The Turbulence Meeting takes place every Monday at 12:00 noon in the ITC Lounge

Starting in December 2007, astrophysicists in ITC meet every Monday lunch time to discuss about turbulence. The meeting is very informal and pizza lunch is provided. You don't need to prepare anything, just come with an open mind and a question to ask!

We are planning to discuss: why is everything turbulent, hydrodynamic instabilities, statistical description of turbulence, back cascade in 2D hydrodynamic turbulence, Kolmogorov theory (the 4/5 law), Kolmogorov spectrum, intermittency, closure problem for turbulence, subgrid modeling (K-epsilon model), review of MHD, magnetorotational instability, MHD turbulence, dynamo, plasma physics, plasma turbulence, magnetic reconnection, etc. Please drop me if there are other topics you want to cover.

05-07-2008 @ 11:30am: Alexandre Tcherkhovskoi: Standard Models for Reconnection

04-28-2008: Kelly Korreck: Magnetic Reconnection on the the Sun

04-21-2008: Eric Keto: Turbulent ISM. II

04-14-2008: Roman Shcherbakov: Large scale magnetic fields in Astrophysics and Dynamo theory

04-07-2008: Steven Cranmer: MHD turbulence in the Solar Corona and Solar Wind

03-31-2008: No Meeting: Let's join the Atomic and Molecular Physics of the Early Universe Workshop

03-24-2008: No Meeting: happy Spring Break

03-17-2008: Eric Keto: Turbulent ISM. I

03-10-2008: Roman Shcherbakov: Closure approximations of MHD turbulence

03-03-2008: Chi-kwan Chan: Energy balances in mean-field MHD

02-25-2008: Chi-kwan Chan: Closure problem in turbulence and mean-Field MHD

02-19-2008: Alison Farmer: Inverse cascade in 2D hydro turbulence

02-11-2008: No Meeting: Let's join the SSP seminar on MHD turbulence

02-04-2008: Roman Shcherbakov: Several empiric relations and constants in hydro turbulence

01-28-2008: Chi-kwan Chan: Kolmogorov spectrum from dimensional analysis

12-10-2007: Ramesh Narayan: Hydrodynamic instabilities

12-03-2007: George Field: Why is almost everything turbulent?

Background photo shows von Karman vortices appeared over Alexander Selkirk Island in the southern Pacific Ocean. Image is provided by the USGS EROS Data Center Satellite Systems Branch, more info can be found here.