Session PO7 : Turbulence, Reconnection, Phase-Space Holes

Chair: Troy Carter, UCLA
Rosen Centre Hotel - Salon 7/8


Wednesday, November 14, 2007
2:00 PM–2:12 PM

PO7.00001 : Spectra and structure of MHD turbulence
J.C. Perez, S. Boldyrev, Fausto Cattaneo, J. Mason

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
2:12 PM–2:24 PM

PO7.00002 : Numerical simulations of Alfv\'enic turbulence in extended reduced MHD
J.C. Perez, S. Boldyrev

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
2:24 PM–2:36 PM

PO7.00003 : Numerical Measurements of the Spectrum in Strong Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence
Fausto Cattaneo, S. Boldyrev, J. Mason

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
2:36 PM–2:48 PM

PO7.00004 : Magnetic dynamo action in helical turbulence
Leonid Malyshkin, S. Boldyrev

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
2:48 PM–3:00 PM

PO7.00005 : Dissipation of Energy, Cross Helicity, and Magnetic Helicity in Ideal MHD
Ethan T. Vishniac

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
3:00 PM–3:12 PM

PO7.00006 : MHD Turbulence: Generalized Formulation and Extension to Compressible Cases
Bhimsen Shivamoggi

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
3:12 PM–3:24 PM

PO7.00007 : Condition for Transition to Fast Collisionless Reconnection and its Role in Regulating Solar Coronal Heating
Dmitri Uzdensky

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
3:24 PM–3:36 PM

PO7.00008 : Evidence for unsteady fast reconnection in a compressible medium
Dongwook Lee, Fausto Cattaneo, Robert Rosner, Samuel Vainshtein

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
3:36 PM–3:48 PM

PO7.00009 : Ohm's Law in 3D turbulent magnetic Reconnection
J. Drake

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
3:48 PM–4:00 PM

PO7.00010 : Merging Spheromak as Axisymmetric Plasma Equilibrium with Flow
Jang-Yu Hsu, ChangMo Ryu

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
4:00 PM–4:12 PM

PO7.00011 : Nonlinear Dynamics of Fluctuations in the Presence of Sheared Flows in a Magnetized Laboratory Plasma
M. Gilmore, L. Yan, S. Xie, C. Watts

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
4:12 PM–4:24 PM

PO7.00012 : Turbulent transport in drift wave turbulence: the role of coherent vorticity
Wouter Bos, Shinpei Futatani, Kai Schneider, Marie Farge

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
4:24 PM–4:36 PM

PO7.00013 : A field theoretical model of self-organization of the vorticity field in two-dimensional plasma and in planetary atmosphere
Madalina Olimpia Vlad, Florin Spineanu

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
4:36 PM–4:48 PM

PO7.00014 : What Can We Learn About Electron Distributions From Measurements of Weak Bipolar Fields?$^*$
Martin V. Goldman, David L. Newman, Andre Mangeney

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
4:48 PM–5:00 PM

PO7.00015 : New Route to Shallow Electron Phase-Space Holes via a ``Velocity-Notch'' Instability$^*$
David L. Newman, Martin V. Goldman

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