High-Energy Plasma Phenomena in Astrophysics

16 Sept 2024, 09:00 → 18 Sept 2024, 17:30 Europe/Berlin

D2 Lecture Hall (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics)

Anatoly Spitkovsky, Andrei Beloborodov, Elena Amato, Frank Jenko

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Monday 16 September

09:20 → 09:30 Opening remarks

09:30 → 10:10 Plasma instabilities and cosmic ray confinement around sources

Speaker: Pasquale Blasi

10:10 → 10:50 Cosmic-Ray Driven Instabilities

Speaker: Damiano Caprioli

10:50 → 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 → 11:55 The theory of resonant cosmic ray-driven instabilities

Speaker: Christoph Pfrommer

11:55 → 12:35 Plasma physics of extreme galactic accelerators

Speaker: Brian Reville

12:35 → 13:00 Sapphire++: Simulating astrophysical plasmas and particles with highly relativistic energies in C++

Speaker: Florian Schulze

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:25 Galaxy Cluster simulations with a spectral Cosmic Ray model

Speaker: Ludwig Böss

14:25 → 15:05 Physical Landscape of Radiative Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection

Speaker: Dmitri Uzdensky

15:05 → 15:35 Coffee break

15:35 → 16:15 Relativistic reconnection at jet boundaries and in spider pulsars

Speaker: Lorenzo Sironi

16:15 → 16:55 Tearing-mediated reconnection in magnetohydrodynamic poorly ionized plasmas

Speaker: Elizabeth Tolman

16:55 → 17:20 Black Hole Jet Sheath as a Candidate for the Comptonizing Corona

Speaker: Navin Sridhar

Tuesday 17 September

09:20 → 10:00 Particle acceleration and transport in magnetized turbulence

Speaker: Martin Lemoine

10:00 → 10:40 How non-equilibrium thermodynamics constrains magnetohydrodynamics in dilute astrophysical plasmas

Speaker: Matthew Kunz

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee break

11:10 → 11:50 Magnetogenesis in a collisionless plasma

Speaker: Muni Zhou

11:50 → 12:30 Kinetic simulations of high-energy emission from turbulent black-hole coronae

Speaker: Daniel Groselj

12:30 → 12:55 Radiative plasma simulations of turbulent accretion flows

Speaker: Joonas Nattila

12:55 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:40 A large-scale dynamo in binary neutron star mergers

Speaker: Kenta Kiuchi

14:40 → 15:05 Magnetizing Protoneutron Star Interiors

Speaker: Valentin Skoutnev

15:05 → 15:45 Disk-Magnetosphere Interactions in Accreting Neutron Stars

Speaker: Kyle Parfrey

15:45 → 16:15 Coffee break

16:15 → 16:40 Magnetically Arrested Circumbinary Accretion Flows

Speaker: Elias Most

16:40 → 17:05 Exploring the dynamics of resistive relativistic astrophysical jets

Speaker: Argyrios Loules

17:05 → 17:30 Relativistic Jet of TeV-Detected Blazar Mrk 421: Features of Extreme Particle Acceleration Processes

Speaker: Bidzina Kapanadze

Wednesday 18 September

09:20 → 10:00 Quantum Effects in Quiescent Magnetars

Speaker: Christopher Thompson

10:00 → 10:25 Magnetospheric Interactions in Pre-merger Binary Neutron Stars: Kelvin–Helmholtz Instability and Electromagnetic Precursors

Speaker: Jens Mahlmann

10:25 → 11:05 Coherent emission of Pulsars and Magnetars

Speaker: Alexander Philippov

11:05 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 11:55 Radio Pulsar Puzzles

Speaker: Ashley Bransgrove

11:55 → 12:35 Fast radio bursts as precursor radio emission from monster shocks

Speaker: Amir Levinson

12:35 → 13:00 Propagation of strong electromagnetic waves in tenuous plasmas

Speaker: Emanuele Sobacchi

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:25 Particle acceleration and high-energy emission in jets of active galactic nuclei

Speaker: Jieshuang Wang

14:25 → 14:50 The electrostatic instability in cosmic voids and the GeV-scale cascade flux from distant TeV blazars

Speaker: Martin Pohl

14:50 → 15:15 Study of Plasma Instabilities in Blazar-Induced Pair Beams Under Laboratory Conditions

Speaker: Suman Dey

15:15 → 15:45 Coffee break

15:45 → 16:10 Electron energization in high Mach number collisionless shocks

Speaker: Arno Vanthieghem

16:10 → 16:35 PIC simulations of the stratified magnetorotational instability

Speaker: Mario Riquelme

16:35 → 17:00 Fully kinetic shearing box simulations of magnetorotational instability in electron-ion plasma

Speaker: Evgeny Gorbunov

17:00 → 17:25 Particle acceleration via fast magnetic reconnection in Kerr BH magnetospheres

Speaker: Ileyk El Mellah