The Physics of the Intracluster Medium: Theory & Computation

August 23-25, 2010
340 West Hall
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Central Campus
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The Scientific Program:

The Physics of Intracluster Medium Workshop 
340 West Hall
 
Monday August 23rd, 2010
   
8:30 AM Breakfast in 337 West Hall
     
9:15 AM Welcome  
    Gus Evrard and Gordon Kane (University of Michigan)
   
9:30 AM Modelling the Magnetised ICM: From Microscale Physics to What Matters to Astronomers
Alex Schekochihin (University of Oxford)
   
10:00 AM A thermally stable heating mechanism for the ICM
Matthew Kunz (University of Oxford)
   
10:30 AM Morning Coffee Break in 337 West Hall
   
10:50 AM The saturation of the HBI and MTI with turbulence.
Michael McCourt (University of California at Berkeley)
   
11:10 AM The Role of the MTI and the HBI in the Intracluster Medium
Ian Parrish (University of California at Berkeley)
   
11:40 AM Turbulence and Conduction in Galaxy Clusters
S. Peng Oh (University of California at Santa Barbara)
   
12:10 PM Lunch
   
2:00 PM Conduction and Multiphase Structure in Cluster Cores
Mark Voit (Michigan State University)
   
2:30 PM Probing MHD Instabilities in Intracluster Media with Faraday Rotation
Tamara Bogdanovic (University of Maryland)
   
2:50 PM Cosmological cluster formation simulations with anisotropic thermal conduction and radiative cooling
Mateusz Ruszkowski (University of Michigan)
   
3:10 PM Refreshments and Coffee in 337 West Hall
   
3:30 PM Dynamical Effects of a Tangled Magnetic Field
Ellen Zweibel (University of Wisconsin at Madison) 
   
4:00 PM Recent and prospective laboratory studies of compressible turbulence
Paul Drake (University of Michigan)
   
4:30 PM Modeling Turbulence in the Intergalactic Medium
Evan Scanapiecco (Arizona State University)
 
Tuesday August 24th, 2010
   
8:30 AM Breakfast in 337 West Hall
   
9:30 AM Energizing the filaments in cool-core clusters, with a detour to the Crab Nebula
Gary Ferland (University of Kentucky)
   
10:00 AM Interaction of AGN Outflows and the ICM
Thomas Jones (University of Minnesota)
   
10:30 AM Recent Progress in FLASH's Unsplit Staggered Mesh MHD Solver
Dongwook Lee (University of Chicago)
   
10:50 AM BATSRUS: a Multi-Physics and Multi-Application Code
Bart van der Holst (University of Michigan, AOSS)
   
11:10 AM Morning Coffee Break in 337 West Hall
   
11:50 AM New perspectives on shocks, cosmic rays, and magnetic fields in galaxy clusters
Christoph Pfrommer (CITA)
   
12:20 PM Simulations of Galaxy Cluster Radio Relics: Probes of Plasma Physics
Samuel Skillman (University of Colorado at Boulder)
   
12:40 PM Lunch
   
2:00 PM Simulating AGN feedback in Clusters - the Effect of Cluster Dynamics
Sebastian Heinz (University of Wisconsin at Madison) 
   
2:20 PM Simulations of AGN in dynamic galaxy clusters
Brian Morsony  (University of Wisconsin at Madison)
   
2:40 PM AGN feedback within AMR cosmological simulations
Yohan Dubois (University of Oxford) 
   
3:00 PM Magnetic Fields from AGNs in Galaxy Clusters
Hao Xu (LANL)
   
3:20 PM Refreshments and Coffee in 337 West Hall
   
3:40 PM Coupling jets to their surroundings, the role of entropy
Paul Nulsen (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
   
4:00 PM Stellar Feedback and Galaxy Formation
Norman Murray (CITA, University of Toronto)
   
4:20 PM Acceleration and Transport of High Energy Particles in Galaxy Clusters
Francesco Miniati (ETH Zurich)
 
Wednesday August 25th, 2010
   
8:30 AM Breakfast in 337 West Hall
   
9:30 AM Constraints on the amount of turbulence and dissipation from the ellipticity of intracluster medium
Andrey Kravtsov (University of Chicago)
   
10:00 AM Gas Motions in Outskirts of Galaxy Clusters: Implications for the cluster mass and ICM profiles.
Daisuke Nagai  (Yale University)
   
10:20 AM Impact of Cluster Physics on Scatter in Cluster Scaling Relations
Paul Ricker (University of Illinois)
   
10:40 AM Cluster Assembly and Non-Equilibrium in the Outer ICM
Douglas Rudd (Institute for Advanced Study)
   
11:00 AM Morning Coffee Break in 337 West Hall
   
11:20 AM Simulations of Core Gas Sloshing in Clusters of Galaxies: Insights Into the Physics of the ICM
John ZuHone (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
   
11:40 AM Gravitational & hydrodynamical effects on elliptical galaxies & their responses to the ICM in galaxy clusters
Min-Su Shin (University of Michigan)
   
12:00 PM Cosmic Ray Feedback, X-ray Cavities, and the Origin of NCC Clusters
Fulai Guo (University of California at Sant Cruz)
   
12:20 PM The Impact of Cluster Physics on the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Power Spectrum
Laurie Shaw (Yale University)
 

* Talk Length of 30 min= 25 + 5 Q&A and 20 min= 17 + 3 Q&A