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KITP Program: Interconnections between the Physics of Plasmas and Self-gravitating Systems
(Jun 3 - Jul 26, 2024)
Coordinators: Jean-Baptiste Fouvry, Matthew Kunz, Jonathan Squire and Anna Lisa Varri
Scientific Advisors: Alexander Schekochihin and Scott Tremaine

Speakers: Please contact us about file upload for your slides.

Time Speaker Title
6/03, 10:30am All Participants Meet and Greet
6/03, 2:15pm Eugene Vasiliev
University of Surrey
Kinetics for gravity[Video][CC]
6/03, 2:45pm Archie Bott
University of Oxford
Kinetics (and fluid dynamics) of astrophysical plasmas[Video][CC]
6/10, 12:15pm Matthew Kunz (Princeton)
Jean Baptiste Fouvry (IAP-Sorbonne)
The original is unfaithful to the translation: Kinetic theory, from Plasmaish to Galacticese[Video]
KITP Blackboard Lunch
6/10, 2:15pm Rainer Spurzem
KIAA, Peking University & ARI, Univ. Heidelberg
Direct summation methods for the gravitational N-body problem[Video][CC]
6/10, 2:45pm Ian Ochs
Princeton University
Rotation drive by high-frequency plasma waves: dephasing and momentum conservation[Video][CC]
6/11, 11:30am Hong Qin
Princeton University
Structure preserving numerics
6/12, 11:30am Jono Squire
University of Otago
Turbulence
6/13, 11:30am Tomer Yavetz
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Phase mixing pendula and galactic structure
6/14, 11:30am Toby Adkins
University of Otago
Stochastic echos in Vlasov-Poisson plasmas
6/17, 2:15pm Dmitri Uzdensky
Univ. Colorado Boulder
Particle acceleration in plasmas[Video][CC]
6/17, 3:00pm Robyn Sanderson
Univ. of Pennsylvania
Dynamics of disk galaxies beyond kinetic theory[Video][CC]
6/18, 11:30am Plamen Ivanov
Univ. of Oxford
Gen Z functions
6/20, 11:30am Uddipan Banik
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Quasilinear relaxation of collisionless plasmas and self-gravitating systems
6/21, 11:30am Mike Petersen
Univ. of Edinburgh
Linear response theory of self-gravitating systems
6/24, 10:30am All participants
Kinetics24
Meet and greet
6/24, 1:45pm Emily Lichko
Univ. Chicago
Field particle correlations[Slides][Video][CC]
6/24, 2:15pm Jean-Baptiste Fouvry
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
Vector Resonant Relaxation[Slides][Video][CC]
6/25, 11:30am Wrick Sengupta
Princeton Univ.
Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal modes, what are they, and why are they tilted
6/26, 11:30am Kris Klein
Arizona
Traversing the Slopes of Phase Space with ALPS: Linear Dispersion Relations from Plasma Peaks to Gravitational Valleys
6/27, 11:30am Rainer Spurzem
KIAA Peking Univ. & ARI Heidelberg Univ.
Fully self-consistent collisional relaxation in spherical and axisymmetric stellar systems
6/28, 11:30am Rimpei Chiba
CITA Univ. Toronto
Nonlinear wave-particle interaction in galaxies
7/01, 10:30am All participants
kinetics24
Meet and greet
7/01, 1:45pm Silvio Cerri
Obs. de la Côte d'Azur
Phase space cascades in (simulations of) plasma turbulence[Video][CC]
7/01, 2:30pm Carl Rodriguez
Univ. of North Carolina
Monte Carlo methods for stellar dynamics[Video][CC]
7/02, 11:30am Scott Tremaine
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Some aspects of orbit-average in quasi-Keplerian systems
7/03, 11:30am Matthew Kunz
Princeton Univ.
Gyrokinetics
7/05, 11:30am Frank van den Bosch
Yale Univ.
Getting to the Core of Core Dynamics
7/08, 10:30am All participants
kinetics24
Meet and greet
7/08, 1:45pm Anatoly Spitkovsky
Princeton Univ.
Heating, maxwellianization, and nonthermal tails in violently collisionless plasmas[Video][CC]
7/08, 2:30pm Anna Lisa Varri
Univ. of Edinburgh
Star clusters in (phase) space[Slides][Video][CC]
7/09, 11:30am Vladimir Zhdankin
Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Generalized entropies: foundation or abyss?
7/10, 11:30am Robert Ewart
Oxford Univ.
Universal equilibria in (non-)violent relaxation
7/11, 11:30am Alexander Schekochihin
Oxford Univ.
Collisionless collision integrals and collisional collisionless equilibria
7/12, 11:30am Pierre-Henri Chavanis
Univ. Toulouse & CNRS
Kinetic theory of two-dimensional vortices and stellar systems
7/15, 1:45pm Muni Zhou
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Understanding electron heating in kinetic turbulence through phase-space dynamics[Video][CC]
7/15, 2:30pm Barry Ginat
Oxford Univ.
Phase-space turbulence in cold dark matter[Embargoed]
7/16, 11:30am James Binney
Oxford Univ.
At last, something you can do with van Kampen modes: deriving the Balescu-Lenard equation
7/17, 11:30am Philipp Kempski
Princeton Univ.
Kinetic theory of cosmic ray transport: more than wave-particle interactions?
7/18, 11:30am Bruno Marcos
Univ. Côte d'Azur
Violent relaxation in the lab
7/19, 11:30am David Hosking
Princeton Univ.
Metastable atmospheres and the statistical mechanics of their relaxation
7/22, 1:45pm Patrick Reichherzer
Oxford Univ.
How to coarse-grain cosmic-ray propagation?[Embargoed]
7/23, 11:30am Ilya Dodin
PPPL, Princeton Univ.
Phase-space methods for modeling of linear and nonlinear waves in inhomogeneous media
7/24, 11:30am Tobias Heinemann
NBIA, Univ. Copenhagen
Landau contours with finite endpoints
7/25, 11:30am Mikhail Medvedev
Univ. of Kansas
Flip-flop field
7/26, 11:30am All participants
kinetics24
Summary discussion & farewell