Program

Tuesday, 26/05/2015: 9h30-18h30

09:30 Welcome, Olga Alexandrova

Session 1: Nature of turbulence in inertial range and relations to the different possible mechanisms of dissipation

09:35 - 10:05 Roland Grappin, The balance between magnetic stretching and Alfvén effect in solar wind and MHD simulations (pdf)

10:05 - 10:35 Arakel Petrosyan, Large-eddy simulations of compressible MHD turbulence in space plasma (pdf)

10:35 - 11:00 coffee break

11:00 - 11:30 Marc Brachet, Using Taylor-Green symmetries in 3D Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence (pdf)

11:30 - 12:00 Laurent Chevillard, A review on Eulerian and Lagrangian velocity fluctuations in turbulent flows (pdf)

12:00 - 12:30 Peter Davidson, Rapidly rotating turbulence and its role in planetary dynamos (pdf)

12:30 - 13:00 discussions

13:00 - 14:30 lunch

14:30 - 15:00 Pierre Sagaut, On the control of dissipation by large scales: which scales govern the cascade rate ?

15:00 - 15:30 Sebastien Galtier, Compressible turbulence in astrophysical plasmas (pdf)

15:30 - 16:00 coffee break

16:00 - 16:30 Andrea Verdini, Anisotropies of solar wind turbulence through out the inertial range (pdf)

16:30 - 17:00 Luca Sorriso-Valvo, Self-consistent Castaing distribution of the inertial range turbulent fluctuations in the solar wind (pdf)

17:00 - 18:00 discussions

18:00 - 19:00 cocktail


Wednesday, 27/05/2015: 9h30-18h30

Session 2: Turbulence around plasma kinetic scales (proton and electron scales)

09:30 - 10:00 Olga Alexandrova, Space plasma turbulence from proton to sub-electron scales (pdf)

10:00 - 10:30 Laurent Chevillard, Focussing on the dissipative range of fully developed turbulence (pdf)

10:30 - 11:00 coffee break

11:00 - 11:30 Christopher Chen, Nature of Kinetic Scale Solar Wind Turbulence (pdf)

11:30 - 12:00 Fouad Sahraoui, Why do we observe a broad distribution of spectral slopes at kinetic scales in solar wind turbulence? (pdf)

12:00 - 12:30 Sonny Lion, Spectral shape of magnetic fluctuations in the solar wind at ion scales (pdf)

12:30 - 13:00 discussions

13:00 - 14:30 lunch

14:30 - 15:00 Dusan Jovanovic, Electron-scale fluid and kinetic coherent nonlinear structures in plasmas (pdf)

15:00 - 15:30 Denise Perrone, Statistical analysis of solar wind coherent structures at ion scales using multi-point measurementsby Cluster (pdf)

15:30 - 16:00 Lorenzo Matteini, Hybrid simulations of kinetic plasma turbulence (pdf)

16:00 - 16:30 coffee break

16:30 - 17:00 Sebastien Galtier, On the inverse cascade of magnetic helicity at sub-ion scales (pdf)

17:00 - 17:30 Pierre-Louis Sulem, Fluid simulations of non-collisional plasmas at the ion scales

17:30 - 18:30 discussions

20:00 Conference dinner at "I Diavoletti", 73, rue Claude Bernard, 75005 Paris

 

Thursday, 28/05/2015: 10h00-18h30

Session 3: Turbulence vs instabilities and presence of waves in strong turbulence

10:00 - 10:30 Stuart Bale, Turbulence and instabilities

10:30 - 11:00 Petr Hellinger, Turbulence vs fire hose instability (pdf)

11:00 - 11:30 coffee break

11:30 - 12:00 Romain Meyrand, Coexistence of weak and strong turbulence in incompressible Hall MHD turbulence (pdf)

12:00 - 12:30 Pierre Henri & Carine Briand, Connecting Langmuir waves to low frequency waves (pdf)

12:30 - 13:00 discussions

13:00 - 14:30 lunch

Session 4: Possible dissipation mechanisms in turbulent plasmas (effect of collisions? reconnection? Landau damping? Instabilities? ... What else?)

14:30 - 15:00 Khurom Kiyani: Gauging anisotropic scaling in plasma turbulence and topological change at the ion scales (pdf)

15:00 - 15:30 Alessandro Retino, Turbulent energy dissipation in thin reconnecting current sheets (pdf)

15:30 - 16:00 coffee break

16:00 - 16:30 Justin Kasper, Observations of kinetic properties of solar wind ions

16:30 - 17:00 Thierry Passot, Viscous versus Landau damping in Alfvén wave phase mixing

17:00 - 18:00 discussions and concuding remarcs

18:00 - 19:00 cocktail


Friday, 29/05/2015: 9h30-17h00


Workshop on "Methods for analysing turbulence data"

09:30 - 10:00 Thierry Dudok de Wit: estimating power laws (pdf)

10:00 - 10:45 Marie Farge: A review on wavelet transforms and their applications to MHD and plasma turbulence (I) (pdf)

10:45 - 11:15 coffee break

10:15 - 12:00 Kai Schneider: A review on wavelet transforms and their applications to MHD and plasma turbulence (II) (pdf)

12:00 - 12:30 Sonny Lion, Hilbert-Huang and Morlet wavelet transformation (pdf)

12:30 - 13:30 lunch

13:30 - 14:00 Stuart Bale: How to remove spacecraft noise from magnetometer data? (pdf)

14:00 - 14:30 Khurom Kiyani: Using discrete wavelets to explore anisotropy in solar wind plasma turbulence (pdf)

14:30 - 15:30 discussion/training

15:30 - 16:00 coffee break

16:00 - 17:00 training and discussions in small groups

17:00 Closing remarks

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