Monday, Aug 18, 2025 |
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| 8:50am |
Lars Bildsten (KITP) |
Welcome[Video] |
| 9:00am |
Dong Lai (Cornell) |
Polarized X-rays from Magnetars[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 9:45am |
David Reis (SLAC) |
Observation of strong-field QED effects in the collision of ultrarelativistic electrons and an intense laser[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 10:30am |
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| 11:00am |
Alice Harding (LANL) |
Pair Cascades in Magnetar Magnetospheres[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 11:30am |
Thomas Grismayer (Tecnico Lisboa) |
Towards Laboratory Electron-Positron Plasma via Electromagnetic Showers[Video][CC] |
| 12:00pm |
Juri Poutanen (U Turku) |
X-ray pulsars in IXPE era[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 12:30pm |
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Pair Plasmas, Chair: Louise Willingale (Michigan)
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| 2:00pm |
Christopher Reynolds (Maryland) |
Black Hole Disk Coronae: Observations, Theory, and Open Questions[Video][CC] |
| 2:45pm |
Alexey Arefiev (UCSD) |
Pair production via photon-photon collisions in laser-irradiated plasmas[Video][CC] |
| 3:30pm |
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| 4:00pm |
Gianluca Gregori (Oxford) |
Probing beam instabilities in a laboratory analogue of blazar pair cascades[Video][CC] |
| 4:45pm |
Antonino Di Piazza (Rochester) |
NSF OPAL: A design project to explore physics under extreme conditions[Video][CC] |
| 5:15pm |
Charles Arrowsmith (Rochester) |
Generating and measuring electron-positron plasmas at laser facilities[Video][CC] |
| 5:30pm |
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Tuesday, Aug 19, 2025 |
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| 9:00am |
Hayk Hakobyan (Columbia/Flatiron) |
Gamma ray flares of M87*: pair-dominated reconnection with ions + updates & plans on Entity[Video][CC] |
| 9:45am |
Marija Vranic (Tecnico Lisboa) |
High-charge DLA electrons applied to radiation emission, lepton generation & transport[Video][CC] |
| 10:30am |
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| 11:00am |
Grant Johnson (Princeton) |
Solving the Plasma Kinetic Equation Numerically on Smooth Manifolds with Continuum Methods[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 11:30am |
E. Paulo Alves (UCLA) |
Data-driven statistical modeling of nonthermal particle acceleration by the kink instability in relativistic jets[Video][CC] |
| 11:50am |
Vedant Dhruv (U Illinois) |
Low collisionality effects in hot accretion flows[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 12:10pm |
Gabrielle Guttormsen (UCLA) |
Quasi-3D kinetic simulations of particle acceleration in relativistic magnetized jets[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 12:30pm |
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Shocks, Chair: Anatoly Spitkovsky (Princeton)
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| 2:00pm |
Raffaella Margutti (UCB) |
New observational constraints on astrophysical shocks from the first sample of NuSTAR SNe[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 2:45pm |
Arno Vanthieghem (Obs. de Paris) |
Fast Radio Bursts from monster shocks: solitons, chaos, and radiative cooling[Video][CC] |
| 3:30pm |
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| 4:00pm |
Derek Schaeffer (UCLA) |
Modeling Astrophysical Collisionless Shocks with Laboratory Experiments[Video][CC] |
| 4:45pm |
Lorenzo Sironi (Columbia) |
Global kinetic models of spider pulsars[Video][CC] |
| 5:10pm |
Karol Fulat (UW-Madison) |
Kinetic simulations of particle acceleration at shock waves in plasma with pre-existing turbulence[Video][CC] |
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Wednesday, Aug 20, 2025 |
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Turbulence, Chair: Gianluca Gregori (Oxford)
