Autumn College on Plasma Physics: Long-Lived Structures and Self Organization in Plasmas | (smr 1521) (13 October 2003

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Autumn College on Plasma Physics: Long-Lived Structures and Self Organization in Plasmas | (smr 1521)

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Monday, 13 October 2003

08:30 - 09:15 All visitors are kindly requested to complete registration formalities

Location: Main Building, Lobby
- 08:30 All visitors are kindly requested to complete registration formalities 45'
09:15 - 09:30 Presentation of the ICTP computer system
- 09:15 Presentation of the ICTP computer system 15'
  
  Speaker: J. Grassberger (ICTP Scientific Computer Section)

09:30 - 10:45 Collective Effects and Self-consistent Energetic Particle Dynamics in Burning Plasmas

09:30 Collective Effects and Self-consistent Energetic Particle Dynamics in Burning Plasmas 1h15'

Speaker:	F. Zonca (ENEA, C.R. Frascati, Italy)
Material:	lecture notes

10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break
- 10:45 Coffee Break 30'

11:15 - 12:30 Self-Organizing Low to High Confinement Transitions in Tokamak Plasmas - 1

11:15 Self-Organizing Low to High Confinement Transitions in Tokamak Plasmas - 1 1h15'

Speaker:	P.N. Guzdar (University of Maryland, Institute For Plasma Research, College Park, USA)
Material:	lecture notes

12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
- 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
14:30 - 17:00 Structured Research - Poster Sessions
- 14:30 Structured Research - Poster Sessions 2h30'

Tuesday, 14 October 2003

09:00 - 10:15 Non-linear Dynamics in Space Plasmas - 1; Structure Formation and Self-organization in Magnetosphere
- 09:00 Non-linear Dynamics in Space Plasmas - 1; Structure Formation and Self-organization in Magnetosphere 1h15'
  
  Speaker: J. Buechner (Max-Planck Institut fuer Aeronomie, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany)
10:15 - 10:45 -
- 10:15 - 30'

10:45 - 12:00 Nondissipative Simulation Methods for Collisionless Electrostatic Plasmas - 1

10:45 Nondissipative Simulation Methods for Collisionless Electrostatic Plasmas - 1 1h15'

Speaker:	T. Watanabe (National Institute for Fusion Science, Theory and Computer Simulation Center, Toki, Japan)
Material:	lecture notes

12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
- 12:00 Lunch Break 2h0'
14:00 - 17:30 Structured Research
- 14:00 Structured Research 3h30'

Wednesday, 15 October 2003

09:00 - 10:15 Role of Resonant vs Non-resonant Wave-particle Interactions in Electromagnetic Turbulence

09:00 Role of Resonant vs Non-resonant Wave-particle Interactions in Electromagnetic Turbulence 1h15'

Speaker:	F. Zonca (ENEA, C.R. Frascati, Italy)
Material:	lecture notes

10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break
- 10:15 Coffee Break 30'
10:45 - 12:00 Self-Organizing Low to High Confinement Transitions in Tokamak Plasmas - 2
- 10:45 Self-Organizing Low to High Confinement Transitions in Tokamak Plasmas - 2 1h15'
  
  Speaker: P.N. Guzdar (University of Maryland, Institute For Plasma Research, College Park, USA)
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
- 12:00 Lunch Break 2h0'
14:00 - 17:30 Structured Research
- 14:00 Structured Research 3h30'

Thursday, 16 October 2003

09:00 - 10:15 Theoretical and Computational Issues in Plasma Turbulence and Long-term Evolution - 1; Analytical Paradigms

09:00 Theoretical and Computational Issues in Plasma Turbulence and Long-term Evolution - 1; Analytical Paradigms 1h15'

Speaker:	A. Thyagaraja (UKAEA Fusion, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, U.K.)
Material:	lecture notes

10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break
- 10:15 Coffee Break 30'
10:45 - 12:00 Non-linear Dynamics in Space Plasmas - 2; Structure Formation and Self-Organization at the Sun
- 10:45 Non-linear Dynamics in Space Plasmas - 2; Structure Formation and Self-Organization at the Sun 1h15'
  
  Speaker: J. Buechner (Max-Planck Institut fuer Aeronomie, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany)
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
- 12:00 Lunch Break 2h0'
14:00 - 17:30 Structured Research
- 14:00 Structured Research 3h30'

Friday, 17 October 2003

09:00 - 10:15 Theoretical and Computational Issues in Plasma Turbulence and Long-term Evolution - 2; Computational Approaches

