Computational Relativistic Astrophysics: Frontiers of MHD Conference, January 13-16, 2010

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Program for January 13-16

Anatoly Spitkovsky "Evolution of magnetized environments: force-free zoology"

Jonathan Arons "Pulsar Winds: A Possible Origin of Low Wind Magnetization and High Energy Emission"

Luis Lehner "Unorthodox approaches to magnetic fields for compact objects"Files

Marina Romanova "MHD Simulations of the Disk-Star Interaction" Files

Akshay Kulkarni "Accretion to Magnetized Stars: Instabilities and QPOs"

John Hawley "3D GRMHD Simulations: Stress at the ISCO"

Charles Gammie "Relativistic MHD and relativistic radiative transfer"

Jonathan McKinney "3D General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamical Simulations of Jet Formation and Propagation"

Chris Fragile "What Can We Learn from Simulations of Titled Black Hole Accretion Disks?"

Julian Krolik "Connecting Radiation to Accretion Dynamics through Simulations"

Ioannis Contopoulos "The 3D force-free pulsar magnetosphere" Files

Luca del Zanna "Simulations of relativistic plasma dynamics and jet acceleration in PWNe and GRB progenitors"

Rony Keppens "Relativistic hydro and magnetohydrodynamic models for AGN jets propagation and deceleration"

Bruno Giacomazzo "Gravitational Waves from Magnetized Binary Neutron Star Mergers"

Alexander Tchekhovskoy "Simulations and Analytic Models of Magnetized Gamma-Ray Burst Jets: Beyond the Progenitor Star"

Igor Kaganovich "Weibel instability in relativistic beams"

Eliot Quataert "Effects of Anisotropic Thermal Conduction and Anisotropic Viscosity on Dilute Astrophysical Plasmas"

Carlos Palenzuela "Going beyond the ideal approximations: resistive MHD and anisotropic ohm's law"

Weiqun Zhang "PIC and MHD Simulations of Magnetic Field Amplification"Files

Jonathan Zrake "Charged Particle Acceleration in RMHD"

Michael Sekora "Godunov Methods for Radiation Hydrodynamics"