INTERSTELLAR TURBULENCE

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

All talks will be held at the Sala de Proyecciones of the Edificio Carolino of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), downtown Puebla, except monday morning (Salón Barroco, same building).

SUNDAY 11

20:00 Registration and Welcome Cocktail

MONDAY 12

9:00 - 9:30: Opening Ceremony at Salón Barroco

Morning Session (Salón Barroco)

9:30--10:00 Robert Braun

The structure of neutral gas in spiral galaxies

10:00--10:30 Rene Walterbos

Turbulence in the ionized gas of spiral galaxies

10:30--11:00 Coffee and posters

11:00--11:30 Steve Tufte

Line widths and velocities of the diffuse ionized gas in our Galaxy

11:30--11:45 Bob Benjamin

The Reynolds number of the Reynold's layer

11:45--12:15 Chris McKee

The ionization of the diffuse gas

12:15--12:30 Antony Minter

Turbulent Heating of the Diffuse ISM

12:30--15:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session (Sala de Proyecciones)

15:00--15:30 Jim Cordes

Galactic electron density microstructure

15:30--16:00 S. Sridhar

Sources and Sites of Interstellar Scintillation

16:00--16:15 Joseph Lazio

Extreme Scattering Events: Their Genesis and Neutral Media Counterparts

16:15--16:30 Ramachandran Rajagopalan

Modelling scattering in the ISM - Distances to pulsars

16:30--17:30 Coffee and posters

17:30--18:00 Remy Avila

Atmospheric Turbulence

18:00--18:15 Valeri Orlov

Karhunen Loeve (K-L) functions and the modelling of atmospheric wavefront distortions

18:15--18:30 Salvador Cuevas

Did you say diffraction limited imaging at SPM? The IAUNAM Adaptive Optics program

20:00 RECEPTION at Casa de La Cultura

TUESDAY 13

Morning Session

9:00--9:30 Randy Jokipii

ISM turbulence and cosmic ray transport

9:30--9:45 Ethan Vishniac

Magnetic Reconnection in the Interstellar Medium

9:45--10:00 Eric Blackman

Flux tube formation

10:00--10:30 Stan Owocki

Turbulence in stellar winds

10:30--11:00 Coffee and posters

11:00--11:30 Peter Goldreich

Incompressible MHD turbulence

11:30--11:45 Amitava Bhattacharjee

Weakly Compressible MHD Turbulence

11:45--12:15 Annick Pouquet

MHD compressible turbulence

12:15--12:30 Chung-Sang Ng

Interaction of Shear-Alfven Wave Packets: Implications for Anisotropic MHD Turbulence

12:30--12:45 Axel Brandenburg

Dynamo-generated turbulence in shear flows

12:45--15:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session

15:00--15:30 Alexander Lazarian

Turbulence in HI

15:30--15:45 Robert Lucas

Molecular abundances in the diffuse ISM

15:45--16:15 David Thilker

Super-Shell populations in spiral galaxies

16:15--16:30 Maarit Korpi

Galactic turbulence driven by supernova explosions

16:30--17:30 Coffee and posters

17:30--18:00 Sally Oey

The size distribution of Supershells

18:00--18:30 Joel Bregman

Multicomponent models of the IS

WEDNESDAY 14

Morning Session

9:00--9:30 Steve Spangler

Small-scale structure and turbulence in the ISM

9:30--10:00 Edith Falgarone

Intermittency

10:00--10:30 Ronald Gredel

Chemistry in turbulent flows

10:30--11:00 Coffee and posters

11:00--11:30 Phil Myers

Turbulence in star-forming dense cores

Afternoon free

Visit of historical places and lunch at INAOE

THURSDAY 15

Morning Session

9:00--9:30 Jorge Melnick

Turbulence in giant HII regions

9:30--9:45 Gilles Joncas

Turbulence in HII regions: new results

9:45--10:00 Gordon MacLeod

Turbulent Phenomena in the Massive Star Forming Region G351.78-0.54

10:00--10:15 Carl Gwinn

Radio-Wave Scattering from Shocks in HII Regions

10:15--10:30 Tarja Liljestrom

Water Masers Tracing Alfvenic Turbulence and Magnetic Fields in W51M and W49N

10:30--11:00 Coffee and posters

11:00--11:15 Jonathan Tedds

Shocked H2 and Turbulence in the Orion bullets?

11:15--11:30 Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschenes

Turbulence in IR Cirrus

11:30--11:45 Peter Berczik

Chaotic motions as a factor regulating the star formation activity in forming galaxies

11:45--12:15 Bruce Elmegreen

The initial mass function

12:15--12:30 Carl H. Gibson

What is wrong with Jeans theory of gravitational condensation?

12:30--15:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session

15:00--15:30 Jonathan Williams

The structure of molecular clouds: Are they fractal?

15:30--15:45 Mark Heyer

Principal Component Analysis of Spectroscopic Imaging as a Diagnostic to Interstellar Turbulence

15:45--16:00 Darek Lis

Properties of Centroid Velocities in Molecular Clouds

16:00--16:15 Richard M. Crutcher

Magnetic Fields in Dense Clouds: MHD Turbulence and Cloud Evolution

16:15--16:30 Åake Nordlund

Density PDFs of Supersonic Turbulence

16:30--17:30 Coffee and posters

17:30--18:00 Enrique Vázquez-Semadeni

Turbulence as an Organizing agent in the ISM

18:00--18:15 Kazuysohi Sunada

High-Resolution C₁₈O J=1-0 Mapping of Heiles' Cloud 2

18:15--18:30 Andreas Heithausen

Molecular cloud mass spectra

Conference Dinner

20:00 Restaurante El Sindicato

Turbulence in Orion: speech by Guido Münch

FRIDAY 16

Morning Session

10:00--10:30 Ellen Zweibel

Non-linear MHD

10:30--11:00 Coffee and posters

11:00--11:30 Eve Ostriker

MHD waves and cloud support

11:30--12:00 Paolo Padoan

Models of Turbulent Clouds

12:00--12:15 Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

High Resolution MHD Turbulent Models of Molecular Cloud

12:15--12:30 Dirk Muders

3D Parallel Lattice Boltzmann Simulations of Turbulent Flows in Dark Clouds

12:30--15:00 Lunch

Afternoon Session

15:00--15:15 James Stone

Three-Dimensional MHD Simulations of Turbulence in the Cold ISM

15:15--15:30 Ralf Klessen

Fragmentation of Molecular Clouds

15:30--15:45 Nikolai Silantev

Magnetic turbulent diffusivities and the alpha-effect

15:45--16:15 Charles Gammie

Turbulence in disks

16:15--16:30 Wolfgang Duschl

Viscosity in Self-Gravitating Accretion Disks

16:30--17:00 Coffee and posters

17:00--17:30 Peter Goldreich

Conference Summary

Updated: 7 Jan 98, 11:52