09:00 Theoretical and Computational Issues in Plasma Turbulence and Long-term Evolution - 2; Computational Approaches 1h15'

Speaker:	A. Thyagaraja (UKAEA Fusion, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, U.K.)
Material:	lecture notes

10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break
- 10:15 Coffee Break 30'
10:45 - 12:00 Nondissipative Simulation Methods for Collisionless Electrostatic Plasmas - 2
- 10:45 Nondissipative Simulation Methods for Collisionless Electrostatic Plasmas - 2 1h15'
  
  Speaker: T. Watanabe (National Institute for Fusion Science, Theory and Computer Simulation Center, Toki, Japan)
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
- 12:00 Lunch Break 2h0'
14:00 - 17:00 Poster Session

Location: Main Building, Lobby
- 14:00 Poster Session 3h0'

Monday, 20 October 2003

09:00 - 10:15 Self-Organization Processes in Astrophysical Arena - 1

09:00 Self-Organization Processes in Astrophysical Arena - 1 1h15'

Speaker:	V. Krishan (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India)
Material:	lecture notes

10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break
- 10:15 Coffee Break 30'

10:45 - 12:00 Magnetic Reconnection and MHD Turbulence - 1

10:45 Magnetic Reconnection and MHD Turbulence - 1 1h15'

Speaker:	D. Biskamp (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik, Garching, Germany)
Material:	lecture notes

12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
- 12:00 Lunch Break 2h0'
15:00 - 17:00 Math. Phys. Seminar
- 15:00 Math. Phys. Seminar 2h0'

Tuesday, 21 October 2003

09:00 - 10:15 Self-Organization Processes in Astrophysical Arena - 2
- 09:00 Self-Organization Processes in Astrophysical Arena - 2 1h15'
  
  Speaker: V. Krishan (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India)
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break
- 10:15 Coffee Break 30'

10:45 - 12:15 Alfven Wave Dynamics - 1

10:45 Alfven Wave Dynamics - 1 1h30'

Speaker:	T. Passot (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Nice, France)
Material:	lecture notes

12:15 - 14:15 Lunch Break
- 12:15 Lunch Break 2h0'
14:30 - 15:30 Solar Physics
- 14:30 Solar Physics 1h0'
15:00 - 17:00 Mini Course on Turbulence

Location: Computer Lab. (M)
- 15:00 Mini Course on Turbulence 2h0'

Wednesday, 22 October 2003

09:00 - 10:15 Rayleigh Taylor Instabilities in Laser Produced Plasmas - 1; Fundamental, Linear and Weakly Nonlinear Theory

09:00 Rayleigh Taylor Instabilities in Laser Produced Plasmas - 1; Fundamental, Linear and Weakly Nonlinear Theory 1h15'

Speaker:	S. Atzeni (Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Dipartimento di Energetica, Roma, Italy)
Material:	lecture notes

10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break
- 10:15 Coffee Break 15'
10:30 - 11:45 Magnetic Reconnection and MHD Turbulence - 2
- 10:30 Magnetic Reconnection and MHD Turbulence - 2 1h15'
  
  Speaker: D. Biskamp (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik, Garching, Germany)

11:45 - 12:45 ITER - 1

11:45 ITER - 1 1h0'

Speaker:	K. Lackner (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik, Garching, Germany)
Material:	lecture notes

12:45 - 14:15 Lunch Break
- 12:45 Lunch Break 1h30'
14:30 - 18:30 VISIT TO SINCROTRONE & ELETTRA LAB.
- 14:30 VISIT TO SINCROTRONE & ELETTRA LAB. 4h0'
15:00 - 17:00 Math. Phys. Seminar
- 15:00 Math. Phys. Seminar 2h0'

Thursday, 23 October 2003
- 09:00 - 10:15 Rayleigh Taylor Instabilities in Laser Produced Plasmas - 2; Nonlinear Evolution
  - 09:00 Rayleigh Taylor Instabilities in Laser Produced Plasmas - 2; Nonlinear Evolution 1h15'
    
    Speaker: S. Atzeni (Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Dipartimento di Energetica, Roma, Italy)
- 10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break
  - 10:15 Coffee Break 15'
- 10:30 - 12:00 Alfven Wave Dynamics - 2
  - 10:30 Alfven Wave Dynamics - 2 1h30'
    
    Speaker: T. Passot (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Nice, France)
- 12:00 - 13:00 ITER - 2
  - 12:00 ITER - 2 1h0'
    
