Session GZ1: Mini-conference on Reconnection and Turbulence in Fluids and Plasmas II

Chair: Norman Zabusky, Rutgers University
Adam's Mark Hotel - Plaza Ballroom D


Tuesday, October 25, 2005
2:00PM - 2:30PM

GZ1.00001: Magnetic Reconnection and Anomalous Resistivity
R. Kulsrud

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
2:30PM - 3:00PM

GZ1.00002: Prospects for Turbulent Reconnection in Solar Flares
Terry Forbes

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
3:00PM - 3:30PM

GZ1.00003: Formation and Dynamics of Thin Current Sheets in the Geomagnetic Tail
Joachim Birn , M. Hesse , M. Hoshino , J. Huba , G. Lapenta , P. Pritchett , K. Schindler , L. Yin

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
3:30PM - 3:45PM

GZ1.00004: BREAK


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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
3:45PM - 4:15PM

GZ1.00005: Recent Developments in the theory of the turbulent MHD dynamo
David Montgomery , Pablo Mininni , Annick Pouquet

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
4:15PM - 4:45PM

GZ1.00006: The Onset of Fast Magnetic Reconnection: A Catastrophe Model
Paul Cassak , Michael Shay , James Drake

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
4:45PM - 5:15PM

GZ1.00007: Current Sheet Formation in Compressible MHD: Analytical and Numerical Results
Bhimsen Shivamoggi , David Rollins

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Session GZ2: Mini-conference on Astrophysical Explosions: From Engines to Remnants III

Chair: Hui Li, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Adam's Mark Hotel - Governor's Square 14


Tuesday, October 25, 2005
2:00PM - 2:30PM

GZ2.00001: Optical Observations of Core-Collapse Supernovae
Alex Filippenko

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
2:30PM - 3:00PM

GZ2.00002: Spectropolarimetric diagnostics of thermonuclear supernova
Lifan Wang

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
3:00PM - 3:30PM

GZ2.00003: Exploding Stars with Magnetic Towers
Dmitri Uzdensky , Andrew MacFadyen

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
3:30PM - 4:00PM

GZ2.00004: Dynamics and dissipation in magnetically-dominated astrophysical outflows
Maxim Lyutikov

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
4:00PM - 4:30PM

GZ2.00005: Sustained Particle Acceleration by Poynting Flux
Edison Liang , Koichi Noguchi , Scott Wilks

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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
4:30PM - 5:00PM

GZ2.00006: Probing the Magnetic Field Structure in Gamma-Ray Bursts through Polarization Measurements
Jonathan Granot

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