2021 MPPC Annual Meeting
(Virtual)
January 19-22, 25-26, 2021
08:00 AM-12:30 PM EST (UTC+5)
Time (UTC+5) | “Topic” Video Link |
Speaker (Organization) Presentation Slide Link |
Tuesday, January 19, 2020 | ||
08:00 ~ 08:10 Welcome/Logistics P. Helander (IPP-Greifswald) / A. Bhattacharjee (Princeton) Video Link |
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08:10 ~ 09:50 Chair: P. Helander (IPP-Greifswald) | ||
08:10~08:50 | “Magnetic Reconnection: A Celestial Phenomenon in the Laboratory” Video Link |
J. Egedal (UW-Madison) |
08:50~09:20 | “Modeling of Current Crashes in W7-X” Video Link |
K. Aleynikova (IPP-Greifswald) Current Crashes |
09:20~09:50 | “Stellarators with Permanent Magnets” Video Link |
C. Zhu (PPPL) Stellarators with Permanent Magnetics |
09:50 ~ 10:10 Coffee | ||
10:10 ~ 12:30 Chair: M. Kunz (Princeton) | ||
10:10~10:50 | “Chasing Asymptotic Nonlinear Dynamos” Video Link |
F. Rincon (CNRS, France) Chasing Dynamos |
10:50~11:20 | “Plasma Dynamo Laboratory Experiments” Video Link |
A. Bott (Princeton) Investigating Dynamo Processes with Laser Experiments |
11:20~11:50 | “The Impact of Cosmic-Rays on Galaxy Formation” Video Link |
E. Quataert (Princeton) Cosmic Rays |
11:50~12:30 | “Forming Magnetic Switchbacks in the Expanding Solar Wind” Video Link |
J. Squire (University of Otago, New Zealand) Magnetic Switchbacks |
Wednesday, January 20, 2021 | ||
08:10 ~ 10:00 Chair: G. Hammett (PPPL) | ||
08:10~08:40 | “Compact Object Plasma Astrophysics” Video Link |
A. Philippov (Flatiron Institute) |
08:40~09:20 | “Turbulence Suppression via Energetic Particles” Video Link |
A. Di Siena (UT-Austin) Turbulence Suppression |
09:20~10:00 | “First Results from Solar Orbiter” Video Link |
D. Berghmans (Royal Observatory of Belgium) First Results from Solar Orbiter |
10:00 ~ 10:20 Coffee | ||
10:20 ~ 12:30 Breakout Sessions | ||
I. Reconnection Coordinators: H. Ji (Princeton) / V. Igochine (IPP-Garching) | ||
10:20~10:40 | “Plasmoid-Dominated Turbulent Reconnection in a Low-β Plasma” Video Link |
S. Zenitani (Kobe University) |
10:40~11:00 | “Plasmoid-Mediated Turbulent Reconnection in Hall MHD” Video Link |
Y.-M. Huang (Princeton) Plasmoid-Mediated Turbulent Reconnection |
11:00~11:20 | “Current Sheet Statistics in Turbulent Plasmas” Video Link |
N. Jain (Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, TU Berlin) |
11:20~11:40 | “Progress in Sawtooth Magnetic Reconnection Experiments at DIII-D” Video Link |
W. Fox (PPPL) DIII-D Sawtooth Magnetic Reconnection Experiments |
11:40~12:00 | “Stable and Unstable Electron Velocity-Space Distributions Formed by Kinetic Reconnection” Video Link |
X. Yao (Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, TU Berlin) |
12:00~12:30 | Discussion Video Link |
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II. Turbulence Coordinators: G. Hammett (PPPL) / F. Jenko (IPP-Garching) | ||
10:20~10:40 | “Introducing GENE-X: A Full-f Gyrokinetic Code for the Edge and Scrape-Off Layer” No Video Link | D. Michels (IPP-Garching) |
10:40~11:00 | “Initial Gkeyll Simulations of Scrape-Off-Layer Turbulence in ASDEX-U” Video Link |
R. Mukherjee (PPPL) Gkeyll Turbulence Simulations |
11:00~11:20 | “Simulating Ion-Temperature-Gradient-Driven Turbulence in a Hybrid Kinetic Model” Video Link |
A. Mustonen (IPP-Garching) Simulating Gradient Turbulence |
