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
8:30 - 9:15 Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:15 - 10:00
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
2:30 - 3:00
3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 3:45
3:45 - 4:15
4:15 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:00
Paolo Ricci (Dartmouth University)

GS2 Simulations of Turbulence in Closed

5:00 - 5:30 Panel Discussion
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
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
3:00 - 3:45 Break
3:45 - 4:30
Phillip Colella (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

 

4:30 - 5:00

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
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
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 Panel Discussion

Thursday, January 13, 2005

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

11:25 - 11:50
Kai Schneider (Université de Provence), Marie Farge (Ecole Normale Supérieure)

An adaptive multiresolution method for parabolic PDEs

11:50 - 12:20
Alex Friedman (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

"Implicit multiscale PIC and related topics"
PDF Presentation
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
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

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"
PDF Presentation
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