Programme

With the exception of the conference dinner, all events will be in the Herschel Building, the home of the Newcastle University School of Mathematics & Statistics. Please see the Travel page for links with information on finding this building. The talks will be in Lecture Theatre 2 (LT2), on the Ground Floor. Registration, tea/coffee and posters will be in the Ground Floor Foyer, just outside LT2. Lunches, and the Wednesday evening reception, will be in the 'Penthouse' (on Level 7).

The conference dinner (and pre-dinner drinks) will be in the Vermont Hotel Ballroom, in Newcastle City Centre.

Wednesday August 27

There will be an informal reception from 17:30 to 19:30 on the Wednesday evening, in the Penthouse of the Herschel Building, for those who arrive early. Please let us know if you plan to attend this event.

Thursday August 28

09:30 Registration, tea/coffee
10:30 Mike Proctor Mean responses to symmetry breaking perturbations in disordered systems
11:15 Dmitry Sokoloff Statistics of inversions of the geomagnetic field and dynamo theory
11:35 Andrew Gilbert Critical layer and radiative instabilities in shallow water shear flows
11:55 Stephen Griffiths Destabilisation of shear flows by counter-propagating Alfvén waves at localised magnetic fields
12:15 Thierry Alboussière Convection, compressibility and dissipation
12:35 Lunch
13:45 Paul Roberts Magnetostrophy
14:30 Ashley Willis Optimisation of magnetic dynamos in confined geometry
14:50 David Ivers Thermal instability in rotating ellipsoids
15:10 Krzysztof Mizerski What can we learn from classical dynamo models about the tilt of planetary dynamos?
15:30 Tea/coffee
16:00 Andrew Soward Frequency staircases in narrow gap spherical Couette flow
16:45 Chris Jones Forty years of Fluid Dynamics
17:30 Finish
19:00 Pre-dinner drinks
19:30 Dinner

Friday August 29

09:00 Gary Glatzmaier Jupiter's internal zonal winds to be revealed with the gravity and magnetic fields measured by Juno
09:45 John Shebalin Statistical mechanics of turbulent dynamos
10:05 David Hughes Dynamos driven by convection
10:25 Tea/coffee
10:55 Uli Christensen Dynamo models: from planets to stars
11:40 Richard Holme Observational constraint of flow in the cores of Earth and Jupiter
12:00 Andy Jackson Ultra low viscosity dynamos
12:20 Radostin Simitev Quasi-geostrophic approximation of anelastic convection (Cancelled — replaced by poster session)
12:40 Lunch
13:50 Dave Galloway 40 years with Du Fort-Frankel: a cautionary tale
14:35 Tamara Rogers Internal gravity waves in massive stars
14:55 Anthony Yeates From the tachocline into the heliosphere: coupling a 3D kinematic dynamo to coronal models
15:15 Kirill Kuzanyan How sound waves in the solar corona guide the magnetic helicity out of the Sun towards us
15:35 Finish, tea/coffee

Poster presentations

Gert Botha A nonorthogonal geometric formulation of sheared rotation
Grace Cox Forward models of torsional waves: geometric effects and wave-induced secular variation
Wieland Dietrich Spherical shell geometry effects in rotating anelastic convection
Marek Grądzki Influence of a magnetic diffusion on the short-wavelength magnetic buoyancy instability
Céline Guervilly Interactions between large-scale vortices and magnetic fields in rotating Rayleigh-Bénard convection
Kumiko Hori Slow MC-Rossby waves in a convection-driven dynamo: Implications for geomagnetic secular variation
Dominique Jault Observation of rapid Earth's magnetic field changes and the electrical conductivity of the mantle
Todor Kondić Influence of a weak magnetic field on its turbulent diffusion
Stefano Maffei Numerical studies of the kinematic evolution of magnetic fields in the Earth's outer core subject to quasi-geostrophic flows
Alexandra Marsenić A kinematic problem for geomagnetic field variations
Jonathan Mound Geomagnetic implications of inner core translation
Aditi Sood Nonlinear interactions and spin down of Sun-like stars
Robert Teed Torsional waves in dynamo and magnetoconvection simulations
Veronika Witzke Shear instabilities in a fully compressible polytropic atmosphere

Please contact caj65@ncl.ac.uk with any questions about the programme.