11:20~11:40 | “Hybrid Formulation of Fully Kinetic and Gyrokinetic Hamiltonian Field Theory for Space and Laboratory Plasmas” Video Link |
F. deOliveira Lopes (IPP-Garching) Theories for Lab & Space Plasmas |
11:40~12:00 | “Stability of Magnetized Pair Plasmas in Astrophysical and Laboratory Systems” No Video Link |
M. J. Pueschel (DIFFER) |
12:00~12:20 | “PIC Simulations of Perpendicular Collisionless Shocks in Multiple-Ion GRB plasmas” Video Link |
J. Graw (IPP-Garching) |
III. Stellarators Coordinators: P. Helander (IPP-Greifswald) / S. Hudson(PPPL) | ||
10:20~10:40 | “Quasisymmetric Equilibria with Anisotropic Pressure” Video Link |
E. Rodriguez (Princeton) Quasisymmetric Equilibria |
10:40~11:00 | “Optimization of Ion- Temperature-Gradient Mode Stability in Stellarators” Video Link |
G. Roberg-Clark (IPP-Greifswald) Optimization of Ion Stability in Stellarators |
11:00~11:20 | “Algorithms for Combined Free-Boundary Plasma & Coil Optimization” Video Link |
S. Henneberg (IPP-Greifswald) Coil & Plasma Optimization Algorithms |
11:20~11:40 | “Automatic Differentiation for Scientific Discovery and Design: Useful, Elegant, and Underutilized” Video Link |
N. McGreivy (Princeton) Twitter (Thread) Automatic Differentiation (Slides) |
11:40~12:00 | “Extending M3D-C1 to Stellarator Geometry: Preliminary Results” Video Link |
Y. Zhou (PPPL) |
12:00~12:30 | Discussion Video Link |
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Thursday, January 21, 2021 | ||
08:10 ~ 10:20 Chair: V. Springel (MPI Astrophysics-Garching) | ||
08:10~08:30 | “Magnetized Plasma Around Active Neutron Stars” Video Link |
A. Beloborodov (Columbia) |
08:30~09:00 | “Cosmic-Ray Propagation in Simulations of Star-Forming Galactic Disks” Video Link |
L. Armilotta (Princeton) |
09:00~09:30 | “Perpendicular High-Mach Shocks: PIC Simulations Vs In-Situ Measurements” Video Link |
A. Bohdan (DESY) PIC Simulations vs In-Situ Measurements |
09:30~10:00 | Summary of Breakout Sessions (January 20) Video Link |
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10:00 ~ 10:20 Coffee | ||
10:20 ~ 12:30 Breakout Sessions | ||
I. Dynamo Coordinators: M. Käpylä (MPI-Göttingen) / M. Kunz (Princeton) | ||
10:20~10:40 | “Stretching, Mixing and Tearing: Magnetic Self-Organization in High-Resolution Simulations of the Turbulent Dynamo in Pm>1 plasma” No Video Link | A. Galishnikova (Princeton) |
10:40~11:00 | “Plasma Small-Scale Dynamo” Video Link |
D. St.-Onge (Oxford) Plasma Small-Scale Dynamo |
11:00~11:20 | “Weibel Seeding of Kinetic Small-Scale Dynamo” No Video Link |
M. Zhou (MIT) |
11:20~11:40 | “Small-scale Dynamo Action at Very Low Magnetic Prandtl Numbers” No Video Link |
J. Warnecke (MPI-Göttingen) |
11:40~12:00 | “Compressible Test- Field Method and Application to Small-Scale Dynamo” No Video Link |
M. Rheinhardt (Aalto University, Finland) |
12:00~12:30 | Discussion Video Link |
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II. Reconnection Coordinators: H. Ji (Princeton) / V. Igochine (IPP-Garching) | ||
10:20~10:40 | “EUV Imaging and Spectroscopic Observations of Eruptive Solar Flares by HINODE” Video Link |
H. Hara (NAOJ) |
10:40~11:00 | “Campfires: New Observations with Solar Orbiter and Reconnection Models” Video Link |
H. Peter (MPI-Göttingen) Campfires |
11:00~11:20 | “The Parker Problem: A Coronal Loop Braided by Realistic Photospheric Motions” Video Link |
