Understanding the interaction of convec-tion, magnetic fields, and rotation is essen-tial to a robust understanding of stellar magnetism. These flows are at extreme pa-rameter regimes that defy our largest su-percomputers. I will discuss a number of strategies we have developed to make pro-gress on these problems, including the flexible PDE solver Dedalus. In particular, I will discuss the development of tools for Direct Statistical Simulation, a new strategy for studying anisotropic turbulent flows. I will discuss the application of these techniques to several important illustrative problems from astrophysical fluid dynamics.

About the Speaker: Jeff Oishi is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Bates College in Lewiston, ME, where he leads a research group of undergraduates. He is also Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History. He was an un-dergraduate at Columbia and did his PhD at the University of Virginia. His re-search interests are in numerical methods for magnetohydrodynamics, stability theory, and turbulence. Prof. Oishi is a member of the Dadelus Project, an open source framework for solving partial differential equations.

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