Reconnection in Turbulent Fluid and its Implications

Workshop

Kraków, Oct 10^th-11^th 2008

There is a lot of confusion what turbulence does to reconnection. Therefore, we feel that there is a necessity to have during the meeting the talks which cover the history of the field, introduce the stochastic reconnection idea and simulations of the stochastic reconnection. We would like to bring to our boat also observers, and experimentalists. Also, it is good to have some relation to people doing collisionless plasma reconnection. This is our motivation to the meeting.

Contact: Hubert Siejkowski

The Workshop place is the Jagiellonian University Conference Centre situated in the Institute of Polish Diaspora and Ethnic Studies in Przegorzały, Kraków (more info...).

1. Alex Lazarian PDF
   Opening remarks. History of ideas on turbulent reconnection: From tearing modes to hyperresistivity
2. Alex Lazarian PDF
   Theory of turbulent 3D reconnection and implications
3. John Raymond PPT
   Evidence of thick reconnection layers in Solar flares
4. Grzegorz Kowal PDF anims
   Numerical testing of 3D turbulent reconnection
5. Seiji Zenitani PDF anims
   The role of the Weibel instability at the reconnection jet front in relativistic pair plasma reconnection
6. James Drake PDF
   Bistability of collisionles reconnection and spontaneous initiation of reconnection
7. Ken-Ichi Nishikawa PDF
   Magnetic Reconnection by a Self-Retreating X-Line
8. Giovanni Lapenta PPT
   Self-Feeding Turbulent Magnetic Reconnection on Macroscopic Scales: A 3D MHD study
9. Katarzyna Otmianowska-Mazur PPT
   Effects of resistivity on 3D and 2D turbulent reconnection
10. Vladimir Mirnov PPT
    Violent Reconnection in Lab Plasmas
11. Daniele Galli PDF
    Necessity of anomalous resistivity for removing magnetic flux during star formation
12. Michał Hanasz PDF anims
    Cosmic-ray driven dynamo in galactic disks
13. Ethan Vishniac PPT
    Reconnection in turbulent partially ionized gas