Program 


Time schedule of program

Mar 8  9:00-12:30     14:00-17:30  20:00-21:30  
Mar 9  am (excursion) 14:00-17:30  17:30-19:00  Banquet(19:30-)
Mar 10 9:00-12:30     14:00-17:30  20:00-21:30  

long   invited talk (30+10) = 30 min talk + 10 min discussion
normal invited talk (20+5)
short contributed talk (10+5)
March 8, Tuesday
Mar 8 morning

9:00-9:20 Introductory comment : K. Shibata (15+5)

1. Magnetic Topology and Energy Storage

chair T. Yokoyama

9:20-10:00 E. Zweibel (30+10) Magnetic reconnection in line tied systems / Slide
10:00-10:25 T. Shimizu (20+5) Indications of magnetic reconnection derived from photospheric magnetic field measurements / Slide
10:25-10:50 L. M. Zelenyi (20+5) Fine structure of thin current sheets / Slide

10:50-11:20 Break

11:20-11:45 P. Bellan (20+5) Astrophysical Jet and Solar Coronal Loop Experiments / Slide / Movie
11:45-12:10 T. Forbes (20+5) Energy Release and Particle Acceleration in Solar Flares / Slide / Movie
12:10-12:35 T. Ogino (20+5) Magnetic Reconnection in the Earth's and Planetary Magnetospheres / Slide

Mar 8 afternoon

chair: Y. Ono

14:00-14:40 S. C. Prager (30+10) Reconnection and Ion Heating in a Laboratory Plasma / Slide
14:40-15:05 A. Frank (20+5) Current sheet evolution in magnetic configurations with the X-line: electric currents, magnetic fields and plasma dynamics / Slide

15:05-15:35 poster presentation (3min x 9)

15:35-16:20 Break

16:20-16:45 A. Bhattacharjee (20+5) Collisionless Reconnection: Dynamics and Geometry / Slide
16:45-17:10 K. Kusano (20+5) Self-Exciting Driven Reconnection in a Solar Coronal Magnetic Arcade with Reversed-Shear
17:10-17:35 R. L. Stenzel (20+5) Laboratory experiments on magnetic reconnection in EMHD plasmas / Slide

Mar 8 night

chair: K. Shibata

20:00-20:25 T. Maekawa (20+5) Spontaneous Formation of Closed Toroidal Flux Surfaces by Electron Cyclotron Heating / Slide
20:25-20:50 J. Lin (20+5) Magnetic Reconnection and Current Sheet in CME/Flare Processes: Theories and Observations / Slide / Movie1 / Movie2 / Movie3 / Movie4 / Movie5 / Movie6
20:50-21:15 H. Park (20+5) Study of unsolved issues of D1 oscillation ("Sawtooth") via 2-D ECE Imaging System on TEXTOR / Slide
21:15-21:30 T. Miyagoshi (10+5) MHD simulations of jets in the solar atmosphere associated with emerging flux and magnetic reconnection / Slide
21:30-21:45 S. Yu. Bogdanov (10+5) Magnetic Structure of the Current Sheets Formed in Magnetic Fields with Singular Line of X- Type / Slide

March 9, Wednesday
Mar 9 morning

Excursion

Mar 9 afternoon

2. Scale Coupling between Micro and Macro Plasmas

chair: S. C. Prager

14:00-14:25 M. Yamada (20+5) Laboratory Studies of the Physics of Two-Fluids MHD for Magnetic Reconnection / Slide
14:25-14:50 M. Hesse (20+5) A Microscopic View of Magnetic Reconnection in the Magnetosphere / Slide
14:50-15:15 H. Ji (20+5) Electromagnetic drift instability in the lower-hybrid frequency range in the reconnection layer / Slide
15:15-15:40 R. Horiuchi (20+5) Roles of plasma instabilities and particle kinetic effects in collisionless driven reconnection / Slide

15:40-16:00 Break

16:00-16:25 M. Hoshino (20+5) Electron surfing acceleration due to polarized electric field in reconnection / Slide
16:25-16:40 K. Tanaka/M. Fujimoto (10+5) Blocking effect of guide field on quick magnetic reconnection triggering / Slide
16:40-17:05 Y. Ishii (20+5) Electron fluid Effects on the explosive growth of double tearing modes / Slide
17:05-17:30 H. Takabe (20+5) Laboratory Astrophysics with Intense Lasers / Slide
Mar 9 night

chair T. Terasawa

3. Turbulent Reconnection and Plasmoid Ejections

17:30-18:10 H. Isobe (30+10) Observations and numerical simulations of magnetic reconnection in the solar corona
18:10-18:35 Y. Ono (20+5) Recent Progress of TS-3/4 Reconnection Heating Experiments / Slide
18:35-19:00 M. Ugai (20+5) Spontaneous fast reconnection evolution in three dimensions / Slide

Banquet chair A. Asai

March 10, Thursday
Mar 10 morning

chair M. Hoshino

9:00-9:40 S. Inutsuka (30+10) MHD Turbulence in Protoplanetary Disks / Slide
9:40-10:05 R. Matsumoto (20+5) Global MHD Simulations of Magnetic Reconnection in Accretion Disks and in Disk Corona / Slide
10:05-10:30 A. Lazarian (20+5) Stochastic Reconnection in Partially Ionized Gas / Slide

10:30-11:00 Break

11:00-11:15 S. Tanuma (10+5) Internal Shocks in the Reconnection Jet / Slide
11:15-11:30 S. Imada (10+5) Energetic electron acceleration by magnetic reconnection with surrounding structure / Slide
11:30-11:45 T. Sano (10+5) Magnetic Reconnection in MHD Turbulence in Accretion Disks / Slide
Mar 10 afternoon

chair T. Forbes

4. Particle Acceleration and Relativistic Plasmas

14:00-14:25 S. Krucker (20+5) X-ray and Gamma-ray Observations of Solar Flares with RHESSI / Slide
14:25-14:50 M. Brown (20+5) Three-dimensional kinetic effects in SSX / Slide
14:50-15:05 N. Watanabe (10+5) Two-dimensional MHD Simulations of Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection / Slide
15:05-15:20 S. Zenitani (10+5) Magnetic reconnection in relativistic current sheets of pair plasmas / Slide

15:20-15:50 Break

15:50-16:05 K. Nishikawa (10+5) Particle Simulations of Collisionless Reconnection in the Relativistic Current Sheets / Slide
16:05-16:30 J. Drake (20+5) Production of energetic electrons during magnetic reconnection / Slide
16:30-16:55 P. Browning (20+5) Test particle studies of acceleration at a 3D reconnection / Slide

Mar 10 night

chair M. Yamada

20:00-20:25 T. Terasawa (20+5) Giant bursts of soft gamma ray repeaters: Reconnection events(?) in magnetars' magnetospheres / Slide

Discussion (60min)

Poster Presentation

T. Yokoyama Reconnection with Finite-Amplitude Fluctuations
A. Asai Flare Ribbon Expansion and Energy Release
H. Kigure Generation of Alfven Waves by Magnetic Reconnection
T. Nakamura Magnetic reconnection within MHD-scale Kelvin-Helmholtz vortices triggered by electron inertial effects
N. Narukage Analysis of reconnection inflow in solar flare
S. Notoya Three-Dimensional Magnetic Reconnection driven by a buoyant flux tube with the coronal arcade field in the Sun
S. Nozawa 2-D and 3-D Magnetohydrodynamics Simulation of Solar Emerging Flux
D. Shiota Slow Shock Structure in a Coronal Mass Ejection
T. Suzuki Wave/Turbulent Heating and Acceleration of Solar/Stellar Winds