EFDG Colloquium Series Inaugural Lecture: Professor Steve Tobias So many dynamos: The generation of magnetic fields in planets and starsProfessor Steve Tobias, University of LeedsAbstractThe generation of magnetic field in Earth's interior and the origin of the eleven year solar cycle are both thought to lie in dynamo action of an electricallyconducting fluid. In both cases fluid motions interact with rotation to sustain electrical currents and hence magnetic field. In this talk I will give an introductionto some interesting problems for a fluid dynamicist in trying to explain the generation of magnetic field and I will highlight some differences between the geo-and solar dynamo problems. I'll conclude by drawing an analogy of the geodynamo problem with transition to turbulence in flow down a pipe.BiographySteve Tobias’ research is on theoretical and computational fluids and MHD, particularly related to geophysical and astrophysical flows. He completed his PhDentitled “Nonlinear Solar and Stellar Dynamos” in DAMTP in Cambridge under the supervision of Professor Nigel Weiss in 1995. He was then elected a Research Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge before becoming a PDRA at the University of Colorado, Boulder from 1996-1998. He returned to Cambridge before moving to Leeds as a lecturer in 2000. He is Professor of Applied Mathematics in Leeds and Director of the Leeds Institute for Fluid Dynamics. Sep 28 2023 15.30 - 16.30 EFDG Colloquium Series Inaugural Lecture: Professor Steve Tobias Edinburgh Fluid Dynamics Group welcomes Professor Steve Tobias to give the inaugural lecture in an exciting new series of colloquia co-funded by the Schools of Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics and Astronomy. This article was published on Wednesday 2 September 2026
EFDG Colloquium Series Inaugural Lecture: Professor Steve Tobias So many dynamos: The generation of magnetic fields in planets and starsProfessor Steve Tobias, University of LeedsAbstractThe generation of magnetic field in Earth's interior and the origin of the eleven year solar cycle are both thought to lie in dynamo action of an electricallyconducting fluid. In both cases fluid motions interact with rotation to sustain electrical currents and hence magnetic field. In this talk I will give an introductionto some interesting problems for a fluid dynamicist in trying to explain the generation of magnetic field and I will highlight some differences between the geo-and solar dynamo problems. I'll conclude by drawing an analogy of the geodynamo problem with transition to turbulence in flow down a pipe.BiographySteve Tobias’ research is on theoretical and computational fluids and MHD, particularly related to geophysical and astrophysical flows. He completed his PhDentitled “Nonlinear Solar and Stellar Dynamos” in DAMTP in Cambridge under the supervision of Professor Nigel Weiss in 1995. He was then elected a Research Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge before becoming a PDRA at the University of Colorado, Boulder from 1996-1998. He returned to Cambridge before moving to Leeds as a lecturer in 2000. He is Professor of Applied Mathematics in Leeds and Director of the Leeds Institute for Fluid Dynamics. Sep 28 2023 15.30 - 16.30 EFDG Colloquium Series Inaugural Lecture: Professor Steve Tobias Edinburgh Fluid Dynamics Group welcomes Professor Steve Tobias to give the inaugural lecture in an exciting new series of colloquia co-funded by the Schools of Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics and Astronomy. This article was published on Wednesday 2 September 2026
Sep 28 2023 15.30 - 16.30 EFDG Colloquium Series Inaugural Lecture: Professor Steve Tobias Edinburgh Fluid Dynamics Group welcomes Professor Steve Tobias to give the inaugural lecture in an exciting new series of colloquia co-funded by the Schools of Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics and Astronomy.
