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

1 Opening remarks

2 Plasma instabilities and cosmic ray confinement around sources

Speaker: Pasquale Blasi

3 Cosmic-Ray Driven Instabilities

Speaker: Damiano Caprioli

10:50 Coffee break

4 The theory of resonant cosmic ray-driven instabilities

Speaker: Christoph Pfrommer

5 Plasma physics of extreme galactic accelerators

Speaker: Brian Reville

6 Sapphire++: Simulating astrophysical plasmas and particles with highly relativistic energies in C++

Speaker: Florian Schulze

13:00 Lunch

7 Galaxy Cluster simulations with a spectral Cosmic Ray model

Speaker: Ludwig Böss

8 Physical Landscape of Radiative Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection

Speaker: Dmitri Uzdensky

15:05 Coffee break

9 Relativistic reconnection at jet boundaries and in spider pulsars

Speaker: Lorenzo Sironi

10 Tearing-mediated reconnection in magnetohydrodynamic poorly ionized plasmas

Speaker: Elizabeth Tolman

11 Black Hole Jet Sheath as a Candidate for the Comptonizing Corona

Speaker: Navin Sridhar

Tuesday 17 September

12 Particle acceleration and transport in magnetized turbulence

Speaker: Martin Lemoine

13 How non-equilibrium thermodynamics constrains magnetohydrodynamics in dilute astrophysical plasmas

Speaker: Matthew Kunz

10:40 Coffee break

14 Magnetogenesis in a collisionless plasma

Speaker: Muni Zhou

15 Kinetic simulations of high-energy emission from turbulent black-hole coronae

Speaker: Daniel Groselj

16 Radiative plasma simulations of turbulent accretion flows

Speaker: Joonas Nattila

12:55 Lunch

17 A large-scale dynamo in binary neutron star mergers

Speaker: Kenta Kiuchi

18 Magnetizing Protoneutron Star Interiors

Speaker: Valentin Skoutnev

19 Disk-Magnetosphere Interactions in Accreting Neutron Stars

Speaker: Kyle Parfrey

15:45 Coffee break

20 Magnetically Arrested Circumbinary Accretion Flows

Speaker: Elias Most

21 Exploring the dynamics of resistive relativistic astrophysical jets

Speaker: Argyrios Loules

22 Relativistic Jet of TeV-Detected Blazar Mrk 421: Features of Extreme Particle Acceleration Processes

Speaker: Bidzina Kapanadze

Wednesday 18 September

23 Quantum Effects in Quiescent Magnetars

Speaker: Christopher Thompson

24 Magnetospheric Interactions in Pre-merger Binary Neutron Stars: Kelvin–Helmholtz Instability and Electromagnetic Precursors

Speaker: Jens Mahlmann

25 Coherent emission of Pulsars and Magnetars

Speaker: Alexander Philippov

11:05 Coffee break

26 Radio Pulsar Puzzles

Speaker: Ashley Bransgrove

27 Fast radio bursts as precursor radio emission from monster shocks

Speaker: Amir Levinson

28 Propagation of strong electromagnetic waves in tenuous plasmas

Speaker: Emanuele Sobacchi

13:00 Lunch

29 Particle acceleration and high-energy emission in jets of active galactic nuclei

Speaker: Jieshuang Wang

30 The electrostatic instability in cosmic voids and the GeV-scale cascade flux from distant TeV blazars

Speaker: Martin Pohl

31 Study of Plasma Instabilities in Blazar-Induced Pair Beams Under Laboratory Conditions

Speaker: Suman Dey

15:15 Coffee break

32 Electron energization in high Mach number collisionless shocks

Speaker: Arno Vanthieghem

33 PIC simulations of the stratified magnetorotational instability

Speaker: Mario Riquelme

34 Fully kinetic shearing box simulations of magnetorotational instability in electron-ion plasma

Speaker: Evgeny Gorbunov

35 Particle acceleration via fast magnetic reconnection in Kerr BH magnetospheres

Speaker: Ileyk El Mellah