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1 Workshop, -, 09:15 am - 09:30 am 10:00 am - 10:10 am 10:10 am - 10:50 am 10:50 am - 11:30 am 11:30 am - 12:10 pm 01:10 pm - 01:50 pm 01:50 pm - 02:30 pm 02:30 pm - 03:00 pm 03:00 pm - 03:40 pm 03:40 pm - 04:20 pm Alvaro Ferraz International Institute of Physics - UFRN Alexander Lazarian University of Wisconsin Burkhart, Blakesley Beresnyak, Andrey Naval Research Laboratory Clark, Susan Columbia University Li, Hui Los Alamos Laboratory Suzuki, Tareku University of Tokyo Philip Mocz REGISTRATION Opening of the Conference Astrophysical Turbulence and Magnetic fields The Origins and Implications of MHD Turbulence MHD Turbulence and particle acceleration Magnetic fields in the interstellar medium: what we can learn from neutral hydrogen Dynamics of Current Sheets in Turbulent Plasmas and Their Associated Particle Acceleration Magnetic Activity in the Galactic Centre Region Moving mesh simulations of star forming cores in magneto-gravo-turbulence

2 Workshop, -, 04:20 pm - 04:25 pm 04:25 pm - 04:30 pm 04:30 pm - 04:35 pm 04:35 pm - 05:15 pm 11:20 am - 12:00 pm 01:00 pm - 01:40 pm 01:40 pm - 02:20 pm 02:20 pm - 03:00 pm Carolina Gribel de Vasconcelos Ferreira National Institute for Space Research Nina Sanches Sartio INPE Lorena Do Carmo Jesus National Institute for Space Research Grzegorz Kowal UNICSUL Fu, Huishan Beihang University Xu, Siyao Peking University Takasao, Shinsuke Kyoto University Forest, Cary University of Wisconsin-Madison Esquivel, Alejandro National Autonomous University of Mexico Discussion of the effects of turbulence Cosmic Star Formation Rate described by supersonic turbulence Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence and stellar feedback simulations of star forming regions The role of gravity in the turbulence and magnetic fields in star formation regions Numerical Testing of Turbulent Magnetic Reconnection Topology of turbulent from in situ measurements Magnetic fields travels from Lilliput to Brobdingnag: turbulent dynamo in a partially ionized plasma Observations and theories of magnetic in the solar atmosphere Energy Transformation between forms in the Big Red Plasma Ball Velocity anisotropy in the ISM: signature of the different MHD modes

3 Workshop, -, 03:00 pm - 03:30 pm 03:30 pm - 04:10 pm 04:10 pm - 04:50 pm 04:50 pm - 05:30 pm Wednesday December 07, 2016 Wednesday December 07, :00 pm - 10:00 pm 01:00 pm - 01:20 pm Girart, Josep Miquel Institut de Cicies de l'espai (CSIC-IEEC) Lin, Jun Yunnan Observatory Elisabete de Gouveia Dal Pino Sao Paulo University Medvedev, Michail Kansas University Singh, Chandra Bahadur USP - S Paulo Discussion Cultural Program - Buggy WORKSHOP DINNER Magnetic fields in star forming regions: an update from ALMA Formation of the CME/Flare Current Sheet and the Resultant Turbulent Reconnection Magnetic and Particle Acceleration around Black Holes and Relativistic Jets Quasicollisional Magneto-optic Effects in Turbulent Plasmas Onset of turbulence in low angular momentum flow onto the black hole and possible origin of flare phenomena 01:20 pm - 02:00 pm Guo, Fan Los Alamos Kinetic Simulations of Particle Acceleration in Magnetic Reconnection: Particle Acceleration Mechanism and Formation of Power-law Distributions

4 Workshop, -, 02:00 pm - 02:40 pm 02:40 pm - 03:10 pm 03:10 pm - 03:50 pm 03:50 pm - 04:30 pm 04:30 pm - 04:35 pm 04:35 pm - 04:40 pm 04:40 pm - 05:20 pm 11:20 am - 12:00 pm Bai, Xuening Zimbardo, Gaetano Universitdella Calabria Vishniac, Ethan Johns Hopkins University La de Souza Alves University of Brasia Tania Elizabeth Medina Torrej University of Sao Paulo Novak, Giles Northwestern University Thiem, Hoang KASI Andersson, B-G SOFIA Science Center Discussion of Cosmic ray physics Cosmic-ray-driven Streaming Instabilities Superdiffusive transport in space and astrophysical plasmas: theory and observations Turbulence, Dynamos and the Magnetic Fields of Stars and Galaxies Simulation of impact-generated plasma Studies of Cosmic Ray Acceleration and Propagation in Magnetized Turbulent Linking Planck B-fields to ALMA B-fields: Dust Emission Polarimetry with Kilo-pixel Instruments Quantitative Polarimetry in Star Formation Studies Observational Testing and New Application of Interstellar Grain Alignment

5 Workshop, -, 01:00 pm - 01:40 pm 01:40 pm - 02:20 pm Diego Falceta-Goncalves University of Sao Paulo Final discussion Magnetic fields and turbulence in star forming regions: statistics of polarization and Zeeman measurements

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