galaxies and in the Milky Way.

11:30-12:00 R. Dettmar: Magnetic Fields in Galactic Halos.*

12:00-12:30 E. M. de Gouveia dal Pino: Supernova Explosions and the Triggering of Galactic Winds and Fountains.*

12:30-12:50 M. Krause: Magnetic fields and star formation in spiral galaxies.

12:50-16:00 Lunch break.

 


Monday, January 28th, evening session

 

Magnetic fields in Clouds and ISM Turbulence I.

16:00-16:30 S. Boldyrev: Spectra and structure of anisotropic MHD turbulence.*

16:30-17:00 A. Lazarian: Basics of MHD turbulence.*

17:00-17:30 Coffee break & posters.

Magnetic fields in Clouds and ISM Turbulence II.

17:30-18:00 J. Stone: Supersonic MHD turbulence and other recent applications with Athena.*

18:00-18:20 N. Lemaster: Dissipation and Heating in Supersonic MHD Turbulence II.

18:20-18:50 D. Goncalves: Studying ISM magnetic field and turbulence regimes from polarimetric maps.*

 


Tuesday, January 29th, morning session

 

Magnetic fields in Clouds and ISM Turbulence III.

08:30-09:00 A. Esquivel: Statistics of Centroids of Velocity.*

09:00-09:30 D. Pogosyan: Velocity Spectrum from Doppler-broadened Emission and Absorption Lines. *

09:30-10:00 M. Opher: Unraveling the Direction of the Local Interstellar Magnetic Field: Implications for the Solar System, The ISM Turbulence and MHD Instabilities.*

10:00-10:30 Coffee break and posters

Magnetic fields in the Sun and the circumstellar medium.

10:30-11:00 G. García-Segura: Advances in Circumstellar Medium.*

11:00-11:20 J. C. del Toro Iniesta: New results about the Quiet Sun magnetic fields

11:20-11:40 G. Guerrero: The dynamo operating in the Sun

11:40-12:10 Discussion session

12:10-16:00 Lunch break

 


Tuesday, January 29th, evening session

 

Basic plasma processes and cosmic rays I.

16:00-16:30 F. Adams: Ambipolar Diffusion Revisited.*

16:30-17:00 E. Vishniac: Magnetic Reconnection.*

17:00-17:30 S. Prager: Laboratory studies of magnetic and flow relaxation, and connections to astrophysical processes.*

17:30-17:50 P. Koch: Magnetic Fields and Turbulences in the ICM: Large-Scale Effect and Microphysics.

17:50-18:10 Invited poster review

18:10-19:00 Special poster session & coffee.

 


Wednesday, January 30th, morning session

 

Basic plasma processes and cosmic rays II.

08:30-09:00 H. Yan: New technique of magnetic field studies using aligned atoms.*

09:00-09:20 S. Berdyugina: Molecular Diagnostics of Cosmic Magnetic Fields.

09:20-09:40 K. Otmianowska-Mazur: The polarized emission of edge-on galaxies against the cosmic-ray driven dynamo model.

Magnetic fields and star formation I.

09:40-10:10 R. Crutcher: Magnetic Fields and Star Formation.*

10:10-10:40 W. Watson: Magnetic Fields and the Polarization of Astrophysical Maser Radiation.*

10:40-11:00 M. Machida: Influence of the Magnetic Field on the Formation of Population III Stars.

11:00-11:30 Coffee break & posters.

Magnetic fields and star formation II.

11:30-12:00 M. MacLow: Magnetic Field Effects on Global Star Formation.*

12:00-12:20 D. Price: Magnetic fields in star formation: from galaxies to stars

12:20-12:40 R. Hildebrand: Dust Polarization.*

12:40-13:00 J. Arthur: Formation and Expansion of HII regions in turbulent magnetized molecular clouds.

Free afternoon

 


Thursday, January 31th, morning session

 

Magnetic fields and star formation III.

08:30-09:00 E. Vázquez-Semadeni : Cloud, Core and Star Formation. What is the role of the Magnetic Field?*

09:00-09:20 P. Hennebelle: Collapse and fragmentation of magnetized prestellar dense cores.

09:20-09:40 W. Henney: Radiation-MHD simulations of photoionized globules.

09:40-10:00 T. Kudoh Three-dimensional simulations of molecular cloud fragmentation induced by ambipolar diffusion and nonlinear flows.

10:00-10:30 Discussion Session

10:30-11:00 Coffee break and posters

Magnetic fields in compact objects, accretion disks and outflows I.

11:00-11:30 D. Galli: Magnetic breaking and decoupling in the protostellar phase*

11:30-12:00 S. Lizano: Magnetized accretion disks.*

12:00-12:30 J. Cho: Grain Alignment and Polarized Emission from Magnetized T Tauri Disks.*

12:30-12:50 S. Owocki: Magnetically channeled winds and decretion disks in hot, massive stars.

12:50-16:00 Lunch break

 


Thursday, January 31th, evening session

 

Magnetic fields in compact objects, accretion disks and outflows II.

16:00-16:30 F. Shu: Disk-Magnetosphere Interactions in Young Stellar Objects.*

16:30-16:50 C. Zanni: Numerical modelling of magnetic star-disk interaction.

16:50-17:10 S. Mohanty: X-wind accretion with multipolar stellar fields.

17:10-17:40 Y. Masada: Magnetic Phenomena in Astrophysical Compact Objects.*

17:40-18:00 L. Burderi: Magnetic-driven Orbital Evolution of an Accreting Millisecond Pulsar: Witnessing the Banquet of a Hidden Black Widow.

18:00-18:15 Invited poster review

18:15-19:00 Special poster session & coffee.

20:00 Conference dinner

 


Friday, February 1st, morning session

 

Magnetic fields in compact objects, accretion disks and outflows III.

09:30-10:00 S. Cabrit: The JETSET network: Theoretical and Observational progress on the origin of YSO jets.*

10:00-10:30 T. Ray : Getting to Grips with the unknown: How Important are Magnetic Fields in Outflows from Young Stars*

10:30-11:00 A. Raga: Radiative jets from variable sources.*

11:00-11:30 A. Frank: Astrophysical Jets and Outflows: Experiments Real and Virtual.*

11:30-12:00 Coffee break & posters

Magnetic fields in clusters of galaxies and beyond I.

12:00-12:30 G. Brunetti: Particle acceleration in Galaxy Clusters.*

12:30-13:00 T. Enßlin: Magnetic turbulence in galaxy clusters.*

13:00-13:20 G. Piccinelli: Effect of primordial magnetic fields on the electroweak baryogenesis process.

13:20-13:40 K. Dolag: Numerical simulations of clusters.*

13:40-15:00 Lunch break

Magnetic fields in clusters of galaxies and beyond II.

15:00-15:30 M. Brueggen: Simulations of magnetic field in the universe.*

15:30-15:50 S. Colafrancesco: The impact of magnetic fields on the structure and evolution of groups and clusters of galaxies.

15:50-16:10 F. Miniati: Magnetic Fields in High Redshift Galaxies.

16:10-16:30 M. Brentjens: Wide field polarimetry around the Perseus cluster at 350 Mhz.

16:30-17:00 Conference summary


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