 credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/IoA/A.Fabian et al.; Radio: NRAO/VLA/G. Taylor; Optical: NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA) & Univ. of Cambridge/IoA/A. Fabian |
2nd ICM Theory and Computation Workshop |
 credit: P. Mendygral |
August 29-31, 2012 340 West Hall University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Central Campus
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| Wednesday, August 29th | Speaker and Title |
| 8:50-9:00am | Mateusz Ruszkowski & Gus Evrard (University of Michigan |
| Opening Remarks | |
| 9:00-9:40am | Aurora Simionescu (Stanford University) |
| Plasma physics in the intracluster medium from the smallest to the largest scales | |
| 9:40-10:10am | Brian McNamara (University of Waterloo) |
| Outflows in Clusters | |
| 10:10-10:40am | Mike McCourt (University of California at Berkeley) |
| Cool cores, conduction, and virial shocks: Sculpting cosmic gas into clusters | |
| 11:10-11:30am | Dongwook Lee (University of Chicago) |
| A New 3D Unsplit Staggered Mesh MHD Solver in FLASH and Recent Progress toward HEDP in FLASH | |
| 11:30-11:50am | Gabor Toth (AOSS, University of Michigan) |
| Multi-ion and Anisotropic Magnetohydrodynamics | |
| 11:50-12:10pm | Dinshaw Balsara (University of Notre Dame) |
| Inclusion of Thermal Conduction in Astrophysical Simulations-Applications to SNRs and HVCs | |
| 12:10-12:30pm | Stephanie Tonnesen (Princeton University) |
| The Influence of a Galactic Magnetic Field on Ram Pressure Stripping | |
| 2:00-2:30pm | Ellen Zweibel (University of Wisconsin-Madison) |
| Waves in the ICM | |
| 2:30-3:00pm | Alex Schekochihin (Oxford University) |
| How to model the effect plasma microinstabilities on ICM dynamics?(Effective closure schemes for theory and simulations) | |
| 3:00-3:30pm | Matt Kunz (Princeton University) |
| Multiscale Plasma Dynamics & Anisotropic Transport in the Intracluster Medium | |
| 4:00-4:30pm | Chris Reynolds (University of Maryland) |
| The Physics of the ICM core: Conduction, the HBI, and cold filaments | |
| 4:30-5:00pm | Martin Pessah (Niels Bohr Institute) |
| On the Dynamical Stability of the ICM with Thermal and Composition Gradients | |
| Thursday, August 30th | Speaker and Title |
| 9:00-9:30am | Norbert Werner (Stanford University) |
| Properties of hot and cold gas phases in nearby ellipticals | |
| 9:30-10:00am | Mark Voit (Michigan State University) |
| Triggering of AGN Feedback in Cluster Cores | |
| 10:00-10:20am | Fulai Guo (University of California Santa Cruz) |
| AGN feedback, cooling flows and cosmic rays in galaxy clusters | |
| 10:50-11:15am | Karen Yang (University of Michigan) |
| Fermi Bubbles as AGN Laboratories: Supersonic Jets with Anisotropic Cosmic Ray Diffusion | |
| 11:15-11:40am | Pete Mendygral (University of Minnesota, Cray Inc.) |
| Probing the ICM with AGN Jets | |
| 11:40-12:05pm | Sean O'Neill (University of Colorado at Boulder) |
| Current-driven Instabilities in AGN Jets | |
| 12:05-12:30pm | Christoph Pfrommer (Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies) |
| The Physics and Cosmology of TeV Blazars or The Physics of Radio Halos and Relics in Galaxy Clusters | |
| 2:00-2:30pm | Tom Jones (University of Minnesota) |
| Diffusive Shock Acceleration Simulations of Cluster Radio Relics | |
| 2:30-2:50pm | Francesco Miniati (ETH Zurich) |
| Turbulence in Cluster Cores and Outskirts From Very High Resolution Simulations | |
| 2:50-3:10pm | David Collins (Los Alamos National Laboratory) |
| Gravity, Turbulence, and Magnetic Fields | |
| 3:10-3:40pm | Paul Drake (AOSS, University of Michigan) |
| Magnetic field generation in shocks: experiments and simulations | |
| 4:00-4:20pm | Peng Oh (University of California Santa Barbara) |
| Switching Radio Halos and Relics On and Off | |
| 4:20-4:40pm | Andrey Beresnyak (Los Alamos National Laboratory) |
| MHD Turbulence and Cosmic Ray Reacceleration in Galaxy Clusters | |
| 4:40-5:00pm | Sam Skillman (University of Colorado at Boulder) |
| Galaxy Cluster Radio Emission: Viewing Cosmological MHD Simulations from All Angles | |
| 5:00-5:20pm | Hao Xu (University of California San Diego |
| Magnetic Fields and Radio Observations in Galaxy Clusters | |
| Friday, August 31st | Speaker and Title |
| 9:00-9:30am | Megan Donahue (Michigan State University) |
| They're Not Dead Yet: Star Formation and Dust in Brightest Cluster Galaxies | |
| 9:30-10:00am | Andrey Kravtsov (University of Chicago) |
| Pseudo-evolution of halo mass and implications for evolution of observable-mass relations | |
| 10:00-10:30am | Elena Rasia (University of Michigan) |
| The concentration-mass relation: observations and simulations | |
| 11:00-11:30am | Paul Nulsen (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) |
| Sloshing Cold Fronts and Cluster g-modes | |
| 11:30-12:00pm | John ZuHone (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) |
| Gas Slashing, Mini-halos, and Thermal Conduction | |
| 12:00-12:30pm | Daisuke Nagai (Yale Unviersity) |
| Non-equilibrium Phenomena in the Outskirts of Galaxy Clusters | |
| 12:30pm | Discussion |