Sagdeev at 80

7 Feb 2013, 08:00 → 9 Feb 2013, 17:00 US/Eastern

UMUC Inn and Conference Center (University of Maryland, College Park)

Click here to go to the meeting web site at the University of Maryland.

Thursday, 7 February

Breakfast Provided

Welcome by Dean of Computer, Math and Natural Sciences -- Jayanth Banavar, U. Maryland

Session I- Space Physics - Chair: Louis Friedman, The Planetary Society

Session I - TBA - Sam Ting, MIT

Session I - The History of the Universe from the Beginning to End -- John Mather, NASA

Movie 1 Gamma_Ray_Burst_Two_Component_Jet_Stream_640x360.mpg

Movie 10 v0211d3.avi

Movie 2 Galaxy_Collision-1080p_appletv.m4v

Movie 3 Galaxy_Evolution-tracking_shot-1080p_appletv.m4v

Movie 4 HST_Transit_lightcurve.mp4

Movie 5 JWSTSpacecraftDeployAnimation-longversion.mov

Movie 6 large_scale_reionization_halos_800x500_MONO.mov

Movie 7 SecondaryEclipse_new.mov

Movie 8 Solar_System_Sim.mov

Movie 9 -videos-msl-20110404-msl20110404-1280.mov

slides Public_Talk_Mather_2012.pptx

11:30 Coffee Break

Session I - Marshall Rosenbluth and Roald Sagdeev in Trieste: The Birth of Modern Space Plasma Physics -- Charles Kennel, UCSF

slides CFK-Sagdeev_@_80.pdf

BIRTHDAY WISHES TO A NATIVE SON; D. Papadopoulos Chair, UMCP

Professor F. Mukhametshin, Speaker of the Parliament, the Republic of Tatarstan 12:40-12:50
Roald Sagdeev: Outstanding Tatar Scientist

Professor Ilshat Gafurov, Rector, Kazan State Federal University of the Russian Federation 12:50-12:55
Roald Sagdeev: Research and Social Innovation

Professor Akhmed Mazgarov, President Academy of Sciense Republic of Tatarstan 12:55-1:00
Roald Sagdeev: Founder of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan

13:00 Buffet Lunch

Session II - International Cooperation - Chair: Steve Fetter, U. Maryland

Session II - Sagdeev in (Arms) Control -- Richard Garwin, IBM

Session II - TBA -- John Steinbruner, U. Maryland

15:50 Coffee Break

Session II - TBA -- Susan Eisenhower, Eisenhower Institute

Session II - Sagdeev, Gorbachev, and the End of the Cold War -- Frank von Hippel, Princeton

slides von_Hippel_Talk_Sagdeev_at_80_(UMd,_7Feb2013,_435PM)_CORR.pdf

17:25 Cocktails and Appetizers

18:30 Buffet Dinner (Registrants Only)

SPECIAL LECTURE - Interview with Roald Sagdeev -- Danny Zwerdling, NPR

Friday, 8 February

Breakfast Provided

Session III - Plasma Physics Chair: Chuan-Sheng Liu, U. Maryland

Session III - Issues with Spin Transport in the Laboratory and in the Universe -- Bruno Coppi, MIT

slides The_Ignitor_Project_Part_1_Final.pdf

Session III - Emergence of Nonlinear Jamming Waves in the Turbulent Heat Flux and the Origin of the ExB Staircase -- Patrick Diamond, UCSD

slides Diamond-Sagdeev_80th_Birthday_(7).pdf

11:20 Coffee Break

Session III - Collisionless shocks with high-power lasers -- Dmitri Ryutov, LLNL

Session III - Collisionless Shocks: Unveiling the Mystery of Cosmic Rays -- Mischa Malkov, UCSD

13:00 Lunch Buffet

Bus Pick up to Russian Cultural Center

Russian Cultural Center Event

Bus Pick up to Marriott Inn and Conference Center

Saturday, 9 February

DEPARTURE