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Multiscale Processes in Fusion Plasmas

January 10 - 14, 2005

IPAM Building
Room 1200

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Monday, January 10, 2005

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:15 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:15 - 10:00

Bob Lin (University of California at Berkeley)

"Magnetic Reconnection in Solar Flares, the Earth's Magnetosphere, and the Solar Wind"

10:00 - 10:30

James Drake (University of Maryland)

"Multiscale issues in modeling magnetic reconnection."
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00

Bjorn Engquist (University of Texas)

"Numerical multiscale techniques for fusion"

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

1:30 - 2:30

Russel Caflisch (UCLA)

"A Hybrid Method for Kinetic Theory"

2:30 - 3:00

Steve Jardin (Princeton University)

"High-Accuracy, Implicit Solution of the Extended-MHD Equations using High-Continuity Finite Elements"

3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 3:45

Masaki Yamada (Princeton University)

"Laboratory Studies of the Physics of Two-Fluids MHD for Magnetic Reconnection "

3:45 - 4:15

Tamas Gombosi (University of Michigan)

"This talk describes the high performance plasma simulation framework developed at the University of Michigan and discusses its application for fusion plasmas."

4:15 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:00

Paolo Ricci (Dartmouth University)

"GS2 Simulations of Turbulence in Closed"

5:00 - 5:30 Discussion (all)
5:30 Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:15 Continental Breakfast
9:15 - 10:00

Warren Mori (UCLA)

"Modeling Plasma based Acceleration using particlee Techiques"

10:00 - 10:30

John Cary (University of Colorado)

"Optical injection through collisions of laser pulses"

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30

Thomas Antonsen (University of Maryland)

"Quasi-Static Modeling of Particle -Field Interactions"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

11:30 - 12:00

Thomas C. Katsouleas (University of Southern California)

 

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 2:30

Chengkun Hung (UCLA)

 

2:30 - 3:00

Viktor Decyk (UCLA)

"Parallelization of the UPIC Framework"
Presentation (PDF File)

3:00 - 3:45 Break
3:45 - 4:30

Phillip Colella (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

 

4:30 - 5:00

Luis Silva (UTL)

"Photon Kinetics for Laser Plasma Interactions"


Wednesday, January 12, 2005

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:15 Continental Breakfast
9:15 - 10:00

William Dorland (University of Maryland)

""Multiscale extension of gyrokinetics""

10:00 - 10:45

Greg Hammett (Princeton University)

"T.B.A."

10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00

Tom Hou (California Institute of Technology)

"Multiscale Computation of Fluid Flows"

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

1:30 - 2:30

Jan Hesthaven (Brown University)

"Towards High-Order Unstructured Grid Particle-In-Cell Methods for"

2:30 - 3:00

Ron Cohen (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

""RIC: Relaxed Iteration Method for Coupling Disparate Scales""

3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 3:45

Alan Glasser (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

"Adaptive Grid Generation for Magnetically Confined Plasmas"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

3:45 - 4:15

Ronald Waltz (General Atomics)

"Gyrokinetic Simulations and Multiscale Processes"
Presentation Files (Zip Archive)

4:15 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:00

Zhihong Lin (University of California at Irvine)

""Gyrokinetic particle simulation of plasma turbulence"."

5:00 - 5:30

Charlson Kim (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

"Applying Finite Elements to Stiff Magnetohydrodynamics "

5:30 Open Discussion

Thursday, January 13, 2005

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30

Jean Claude Adam (Ecole Polytechnique, France)

"High performance parallel Particle in Cell codes for laser plasma interaction"
Presentation (PDF File)

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:25

Marie Farge (Ecole Normale Supérieure), Kai Schneider (Université de Provence)

"Extraction of Coherent Structures in Turbulent Flows using Orthogonal Wavelets"
Presentation (PDF File)
A series of related papers (Zip Archive)

11:25 - 11:50

Kai Schneider (Université de Provence), Marie Farge (Ecole Normale Supérieure)

"An adaptive multiresolution method for parabolic PDEs"
Presentation (PDF File)
A series of related papers (Zip Archive)

11:50 - 12:20

Alex Friedman (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

""Implicit multiscale PIC and related topics""
Presentation (PDF File)

12:20 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 2:30

Jean Luc Vay (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

"Application of Adaptive Mesh Refinement to Particle-In-Cell simulations "
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

2:30 - 3:30

Brian Albright (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

"Multi-scale simulation of laser acceleration of ions for fast ignition ICF"

3:30 - 3:45 Break
3:45 - 4:15

Bedros Afeyan (Polymath Research Inc.)

"Multiresolution Analysis Techniques for Vlasov Codes and PIC Simulations"

5:15 - 5:45

Cheng Chin Wu (UCLA)

"Shock waves in MHD and Related Systems"


Friday, January 14, 2005

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:15 Continental Breakfast
9:15 - 10:00

Francois Waelbroeck (University of Texas)

"Natural velocity of magnetic islands""
Presentation (PDF File)

10:00 - 10:30

Howard Wilson (Culham Science Center)

"Modelling the Neoclassical Tearing Mode"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00

Kun Xu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

"Gas-kinetic BGK Schemes for Nonequilibrium Flows"

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

1:30 - 2:00

Charlson Kim (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

"Applying Finite Elements to Stiff Magnetohydrodynamics "

2:00 - 2:30

Dalton Schnack (SAIC)

"Effective Algorithms for Temporally Stiff Magneto-Fluid Problems"
Presentation Files (Zip Archive)

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