"Cosmic Rays in the Heliospheric Plasma Environment

Cosmic Rays and the Heliospheric Plasma Environment

12 - 16 September 2011, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

Schedule and Abstracts

The workshop has taken place in "Tagungsraum II" on the Bistro Level (West) of the Mensa-Building, behind the "Audi Max" straight south of the "U 35" stop, see the map.
Look out for direction signs with the workshop's title.



Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday


Origins and Propagation

Measurements

(M)HD Modelling

Transport

Fundamental Processes

09:00-09:15

Registration

B. Heber:
Energetic particles in the heliosphere

S. Ferreira / K. Scherer:
HD and MHD modelling of the heliosphere and stellar wind cavities I HD and MHD modelling of the heliosphere and stellar wind cavities II

M. Potgieter:
The heliospheric modulation of CRs

R.A. Burger H. Fichtner:
Notes on drift, perpendicular and anomalous diffusion, Part I

Notes on drift, perpendicular and anomalous diffusion, Part II

09:15-09:30

Welcome

09:30-09:45

J. Becker / I. Büsching:
Foundations of Cosmic Ray Propagation

09:45-10:00

Discussion

Discussion

Discussion

Discussion

10:00-10:15

M. Boezio:
Cosmic ray measurements with the PAMELA space-borne experiment

N. Pogorelov:
MHD modelling of the heliosphere

J. Richardson:
Voyager Plasma Data

S. Oughton:
MHD turbulence in the solar wind

10:15-10:30

Discussion

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

11:00-11:15

M. Vorster:
The Evolution of Pulsar Wind Nebulae

J. Gieseler:
Spatial Gradients of GCR protons in the inner heliosphere - PAMELA and Ulysses observations

R. Grauer:
Multiscale Simulations of Magneto- hydrodynamic Flows

M. Zhang:
Effects of the solar wind termination shock on CR modulation in the heliosheath

D. Verscharen:
Compressive wave structures onkinetic scales resultingfrom a two-dimensional turbulent cascade in the solar wind

11:15-11:30

S.E.S. Ferreira:
Stellar wind and Supernova Remnant evolution

E. Stone:
Voyager observations of CRs in the heliosheath

R. Schlickeiser:
Cosmic ray propagation in nonuniform turbulent magnetic fields

11:30-11:45

I. Moskalenko:
GALPROP code for GCR propagation and associated photon emissions

J. Kleimann:
MHD modeling of the inner heliosphere and its transients

R. Manuel:
Time-dependent CR modulation in the outer heliosphere

11:45-12:00

M. Hill:
Seemingly ingongruous Voyager 1 and 2 energetic particle observations in the heliosheath through 2011

B. Shergelashvili:
On the low frequency boundary of Sun-generated MHD turbulence in the slow solar wind

D. Ngobeni:
Modulation of GCRs in a north-south asymmetrical heliosphere

S. Artmann:
Focused diffusion of SEPs

12:00-12:15

R. Kissmann:
Overview of current CR propagation codes

Topical Discussion

R.D. Strauss:
Modelling CR modulation by stochastic processes

J.A. le Roux:
SEP acceleration at a fast traveling shock

12:15-12:30

M. Siewert:
The inner heliosheath source for keV ENAs

F. Effenberger:
A new model for fully anisotropic diffusion of CR protons and electrons in the heliosphere

12:30-14:00

Lunch Break

Lunch Break

Lunch Break

Lunch Break

Lunch Break

14:00-14:15

I. Büsching:
Signatures of nearby Sources of Cosmic Rays in their local chemical Composition?

N. Schwadron:
The Sun's evolving interaction with local Galactic medium from ENAs















Excursion

(planned to the Westfälisches Freilichtmuseum Hagen)











Dinner at the Restaurant Henrichs (Hattingen)

I. Usoskin:
Long-term reconstruction of the heliospheric CR flux

E. Engelbrecht:
Aspcts of nonlinear CR modulation

14:15-14:30

A. Kopp:
A stochastic approach to the local interstellar spectrum

A. Kopp:
Change from sub- to superdiffusion in charged fluctuating plasmas

14:30-14:45

S. Barra:
tbd

P. Wurz:
Observation of interstellar neutral gas flow with IBEX

F. Steinhilber:
Long-term CR modulation - comparison of the 1-D full transport equation and the force-field approximation

Topical Discussion

14:45-15:00

K. Scherer:
On CR modulation beyond the heliopause

A. Wawrzynczak-Szaban:
CR modulation by CIRs and transient phenomena

15:00-15:15

K. Herbst:
The Local Interstellar Spectrum Beyond the Heliopause: What can be Learned from Voyager in the Inner Heliosheath?

S. Dalla:
SEP observations

15:15-15:30

Contributed Talk
tbd

H. Fichtner:
The `step feature' of suprathermal ion distributions: A discriminator between acceleration processes?

15:30-16:00

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

16:00-16:15

M. Casolino:
The PAMELA space-borne experiment

N. Dresing:
STEREO observations of wide-spread SEP events

H.-J. Fahr:
Velocity space diffusion of ions co-moving with winds of fluctuating bulk velocity

Final Discussion
on Future Tasks

16:15-16:30

N. Agueda:
Simulation tools for the study of SEP events

16:30-16:45

M. Potgieter:
Modulation of CRs from the inner to the outer heliosphere

R.D. Strauss:
Possible evidence for shock acceleration at the termination shock

16:45-17:00

Topical Discussion

P. Dunzlaff:
The pitch-angle dependent propagation of Jovian electrons

Topical Discussion

17:00-18:00

Topical Discussion


18:00-20:00

Icebreaker




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