Workshop II: Computational Challenges in Magnetized Plasma

Part of the Long Program Computational Methods in High Energy Density Plasmas
April 16 - 20, 2012

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, April 16, 2012

Morning Session
8:00 - 8:50 Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:50 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 - 9:10 Frank Graziani - Workshop Overview

Magnetic Reconnection
9:10 - 10:10
10:20 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:20
William Daughton (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Generation and Influence of Turbulence in Collisionless Reconnection

11:30 - 11:40 Break
11:40 - 12:30
12:40 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Seiji Zenitani (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)

A new measure of the dissipation region in collisionless magnetic reconnection
PDF Presentation
5:00 - 6:30 Poster Session/Wine & Cheese Reception

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

Multiscale
9:00 - 10:00
10:10 - 10:25 Break
10:25 - 11:15
Michael Barnes (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Multiscale Algorithms for Tokamak Turbulence

11:25 - 11:40 Break
11:40 - 12:30
12:40 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
Giovanni Lapenta (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

The challenge of multiphysics: federation or unification?
PDF Presentation
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Tamas Gombosi (University of Michigan)

Multiscale Simulations of Space and HED Plasmas


Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

Multiscale (continued) Plasma-Material Interaction
9:00 - 9:50
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30
12:40 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 2:50
3:00 - 3:50
4:00 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:30 Public Lecture by Ed Moses (Principal Associate Director, National Ignition Facility) Franz Hall, Room 1178
6:00 - 7:30 Reception (Location: IPAM Lobby)

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

Wave-Particle Physics
9:00 - 10:00
10:10 - 10:25 Break
10:25 - 11:15
Eduardo D'Azevedo (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Numerical Linear Algebra Techniques for Fusion Applications
PDF Presentation
11:25 - 11:40 Break
11:40 - 12:30
John Shadid (Sandia National Laboratories)

Scalable Implicit Solution Methods for Multiple-time-scale Multiphysics

12:40 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Eric Sonnendrucker (Université de Strasbourg I (Louis Pasteur))

Semi-Lagrangian gyrokinetic simulations on curvilinear meshes.


Friday, April 20, 2012

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

Experimental Review and Workshop Summary
9:00 - 9:50
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20 Wrap Up Discussion with Frank Graziani and Slava Lukin