C. Breu (MPI-Göttingen) Coronal Loop in a Box |
11:20~11:40 | “Laboratory Study of Threshold for Solar Eruptions” Video Link |
A. Alt (PPPL) Solar Eruptions |
11:40~12:00 | “Gyrokinetic Studies of Turbulent Magnetic Reconnection in the Solar Corona” No Video Link |
M. J. Pueschel (DIFFER) |
12:00~12:20 | “Thermodynamics of the Collisional- Collisionless Phase Transition in Magnetic Reconnection” Video Link |
J. Jara-Almonte (PPPL) |
III. Innovations in Plasma Simulations Coordinator: A. Spitkovsky (Princeton) | ||
10:20~10:40 | “Coupling Scales in Relativistic Plasmas” Video Link |
B. Ripperda (Flatiron Institute/Princeton) Coupling Scales in Relativistic Plasmas |
10:40~11:00 | “MHD-PIC Method and Applications” Video Link |
X. Bai (Tsinghua University) |
11:00~11:20 | “Alias-Free, Quadrature-Free, and Matrix-Free Discontinuous Galerkin Algorithm for Kinetic Equations” Video Link |
J. Juno (University of Iowa) Discontinuous Galerkin Algorithms |
11:20~11:40 | “Structure-Preserving Geometric PIC Algorithms” Video Link |
H. Qin (PPPL) |
11:40~12:00 | “Simplex-in-Cell Simulations” Video Link |
S. Totorica (Princeton) Simplex In-Cell Simulations |
12:00~12:20 | “First-Principles Coupling of Core and Edge Gyrokinetic Models in Speeding-Up the Simulation of the Whole Device Plasma” not presented |
J. Dominski (PPPL) |
Friday, January 22, 2021 | ||
08:10 ~ 10:00 Chair: S. Günter (IPP-Garching) | ||
08:10~08:30 | “Interaction between Energetic- Particle-Driven MHD Mode and Drift-Wave Turbulence” Video Link |
A. Ishizawa (Kyoto University) |
08:30~09:00 | “Nonlinear Simulations of Transient Events in Tokamaks” Video Link |
M. Hölzl (IPP-Garching) 3D MHD Simulations |
09:00~09:30 | "Proton-Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration: Predicting the Impact of Misalignment in a Novel Accelerator Experiment at CERN" Video Link | M. Weidl (IPP-Garching) |
09:30~10:00 | Summary of Breakout Sessions (January 21) Video Link |
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10:00 ~ 10:20 Coffee | ||
10:20 ~ 12:30 Breakout Sessions | ||
I. Reconnection Coordinators: H. Ji (Princeton) / V. Igochine (IPP-Garching) | ||
10:20~10:40 | “Updates from Tokyo Reconnection Experiments” Video Link |
Y. Ono (University of Tokyo) Drift Wave Turbulence |
10:40~11:00 | “Ion Polarization Drift and Fast Guide Field Reconnection” Video Link |
S. Bose (PPPL) Field Reconnection |
11:00~11:20 | “Kinetic Simulations of Sawtooth Crashes” Video Link |
R. Kumar (PPPL) Sawtooth Crashes |
11:20~11:40 | “Role of Magnetic Reconnection in Accelerating Particles in Magnetically Dominated Turbulent Plasmas” No Video Link | L. Comisso (Columbia) Magnetic Particle Acceleration |
11:40~12:00 | “Reconnection During Edge-Localized-Modes” Video Link |
F. Ebrahimi (PPPL) |
12:00~12:30 | Discussion Video Link |
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II. Energetic Particles Coordinators: P. Lauber (IPP-Garching) / Y. Todo (NIFS) | ||
10:20~10:40 | “Nonlinear Simulation of Energetic Particle-Driven Alfvén Modes using M3D-C1” Video Link |
C. Liu (PPPL) Non Linear Simulation using M3D-C1 |
10:40~11:00 | “Kinetic-MHD Hybrid Simulations of the Peripheral Energetic-Particle-Driven Instabilities in Heliotron-J Plasmas” Video Link | P. Adulsiriswad (Kyoto University) MHD Hybrid Simulations |
