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Special Issue No. 1, August 2016

Dear Colleagues,

We have one urgent announcement, please see below.

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1. 17th MHD DAYS 2016

(from Thomas Boeck, Ilmenau, Germany)

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17th MHD Days 2016

Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research

Nov 30 – Dec 2, 2016, Göttingen, Germany

https://mhd2016.sciencesconf.org/

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Scope and Goals

We are happy to invite you to participate in the 17th MHD Days hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen. As in previous years, the meeting aims at bringing together researchers working on general issues of magnetohydrodynamics, plasma physics, and related experiments.

Theoretical, numerical, and observational results from the above-mentioned fields all belong to the scope of the meeting.

Important dates

15th of August: Registration and abstract submission opens

18th of October: Last day for special hotel reservation

1st of November: Abstract deadline

16th of November: Registration deadline

30th of November: Start of the meeting

Registration

A registration form and an abstract submission form will be available from the 15th of August on the website

https://mhd2016.sciencesconf.org

A registration fee of maximum 100 EUR will be collected to cover some expenses during the meeting, i.e., lunches, coffee, and conference dinner.

Schedule

We plan to start the meeting in the morning of Wednesday, November 30, and to finish on Friday, December 2, around noon. At the beginning of each day, there will be keynote talks on the solar dynamo, the role of turbulent effects in dynamo action, and global models of turbulent magneto-convection, followed by contributed talks. We also plan to reserve time to exchange as many news as possible. A detailed program will follow and be published on the website.

Keynote speakers: Maarit J. Käpylä, Karl-Heinz Rädler, Manfred Schüssler

Looking forward to seeing you in Göttingen!

Jörn Warnecke

(On behalf of the Organizing Committee)

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2. SCHEDULE OF CONFERENCES ON MHD AND RELATED TOPICS

The HYDROMAG association for Hydromagnetic phenomena and its applications  (http://www.hydromag.eu) is pleased to announce the first Hydromag Best Poster Prize.

The prize consists of a personal gratification of 500€, awarded for the best poster presented at the  PAMIR conference (Cagliari, 20-24 June 2016). The competition was open to all researchers under 35  years of age, who are first author of a poster accepted for display during the conference. The winner was decided based on the originality, significance and rigour of the work presented. The decision  was made by the members of the HYDROMAG committee present at the PAMIR conference.

This edition of the prize was generously funded by Coventry University (UK) and was awarded to Ms Franziska Karnbach (Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, Dresden, Germany) for her poster “Influence of Magnetic Fields on the Behavior of Single Hydrogen Bubbles Generated via Water Electrolysis“.

We would like to make Hydromag Prize a tradition, presented at a key MHD-related conferences in the future.

Congratulations Franziska!
The HYDROMAG Committee

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(from Gunter Gerbeth, Germany)

 

The LIMTECH Alliance, a German research initiative devoted to the research on liquid metal technologies (https://www.hzdr.de/db/Cms?pNid=2920) that is funded by the Helmholtz association of German research centres, announces the international LIMTECH Young Scientist Award to support the research in the field of liquid metal technologies and to intensify international cooperation. Detailed subjects are, for instance, generic flow phenomena and flow control, magnetohydrodynamic flows, measurement techniques, applications in metal casting, crystal growth or energy conversion and storage, related model experiments and numerical simulations, etc.

 

The award will be granted annually and recognises outstanding scientific contributions made by young scientists. Candidates must be less than 40 years old. Eligible for application are PhDs or post-docs (typically 3-4 years after completion of the thesis). Applicants must not be members of the LIMTECH alliance.

 

The award consists of a certificate and is endowed with a lump sum of 2000 €.

 

The award also includes an invitation to join the LIMTECH research alliance at one of its participating institutions in the following year for up to 6 months to perform related research. The stay will be funded by the LIMTECH alliance. The details are quite flexible and can be arranged according to the preferences of both sides.

 

Next award: 2016

 

Nominations: from February 1 to March 15, 2016

 

Chair of the Award Committee: Dr. Gunter Gerbeth, HZDR, on behalf of the Steering Committee of the LIMTECH alliance.

 

The winner of the 2016 award will be announced at the upcoming PAMIR conference (Cagliari, Italy, June 20-24, 2016, http://www.diee.unica.it/pamir2016), which is co-organized by LIMTECH, and at which the winner is expected to give a lecture. LIMTECH will pay for his/her registration fee.

 

Submission of award nomination:

Nominations can be made by individuals, mentors of individuals or institutions. Candidates may nominate themselves. The application should contain

 

• a short application letter motivating the scientific contribution made,
• a curriculum vitae,
• a publication record,
• contact information of mentors supporting the application

 

All application documents must be submitted in pdf format via email to:

limtech-allianz@hzdr.de. The deadline for submission is March 15, 2016.

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