Monday, September 8, 2014
Time | Event | |
09:00 - 09:30 | Scope and Introduction of proceeding idea - Ch Helling | |
09:30 - 10:30 | Laboratory experimental research on dusty plasma - Alan Phelps | |
10:30 - 10:50 | Coffee break | |
10:50 - 11:30 | Experimental generation of volcanic lightning - Corrado Cimarelli | |
11:30 - 12:10 | Electrical charging in volcanic plumes - Keri Nicoll | |
12:10 - 12:40 | Precision charging of microparticles using the instability of evaporating charged liquid droplets - Euan Bennet | |
12:40 - 14:00 | Lunch break | |
14:00 - 15:00 | The multi-scale nature of lightning-like discharges in thunderstorms and in the lab - Ute Ebert | |
15:00 - 15:40 | Modelling sprite environments leading to beam production - Declan Diver | |
15:40 - 16:20 | Coupling between atmospheric layers in gaseous giant planets due to lightning-generated electromagnetic pulses - Alejandro Luque | |
16:20 - 16:40 | Ionization Waves in an MHD-Neutral Gas Interactions Simulation - Alasdair Wilson | |
16:40 - 17:00 | Tea break | |
17:30 - 19:30 | Poster pop-up, Poster session with Beer & Brezels - Poster pop-up and Poster session |
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Time | Event | |
09:30 - 10:30 | Lunar Dust charging and implication for space exploration - Farideh Hoary | |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
11:00 - 11:45 | Charging processes on asteroids and the Moon - Karin Aplin | |
11:45 - 12:30 | Modelling of the chemical signature of upper atmospheric electrical discharges in Saturn - Francisco J. Gordillo-Vazquez | |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
14:00 - 14:45 | Dynamical Models of Extrasolar Planets - Ian Dobbs-Dixon | |
14:45 - 15:30 | Climate models of the early Earth's and thunderstorm activity - Yuriy Serozhkin (can't come) | |
15:30 - 16:10 | What does a planet or exoplanet need to have a global electric circuit? - Michael Rycroft | |
16:10 - 16:40 | Detection of current flow in planetary atmospheres - Giles Harrison | |
16:40 - 17:00 | Tea break | |
18:30 - 21:00 | Conference Dinner - Dinner |
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Time | Event | |
09:00 - 10:00 | Cosmic ray fluxes and atmospheric electricity - Yuri Stozhkov | |
10:00 - 10:10 | What is a Brown Dwarf? -- for non-Astronomers - Stuart Littlefair | |
10:10 - 10:40 | A Signature of Chromospheric Activity in Brown Dwarfs Revealed by Near-Infrared Spectra - Satoko Sorahana | |
10:40 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |
11:00 - 11:45 | Irradiated brown dwarf atmospheres - Sarah Casewell | |
11:45 - 12:30 | Flash ionization processes signature in coherent radio emission - Irena Vorgul | |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
14:00 - 14:45 | Self-Sustained Ionization in Cool Atmosphere - Shu-ichiro Inutsuka | |
14:45 - 15:30 | Coulomb explosion of cloud particles in brown dwarf atmospheres: a source of patchy cloud coverage? - Craig Stark | |
15:30 - 16:15 | Observation of Protoplanetary Disk Lightning by Ion Lines - Takayuki Muranushi | |
16:15 - 16:35 | Atmospheric escape by magnetically driven wind from gaseous planets - Yuki Tanaka | |
16:35 - 17:00 | Tea break |
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Time | Event | |
09:00 - 10:00 | Multi-wavelength observations of activity in ultracool dwarfs - Stuart Littlefair | |
10:00 - 10:30 | A strange lightning(?) event observed at the Pierre Auger Observatory - Alan Watson (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration) | |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |
11:00 - 11:45 | High Energy Cosmic Rays and Short-Lived Plasmas in Planetary Atmospheres - Paul Rimmer | |
11:45 - 12:30 | Stellar magnetic fields and their impact on planets - Scott Gregory | |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
14:30 - 16:00 | Whisky Tasting - Blair Atholl distillery |