11:00~11:20 | “Nonlinear Simulations of MHD Modes with Strong Energetic Particle Pressure Redistribution in the LHD Stellarator” Video Link | M. Idouakass (NIFS) |
11:20~11:40 | “Hybrid Simulations of Global Alfven Eigenmodes Excitation and Stabilization in NSTX-U” Video Link | E. Belova (PPPL) Non Linear Simulations in NSTX-U |
11:40~12:00 | “Mictroturbulence-Mediated Route for Energetic Ion Transport and Alfvenic Mode Oscillations” Video Link | N. Gorelenkov (PPPL) Microturbulance-Mediated Ion Transport |
12:00~12:30 | Discussion Video Link | |
III. Dynamo Coordinators: M. Käpylä (MPI-Göttingen) / M. Kunz (Princeton) | ||
10:20~10:40 | “Small-Scale Dynamo in the Horizontal Shear Turbulence of Stellar Radiative Zones” Video Link |
V. Skoutnev (Princeton) Small-scale Dynamo in Stellar Radiative Zones |
10:40~11:00 | “Solar Equilibrium à la Grad-Shafranov” Video Link |
L. Gunderson (Princeton) |
11:00~11:20 | “The Importance of Turbulence in Generating the Near-Surface Shear Layer” Video Link |
A. Barekat (MPI-Göttingen) Importance of Turbulence |
11:20~11:40 | “A Proposed Near-Surface Shear Layer Experiment” Video Link |
E. Gilson (PPPL) Near-Surface Shear Layer Experiment |
11:40~12:00 | “Non-Axisymmetric Mode in the MRI Experiment” Video Link |
Y. Wang (Princeton) MRI Experiment |
12:00~12:30 | Discussion not held | |
Monday, January 25, 2021 | ||
08:00-10:00 Chair: S. Okamura (NINS) | ||
08:00~08:30 | “Energetic Electron Effects on Alfvén Eigenmodes” Video Link |
J. Wang (NIFS) EE Effects on Alfvén Eigenmodes |
08:30~09:00 | “Global Gyrokinetic Simulations with GENE-3D” Video Link |
A. Banon-Navarro (IPP-Garching) Gyrokinetic Simulations with GENE-3D |
09:00~09:30 | “Predicting Non-Resonant Pressure-Driven MHD Modes in Equilibria with Low Magnetic Shear” Video Link |
A. Wright (PPPL) MHD Modes with Low Magnetic Shear |
09:30~10:00 | “Fast Magnetic Reconnection in Highly-Extended Current Sheets in Laser-Produced Plasmas” Video Link |
W. Fox (PPPL) Reconnection in Laser Induced Plasmas |
10:00 ~ 10:20 Coffee | ||
10:20 ~ 12:30 Chair: M. Käpylä (MPI-Göttingen) | ||
10:20~10:50 | “Probing Magnetic Reconnection in Solar Flares with Radio-Spectral Imaging” Video Link |
B. Chen (NJIT) |
10:50~11:20 | “Role of Magnetic Reconnection in Coronal Heating” Video Link |
P. Chitta (MPI-Göttingen) |
11:20~12:00 | “Sub-Grid Models in MHD Turbulence: Model Overview and Knowing What to Capture” Video Link |
P. Grete (Michigan State University) |
12:00~12:30 | Summary of Breakout Sessions (on January 22) Video Link |
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Tuesday, January 26, 2021 | ||
08:00 ~ 10:00 Chair: H. Ji (Princeton) | ||
08:00~08:30 | “Revisiting Particle Acceleration at Relativistic Shocks” Video Link |
B. Reville (MPI-HD) Particle Acceleration at Relativistic Shocks |
08:30~09:00 | “MHD Turbulence Mediated by the Plasmoid Instability” No Video Link |
C. Dong (Princeton) |
09:00~09:30 | “Sources of Suprathermal Particles Observed in the Solar Wind.” Video Link |
O. Khabarova (IZMIRAN, Moscow) |
09:30~10:00 | “Nonthermal Particle Acceleration During Magnetic Reconnection” Video Link |
F. Guo (LANL) |
10:00 ~ 10:20 Coffee | ||
10:20~12:20 | Collaboration Plans: A. Bhattacharjee and Coordinators No Video Link |
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12:20~12:30 | Adjournment: S. Günter |
Plenary and three breakout sessions controlled from here:
