2nd GAMPP Workshop

The slides of the presentations are available here

Program

Monday, 12 September 2016

08:30 Registration at IPP Building D2, ground floor
09:00 Cristel Chandre
Hamiltonian reductions of the one-dimensional Vlasov equation
using
phase-space moments
09:35 Discussion
09:45 Cesare Tronci
Variational approach to low-frequency kinetic-MHD
in the current-coupling scheme
10:20 Discussion
10:30 COFFEE
11:00 Emanuele Tassi
Hamiltonian closures for reduced fluid models
11:35 Discussion
11:45 Yohei Kawazura
Action principle for relativistic extended
magnetohydrodynamics
12:20 Discussion
12:30

LUNCH 

14:00 Yingda Cheng
A sparse grid discontinuous Galerkin method for
high-dimensional transport equations
14:35 Discussion
14:45 Lukas Einkemmer
Structure preserving algorithms for the Vlasov
equation and their implementation
on modern computer systems
15:20 Discussion
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Ruili Zhang
Explicit symplectic algorithms based on generating
functions for charged
particle dynamics
16:35 Discussion
  

Tuesday, 13 September 2016

09:00 Melvin Leok
Interpolation on symmetric spaces and
variational discretizations of gauge
field theories
09:35 Discussion
09:45 François Gay-Balmaz
On the development of variational integrators
for geophyscial dynamics
10:20 Discussion
10:30 GROUP PHOTO in front of building and COFFEE
11:00 Josh Burby
Galerkin GX Vlasov-Maxell system
11:35 Discussion
11:45 Lee Ellison
Degenerate variational integrators for magnetic
field line flow and guiding
center trajectories
12:20 Discussion

12:30

LUNCH

14:00 Evstati Evstatiev
Energy-conserving particle algorithms for kinetic
plasma simulations
 
14:35 Discussion
14:45 Katharina Kormann
Structure-preserving finite-element particle-in-cell
methods for the
Vlasov-Maxwell system;
15:20 Discussion
15:30 COFFEE
16:00 Bradley Shadwick
Deriving numerical models from action principles
16:35 Discussion
16:45 Yajuan Sun
Hamiltonian particle-in-cell methods for the
Vlasov-Maxwell equations
   

Wednesday, 14 September 2016

09:00 Caroline Lasser
Frozen Gaussians and symplectic discretization
09:35 Discussion
09:45 Elena Celledoni
Energy-preserving integrators applied to
nonholonomic systems
10:20 Discussion
10:30 COFFEE
11:00 Philippe Chartier
An averaging technique for kinetic equations
11:35 Discussion
11:45 Natalia Tronko
Lagrangian framework for gyrokinetic codes: from
continuous to discrete
model
12:20 Discussion

12:30

LUNCH

Afternoon free
19:00 Social dinner at Gasthof "Neuwirt", Garching town
  

Thursday, 15 September 2016

09:00 Alain Brizard
Variational formulations of guiding-center
Vlasov-Maxwell theory
09:35 Discussion
09:45 Michael Kraus
On degenerate Lagrangians, noncanonical
Hamiltonians and Dirac constraints
10:20 Discussion
10:30 COFFEE
11:00 Alexey Mishchenko
Mixed-variable gyrokinetics
11:35 Discussion
11:45 Jian Liu
Geometric algorithms for relativistic dynamics
12:20 Discussion

12:30

LUNCH

14:00 Martin Campos Pinto
Charge-conserving DG-PIC schemes with resampling
14:35 Discussion
14:45 Stephen Webb
A cylindrical spectral variational algorithm
for beam-plasma interactions
15:20 Discussion
15:30 COFFEE
16:00 Hiroaki Yoshimura
Variational integrators and discrete Lagrangian
systems for interconnected
systems
16:35 Discussion
  

Friday, 16 September 2016

09:00 Michel Vittot
Reduction of the guiding-center dynamics: magnetic
momentum & bounce
average
09:35 Discussion
09:45 Yao Zhou
Variational integration for ideal MHD and formation
of current singularity
10:20 Discussion
10:30 COFFEE
11:00 Omar Maj
First steps toward a three-dimensional MHD equilibrium code
based on metriplectic dynamics
11:35 Discussion

12:30

LUNCH

Afternoon free
Go to Editor View