Name: 19th MHD Days 2024
Start: 2024-12-02T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-12-04T16:00:00+01:00
Location: Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP)

19th MHD Days 2024

from Monday, 2 December 2024 (14:00) to Wednesday, 4 December 2024 (16:00)

Monday, 2 December 2024
14:00 Monday afternoon session
Monday afternoon session
14:00 - 18:00
Room: Lecture Hall, Maria Margaretha Kirch Building
Contributions

14:00 Opening - Oliver Gressel (Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP))

14:10 Interplays between dynamo and magneto-rotational instabilities (invited) - Axel Brandenburg (Nordita)

14:50 Sunspot simulations with potential field initial conditions - Markus Schmassmann (Institut für Sonnenphysik (KIS), Freiburg, Germany)

15:10 Solar magnetic tornadoes ignite ambient shock waves: The surprising story of how torsional Alfvén waves can dissipate - Oskar Steiner (Kiepenheuer-Institut für Sonnenphysik (KIS))

16:00 Harmonically forced and synchronized dynamos - Frank Stefani (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

16:20 Orbit-Spin Coupling and Variations in the Length of the Hale Cycle - James Shirley (Torquefx)

16:40 Deep cyclic magnetic activity of the Sun by assimilating long-term observed photospheric magnetograms in a 3D dynamo model - Gopal Hazra (IIT Kanpur, India)

17:00 Evaluating solar-like behavior in extra-long non-kinematic flux-transport solar dynamos - Fadil Inceoglu (University of Colorado Boulder)
Tuesday, 3 December 2024
09:00 Tuesday morning session
Tuesday morning session
09:00 - 14:00
Room: Lecture Hall, Maria Margaretha Kirch Building
Contributions

09:00 Magnetic Fields and Cosmic Ray Electrons (CREs) in Halos of Star Forming Disk Galaxies - Ralf-Juergen Dettmar (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

09:20 Zooming-in on radio relics: How density fluctuations explain the Mach number discrepancy, microgauss magnetic fields, and spectral index variations - Joseph Whititngham (AIP)

09:40 Cosmic magnetic fields: A new window to the fundamental physics of the early Universe - Jennifer Schober (Argelander Institute for Astronomy)

10:00 Early magnetic field growth in galaxy clusters; the crucial contribution from galaxy formation physics - Larissa Tevlin (Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam)

10:20 Turbulent plasma flow, its energies and structures: velocity vortices, magnetic field cocoons and plasmoids - Petr Jelínek (University of South Bohemia, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics)

11:00 Tayler Instability Revisited - Valentin Skoutnev (Columbia University)

11:20 Stability of toroidal magnetic fields in radiative stellar interiors - Giovanni Licciardello (INAF OACt)

11:40 Stability of toroidal magnetic fields in radiative stellar interiors: insights from direct numerical simulations and stellar evolution models - Domenico G. Meduri (Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP))

12:00 MHD and the Formation of the Magnetic Solar System - A didactically oriented approach - Ulrich von Kusserow (AG, DPG)

12:20 Group photo
14:00 Tuesday afternoon session
Tuesday afternoon session
14:00 - 18:00
Room: Lecture Hall, Maria Margaretha Kirch Building
Contributions

14:00 Liquid metal MHD flows in the water-cooled lead lithium test blanket module for ITER - Leo Bühler (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

14:20 Corner-mode instability of Rayleigh-Bénard convection in a vertical magnetic field - Thomas Boeck (TU Ilmenau)

14:40 Convective instabilities in liquid metal duct flow in a fringing magnetic field - Chiara Mistrangelo (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

15:00 Two-dimensional Radiative MHD Rayleigh-Bénard Convection in Molten Salts - Panxin Li (Technische Universität Ilmenau)

15:20 3D magneto-convective instabilities of liquid metal flow in a generic engineering-relevant model geometry - Biao Lyu (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT))

16:00 The Hall Effect in Neutron Stars - Rainer Hollerbach (University of Leeds)

16:20 Dynamo action in a precessing cylinder. - Andre Giesecke (HZDR)

16:40 Nonlinear flow transition in a precessing cylinder and its potential for hydromagnetic dynamo action at the DRESDYN facility - Thomas Gundrum (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

17:00 Characterizing dynamo coefficients in accretion disk turbulence - Oliver Gressel (Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP))

17:20 Global R-MHD simulations of Transition Disks - Eleftheria Sarafidou (Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam)
19:00 Dinner at Piazza Toscana (not covered by conference fee)
Dinner at Piazza Toscana (not covered by conference fee)
19:00 - 22:00
Room: Rudolf-Breitscheid-Straße 177, 14482 Potsdam
Wednesday, 4 December 2024
09:00 Wednesday morning session
Wednesday morning session
09:00 - 13:30
Room: Lecture Hall, Maria Margaretha Kirch Building
Contributions

09:00 Model reduction for MHD turbulence - Wolf-Christian Müller (Technische Universität Berlin)

09:20 Exact Nonlinear Decomposition of Ideal-MHD Waves Using Eigenenergies - Abbas Raboonik (University of Newcastle)

09:40 As a matter of dynamical range – scale-dependent energy dynamics in magnetized turbulence and pushing simulation limits - Philipp Grete (University of Hamburg)

10:00 Solving plasma problems using adaptive multiphysics coupling. - Simon Candelaresi (University of Augsburg)

10:20 Spatio-temporal correlation in three-dimensional incompressible MHD turbulence - Raquel Mäusle (Technische Universität Berlin)

11:00 tbd.

11:20 Capturing and modeling the launching of a jet around a forming massive star - André Oliva (University of Duisburg-Essen)

11:40 Non-ideal MHD processes in astrophysical jets - Giancarlo Mattia (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy)

12:00 Impact of magnetically-driven jets and radiative feedback on the formation of massive stars - Joshua Barquero Alvarado (University of Duisburg-Essen)

12:20 Closing - Rainer Arlt (AIP)