Friday Group Meetings 2009

Date Speaker Talk Title
Jan 30 Peter Dobbie A review of the conference "Cosmic Magnetic Fields"
Feb 6   Informal discussion--research update
Feb 13 Ian Craig (U. Waikato) Visco-resistive energy losses in 3D magnetic reconnection
Feb 27 Roman Kompaneets Ion plasma waves in a weakly-ionized plasma with ion flow
March 6   Informal discussion--research update
April 17 Mike Wheatland A baseline for flare prediction using only event statistics
April 24 Mohammad Rafat A review of paper "The strongest cosmic magnets (AAR 15, 225 [2008])"
May 1   Informal discussion--research update
May 15 Don Melrose Quantum plasmadynamics and quantum fluid theory
May 29 Stephen Chi-Yung Ng The puzzling radio trail of PSR J1509-5850
June 5 Kinwah Wu (UCL) Black holes and inflows/outflows in ICM and IGM
June 12 Mushtaq Ahmad Fluid Description of Quantum Plasma
June 19 J-P Macquart (Curtin U) Sub-AU imaging of turbulent structures in the Interstellar Medium
July 17 Don Melrose Magnetic explosions: magnetars, solar flares and magnetospheric substorms
Aug 21   Informal discussion--research update, highlights from recent conferences
Aug 28 Maciej Serylak (U Amsterdam) Properties of the radio-emitting magnetar AXP XTE J1810-197
Sep 11 Mohammad Rafat "The nature of pulsar radio emission" (Dyks etal, astro-ph/0908.1359)
Sep 18 Qinghuan Luo Modeling of the evolution of radio galaxies
Oct 9 Matthew Verdon Counter-streaming instability and mode coupling
Oct 16 Stan Owocki (U. Delaware) Some issues about the nature of the solar origin of the IMF
Oct 30   Honours presentations
Nov 13