Invited Talks

From CICART

1. A. Bhattacharjee, Current and Vortex Singularities: Drivers of Impulsive Reconnection in Plasmas and Fluids, Frontiers of Nonlinear Physics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, July 3-9, 2007.

2. A. Bhattacharjee, Fast Reconnection and its Nonlinear Stabilization in Laboratory and Space Plasmas, IPELS (Interrelationship between Plasma Experiments in Laboratory and Space) 2007, Cairns, Australia, August 6-10, 2007.

3. B. Rogers, Gyrokinetic simulations of plasma turbulence, transport and zonal flows in a closed field line geometry, 49th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics, American Physical Society, Orlando, Florida, November, 2007.

4. A. Bhattacharjee, Relaxation of Line-Tied Coronal Plasmas to MHD Equilibria with Current Singularities, 2007 Fall Meeting, The American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, December 10-14, 2007.

5. A. Bhattacharjee, Onset of Fast Reconnection and its Nonlinear Stabilization in Laboratory and Space Plasmas, MR2008, US-Japan Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection, Okinawa, Japan, March 3-6, 2008.

6. P. Isenberg, A kinetic model of acceleration and heaing of coronal hole minor ions, Seventh Annual Astrophysics Conference, Princeville, Hawaii, March 2008.

7. A. Bhattacharjee, Scaling of Reconnection and Stability of Current Sheets in Large Systems, EGU General Assembly 2008, Vienna, Austria, April 14-18, 2008.

8. A. Bhattacharjee, Role of Reconnection and Secondary Instabilities in Triggering Substorms and Flares/CMEs, ICS 9, Ninth International Conference on Substorms, Schloss Seggau, Austria, May 5-9, 2008.

9. C.-S. Ng, A Comparison of Spectral Element and Finite Difference Methods Using Statically Refined Nonconforming Grids for the MHD Island Coalescence Instability Problem, ASTRONUM-2008 – the 3rd International Conference on Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows at St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, June 8-13, 2008.