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| 9:00am |
James Beattie (Princeton) |
The chronology of high-k magnetic modes: from small-scale dynamo to driven stationary magnetized turbulence[Video][CC] |
| 9:45am |
Archie Bott (Oxford) |
Exploring astrophysical plasma turbulence through laboratory experiments[Video][CC] |
| 10:30am |
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| 11:00am |
Stuart Bale (UCB) |
The fine structure fast solar wind near the Sun: discrete velocity microstreams suggest energization at the base of the corona by interchange reconnection within the network magnetic field[Video][CC] |
| 11:45am |
Valentin Skoutnev (Columbia) |
Magnetic Webs in Stellar Radiative Zones[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 12:00pm |
John Mehlhaff (WashU) |
Radiative Relativistic Turbulence as an In Situ Pair-plasma Source in Blazar Jets[Video][CC] |
| 12:15pm |
Agnieszka Wierzchucka (Oxford) |
Two-Phase Structure of Synchrotron-Cooling-Unstable Relativistic Plasma[Video][CC] |
| 12:30pm |
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| 2:00pm |
Andrei Beloborodov (Columbia) |
Interaction of strong electromagnetic waves with a low-density magnetized plasma[Video][CC] |
| 2:45pm |
Marc Pulupa (UCB) |
Circular Polarization in Interplanetary Solar Radio Bursts[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 3:30pm |
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| 4:00pm |
Pablo Bilbao (Tecnico Lisboa) |
Astrophysical Plasma instabilities Driven by Radiative Cooling in the Laboratory[Video][CC] |
| 4:30pm |
Yuanhong Qu (UNLV) |
Magnetospheric Wave Emission from Magnetar Crust Quakes in Fast Radio Bursts[Video][CC] |
| 4:40pm |
Maxim Lyutikov (Purdue) |
Anderson self-localization of EM waves in pair plasmas[Video][CC] |
| 5:10pm |
Christopher Thompson (U Toronto) |
FRBs from Long-Period Binary Magnetars[Slides][Video][CC] |
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Thursday, Aug 21, 2025 |
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| 9:00am |
Roger Blandford (Stanford) |
On the Acceleration of Atomic Nuclei to 100 Joule[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 9:45am |
Shuo Zhang (MSU) |
Multi-messenger Hunt for Galactic PeVatrons[Slides][Video][CC] |
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Accretion, Chair: Alexander Philippov (Maryland)
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| 11:00am |
Tomohisa Kawashima (NIT Ichinoseki) |
High-Energy Neutrino Emission from a Radiatively Inefficient Accretion Flow in a 3D GRMHD Simulation[Video] |
| 11:30am |
Christopher Bambic (Georgia Tech) |
Coronal Heating in Luminous Accretion Flows[Video] |
| 11:50am |
Fabio Bacchini (KU Leuven) |
First-principles Simulations of Black-hole Plasmas: State of the Art and Recent Advances[Video][CC] |
| 12:10pm |
Amelia Hankla (Maryland) |
An outflow from the X-ray corona as the origina of millimeter emission from radio-quiet AGN[Video] |
| 12:30pm |
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| 2:00pm |
Masahiro Hoshino (U. Tokyo) |
Particle acceleration in 3D turbulent magnetic reconnection[Video][CC] |
| 2:45pm |
William Fox (Maryland) |
Laboratory Experiments on Magnetic Reconnection[Video][CC] |
| 3:30pm |
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| 4:00pm |
Koushik Chatterjee (Maryland) |
Unraveling Neutron Star Transients: Insights from High-Resolution GRMHD Simulations[Video][CC] |
| 4:30pm |
Omar French (CU Boulder) |
Particle Injection in Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection[Video][CC] |
| 4:50pm |
Alicia Savelli (CITA) |
Recovering Kinetic Relativistic Radiative Reconnection with Inverse Compton Cooling in Magnetohydrodynamics[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 5:10pm |
Michael Grehan (CITA) |
Modeling Magnetic Dissipation in Magnetar Magnetospheres[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 5:30pm |
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