Session FZ1: Mini-conference on Reconnection and Turbulence in Fluids and Plasmas I

Chair: David Montgomery, Dartmouth College
Adam's Mark Hotel - Plaza Ballroom D


Tuesday, October 25, 2005
9:30AM - 10:00AM

FZ1.00001: Multiscale Problems in Fluid and MHD: Combining direct numerical simulations and models
Annick Pouquet , Pablo Mininni , David Montgomery

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
10:00AM - 10:30AM

FZ1.00002: Current and Vortex Singularities: Drivers of Impulsive Reconnection in Plasmas and Fluids
A. Bhattacharjee , K. Germaschewski , C.S. Ng

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
10:30AM - 10:45AM

FZ1.00003: BREAK


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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
10:45AM - 11:15AM

FZ1.00004: Dynamics of Vortex Lines in Turbulent 3D Stratified Flows
Philip Marcus

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
11:15AM - 11:45AM

FZ1.00005: Baroclinic Turbulence in Accelerated Inhomogeneous Flows
Norman Zabusky

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
11:45AM - 12:15PM

FZ1.00006: Laboratory sodium experiments modeling astrophysical and geophysical MHD flows
Daniel Lathrop

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
12:15PM - 12:35PM

FZ1.00007: Rayleigh-Taylor turbulent mixing of immiscible, miscible and stratified fluids
Snezhana I. Abarzhi , Andrey Gorobets , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

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FZ1.00008: Mini-conference Poster: 3D Onset and Propagation of Magnetic Reconnection
Giovanni Lapenta , P. Ricci , J.U. Brackbill , W. Daughton , G.L. Delzanno

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FZ1.00009: Mini-conference Poster: Magnetic reconnection in nontoroidal plasmas
Allen Boozer

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FZ1.00010: Mini-conference Poster: Thin current sheets and plasma bubbles
Mikhail Sitnov , Parvez Guzdar , Marc Swisdak

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Session FZ2: Mini-conference on Astrophysical Explosions: From Engines to Remnants II

Chair: Ben Chandran, University of New Hampshire
Adam's Mark Hotel - Governor's Square 14


Tuesday, October 25, 2005
9:30AM - 10:00AM

FZ2.00001: The Explosion of Cassiopeia A
Una Hwang

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
10:00AM - 10:30AM

FZ2.00002: Hydrodynamic instabilities in young supernova remnants
Roger Chevalier

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
10:30AM - 11:00AM

FZ2.00003: Collisionless Shocks in GRBs: from Speculations to Physics
Mikhail Medvedev

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
11:00AM - 11:30AM

FZ2.00004: Shock structure and particle acceleration in electron-position and electron-ion plasmas
Anatoly Spitkovsky

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
11:30AM - 12:00PM

FZ2.00005: Simulating Astrophysical Jets with Inertial Confinement Fusion Machines
Brent Blue

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
12:00PM - 12:30PM

FZ2.00006: Photon-Rich, Relativistic Magnetofluids and Gamma-Ray Bursts
Christopher Thompson

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