Workshop Programme

Day 1 - Introduction to MHD
- 9.30 - 10.00: Registration and coffee
- 10.00-11.30: General introduction to the theory of magnetohydrodynamics (Dr Alex Russell, slides)
- 11.30-13.30: Lunch
- 13.30-15.00: Incompressible MHD (Dr Toby Wood, slides)
- 15.00-15.30: Coffee break
- 15.30-17.00: Compressible MHD (Prof Tom Hartquist, slides)

Day 2 - How to solve MHD numerically
- 10.00-11.30: Finite-volume codes (Prof Sam Falle, slides)
- 11.30-13.30: Lunch
- 13.30-15.00: Spectral codes (Dr Janis Priede, slides)
- 15.00-15.30: Coffee break
- 15.30-17.00: Smoothed Particle MHD (Dr James Wurster, slides)

Day 3 - Hands on with MHD solvers, codes and HPC.
- 10.00-11.30: Running codes on HPC (Dr Chris Wareing, slides)
- 11.30-13.30: Lunch
- 13.30-15.00: Practical lab 1 (support from ARC team Leeds and DiRAC)
- 15.00-15.30: Coffee break
- 15.30-17.00: Practical lab 2 (support from ARC team Leeds and DiRAC)
- 18.30-... :Workshop dinner

Day 4 - Applications of MHD to real physics situations - Case studies 1
- 10.00 - 10.05: Welcome by Prof Tom Hartquist
- 10.05-10.30: Prof Steve Tobias
- 10.35-11.00: Prof Turlough Downes
- 11.05-11.30: Dr Sven Van Loo
- 11.30-13.30: Lunch
- 13.30-13.55: Dr Stephen O'Sullivan
- 14.00-14.25: Prof Rony Keppens
- 14.30-14.55: Prof Tony Bell
- 14.55-15.30: Coffee break
- 15.30-15.55: Prof Jonathan Rawlings
- 16.00-16.25: Prof Anthony Whitworth
- 16.30-16.55: Dr Robin Williams
Day 5 - Applications of MHD to real physics situations - Case studies 2
- 10.00-10.25: Dr Julian Pittard
- 10.30-10.55: Prof Serguei Komissarov
- 11.00-11.25: Prof Simon Goodwin
- 11.30-13.30: Lunch
- 13.30-13.55: Prof John Papaloizou
- 14.00-14.25: Prof Tom Ray
- 14.30-14.55: Dr Adrian Barker
- 15.00-15.25: Prof David Hughes
- End + Coffee