This talk will review the current state-of-affairs concerning solar dynamo theory. A recent sensationalized publication by Professor Valentina Zharkova has prompted a concerted effort to produce an accurate spectral collocation MHD simulation in order to demonstrate the feasibility of a mult-mode dynamo process in the convective layer of the sun. As such, we will review of the Grand Minima Problem and provide a brief review of our spectral collocation technique and provide an illustrative geodynamo model calculation recently announced at the Wessex Institute demonstrating the advantages of this method.
Prof. Steven Pearce is faculty in Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada. Now a days he is visiting faculty at Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Allahabad.