UKMHD 2025
UKMHD 2025
13:00 Registration
13:30 Opening Statement
13:35 – 15:30 Solar Atmosphere
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee in Poster Room
16:00 – 17:30 Turbulence & Dynamos
18:30 Conference Dinner
Reed Hall (outside, weather permitting)
9:00 – 10:20 Convection
10:20 – 11:20 Coffee break and Poster Session
11:20 – 13:00 Instabilities
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:34 Instabilities (ctd)
14:30 – 15:42 Astrophysical Disks
15:45 PhD Prize Announcement
15:50 Closing Remarks
Invited talks should last 30 minutes, including 5 minutes for questions.
Contributed talks should last up to 13 minutes with an additional 4 minutes for questions.
Poster boards are 180 cm high by 80 cm wide. We recommend A0 posters in portrait orientation as the maximum size that displays well. The poster boards will be in front of the conference rooms for the duration of the workshop.
Chair: Andrew Hillier
13:35-14:05 Tony Arber (University of Warwick) Invited Talk (presented by Ben Snow)
The Solar Atmospheric Modelling Suite: First Steps and Future Plans
14:05 – 14:22 Samuel Hor (Northumbria University)
Constraining secondary heating sources in flares through numerical modelling
14:22 – 14:39 Ryan Smith (Northumbria University)
Fast magnetoacoustic wave behaviour within magnetically-inhomogeneous, gravitationally-stratified media
14:39 – 14:56 Tahlina Borradaile (Aberystwyth University)
Effect of field line expansion on the energy flux of Alfvén Waves in the solar atmosphere
14:56 – 15:13 Samy Lalloz (Coventry University) (presented by Alban Pothérat)
Distorted Alfvén waves in liquid metal experiments to address the solar corona heating problem
15:13 – 15:30 Thomas Neukirch (University of St Andrews)
Analytical Three-dimensional Magnetohydrostatic Equilibria in Spherical Geometry
Chair: Joanne Mason
16:00 – 16:17 Erin Goldstraw (The University of Edinburgh)
Energy Fluxes in Reduced Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence
16:17 – 16:34 Asif Nawaz (The University of Edinburgh)
Physics-based models for large-eddy simulations of (un)steady magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
16:34 – 16:53 Emma Hunter (University of Glasgow)
Lengthscale dependence of triple force balances in dynamo simulations
16:53 – 17:10 Ayesha Sarwar (University of Glasgow)
Force balances characteristic of different dynamo regimes
17:10 – 17:27 Craig Duguid (Durham University)
Dynamo action in the solar tachocline
Chair: Rob Teed
9:00 – 9:30 Susanne Horn (Coventry University) Invited talk
Low-Rm Rotating Magnetoconvection: Linear Theory, Simulations, Experiments and Extrapolation to Planetary Core Settings
9:30 – 9:47 Jo Kershaw (University of Leeds)
Dynamics of rotating convection in Earth’s outer core
9:47 – 10:04 Matthew Lawrence (University of Leeds)
Magnetoconvection with depth-dependent magnetic diffusivity
10:04 – 10:21 Sonny Burrell (University of Leeds)
Fluid instabilities in differentially rotating radiation zones with compositional gradients
Chair: Gordon Ogilvie
11:20 – 11:50 Luke Gostelow (University of Glasgow) Invited talk
Shear instability and semicircle theorems in QGSW MHD
11:50 – 12:07 Velizar Kirkow (University of Exeter)
Shear-driven instabilities in stratified MHD with application to the solar tachocline
12:07 – 12:24 Scott Hopper (Newcastle University)
Instabilities in the Solar Tachocline
12:24 – 12:41 Matt Vine (University of Leeds)
Instabilities of Alfvén-Gravity Waves in Stably-Stratified MHD
12:41 – 12:58 Manohar Teja Kalluri (University of Exeter)
Role of reconnection in Rayleigh Taylor instability
Chair: Andrew Hillier
14:00 – 14:17 Wayne Arter
Spiking Behaviour in MHD
14:17 – 14:34 Muhammad Ishaq (Coventry University)
Weakly Nonlinear Analysis of Helical Magnetorotational Instability in Taylor–Couette Flow
Chair: Andrew Hillier
14:34 – 14:51 Nicolas Brughmans (KU Leuven)
A visual approach to MHD accretion disk instabilities
14:51 – 15:08 Mattias Brynjell-Rahkola (University of Cambridge)
Self-sustaining dynamo states in astrophysical discs. Part 1: Solutions on the edge of chaos
15:08 – 15:25 Gordon Ogilvie (University of Cambridge)
Self-sustaining dynamo states in astrophysical discs, Part 2: Shearing waves and their electromotive forces
15:25 – 15:42 Chris Pringle (Coventry University)
Numerical diffusivity in MHD simulations of global accretion disc dynamos
Sonny Burrell (University of Leeds)
Fluid instabilities in differentially rotating radiation zones with compositional gradients
Rose Hinz (Newcastle University)
Simulating Large-Scale Vortices in Low Prandtl, Rapidly Rotating Convections
Paraskevi Katsiavria (Durham University)
Effects of Shear and Rotation on Convective Instabilities and Heat Transport
Alban Pothérat (Coventry University, Centre for Fluid and Complex Systems)
Magnetic Taylor-Proudman Constraint explains flows into Tangent Cylinders
Ben Snow (University of Exeter)
Multi-species mixing in partially-ionised plasmas
Jamal Wachira (Northumbria University Compression)
Impact and Rebound shocks from Coronal Rain Downflows