WISAP 2011 – Scientific Program
Eilat, 19-24 June, 2011
SUNDAY,
June 19th
19.00-20.30 :
Ice breaking and
registration
MONDAY,
June 20th
8.45-9.00 :
Late Registration
9.00-9.05 :
Welcome
9.05-9.15 :
Opening by Prof. Miri Amit, Dean of the Eilat campus of Ben-Gurion University
Morning session : 9 :15 – 12 :40
09.15-10.05 : Tony Bell, University of Oxford,
UK
Particle acceleration and magnetic field generation at shocks
10.05-10.35 :
Martin Lemoine, Institut
d’Astrophysique de Paris, France
Electromagnetic instabilities
at relativistic shock waves and relativistic Fermi acceleration
10.35-11.00 :
coffee-break
11.00-11.50 : Bertrand Lembège, LATMOS-IPSL-CNRS-UVSQ, 78280 Guyancourt, France
Macro- and micro-scales
mechanisms responsible for
the nonstationarity of collisionless shocks front
11.50-12.40 :
Christian Mazelle, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et
Planétologie (UPS/CNRS), Toulouse, France
Non stationary
character of quasi-perpendicular
shocks and associated
micro-turbulence.
12.40-14.00 :
lunch break
Afternoon session : 14 :00 – 18 :00
14.00-14.50 :
Ehud Behar, Department of Physics, Technion,
Haifa, Israel
Instabilities in Photo-ionized Outflows of Active Galactic Nuclei
14.50-15.20 :
Lev Pustil’nik, Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel Aviv Univ., Israel
Energy release in Solar flares – critical analysis of the current approach
15.20-15.50 :
David Eichler, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva,
Israel
Magnetic field amplification in shock precursors, and the maximum
attainable shock potential
15.50-16.10 : coffee break
16.10-16.40 :
Mario Riquelme, Astronomy Department, University of California
Berkeley, USA
Electron
Injection by Whistler Waves in Non-relativistic Shocks
16.40-17.30 : Igor Rogachevski : Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva,
Israel
Astrophysical turbulent dynamos :
open issues and perspectives
17.30-18.00 : Martin Pohl, Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Universität
Potsdam, Germany
Magnetic-field
amplification in astrophysical sources
TUESDAY, June 21st
Morning session : 9 :00 – 12 :50
9.00-9.50 : Laurence Rezeau, LPP,
CNRS/UPMC/Ecole Polytechnique, France
Solar wind
turbulence: analysis at different scales
9.50.10.40 : Olga Alexandrova, LESIA, Observatoire
de Paris-Meudon, France
Solar wind turbulent spectrum from MHD to electron scales
10.40-11.10 :
coffee break
11.10-12.00 :
Reinhart Schlickeiser, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Ruhr Universität
Bochum, Germany
General properties of small-amplitude
fluctuations in space plasmas
12.00-12.50 :
Lorenzo.
Matteini, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, University of Florence, Italy
Ion kinetics in the solar wind: observations and simulations
12.50-14.00 :
lunch break
Afternoon session : 14 :00 – 17 :30
14.00-14.50 :
André
Mangeney, LESIA, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, France
Intermittency and dissipation
in solar wind MHD
turbulence
14.50-15.40 :
Petr Hellinger, Astronomical Institute, Academy
of Sciences of the Czech Republic,
Prague.
Proton electromagnetic instabilities in the expanding solar wind
15.40-16.10 :
coffee break
16.10-16.40 :
Pierre-Louis
Sulem, UNS, CNRS, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur,
Nice, France
Fluid modeling of waves and turbulence
in plasmas with temperature
anisotropy.
16.40-17.30 :
Thierry
Passot, UNS, CNRS, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur,
Nice, France
Fluid modeling of anisotropic heating and micro-instabilities
in space plasmas.
Workshop dinner : 19 :30
WEDNESDAY, June 22nd
Morning session : 9 :00 – 12 :50
9.00-9.50 : Vladimir Krasnoselskikh, LPC2E/CNRS-University
of Orleans, France
Generation of electric currents in the solar chromosphere by means of neutral-ion drag
9.50-10.20: Michael Gedalin, Physics Dept. Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva,
Israel
Heliospheric
and astrophysical shocks :
Common features and differences
10.20-10.50 : Itzhak Goldman, Tel-Aviv University,
Tel-Aviv, Israel
Shock generated turbulence in clouds near the Galaxy center
10.50-11.20 : coffee break
11.20-11.50 : Günter Rüdiger, Astrophysikalisches Institut, Potsdam, Germany
Helicity formation by Tayler instability
11.20-11.50 : Rainer Arlt, Astrophysikalisches Institut, Potsdam, Germany
The Tayler instability
in spherical domains
11.50 :
12.20: Todor Kondić, Astrophysikalisches Institut, Potsdam,
Germany
Shear-Hall instability in spherical
geometry
12.20 :
12.50: Ludovic Petitdemange,
Max-Planck Institut für
Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany
MagnetoRotational
instability and dynamo action
FREE
AFTERNOON
An
excursion to the Timna
Valley (Copper mines of Timna and
the King Solomon pillars)
is scheduled.
THURSDAY,
June 23rd
Morning session : 9 :00 – 9 :30
9.00-9.30 : Evgeny Griv, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
Plasma-like instabilities
in astrophysical discs
9.30-10.00 : Michael Mond, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva,
Israel
Non-exponential hydrodynamical growth in stratified thin Keplerian discs
10.00-10.50 : Edward Liverts, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva,
Israel
Magnetorotational instability in thin Keplerian discs
10.50-11.20 : coffee break
11.20-12.10 : Orkan Umurhan, School of Mathematical
Sciences, University of California
Merced, USA, and Astronomy Department,
City College of San Francisco, USA
Baroclinic instabilities
of accretion disks
12.10-12.40 : Yuri Lyubarsky, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva,
Israel
Magnetic
dissipation in Poynting dominated
outflows
12.40-14.00 : lunch break
Afternoon
session : 14 :00 – 18 :15
14.00-14.50 : Fabrice Mottez, LUTH, Observatoire de
Paris-Meudon, France
The role Alfvén waves in the generation of Earth polar
auroras
14.50-15.20 : Semion Sukoriansky, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva,
Israel
Nonlinear
waves in zonostrophic turbulence
15.20-15.50: Michal Michno, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany
The dissipation
of the kinetic energy of cosmic outflows
15.50-16.15 : coffee break
16.15-16.45 :
Yosuke
Mizuno, CSPAR/UA
Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 35805, USA
The Current-Driven Kink Instability in Magnetically Dominated
Relativistic Jet
16.45-17.15 :
Yu.
V. Khotyaintsev, Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden
17 :15 –
17 :45 : N. Ikhsanov, Pulkovo Observatory,
Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Stability of the Magnetospheric Boundary of Accreting X-ray
Pulsars
17.45-18.15 :
V. Ghorela, Govt. P.G. College, Neemuch, India
A Study of Dust-induced Gravitational
Instability of Self-gravitating
Magneto-rotating Space Plasma
18.15: Closing remarks