Introduction to CMSO Meeting

Center for Magnetic Self-Organization in

Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas

Outline

• Reminder of CMSO (topics, participants, structure)

• Status (prior meetings and planning)

• This meeting

Topics

• Magnetic Reconnection

• Dynamo

• Angular Momentum Transport

• Ion Heating

• Magnetic Chaos and Transport

• Magnetic Helicity Conservation and Transport

Institutions

Princeton UniversityThe University of ChicagoThe University of Wisconsin Science Applications International CorpSwarthmore CollegeLawrence Livermore National Laboratory

~25 investigators,

~similar number of postdocs and students

The Tools

• Experimental facilities

• Computation

Apply multiple tools to each physics problem

•yields range of topologies and critical parameters•Joint experiments and shared diagnostics

Experimental facilities

Facility Institution DescriptionMST

(Madison Symmetric To rus)

University of Wisconsin Reversed Field Pinch

MRX(Magnetic Reconnection Expt)

Princeton University Merging Plasmas

SSPX(Steady State Spheromak Expt)

Lawrence Livermore NationalLab

Spheromak

SSX(Swarthmore Spheromak Expt)

Swarthmore College Merging Plasmas

Topical Coordinators

• Reconnection Yamada, Zweibel

• Momentum transport Craig, Goodman

• Dynamo Cattaneo, Prager

• Ion Heating Fiksel, Rosner

• Chaos and transport Malyshkin, Terry

• Helicity Ji, Kulsrud

CMSO Steering CommitteeF. Cattaneo

H. JiS. PragerR. Rosner

D. SchnackC. SprottP. Terry

M. YamadaE. Zweibel

meets weekly, input welcome

CMSO International Liaison Committee

M. Berger University College, London,

UK

A. Burkert MPIA, Heidelberg, Germany

K. Kusano Hiroshima University, Japan

P. Martin Consorzio RFX, Padua, Italy

Y. Ono Tokyo University, Japan

M. Velli Universita di Firenze, Italy

N. Weiss Cambridge University, UK

Cooperative agreement with center at Ruhr University, Germany

S. Cowley UCLA

P. Drake University of Michigan

W. Gekelman UCLA

G. Navratil Columbia University

E. Parker University of Chicago

A. Pouquet NCAR, Boulder, CO

D. Ryutov Lawrence Livermore National Lab

CMSO Program Advisory Committee

First PAC meeting: Sept 20, 21, Madison

Center Status

Sept, 2003 Start

Phase one Detailed planning(Sept - Jan, 04) cross-disciplinary discussions

Phase two Research underway(Jan, 04 - ongoing)

Phase three Emphasize lab/astro links

Sept, 03 Ion heating/chaos (Chicago)Sept, 03 Reconnection/momentum (Princeton)Oct, 03 Dynamo (Chicago)Nov, 03 General meeting (Chicago)Jan, 04 Detailed plans on web

(www.cmso.info)

June,04 Hall dynamo and relaxation (Princeton)Aug, 04 General meeting (Madison)

CMSO Meetings

Various Research Interactions

astrophysical plasma research

theory, computation

observation

laboratory plasma research

theory, computation

experiment

new opportunities for both within CMSO

experiments to test astrophysics ideas

astrophysical concept

experiment

Generation of new ideas from experiments

experiment

cross-cutting modes of research

theory, computation

astrophysics

This Meeting

Purpose

• Physics talks

• Review progress

• Review and discuss plans

(general input, details settled later)

Format of Meeting

• For most research topicsAn “invited” talk(45 min., incl. 10 - 15 min. for discussion)

A talk on a recent Center result (30 min, incl. ~ 10 min for discussion

Presentation/discussion on progress and plans(75 minutes, including some 10 minute talks)

• Educational Outreach: Progress/Plans (one hour)

• Final open session for feedback, synthesis, discussion (2.5 hrs)

• Lunch provided in this building

• Meeting dinner tonight ($30) - pay at break or lunchtime

• MST visit: if interested, sign up

QuickTime™ and aPhoto - JPEG decompressor

are needed to see this picture.