Origin, Evolution, and Signatures of Cosmological Magnetic Fields

15 Jun 2015, 09:00 → 10 Jul 2015, 18:00 Europe/Stockholm

132:028 (Nordita, Stockholm)

Axel Brandenburg (Nordita), Tanmay Vachaspati (Arizona State University), Tina Kahniashvili (Mc Williams Center for Cosmology and Department of Physics, Carnegie-Mellon University)

Week 4 Focus: Magnetized structures

Venue

Format

Week 1 Focus: Observations, observational tools, prospects.
Week 2: Conference (Monday-Thursday).
Week 3 Focus:  MHD in cosmology and origin of Magnetic Fields
Week 4 Focus: Magnetized structures

We plan to have morning discussion sessions on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday of each week. The discussion will be on a topic within the week’s focus and will be led by an expert. In addition, we plan to have 2 seminars (Tuesday and Thursday) per week.

[Timetable for Program - available from start of the program]

Timetable for Conference Week [pdf]

Application

If you want to apply for participation in the program, please fill in the application form. You will be informed by the organizers shortly after the application deadline whether your application has been approved. Due to space restrictions, the total number of participants is strictly limited. (Invited speakers are of course automatically approved, but need to register anyway.)

Application deadline: 15 December 2014

A minimum stay of one working week is required and we encourage participants to stay for a period of at least two weeks.

There is no registration fee.

Travel Reimbursement

PhD students and young Postdoc fellows are eligible for travel grants to participate in the program. If you are interested in such a grant, please mark the corresponding field in the application form, briefly summarize your interest in the program in the comments field, and indicate an estimation of your expected travel expenses. Since only a limited number of grants is available, decision concerning the grants will be made on a case-by-case basis and you will be notified shortly after the application deadline.

Accommodation

Nordita provides a limited number of rooms in the Stockholm apartment hotel BizApartments free of charge for accepted program participants.

Sponsored by:

Monday 15 June

Registration

Opening of the program and introduction of participants

Introduction to Cosmological Magnetic Fields

This is a Nordita
seminar
that is primarily for all Nordita staff to learn about the
program.

Informal reception (outside with BBQ weather permitting)

Tuesday 16 June

Discussion on observational issues in cosmological magnetic fields

Wednesday 17 June

Discussion session about magnetic helicity

Discussion about the RM grid lead

Thursday 18 June

Discussion about Blazar and PMF

Continued discussion on blazar limit of magnetic field and relativistic plasma instabilities

Friday 19 June

Midsummer day

This is a public holiday and many people go out to the
archipelago.

Tuesday 30 June

Discussions on MHD evolution

Wednesday 1 July

Cosmological magnetic fields: leptogenesis and baryon asymmetry in early Universe

Cosmological Magnetogenesis from Curvature Perturbations

Constraints on Cosmological Magnetogenesis from Curvature Perturbations

Thursday 2 July

Signature of cosmological magnetic field in galactic dynamos

Friday 3 July

Small scale dynamo