Big Apple Magnetic Fields Conference

Jan 24, 2019, 8:00 AM → Jan 25, 2019, 7:55 PM America/New_York

2nd flr Auditorium (162 5th Ave.)

Blakesley Burkhart (Rutgers)

January 24 - 25,  2019 

8:30a to 5p

Conference to bring together experts on cosmic magnetic fields.

Please click the link below to join the webinar: 

https://simonsfoundation.zoom.us/j/128418202

Or Telephone:

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    Webinar ID: 128 418 202

    International numbers available: https://zoom.us/u/adi1k19h0N

 

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Thursday, January 24

8:00 AM → 8:50 AM Breakfast

8:50 AM → 10:40 AM Session 1 Glennys Farrar: Chair

8:50 AM Overview of the Meeting

9:00 AM Blakesley Burkhart: Magnetic fields and the early phases of star formation

Session Chair: Glennys Farrar

9:20 AM Amitava Bhattacharjee: Magnetic Reconnection Mediated by the Plasmoid Instability in Turbulent Astrophysical Plasmas

9:40 AM Richard Crutcher: Magnetic Fields and Star Formation

10:00 AM Phillip Mocz: Shock structures in magnetized supersonic isothermal turbulence

10:20 AM Siyao Xu: The effect of magnetic fields on density filaments in the interstellar medium

10:40 AM → 11:10 AM AM Break

11:10 AM → 12:30 PM Session 2 Susan Clark: Chair

11:10 AM Jessica Campbell: Polarimetry and 21 cm HI as a Probe of Galactic Magnetism

11:30 AM Giles Novak: Magnetic Fields and Grain Alignment in Star Forming Molecular Clouds

11:50 AM James Cho: Disruption of zonal flows by magnetic fields on a rotating sphere

12:10 PM Dinshaw Balsara: Geodesic Mesh MHD with Applications : A New Paradigm for Computational Astrophysics

12:30 PM → 12:50 PM Discussion (20mins) Mark Krumholz: Chair

12:30 PM Discussion led by Mark Krumholz

12:50 PM → 1:40 PM Lunch

1:40 PM → 3:20 PM Session 3 David Collins: Chair

1:40 PM Glennys Farrar: The Galactic magnetic field: empirical modeling

2:00 PM Michael Unger: Improved constraints on the structure of the Galactic random field

2:20 PM Ethan Vishniac: The origin of large scale magnetic fields

2:40 PM Amir Jafari: Magnetic Fields in Turbulent Environments

3:00 PM Laura Fissel: The Relationship between Magnetic Fields and Molecular Cloud Structure

3:20 PM → 3:50 PM PM Break

3:50 PM → 5:10 PM Session 4 David Collins: Chair

3:50 PM Mark Krumholz: The Lesser Role of Magnetic Fields in Setting the Initial Mass Function

4:10 PM Mordecai MacLow: Magnetized Envelopes and Collapsing Cores of Molecular Clouds

4:30 PM Kung-Yi Su: The effect of magnetic fields and their dependence on stellar feedback

4:50 PM Nikolai Pogorelov: Heliospheric Effects on the Local Interstellar Magnetic Field

5:10 PM → 5:30 PM Discussion (20 mins) Drummond Fielding: Chair

5:10 PM Discussion led by Drummond Fielding

5:30 PM → 6:00 PM Pre Dinner drinks/appetizers

6:00 PM → 7:30 PM Dinner

Friday, January 25

8:00 AM → 9:00 AM Breakfast

9:00 AM → 10:40 AM Session 1 Brandon Hensley: Chair

9:00 AM Mark Vogelsberger: Simulating galaxies and magnetic fields with IllustrisTNG

9:20 AM Eric Koch: Turbustat- Python based turbulence statistics codes

9:40 AM Alex Lazarian: Gradient Technique: new way to trace magnetic fields

10:00 AM Ka Ho: Using Velocity Gradient Technique in tracing 3D magnetic field

10:20 AM Yue Hu: Tracing Multi-Scale Magnetic Field Structure Using Velocity Gradient Technique in Giant Molecular Clouds

10:40 AM → 11:15 AM AM Break

11:15 AM → 12:35 PM Session 2 Mordecai Mac-Low: Chair

11:15 AM Mohammad Safarzadeh: Constraints on magnetic fields from observations of dwarf galaxies

11:35 AM Susan Clark: Modeling Polarized Dust Emission from the 3D ISM

11:55 AM Noemie Globus: The role of Galactic magnetic field on cosmic-ray propagation

12:15 PM Rocio Kiman: Finding age relations for low mass stars using magnetic activity and kinematics

12:35 PM → 12:55 PM Discussion (20 mins) Michael Unger: Chair

12:35 PM Discussion led by Michael Unger

12:55 PM → 1:45 PM Lunch

1:45 PM → 3:45 PM Session 3 Alex Lazarian: Chair

1:45 PM Axel Brandenburg: Skewness and parity breaking in simulated E and B polarizations

2:05 PM Brandon Hensley: Modeling Polarized Dust Emission

2:25 PM Alexei Kritsuk: Dust-Polarization Maps for Local Interstellar Turbulence

2:45 PM David Collins: Interpreting CMB Foregrounds

3:05 PM Carl Heiles: The Interplay between the ISM and the Magnetic Field

3:45 PM → 4:05 PM Discussion (20 mins) Marc Kamionkowski: Chair

3:45 PM Discussion led by Marc Kamionkowski

4:05 PM → 5:35 PM Farewell Drinks/Appetizer Reception