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KITP Program: Particle Acceleration in Astrophysical Plasmas (July 27 - October 2, 2009)
Coordinators: Don Ellison, Stefan Funk, Anatoly Spitkovsky
Scientific Advisors: Matthew Baring, Pasquale Blasi, Andrei Bykov

Time Speaker Title
7/27, 2:00 p.m. All Organizational Meeting
7/28, 2:00 p.m. Hyesung Kang
Pusan National & KITP
Self-Similar Evolution of Cosmic-Ray Modified Shocks: The Cosmic-Ray Spectrum[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
7/30, 2:00 p.m. Patrick Slane
Harvard, CfA & KITP
Observational Constraints on the Energetic Particle Content of Pulsar Wind Nebula (PWNe)[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
7/31, 11:00 a.m. Mark Dieckmann
Linköping Univ
Particle-in-Cell Simulations in Astrophysics: Open issues, the Numerical Method and Aspects of Data Visualization[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam]
8/03, 12:15 p.m. Don Ellison
NCSU & KITP
Cosmic Rays, Shocks, and Plasma Physics[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
KITP Blackboard Lunch
8/04, 2:00 p.m. Andrey Vladimirov
NCSU & KITP
Monte Carlo Modeling of Efficient Shock Acceleration[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam]
8/05, 11:00 a.m. Vincent Tatischeff
CNRS & KITP
Diffusive Shock Acceleration of Cosmic Rays in Radio Supernovae[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
8/06, 2:00 p.m. Damiano Caprioli
INAF & KITP
A Semi-analytic Approach to Nonlinear Shock Acceleration[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
8/10, 11:00 a.m. Eveline Helder
(Univ. Utrecht & KITP)
Jacco Vink
(Univ. Utrecht & KITP)
H-Alpha Line Width in SNRs[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
8/11, 1:30 p.m. Samuel Martins
(IST & KITP)
Lorenzo Sironi
(Princeton & KITP)
Masahiro Hoshino
(Univ. of Tokyo & KITP)
PIC Round Table[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
8/12, 11:00 a.m. Yves Gallant
Univ. Montpellier II & KITP
TeV Gamma-Ray Observations for Galactic Accelerators (I - Pulsar Wind Nebulae and historical SNRs)[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
8/13, 2:00 p.m. Yves Gallant
Univ. Montpellier II & KITP
TeV Gamma-Ray Observations for Galactic Accelerators (II - SNR shells, Molecular Clouds and Superbubbles)[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
8/14, 11:00 a.m. Giovanni Morlino
INAF & KITP
Non-thermal radiation from SNRs in the Context of Nonlinear Shock Acceleration theory[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
8/14, 2:00 p.m. Igor Moskalenko
Stanford & KITP
Fermi Large Area Telescope and Propagation of Cosmic Rays[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
8/17, 11:00 a.m. Jonathan Granot
Univ. of Hertfordshire
GRBs with Fermi[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
8/18, 1:30 p.m. Martin Pohl
ISU & KITP
Recent Results of Extragalactic GeV-TeV-Band Studies[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
8/19, 11:00 a.m. Jacek Niemiec
IFJ PAN & KITP
Aperiodic Magnetic Turbulence Produced by Streaming CRs[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
8/20, 1:30 p.m. Milos Milosavljevic
Univ. Texas & KITP
The Structure of Relativistic Shock Precursors and Its Implications for GRBs[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
8/24, 2:00 p.m. Yasunobu Uchiyama
Stanford & KITP
Fermi Observations of Particle Accelerators in our Galaxy[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
8/25, 2:00 p.m. Andrei Gruzinov
NYU & KITP
Shock Dynamics and Magnetic Stability[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
8/27, 11:00 a.m. Ehud Nakar
Tel Aviv Univ. & KITP
Do We Really Need a Primary Source of CR Positrons?[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9/01, 2:00 p.m. Rino Bandiera
INAF & KITP
Phenomenological Approaches to the Problem of Electron Acceleration in SNRs[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9/02, 11:00 a.m. Andrey Bykov
Ioffe Tech. & KITP
Magnetic Fluctuations and Particle Acceleration in Shocks[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9/03, 2:00 p.m. Luke Drury
Dublin Inst. & KITP
How Cold Can a SNR Be?[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9/08, 2:00 p.m. Ken Nomoto
Univ. of Tokyo & KITP
On the Range of Supernova Explosion Energies[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9/09, 11:00 a.m. Christoph Pfrommer
CITA, Univ. Toronto & KITP
Cosmic Rays in Clusters of Galaxies -- Simulations and Reality[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9/10, 2:00 p.m. Mischa Malkov
UCSD & KITP
Acoustic Turbulence and Particle Acceleration in CR-modified Shocks[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9/11, 11:00 a.m. Markus Ackermann
SLAC
Observations of the Diffuse Gamma-Ray Sky with the Fermi LAT[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9/15, 2:00 p.m. Yuri Lyubarsky
Ben-Gurion Univ. & KITP
Acceleration and Collimation of Poynting Dominated Jets[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9/16, 11:00 a.m. Guy Pelletier
LAOG & KITP
Why Fermi Acceleration at Relativistic Shocks is so Challenging[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9/17, 2:00 p.m. Brian Reville
MPI-K & KITP
Cosmic-ray Acceleration and Current-Driven Instabilities[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9/18, 11:00 a.m. Matthew Baring
Rice Univ. & KITP
Diffusive Acceleration at Relativistic Shocks[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9/21, 11:00 a.m. Klara Schure
Univ. Utrecht & KITP
Particle Acceleration in an Evolving Supernova Remnant[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9/22, 1:30 p.m. Åke Nordlund
(Niels Bohr Inst & KITP)
Anatoly Spitkovsky
(Princeton & KITP)
Ken Nishikawa
(NASA, NSSTC & KITP)
PIC Round Table[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9/23, 11:00 a.m. David Eichler
Ben Gurion Univ. & KITP
Winds, Colliding Winds and Souped-up Winds[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9/24, 2:00 p.m. Marco Ajello
Stanford SLAC
Fermi-LAT Observations of AGN and Cosmological Evolution[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9/25, 11:00 a.m. Vladimir Zirakashvili
IZMIRAN & KITP
Magnetic Field Amplification and Particle Acceleration in Young Supernova Remnants[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9/28-10/2 Conference: Nonlinear Processes in Astrophysical Plasmas: Particle Acceleration, Magnetic Field Amplification, and Radiation Signatures

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