Online Advanced Study Program on Helicities in Astrophysics and BeyondMagnetic helicity has been intensively
studied over the recent few decades from
observational, theoretical, and other aspects in
Astrophysics, Solar Physics, Plasma and Fluid
Dynamics, and Mathematics. There was a series of
focused events such as Chapman Conference in Boulder
in 1998, Helicity Thinkshops in China and Japan in
2009 https://sun.bao.ac.cn/old/meetings/HT2009/,
2013 https://sun.bao.ac.cn/old/meetings/HT2013/
and 2017 http://science-media.org/conference/23
, as well as the Program on Solar Helicities at
NORDITA in 2019 https://indico.fysik.su.se/event/6548/
and many other. Given the current situation with the
pandemic we are going to propose moving this activity
online. Hereby, we would like to make it more
appealing to broader audience beyond the existing
community, and also acceptable for early age
researchers and students. We aim for inviting to give
online talks and lectures not only solar physicists
but also experts in various fields who are interested
in observational and theoretical studies of magnetic,
kinetic and other helicities, in order to encompass
the community for the interdisciplinary studies and to
encourage wider audience including students to
participate in it.
Topics to be communicated: - Observations of magnetic fields in astrophysics and the relationship with the breakage of mirror symmetry in and above the solar atmosphere, interplanetary plasmas, galaxies, and other astrophysical bodies; - The origin of magnetic helicity in the Sun, and its relationship with MHD processes below and above the photosphere, eruptions of solar flares and CMEs; magnetic helicity in the solar wind; - The role of helicity invariants in the dynamo theory, MHD simulations, and magneto-convection in space and laboratory plasma and experiments; - Relationship of the magnetic and kinetic helicities with turbulence and the fundamental topology of MHD flows; - Mathematical properties of knotedness and chirality in topology, theoretical physics and applications. The proposed schedule of the Program will
be spread over approximately 8 weeks between September
through November/December 2020 with one or two
sessions per week. Each session can be formed of
either one 60+ minute talk, or two 30-40 minute talks
with complementary discussion. We expect at least 15
presentations of various formats over the Program. The
timing of each session can be arranged by convenience
of the speaker and the community with account of their
time zones. Afterwards, the lecture materials, such as
podcasts, presentations files (at least brief) may be
published fully or partly online. If you would like to
give a talk, please contact the Scientific Program
Committee (SPC) by email helicityprogram@gmail.com.
The SPC
members:
Online
Organization Committee:
Kirill
Kuzanyan (IZMIRAN, Moscow, Russia)
Peter
Akhmet'ev (IZMIRAN, Moscow, Russia) Rodion Stepanov (ICMM, perm, Russia), Nobumitsu Yokoi (Tokyo University, Tokyo,Japan), Shangbin
Yang (National Astronomical Observatories of
China, Beijing, China)
Supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) Grant 20-02-22008
Registration open
https://helicity2020.izmiran.ru
The Program has been carried out in September-December 2020.
The Session schedule is available at
https://helicity2020.izmiran.ru/#cal
The Abstract Book can be downloaded at
https://helicity2020.izmiran.ru/pdf/OnlineProgramHelicity2020.pdf
The recordings of the Sessions, video and slides are at
https://helicity2020.izmiran.ru/#rec |