Plasma Physics and Astrophysics up to 2020 and beyond
In honor of Pierluigi Veltri's 70th birthday

7-8 October 2019
Università della Calabria, Rende, Italy

Conference program

The scientific program of the workshop is the following:

Monday 7 October:
 
9:00 Welcome
 
Chair (F. Valentini)
  • 10:00 F. Pegoraro: Towards QED plasmas
  • 10:30 G. Bertin: Globular clusters as weakly collisional stellar systems
11:00 Coffee break
 
Chair (F. Pecora)
  • 11:30 A. Mangeney: Some remarks on the study of solar wind turbulence
  • 12:00 A. Pouquet: A few issues around magnetic helicity in Hall-MHD
  • 12:30 G. Einaudi: Coronal Loops Heating: Elementary Events Driven
    by Footpoints Shuffling
Lunch break
 
Chair (S. Savaglio)
  • 14:45 A. Ferrari: Astrophysical jets and suprathermal particle acceleration
  • 15:15 M. Messerotti: Plasma Diagnostics by Solar Radio Physics in
    Space Weather Applications
  • 15:45 V. Antoni: Turbulence in plasmas: history of a successful collaboration
16:15 Coffee break
 
Chair (F. Lepreti)
  • 16:45 G. Boffetta: Turbulence between two and three dimensions
  • 17:15 E. Corbelli: Turbulence in the interstellar medium and the formation of stars
  • 17:45 L. Sorriso-Valvo: Hall MHD local energy transfer in turbulent plasmas
Open Discussion (moderator S. Servidio)
 
Tuesday 8 October:
 
Chair (L. Primavera)
  • 9:00 R. Grappin: Is the paradox of Dobrowolny Mangeney Veltri (1980) still a paradox?
  • 9:30 S. Atzeni: Laser-driven inertial confinement fusion and matter in stellar conditions
  • 10:00 W. H. Matthaeus: Reynolds Number in Space Plasmas
10:30 Coffee break
 
Chair (G. Zimbardo)
  • 11:00 M. Velli: Coronal Heating and Solar Wind Acceleration: Parker Solar Probe
  • 11:30 P. Londrillo: Wandering around computational plasma physics
  • 12:00 A. Misiano: Astronomy and its role in teaching and education (in italian)
Lunch break
 
Oral Presentations and Final Remarks
  • 14:30 Luca Del Zanna: General Relativistic MHD Models of thick accretion disks
  • 14:45 Aleksandre Taktakshvili: Space Weather Modeling of
    NASA/GSFC Community Coordinated Modeling Center
  • 15:00 Karen Pommois: Hybrid kinetic-drift computations for weakly magnetized plasmas
  • 15:15 Chadi Salem: Electric Field Turbulence between Ion and Electron Scales in the Solar Wind at 1AU
  • 15:30 Fabio Feraco: Large-scale intermittency in stratified turbulent flows
  • 15:45 Marco Veranda: Features of relaxation events in current-carrying reversed-field pinches fusion plasmas

You can download a pdf copy of the program here

Last update: September 25th, 2019