Unstable Current Systems and Plasma Instabilities in Astrophysics: Proceedings of the 107th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union Held in College Park, Maryland, U.S.A., August 8–11, 1983: International Astronomical Union Symposia, cartea 107

Introductory Remarks.- Session I.- Magnetic Field Reconnection in Cosmic Plasmas (Invited Review).- Patchy Reconnection and Magnetic Ropes in Astrophysical Plasmas (Invited Review).- Magnetic Flux Ropes of Venus: A Paradigm for Helical Magnetic Structures in Astrophysical Systems (Poster Paper).- Laboratory Experiments On Current Sheet Disruptions, Double Layers, Turbulence and Reconnection (Invited Review).- Reconnection in Sheared Magnetic Fields in Space and Astrophysics (Invited Review).- Session II.- Formation, Equilibrium and Stability of Jets (Invited Review).- Energy Dissipation Mechanisms in the Solar Corona (Invited Review).- On the Role of Double Layers in Astrophysical Plasmas (Invited Contribution).- Particle Energization in Stochastic Double Layers.- Links Between Jet Instabilities, Radiation and Propagation in Astrophysics (Invited Contribution).- A Unified Theory of Coronal Heating.- Session III.- Laboratory Experiments on Reconnection in Current Sheets (Invited Review).- Computer Simulation of Reconnection in Planetary Magnetospheres (Invited Review).- Observational Evidence for Magnetic Reconnection in Microwave Solar Bursts.- Acceleration of Runaway Electrons and Joule Heating in Solar Flares.- The Coalescence Instability and Solar Flares (Invited Contribution).- 3D Simulation of Externally Driven Reconnection.- Opening of the Magnetic Field Lines in a Fast Rotating Magnetosphere, with an Application to Jupiter.- Quasi-Static Evolution of Force-free Magnetic Fields and a Model for Two-Ribbon Solar Flares (Poster Paper).- Solar Microwave Emission in Active Regions (Poster Paper).- Session IV.- Current Sheets in Solar Flares (Invited Contribution).- Energy Dissipation Mechanisms in Flare Stars (Invited Review).- A Unified Treatment of the Filament and Flare Instabilities (Invited Contribution).- Nonlinear Evolution of the Resistive Tearing Mode (Poster Paper).- Resistive Instabilities in Astrophysical Conditions: A Critical Discussion (Poster Paper).- Magnetodynamical Processes in Interacting Magnetospheres in RS CVn Binaries.- ’sweeping Pinch’ Mechanism and the Acceleration of Jets in Astrophysics (Poster Paper).- Energy Release in Solar.- An Interpretation of Millisecond Time Variation in Hard X-ray Solar Flares.- Observations of the Earth’s Cross-Tail Current Sheet and Their Implications.- Plasma Instabilities Generated by Streaming Particles.- Session V.- Anomalous Transport in Current Sheets (Invited Review).- Anomalous Transport Induced by Field Aligned Currents and its Relation to Electromagnetic Coupling (Invited Review).- Self-Confined Cosmic Rays (Invited Review).- Nonlinear Effects and the Limitation of Electron Streaming Instabilities in Astrophysics.- Cosmic Rays and the Parker Instability (Poster Paper).- Phase Mixing of Propagating Alfvén Waves.- Velocity Shear Instabilities in the Anisotropic Solar Wind (Poster Paper) 371.- Kelvin-Helmholtz Instabilities in a Magnetised Compressible Plasma (Sheared Flow).- Session VI.- Plasma Heating by Alfvén Waves — Kinetic Properties of Magnetohydrodynamic Disturbances (Invited Review).- Kinetic Theory of Alfven Wave Heating (Poster Paper).- MHD Equilibrium and Instabilities in Extragalactic Jets (Invited Review).- Bursting Particle Acceleration in Radio Jets (Invited Contribution).- Instabilities in Astrophysical Jets: Disease and Cure (Invited Contribution).- Current Systems in Radio Jets.- Is the Jet in M87 Magnetically Confined?.- Session VII.- Laboratory Plasma Processes of Astrophysical Interest (Invited Review).- Accretion Disk Electrodynamics(Invited Review).- Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Production by Current Disruption in Active Galactic Nuclei (Poster Paper).- Theory of Strongly Turbulent Two-Dimensional Cross Field Convection of Current Carrying Space Plasmas (Abstract).- Magnetic Field Reconnection in Differentially Rotating Accretion Disks.- Coronal Arcades in the Sun and Their Hydromagnetic Stability.- MHD Analysis of the Evolution of Solar Magnetic Fields and Currents in an Active Region (Poster Paper).- Bending Waves on Current Sheets.- Quasi-Two-Dimensional Cosmic Jets.- Session VIII.- Creation of High Energy Electron Tails by Lower-Hybrid Waves and its Relevance to Type II and III Bursts.- Current Status of the Dissipative Thermal Model for Solar Hard X-ray Bursts (Poster Paper).- Non-Stochastic Acceleration of Protons in the Magnetic Neutral Sheet.- Beam Return Current Systems in Solar Flares.- Collisionless Effects on Beam-Return Current Systems in Solar Flares.- Session IX.- Summary of Conference (Invited Summary).- Perspectives on Space and Astrophysical Plasma Physics.- Contributions from the U.S.S.R..- Spatio-Temporal Features of the Development of Microwave Emission of Active Regions and Flares.- Concerning the Dynamics of Energetic Protons in Coronal Magnetic Loops: Dispersion Effects of Alféen Waves.

`...will be most useful as a reference and a summary of current theoretical work in magnetic reconnection and plasma physics of solar flares and astrophysical jets. ...recommended to libraries and to plasma physicists of all persuasions.'
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