Session dates
Monday February 25th to Friday March 8th.
School program
More than 50h of lectures and reviews leading international researchers and lecturers in plasma astrophysics, including
- lectures on fundamental plasma physics, turbulence and instabilities,
- lectures on experimental and numerical methods for plasma physics,
- reviews on large-scale experiments on plasma astrophysics,
- reviews on selected astrophysical topics involving plasma physics.
The final program can be found here (pdf only).
Selected topics and list of speakers
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Plasmas in the Universe
- Steve Cowley (CCFE, Imperial College) -- Introduction: the future of plasma astrophysics
- Katia Ferrière (IRAP Toulouse) -- Interstellar plasma and magnetic fields
- Martin Lemoine (IAP Paris) -- Very high energy cosmic rays
- Matthew Kunz (Princeton University) -- Plasma physics in galaxy clusters
- Viggo Hansteen (University of Oslo) -- Physics of the solar chromosphere and corona: Dynamics and energetics
- Philippe Zarka (LESIA Paris) -- Planetary magnetic fields and magnetospheres
- Milan Maksimovic (LESIA Paris) -- Future explorations of solar and space plasmas
Theoretical, numerical, experimental methods
- Gérard Belmont (LPP Paris) -- Basic plasma physics: the collisionless limit and the fluid/kinetic dilemma
- Matthew Kunz (Princeton University) -- MHD in dilute plasmas (Detailed notes here)
- Francesco Califano (University of Pisa) -- Numerical methods for plasma physics
- Nicolas Plihon (ENS Lyon) -- Experimental methods for plasma physics
- Carlo Cossu (IMFT Toulouse) -- Stability of fluid flows
- Thierry Passot (Laboratoire Lagrange Nice) -- Fluid closures
Plasma instabilities in astrophysics
- Dmitri Uzdensky (UC Boulder) -- Instabilities in astrophysics
- Geoffroy Lesur (IPAG Grenoble) -- Stability of accretion disks and winds
- Pierre-Louis Sulem (Laboratoire Lagrange Nice) -- Instabilities in anisotropic plasmas
- Cary Forest (U. Wisconsin, CMSO) -- Couette experiments on accretion
- Andrea Ciardi (UPMC Paris) -- Experiments on astrophysical jets
- Henning Soltwisch (University of Bochum) -- Experiments on flares and CMEs
Turbulence
- Stanislas Boldyrev (University of Wisconsin, CMSO) -- Hydro/MHD turbulence Basics and Advanced
- Holger Homann (Laboratoire Lagrange Nice) -- Numerical modelling of MHD turbulence
- Alexander Schekochihin (University of Oxford) -- Introduction to kinetic turbulence (see also PPCF paper (arxiv version))
- Frank Jenko (IPP Garching) --Kinetic turbulence in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas
- Troy Carter (UCLA) -- Laboratory studies of the linear and nonlinear physics of Alfvén waves
- Fouad Sahraoui (LPP Paris) -- Cascade and dissipation of solar wind turbulence from MHD to electron scales
Dynamos
- Steve Tobias (U. Leeds) -- Turbulent Dynamos from stars to computers
- Jean-François Pinton (ENS Lyon) -- Liquid metal dynamos
- Cary Forest (U. Wisconsin, CMSO) -- Plasma dynamo experiments
- Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar (University of Bochum) -- Magnetic fields in galaxies
Reconnection
- Nuno Loureiro (IPFN, IST Lisbon) -- Introduction to fluid and kinetic reconnection
- Hantao Ji (PPPL Princeton, CMSO) -- Reconnection experiments
- Rainer Grauer (University of Bochum) -- Numerical simulations of reconnection with coupled fluid/kinetic models
Shocks, radiative processes, particle acceleration
- Ellen Zweibel (U. Wisconsin, CMSO) -- Introduction to shocks
- Renaud Belmont (University of Toulouse, IRAP) -- Radiative processes in plasmas
- Reinhard Schlickeiser (University of Bochum) -- Theory of cosmic ray acceleration and transport
- Karl Krushelnick (University of Michigan) -- High energy density experiments: relativistic particle beams and magnetic field generation in high intensity laser-plasma interactions
- Jean-Pierre Chièze (Sap/CEA Saclay) -- Radiative shocks in the laboratory
- Luis Silva (IPFN, IST Lisbon) -- Exploring the physics of relativistic collisionless shocks in astrophysics and in the laboratory with massively parallel simulations