Multiscale Processes in Fusion Plasmas - IPAM

Multiscale Processes in Fusion Plasmas

January 10 - 14, 2005

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, January 10, 2005

Morning Session

08:30-09:15
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:15-10:00
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.
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
11:00-12:00
Bjorn Engquist (University of Texas at Austin)
Numerical multiscale techniques for fusion

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:30
Lunch (on your own)
13:30-14:30
Russel Caflisch (New York University)
A Hybrid Method for Kinetic Theory
14:30-15:00
Steve Jardin (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab)
High-Accuracy, Implicit Solution of the Extended-MHD Equations using High-Continuity Finite Elements
15:00-15:15
Break
15:15-15:45
Masaki Yamada (Princeton University)
Laboratory Studies of the Physics of Two-Fluids MHD for Magnetic Reconnection
15:45-16:15
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.
16:15-16:30
Break
16:30-17:00
Paolo Ricci (Dartmouth University)
GS2 Simulations of Turbulence in Closed
17:00-17:30
Panel Discussion
17:30
Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Morning Session

08:30-09:15
Continental Breakfast
09:15-10:00
Warren Mori (University of California, Los Angeles (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
11:30-12:00
Thomas C. Katsouleas (University of Southern California (USC))
Title not available

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:30
Chengkun Hung (UCLA)
Title not available
14:30-15:00
Viktor Decyk (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Parallelization of the UPIC Framework
15:00-15:45
Break
15:45-16:30
Phillip Colella (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)
Title not available
16:30-17:00
Luis Silva (Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon)
Photon Kinetics for Laser Plasma Interactions

Wednesday, January 12, 2005

Morning Session

08:30-09:15
Continental Breakfast
09:15-10:00
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

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:30
Lunch (on your own)
13:30-14:30
Jan Hesthaven (Brown University)
Towards High-Order Unstructured Grid Particle-In-Cell Methods for
14:30-15:00
Ron Cohen (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
RIC: Relaxed Iteration Method for Coupling Disparate Scales
15:00-15:15
Break
15:15-15:45
Alan Glasser (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Adaptive Grid Generation for Magnetically Confined Plasmas
15:45-16:15
Ronald Waltz (General Atomics)
Gyrokinetic Simulations and Multiscale Processes
16:15-16:30
Break
16:30-17:00
Zhihong Lin (University of California at Irvine)
Gyrokinetic particle simulation of plasma turbulence.
17:00-17:30
Charlson Kim (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Applying Finite Elements to Stiff Magnetohydrodynamics
17:30
Panel Discussion

Thursday, January 13, 2005

Morning Session

08:30-09:30
Continental Breakfast
09:30-10:30
Jean Claude Adam (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
High performance parallel Particle in Cell codes for laser plasma interaction
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-11:25
Marie Farge (CNRS/École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
Extraction of Coherent Structures in Turbulent Flows using Orthogonal Wavelets
11:25-11:50
Kai Schneider (Université d'Aix-Marseille)
An adaptive multiresolution method for parabolic PDEs
11:50-12:20
Alex Friedman (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Implicit multiscale PIC and related topics

Afternoon Session

12:20-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:30
Jean-Luc Vay (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)
Application of Adaptive Mesh Refinement to Particle-In-Cell simulations
14:30-15:30
Brian Albright (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Multi-scale simulation of laser acceleration of ions for fast ignition ICF
15:30-15:45
Break
15:45-16:15
Bedros Afeyan (Polymath Research, Inc.)
Multiresolution Analysis Techniques for Vlasov Codes and PIC Simulations
17:15-17:45
Cheng Chin Wu (UCLA)
Shock waves in MHD and Related Systems

Friday, January 14, 2005

Morning Session

08:30-09:15
Continental Breakfast
09:15-10:00
Francois Waelbroeck (University of Texas)
Natural velocity of magnetic islands
10:00-10:30
Howard Wilson (Culham Science Center)
Modelling the Neoclassical Tearing Mode
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

Afternoon Session

12:00-13:30
Lunch (on your own)
13:30-14:00
Charlson Kim (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Applying Finite Elements to Stiff Magnetohydrodynamics
14:00-14:30
Dalton Schnack (SAIC)
Effective Algorithms for Temporally Stiff Magneto-Fluid Problems
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