Sunday 28th July - 17:00: Welcome reception, drinks and nibbles, held at the Beecroft Building
09:30-09:40 Introduction
FUNDAMENTAL FLUID DYNAMICS & PLASMA PHYSICS
Chair: Geoffroy Lesur
09:40-10:00 Hantao Ji - Making Waves and Instabilities in the Lab
10:00-10:20 Christophe Gissinger - Angular momentum transport in a laboratory model of accretion disks
10:20-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:20 Martin Pessah - MRI Saturation Revisited
11:20-11:40 Pierre Lesaffre - Multiscale Turbulence Synthesis
11:40-12:00 Alex Schekochihin - Getting turbulent transport roughly right
12:00-12:20 Matthew Kunz - Bodacious B-fields and Most Serious Self-Organization in High-Beta Plasma
12:20-14:20 Lunch
Chair: Roger Davies
14:20-14:40 David Hosking - Putting things on top of other things: nonlinear instability and relaxation in MHD
GALAXIES & DYNAMICS
14:40-15:00 Scott Tremaine - Comets as a test of modified gravity
15:00-15:20 James Binney - Corrugation waves in stellar discs
15:20-16:00: Coffee break
16:00-16:20 Doug Lin - Stellar Evolution and Pollution in AGN Disk (SEPAD) and their Implication on the Stellar Dynamics in the Galactic Center and around other Super-Massive Black Holes
16:20-16:40 Bence Kocsis - The AGN origin of gravitational wave sources detected by LIGO
16:40-17:00 Oliver Gressel - Turbulent transport coefficients for the galactic dynamo
Evening Activity - Optional walking tour of Oxford
Tuesday 30th July
THE EARLY UNIVERSE, GALAXY CLUSTERS, & THE ICM
Chair: Martin Pessah
09:20-09:40 Christopher McKee - The First Magnetic Fields
09:40-10:00 Joe Silk - JWST, AGN feedback and the first supermassive black holes
10:00-10:20 Barry Ginat - Cold Dark Matter & Turbulence
10:20-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:20 Thomas Berlok - Cosmological evolution of a weakly collisional intracluster medium
11:20-11:40 Christopher Reynolds - Whistling the tune of feedback in galaxy clusters
11:40-12:00 Lorenzo Maria Perrone - The Magneto-Thermal Instability: Theory and Praxis (and recent developments)
12:00-12:20 Francois Rincon - On the detectability of the MTI in galaxy clusters
12:20-14:20 Lunch
ACCRETION ON TO COMPACT OBJECTS 1
Chair: Andy Mummery
14:20-14:40 Omer Blaes - Thermodynamics and Magnetorotational Turbulence
14:40-15:00 Mitchell Begelman - Evolution of Magnetized Disks
15:00-15:20 Julian Krolik - The Magnetorotational Instability in Eccentric Disks
15:20-16:00: Coffee break
16:00-16:20 Nicolas Scepi - Strongly Magnetized Disks and the X-ray Binary Hysteresis
16:20-16:40 Mark Wardle - Infrared and X-ray flaring of the Galactic Centre supermassive black hole Sgr A*
Evening Activity - Conference Dinner held in the Founder's Library at New College, Holywell Street. Drinks at 7 pm and dinner at 7.30 pm. Dress code: smart casual.
Wednesday 31st July
ACCRETION ON TO COMPACT OBJECTS 2
Chair: Chris Reynolds
09:40-10:00 Andrew Mummery - Continuum emission from within the plunging region of black hole discs
10:00-10:20 Jake Rule - Simulating the Plunging Region of Black Hole Accretion Disks with AthenaK
10:20-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:20 Katherine Blundell - Spitting Spheroids I
11:20-11:40 Roger Blandford - Spitting Spheroids II
11:40-12:00 Rob Fender - Jets from stellar mass black holes and neutron stars
12:00-12:20 Jonatan Jacquemin Ide - The Magnetorotational Dynamo in 3D GRMHD Simulations of Accreting Black Holes: The Effect of Disk Thickness
12:20-14:00 Lunch
PROTOPLANETARY DISKS & PLANET FORMATION 1
Chair: Caroline Terquem
14:00-14:20 Patrick Hennebelle - The formation of protoplanetary disks
14:20-14:40 Wenrui Xu - Global simulations of gravitational instability with full radiation transfer: making waves and fragments
14:40-15:00 Gordon Ogilvie - Gravitational instability in three-dimensional discs
15:00-15:20 Dong Lai - Discs around binaries and binaries in big discs
15:20-16:00: Coffee break
16:00-16:20 Geoffroy Lesur - Secular magnetic instabilites in protoplanetary discs
16:20-16:40 Hubert Klahr - Steven Balbus and the Goldreich–Schubert–Fricke instability in stellar radiative zones and circumstellar disks
16:40-17:00 Zhaohuan Zhu - Global 3-D Simulations of Accretion Disks and Magnetospheric Accretion
Thursday 1st August
PROTOPLANETARY DISKS & PLANET FORMATION 2
Chair: Mark Wardle
09:20-09:40 Xuening Bai - Gas Dynamics of the Innermost Protoplanetary Disk
09:40-10:00 Andrew Youdin - Shear and Streaming Instabilities in Planet-Forming Disks
10:00-10:20 Henrik Latter - Streaming instabilities in dusty vortices
10:20-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-11:20 Min-Kai Lin - Streaming Instability: Born Again
11:20-11:40 Richard Nelson - Recent developments in the theory of planet migration
FLOWS IN STARS & PLANETS
11:40-12:00 John Papaloizou - Tidal interactions of solar type star and planetary companions: r modes and spin orbit misalignment
12:00-12:20 Janosz Dewberry - Tidal spin evolution in stars and gaseous planets
12:20-14:00 Lunch
Chair: Andrew Youdin
14:00-14:20 Caroline Terquem - Energy transfer between convection and fast tides
14:20-14:40 Mattias Green - A Journey Through Tides
14:40-15:00 Ludovic Petitdemange - MHD instabilities spin down stellar radiative layers
15:00-15:20 Geoff Vasil - Sphere we go again: magnetism, rotation and instability in the Sun
15:20-16:00: Coffee break
End of conference
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