Fifty years after Roberts’ MHD
We just hosted the 2-day symposium at the Royal Astronomical Society London dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the seminal work by P.H. Roberts
Fifty years ago Paul Roberts FRS set down the fundamentals of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in his seminal book "An Introduction to Magnetohydrodynamics" (Longman's, 1967). New results have recently emerged from numerical dynamos, theoretical analyses, planetary missions to Mercury and Jupiter and liquid metal experiments. The conference we organized together with UCLA brought together theoreticians, numericists and experimentalists to discuss the frontiers of dynamo theory and fluid flows in planetary contexts.