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KITP Conference: Connecting Micro and Macro Scales: Acceleration, Reconnection, and Dissipation in Astrophysical Plasmas
(Sep 9 - Sep 12, 2019)
Coordinators: Damiano Caprioli, Matthew Kunz, Christopher Reynolds, and Ellen Zweibel

Monday, Sep 09, 2019

Turbulence, Waves, and Instabilities (Part I), Chair: Bill Dorland (UMD)

8:50am Mark Bowick (KITP) Welcome[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:00am Christopher Chen (QMUL) Recent Progress in Plasma Turbulence and Dissipation From In Situ Solar Wind Observations
9:45am Ben Chandran (UNH) Reflection-Driven MHD Turbulence in the Solar Atmosphere and Solar Wind[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Alex Schekochihin (Oxford) Collisionless Fun and Games in Kinetic Phase Space[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am Romain Meyrand (Otago) Sub-Larmor Turbulence in Low-Beta Collisionless Plasma Turbulence[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

Turbulence, Waves, and Instabilities (Part II), Chair: Jim Stone (IAS)

2:00pm Nuno Loureiro (MIT) Tearing, Reconnection, and Energy Dissipation in Plasma Turbulence[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm Greg Howes (Iowa) Using Field-Particle Correlations to Diagnose Particle Energization in Turbulence, Magnetic Reconnection, and Shocks[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:07pm Lev Arzamasskiy (Princeton) Particle Heating and Instabilities in Kinetic Turbulence[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Jonathan Squire (Otago) Magneto-immutability in Weakly Collisional Plasmas[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:45pm Irina Zhuravleva (Chicago) Suppressed Effective Viscosity in the Bulk Intergalactic Plasma[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Tuesday, Sep 10, 2019

Plasma Dynamo, Chair: Ellen Zweibel (UW-Madison)

9:00am Matthew Kunz (Princeton) Fluctuation Dynamo in Weakly Collisional Plasmas[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am Archie Bott (Oxford) Magnetic-Field Amplification in Turbulent Laser-Plasmas[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am

Morning Break

Magnetic Reconnection: Particle Energization and Current-Sheet Dynamics, Chair: Jim Drake (UMD)

11:00am Bill Daughton (LANL) Turbulent Reconnection in Collisionless Mesoscale Layers[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am Marc Swisdak (UMD) Electron Energization in Non-relativistic Magnetic Reconnection[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

2:00pm Dmitri Uzdensky (CU-Boulder) Relativistic Non-thermal Particle Acceleration in Magnetic Reconnection[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm Masahiro Hoshino (Tokyo) Energy Partition of Ions and Electrons in the Course of Magnetic Reconnection[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:07pm Muni Zhou (MIT) Inverse Magnetic Energy Transfer Through Magnetic Reconnection[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

New Numerical Methods for Simulating Plasmas, Chair: Anatoly Spitkovsky (Princeton)

4:00pm Amitava Bhattacharjee (Princeton) A Ten-Moment Multi-Fluid Model for Collisionless Plasmas[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:45pm Jean-Luc Vay (LBNL) Novel Numerical Methods for Particle-in-Cell Modeling of Plasmas[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm

RECEPTION-KITP COURTYARD

6:00pm

SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER-KITP COURTYARD

8:00pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Wednesday, Sep 11, 2019

New Numerical Methods for Simulating Plasmas (cont'd), Chair: Anatoly Spitkovsky (Princeton)

9:00am Ammar Hakim (PPPL) Efficient Continuum Schemes for the Vlasov-Maxwell Equations with Applications to Phase-Space Dynamics in Collisionless Plasmas[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am Jimmy Juno (UMD) Comparing Kinetic Methods for Phase Space Dynamics of Weibel-type Instabilities[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:07am Marija Vranic (IST-Lisbon) Particle-in-Cell Numerical Extensions to Model Plasmas in the Presence of Extreme Fields[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Kyle Parfrey (Princeton) General-Relativistic Kinetic Simulations of Black-Hole Magnetospheres[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am Xuening Bai (Tsinghua) MHD-PIC Simulations of the Cosmic-Ray Streaming Instability[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:35pm

Lunch Break

12:35pm Announcement Regarding: Followon Program by Maggie Sherriffs

Cosmic-Ray Transport, Acceleration, and Feedback, Chair: Eve Ostriker (Princeton)

2:00pm Colby Haggerty (Chicago) Hybrid Simulations of the Nonlinear Growth and Saturation of the Cosmic-Ray Streaming Instability[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:22pm Andrey Beresnyak (NRL) Nonlinear Streaming Instability and the Inverse Cascade of Magnetic Fields in Supernova Precursors[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm Ellen Zweibel (UW-Madison) Some Recent Results on Cosmic-Ray Feedback[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Christoph Pfrommer (AIP, Potsdam) Cosmic Rays in Galaxy Formation: Acceleration, Transport, and Feedback[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:45pm H.-Y. Karen Yang (UMD) Critical Roles of Microphysics in Galactic and Cluster Feedback[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm

RECEPTION-KITP COURTYARD

6:00pm

SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER-KITP COURTYARD

8:00pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Thursday, Sep 12, 2019

Non-thermal Particle Acceleration in Shocks, Jets, and Turbulence (Part I), Chair: Brian Reville (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)

9:00am Damiano Caprioli (Chicago) A Novel Theory of Diffusive Shock Acceleration[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am Li-Jen Chen (NASA-Goddard) Magnetic-Field Amplification, Ion Acceleration, and Reconnection at Shocks[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am

Morning Break

11:00am Andreas Johlander (Helsinki) Observations and Simulations of Ion Acceleration at the Earth's Bow Shock[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am Aaron Tran (Columbia) Electron Heating in Particle-in-Cell Simulations of Perpendicular Shocks[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:07pm Ji-Hoon Ha (UNIST) Electron Pre-acceleration in Weak Quasi-perpendicular Shocks in High-beta Plasmas of Galaxy Clusters[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm

Lunch Break

Non-thermal Particle Acceleration in Shocks, Jets, and Turbulence (Part II), Chair: Andrei Beloborodov (Columbia)

2:00pm Anna Grassi (SLAC-Stanford) Collisionless Shock Formation and Electron Acceleration in the Laboratory
2:22pm Artem Bohdan (DESY) Electron Injection in Tycho's SNR[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm Raffaella Margutti (Northwestern) High-Energy Transients and Their Non-thermal Emission[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm

Afternoon Break

4:00pm Gianfranco Brunetti (IRA-INAF) Turbulence and Turbulent Acceleration in Galaxy Clusters and Large-Scale Structures[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:45pm Jordy Davelaar (Radboud) Particle Acceleration at the Jet Launching Foot Region of M87*[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:07pm E. Paulo Alves (SLAC) Efficient Non-thermal Particle Acceleration Mediated by the Current-Driven Kink Instability in Relativistic Jets[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm

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