Workshop II: Computational Challenges in Magnetized Plasma - IPAM

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

08:00-08:50
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:50-09:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:00-09:10
Frank Graziani - Workshop Overview
Magnetic Reconnection
09:10-10:10
James Drake (University of Maryland)
An Overview of Magnetic Reconnection and Associated Particle Acceleration
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
Vyacheslav Lukin (United States Naval Research Laboratory)
Magnetic reconnection in the fluid limit: connecting micro-scales to macroscopic dynamics.

Afternoon Session

12:40-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Michael Shay (University of Delaware)
Magnetic Reconnection Generalized to Turbulent Systems
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Seiji Zenitani (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)
A new measure of the dissipation region in collisionless magnetic reconnection
17:00-18:30
Poster Session/Wine & Cheese Reception

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
Multiscale
09:00-10:00
Steve Jardin (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab)
Multiple timescale calculations of sawteeth and other global macroscopic dynamics of tokamak plasmas
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
Greg Hammett (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab)
Advection Algorithms, Anisotropic Diffusion, and Symplectic Iteration

Afternoon Session

12:40-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Giovanni Lapenta (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
The challenge of multiphysics: federation or unification?
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Tamas Gombosi (University of Michigan)
Multiscale Simulations of Space and HED Plasmas

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
Multiscale (continued) Plasma-Material Interaction
09:00-09:50
Jeff Candy (General Atomics)
Capturing electron-scale effects in tokamak turbulence
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Luis Chacon (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Efficient algorithms for fluid simulation of magnetized plasmas
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:30
Brian Wirth (University of Tennessee)
Multiscale Materials Modeling of low-energy He plasma surface interactions with Tungsten

Afternoon Session

12:40-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:50
Jeffrey Brooks (Purdue University)
Normal and Transient Plasma/interactions with Material Surfaces-Issues and Supercomputing Challenges
15:00-15:50
Predrag Kristic (University of Tennessee)
Bottom-up, integrated theoretical-experimental science for the plasma-material interface
16:00-16:30
Break
16:30-17:30
Public Lecture by Ed Moses (Principal Associate Director, National Ignition Facility) Franz Hall, Room 1178
18:00-19:30
Reception (Location: IPAM Lobby)

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
Wave-Particle Physics
09:00-10:00
Cynthia Phillips (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab)
Successes and Challenges in Modeling Wave-Plasma Interactions in Magnetically Confined Plasmas
10:10-10:25
Break
10:25-11:15
Eduardo D'Azevedo (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Numerical Linear Algebra Techniques for Fusion Applications
11:25-11:40
Break
11:40-12:30
John Shadid (Sandia National Laboratories)
Scalable Implicit Solution Methods for Multiple-time-scale Multiphysics

Afternoon Session

12:40-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Diego del-Castillo-Negrete (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Tensor product decomposition methods for noise reduction, data compression, multi-scale analysis, and projective integration
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Eric Sonnendrucker (Université de Strasbourg I (Louis Pasteur))
Semi-Lagrangian gyrokinetic simulations on curvilinear meshes.

Friday, April 20, 2012

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
Experimental Review and Workshop Summary
09:00-09:50
Richard Buttery (General Atomics)
Addressing Experiment Challenges with Computational Physics
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Troy Carter (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Studies of turbulence, transport and flow in the Large Plasma Device; a target for validation of edge turbulence models
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Angelos Vourlidas (Naval Research Laboratory (NRL))
A Grand Tour of Recent Observations of Solar and Heliospheric Plasmas: Challenges and Future Directions for Plasma Physics Theories

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Wrap Up Discussion with Frank Graziani and Slava Lukin
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