New Directions in Plasma Astrophysics

Program

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Welcome (8:45-9:00)

Session 1: Physics of cosmic rays (9:00-10:30 & 11:00-12:30)

  • 9:00 - 9:45 Julia Tjus (University of Bochum): "The diffusion tensor and its influence on cosmic-ray propagation modeling"
  • 9:45 - 10:30 Ellen Zweibel (University of Wisconsin-Madison): "Cosmic rays from plasma scales to megascales"
  • 11:00 - 11:45 Christoph Pfrommer (AIP Potsdam): "A multiscale approach to cosmic rays in galaxies"
  • 11:45 - 12:30 Anatoly Spitkovsky (Princeton University): "Multiscale modeling of astrophysical shocks"

Lunch break (12:30-14:00)

Session 2: Cosmic and laboratory plasma accelerators (14:00-15:30 & 16:00-17:30)

  • 14:00 - 14:45 Pisin Chen (National Taiwan University): "Plasma wakefield acceleration for ultra-high-energy cosmic rays"
  • 14:45 - 15:30 Tony Bell (University of Oxford): "Instabilities driven by streaming charged particles: connections between cosmic and laboratory plasmas"
  • 16:00 - 16:45 Frederico Fiuza (National Accelerator Laboratory): "Particle acceleration in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas"
  • 16:45 - 17:30 Brian Reville (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics): "Non-thermal particles in selected astrophysical plasmas"

Open discussion (17:30-18:30)

Joint dinner at the Garchinger Augustiner (19:00-)


Thursday, November 21, 2019

Session 3: Astrophysical turbulence and magnetic fields (9:00-10:30 & 11:00-12:30)

  • 9:00 - 9:45 Maarit Käpylä (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research): "Perspectives on astrophysical turbulence and dynamos"
  • 9:45 - 10:30 Nuno Loureiro (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): "New perspectives on magnetic reconnection in turbulence"
  • 11:00 - 11:45 Matthew Kunz (Princeton University): "Material properties of high-beta, weakly collisional astrophysical plasmas: waves, turbulence, reconnection, and dynamo"
  • 11:45 - 12:30 Dmitri Uzdensky (University of Colorado-Boulder): "Radiative turbulence and magnetic reconnection in relativistic collisionless astrophysical plasmas"

Lunch break (12:30-14:00)

Session 4: Laboratory plasma astrophysics (14:00-15:30 & 16:00-17:30)

  • 14:00 - 14:45 Gianluca Gregori (University of Oxford): "Magnetic fields, dynamo, and particle transport in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas"
  • 14:45 - 15:30 Sergei Lebedev (Imperial College): "Magnetic reconnection, jets, and shocks in pulsed-power driven experiments"
  • 16:00 - 16:45 Cary Forest (University of Wisconsin-Madison): "Laboratory astrophysics on the Big Red Ball"
  • 16:45 - 17:30 Eve Stenson (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics): "Milestones on the way to matter-antimatter plasmas: efficient injection and extended confinement of positrons in a dipole trap"

Open discussion (17:30-18:30)

Informal reception at IPP (18:30-)


Friday, November 22, 2019

Session 5: High-energy astrophysics (9:00-10:30)

  • Kohta Murase (Penn State): "Multi-messenger implications for cosmic rays"
  • Lorenzo Sironi (Columbia University): "Reconn[aissa]nce: reconnection, turbulence, and other explorations in plasma astrophysics"

Open discussion (11:00-12:00)

Lunch break and time for informal discussions (12:00-)

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