MHD COUETTE FLOWS: EXPERIMENTS AND SIMULATIONS
Acitrezza (Catania) 29 February - 2 March 2004


Programme

Sunday, February 29th

10.00
Visit to Acicastello Norman Castle
12.30
Welcoming reception at the hotel
15.00-16.00
Registration
16.00-16.10
S. Catalano
Welcoming address
16.10-16.15
G. Belvedere
Welcoming address
16.15-16.30
R. Rosner
Introductory remarks 

Experiments

16.30-17.10
H. Ji et al.
Study of magnetorotational instability in 
liquid gallium: Ga MRIX
17.10-17.30
Coffee break

17.30-18.10
D. Lathrop
Observations of the magnetorotational 
instability in spherical Couette flow
18.10-18.30
Discussion


Monday, March 1st

09.20-10.00
F. Stefani et al.
Laboratory astrophysics as exemplified 
by the Riga dynamo experiment
10.00-10.40
C. Egbers et al.
The GEOFLOW experiment: investigations of supercritical 
thermal convective motions in the rotating spherical gap 
flow experiment under central force field
10.40-11.00
Coffee break


THEORY

11.00-11.40
G. Ruediger
MRI in magnetic TC experiments
11.40-12.20
F. Cattaneo
Dynamo action and magneto-convection in fluids 
with small magnetic Prandtl number
12.20-13.00
S. Boldyrev et al.
Magnetic field generation in Kolmogorov turbulence
13.00

Lunch

15.00-15.40
A. Brandenburg
Shearing and embedding box simulations of the 
magnetorotational instability 
15.40-16.20
W. Dobler
Numerical studies of the generation and saturation 
of magnetic fields in Couette-type flows
16.20-17.00
T. Zaqarashvili et al.
Parametric instability of periodic Couette flows 
17.00-17.20
Coffee break

17.20-18.00
F. Stefani et al.
MRI in Taylor-Dean flows
19.30
Departure for Viagrande


Tuesday, March 2nd

09.20-10.00
R. Hollerbach
End-effects in rapidly rotating cylindrical Couette flow
10.00-10.40
R. Arlt
Magnetic shear flows in stars
10.40-11.00
Coffee break

11.00-11.40
A. Ferrari 
Vortices and waves in planar and disk flows: 
theory and numerical simulations
11.40-12.20
To be decided
12.20-13.00
Concluding remarks

13.00
Lunch