    Speaker: K. Lackner (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik, Garching, Germany)
- 13:00 - 15:00 Lunch Break
  - 13:00 Lunch Break 2h0'
- 15:00 - 17:00 Mini Course on Turbulence
  
  Location: Computer Lab. (M)
  - 15:00 Mini Course on Turbulence 2h0'

Friday, 24 October 2003

09:00 - 10:15 Increasing Entropy as a Self-Organizing Process

09:00 Increasing Entropy as a Self-Organizing Process 1h15'

Speaker:	D.C. Montgomery (Dartmouth College, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Hanover, USA)
Material:	lecture notes

10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break
- 10:15 Coffee Break 30'
10:45 - 12:00 Comments on Hydrodynamic Turbulence
- 10:45 Comments on Hydrodynamic Turbulence 1h15'
  
  Speaker: K.R. Sreenivasan (ICTP, Trieste, Italy)
12:00 - 13:00 Oral Presentations for Poster Session
- 12:00 Oral Presentations for Poster Session 1h0'
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch Break
- 13:00 Lunch Break 2h0'
15:00 - 17:00 Poster Session

Location: Main Building, Lobby
- 15:00 Poster Session 2h0'

Monday, 27 October 2003

09:00 - 10:15 "Relaxed" Steady States in Plasmas: Variational Principles or Boundary Conditions ?

09:00 "Relaxed" Steady States in Plasmas: Variational Principles or Boundary Conditions ? 1h15'

Speaker:	D.C. Montgomery (Dartmouth College, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Hanover, USA)
Material:	lecture notes

10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break
- 10:15 Coffee Break 30'

10:45 - 12:00 Understanding Fluid Turbulence through Numerical Simulations

10:45 Understanding Fluid Turbulence through Numerical Simulations 1h15'

Speaker:	D.O. Gomez (IAFE, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Material:	lecture notes

12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
- 12:00 Lunch Break 2h0'
15:00 - 17:00 Math. Phys. Seminar
- 15:00 Math. Phys. Seminar 2h0'

Tuesday, 28 October 2003

09:00 - 10:15 Singular Perturbation and Schale Hierarchy in Self-organized Structures - 1

09:00 Singular Perturbation and Schale Hierarchy in Self-organized Structures - 1 1h15'

Speaker:	Z. Yoshida (University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, Japan)
Material:	lecture notes

10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break
- 10:15 Coffee Break 30'

10:45 - 12:00 Quasi-Steady Fluid and Plasma States from Selective Decays: Coherent Structures the Easy Way

10:45 Quasi-Steady Fluid and Plasma States from Selective Decays: Coherent Structures the Easy Way 1h15'

Speaker:	D.C. Montgomery (Dartmouth College, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Hanover, USA)
Material:	lecture notes

12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
- 12:00 Lunch Break 2h0'
14:30 - 15:30 Solar Physics
- 14:30 Solar Physics 1h0'
15:00 - 17:00 Mini Course on Turbulence

Location: Computer Lab. (M)
- 15:00 Mini Course on Turbulence 2h0'

Wednesday, 29 October 2003

09:00 - 10:15 Singular Perturbation and Schale Hierarchy in Self-organized Structures - 2
- 09:00 Singular Perturbation and Schale Hierarchy in Self-organized Structures - 2 1h15'
  
  Speaker: Z. Yoshida (University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, Japan)
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break
- 10:15 Coffee Break 30'

10:45 - 12:00 The Flows in the Solar Atmosphere: Generation, Acceleration and Escape; Energy Transformation -1

10:45 The Flows in the Solar Atmosphere: Generation, Acceleration and Escape; Energy Transformation -1 1h15'

Speaker:	N. Shatashvili (Georgian Academy of Sciences, Dept. of Plasma Physics, Tbilisi, Georgia)
Material:	lecture notes

12:00 - 14:15 Lunch Break
- 12:00 Lunch Break 2h15'
15:00 - 17:00 Math. Phys. Seminar
- 15:00 Math. Phys. Seminar 2h0'

Thursday, 30 October 2003

09:00 - 10:15 Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Dynamos

09:00 Numerical Simulations of Turbulent Dynamos 1h15'

Speaker:	D.O. Gomez (IAFE, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Material:	lecture notes

10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break
- 10:15 Coffee Break 30'

10:45 - 12:00 The Flows in the Solar Atmosphere: Generation, Acceleration and Escape; Energy Transformation -2

10:45 The Flows in the Solar Atmosphere: Generation, Acceleration and Escape; Energy Transformation -2 1h15'

