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The Physics of the Intracluster Medium: Theory & Computation |
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August 23-25, 2010 340 West Hall University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Central Campus
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The Scientific Program:
| The Physics of Intracluster Medium Workshop | ||
| 340 West Hall | ||
| Monday August 23rd, 2010 | ||
| 8:30 AM | Breakfast in 337 West Hall | |
| 9:15 AM | Welcome | |
| Gus Evrard and Gordon Kane (University of Michigan) | ||
| 9:30 AM | Modelling the Magnetised ICM: From Microscale Physics to What Matters to Astronomers | |
| Alex Schekochihin (University of Oxford) | ||
| 10:00 AM | A thermally stable heating mechanism for the ICM | |
| Matthew Kunz (University of Oxford) | ||
| 10:30 AM | Morning Coffee Break in 337 West Hall | |
| 10:50 AM | The saturation of the HBI and MTI with turbulence. | |
| Michael McCourt (University of California at Berkeley) | ||
| 11:10 AM | The Role of the MTI and the HBI in the Intracluster Medium | |
| Ian Parrish (University of California at Berkeley) | ||
| 11:40 AM | Turbulence and Conduction in Galaxy Clusters | |
| S. Peng Oh (University of California at Santa Barbara) | ||
| 12:10 PM | Lunch | |
| 2:00 PM | Conduction and Multiphase Structure in Cluster Cores | |
| Mark Voit (Michigan State University) | ||
| 2:30 PM | Probing MHD Instabilities in Intracluster Media with Faraday Rotation | |
| Tamara Bogdanovic (University of Maryland) | ||
| 2:50 PM | Cosmological cluster formation simulations with anisotropic thermal conduction and radiative cooling | |
| Mateusz Ruszkowski (University of Michigan) | ||
| 3:10 PM | Refreshments and Coffee in 337 West Hall | |
| 3:30 PM | Dynamical Effects of a Tangled Magnetic Field | |
| Ellen Zweibel (University of Wisconsin at Madison) | ||
| 4:00 PM | Recent and prospective laboratory studies of compressible turbulence | |
| Paul Drake (University of Michigan) | ||
| 4:30 PM | Modeling Turbulence in the Intergalactic Medium | |
| Evan Scanapiecco (Arizona State University) | ||
| Tuesday August 24th, 2010 | ||
| 8:30 AM | Breakfast in 337 West Hall | |
| 9:30 AM | Energizing the filaments in cool-core clusters, with a detour to the Crab Nebula | |
| Gary Ferland (University of Kentucky) | ||
| 10:00 AM | Interaction of AGN Outflows and the ICM | |
| Thomas Jones (University of Minnesota) | ||
| 10:30 AM | Recent Progress in FLASH's Unsplit Staggered Mesh MHD Solver | |
| Dongwook Lee (University of Chicago) | ||
| 10:50 AM | BATSRUS: a Multi-Physics and Multi-Application Code | |
| Bart van der Holst (University of Michigan, AOSS) | ||
| 11:10 AM | Morning Coffee Break in 337 West Hall | |
| 11:50 AM | New perspectives on shocks, cosmic rays, and magnetic fields in galaxy clusters | |
| Christoph Pfrommer (CITA) | ||
| 12:20 PM | Simulations of Galaxy Cluster Radio Relics: Probes of Plasma Physics | |
| Samuel Skillman (University of Colorado at Boulder) | ||
| 12:40 PM | Lunch | |
| 2:00 PM | Simulating AGN feedback in Clusters - the Effect of Cluster Dynamics | |
| Sebastian Heinz (University of Wisconsin at Madison) | ||
| 2:20 PM | Simulations of AGN in dynamic galaxy clusters | |
| Brian Morsony (University of Wisconsin at Madison) | ||
| 2:40 PM | AGN feedback within AMR cosmological simulations | |
| Yohan Dubois (University of Oxford) | ||
| 3:00 PM | Magnetic Fields from AGNs in Galaxy Clusters | |
| Hao Xu (LANL) | ||
| 3:20 PM | Refreshments and Coffee in 337 West Hall | |
| 3:40 PM | Coupling jets to their surroundings, the role of entropy | |
| Paul Nulsen (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) | ||
| 4:00 PM | Stellar Feedback and Galaxy Formation | |
| Norman Murray (CITA, University of Toronto) | ||
| 4:20 PM | Acceleration and Transport of High Energy Particles in Galaxy Clusters | |
| Francesco Miniati (ETH Zurich) | ||
| Wednesday August 25th, 2010 | ||
| 8:30 AM | Breakfast in 337 West Hall | |
| 9:30 AM | Constraints on the amount of turbulence and dissipation from the ellipticity of intracluster medium | |
| Andrey Kravtsov (University of Chicago) | ||
| 10:00 AM | Gas Motions in Outskirts of Galaxy Clusters: Implications for the cluster mass and ICM profiles. | |
| Daisuke Nagai (Yale University) | ||
| 10:20 AM | Impact of Cluster Physics on Scatter in Cluster Scaling Relations | |
| Paul Ricker (University of Illinois) | ||
| 10:40 AM | Cluster Assembly and Non-Equilibrium in the Outer ICM | |
| Douglas Rudd (Institute for Advanced Study) | ||
| 11:00 AM | Morning Coffee Break in 337 West Hall | |
| 11:20 AM | Simulations of Core Gas Sloshing in Clusters of Galaxies: Insights Into the Physics of the ICM | |
| John ZuHone (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) | ||
| 11:40 AM | Gravitational & hydrodynamical effects on elliptical galaxies & their responses to the ICM in galaxy clusters | |
| Min-Su Shin (University of Michigan) | ||
| 12:00 PM | Cosmic Ray Feedback, X-ray Cavities, and the Origin of NCC Clusters | |
| Fulai Guo (University of California at Sant Cruz) | ||
| 12:20 PM | The Impact of Cluster Physics on the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Power Spectrum | |
| Laurie Shaw (Yale University) | ||
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