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Program for the US-Japan Workshop on Numerical Simulation of Complex Plasmas
October 8-9, 2007, Austin, Texas
Location: Renaissance Arboretum Hotel
Program in PDF format.
Monday Morning, October 8, 2007 [top]
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8:00 |
Registration |
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8:25 |
Welcoming Remarks |
François Waelbroeck |
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Methods I Chair: Ritoku Horiuchi |
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8:30 |
Development of Advanced Gyro-PIC Code for Kinetic MHD Phenomena |
Hiroshi Naitou |
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9:00 |
A Macro Projective Integration Method for Multi- Scale Plasma Simulation |
Seiji Ishiguro |
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9:30 |
A discontinuous Galerkin method for the approximation of collisionless plasmas |
Ross Heath |
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10:00 |
KEEN Waves in the Vlasov-Poisson System and Connections to 2D Euler Turbulence |
Bedros Afeyan |
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10:30 |
Beverage Break |
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Methods II Chair: Hideo Nagatomo |
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10:50 |
Kepler workflow for non-local edge kinetic-MHD coupling with data management and visualization |
Julian Cummings |
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11:20 |
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Plasma Surface Interaction |
Atsushi Ito |
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11:50 |
A finite element wave packet approach to solving the plasma wave equations |
John Wright |
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12:20 |
Time reversible orbit integrators in 2D and 0D static magnetic fields with variable step size: Application to single particle tracking and PIC codes |
Leonardo Patacchini |
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12:40 |
Efficient Computational Approach to Modeling the Weibel Instability and Relativistic Beam Transport in Dense Plasmas |
Oleg Polomarov |
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1:00 |
Lunch |
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| Monday, Evening, October 8, 2007 | ||
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6:30 |
Reception (cash bar) |
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7:00 |
Buffet Banquet |
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| Tuesday morning, October 9, 2007 [top] | ||
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Reconnection Chair: François Waelbroeck |
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8:00 |
Fast electron inflow channel into electron dissipation region in collisionless driven reconnection |
Ritoku Horiuchi |
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8:30 |
Improved boundary model for particle simulation of collisionless driven reconnection in an open system |
Hiroaki Ohtani |
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8:50 |
On Simulation Studies of Magnetic Reconnection Using Multi-scale Scheme |
Shunsuke Usami |
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9:20 |
Lower-hybrid-drift instabilities in current-sheet equilibrium in presence of a guide field |
Wenlu Zhang |
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9:40 |
Complexity of Magnetospheric Structure Varying Southward IMF in Global Three-dimensional Electro- Magnetic Particle Simulation |
Dong Sheng Cai |
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10:00 |
Beverage Break |
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Applications Chair: Hiroaki Ohtani |
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10:20 |
Ion collection by a drifting spherical collector in the continuum limit. Kinetic and fluid approaches |
Leonardo Patacchini |
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10:50 |
Plasma effects in waveguide breakdown |
Peter Stoltz |
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11:20 |
Broadening of Solar Wind Strahl Pitch-Angles by the Electron/electron Instability |
Shinji Saito |
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11:40 |
Short Wavelength Trapped Electron Mode |
Yong Xiao |
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12:00 |
The European task force on integrated tokamak modeling |
Guido Huysmans |
| Tuesday Afternoon, October 9, 2007 | ||
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Fluid Modeling Chair: Guido Huysmans |
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2:00 |
Anisotropy in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence |
Marco Onofri |
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2:30 |
Modeling of the Accretion Disk Corona |
Alexei Pankin |
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3:00 |
Numerical simulations of anisotropic Alfvénic turbulence |
Jean Perez |
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3:30 |
Beverage Break |
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Methods III Chair: Bedros Afeyan |
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3:50 |
Multi-scale Simulation for Laser Plasma Interaction |
Hideo Nagatomo |
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4:20 |
Discrete particle noise in gyrokinetic particle-in-cell simulations of plasma turbulence |
Ihor Holod |
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4:40 |
Phase space structure formation due to frequency sweeping in plasmas |
Herb Berk |
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5:00 |
Closing Remarks |
François Waelbroeck |