Speaker:	N. Shatashvili (Georgian Academy of Sciences, Dept. of Plasma Physics, Tbilisi, Georgia)
Material:	lecture notes

12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
- 12:00 Lunch Break 2h0'
14:30 - 16:30 Poster Session

Location: Main Building, Lobby
- 14:30 Poster Session 2h0'
15:00 - 17:00 Mini Course on Turbulence

Location: Computer Lab. (M)
- 15:00 Mini Course on Turbulence 2h0'

Friday, 31 October 2003
- 09:00 - 17:00 Visit to RFX Laboratory at CNR Padova
  - 09:00 Visit to RFX Laboratory at CNR Padova 8h0'

Monday, 3 November 2003

09:00 - 10:15 Solitary Structures in Relativistic Plasmas

09:00 Solitary Structures in Relativistic Plasmas 1h15'

Speaker:	F. Pegoraro (Universita' di Pisa, Dip. di Fisica, Italy)
Material:	lecture notes

10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break
- 10:15 Coffee Break 30'
10:45 - 12:00 Confinement
- 10:45 Confinement 1h15'
  
  Speaker: S.M. Mahajan (Institute for Fusion Studies, Un. of Texas, Austin, USA)
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
- 12:00 Lunch Break 2h0'
15:00 - 17:00 Math. Phys. Seminar
- 15:00 Math. Phys. Seminar 2h0'

Tuesday, 4 November 2003

09:00 - 10:15 Relativistic Kinetic Theory of Photons in a Plasma: New Physics of a Photon Gas
- 09:00 Relativistic Kinetic Theory of Photons in a Plasma: New Physics of a Photon Gas 1h15'
  
  Speaker: N. Tsintsadze (Georgian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physics, Tbilisi, Georgia)
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break
- 10:15 Coffee Break 30'

10:45 - 12:00 MHD Turbulence in the Heliospheric Plasma: Coherent Structures and Large Scale Correlations

10:45 MHD Turbulence in the Heliospheric Plasma: Coherent Structures and Large Scale Correlations 1h15'

Speaker:	P. Veltri (Universita' della Calabria, Dip. di Fisica, Arcavacata di Rende, Italy)
Material:	lecture notes

12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
- 12:00 Lunch Break 2h0'
15:00 - 18:30 Mini Course on Turbulence

Location: Computer Lab. (M)
- 15:00 Mini Course on Turbulence 3h30'

Wednesday, 5 November 2003

09:00 - 10:15 MHD Turbulence in the Heliospheric Plasma: Intermittency and Small Scale Coherent Structures
- 09:00 MHD Turbulence in the Heliospheric Plasma: Intermittency and Small Scale Coherent Structures 1h15'
  
  Speaker: P. Veltri (Universita' della Calabria, Dip. di Fisica, Arcavacata di Rende, Italy)
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break
- 10:15 Coffee Break 30'

10:45 - 12:00 Results in Hamiltonian Magnetic Field Reconnection

10:45 Results in Hamiltonian Magnetic Field Reconnection 1h15'

Speaker:	F. Pegoraro (Universita' di Pisa, Dip. di Fisica, Italy)
Material:	lecture notes

12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
- 12:00 Lunch Break 2h0'
15:00 - 17:00 Math. Phys. Seminar
- 15:00 Math. Phys. Seminar 2h0'

Thursday, 6 November 2003
- 09:00 - 10:15 Generation of Vortices and Relativistic Particles in an Isotropic, as well as in a Magnetoactive Plasmas
  - 09:00 Generation of Vortices and Relativistic Particles in an Isotropic, as well as in a Magnetoactive Plasmas 1h15'
    
    Speaker: N. Tsintsadze (Georgian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physics, Tbilisi, Georgia)
- 10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break
  - 10:15 Coffee Break 30'
- 10:45 - 12:00 Review, Ideas, Questions, Ideas
  - 10:45 Review, Ideas, Questions, Ideas 1h15'
    
    Speaker: S.M. Mahajan (Institute for Fusion Studies, Un. of Texas, Austin, USA)
- 12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
  - 12:00 Lunch Break 2h0'
- 15:00 - 17:00 Mini Course on Turbulence
  
  Location: Computer Lab. (M)
  - 15:00 Mini Course on Turbulence 2h0'
Friday, 7 November 2003
- 09:00 - 10:15 Q & A
  - 09:00 Q & A 1h15'
- 10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break
  - 10:15 Coffee Break 30'
- 10:45 - 12:00 Q & A
  - 10:45 Q & A 1h15'
- 12:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break
  - 12:00 Lunch Break 2h0'