When: Fridays every week
Time: 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Where: Dome Room (Room 201), Peyton Hall
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Each week, we hold a seminar/discussion series in Peyton Hall's Dome Room (room 201) covering a wide range of topics in plasma astrophysics and high energy astrophysics.
Our current list of speakers for this semester is below.
The abstracts can be found on this page: http://astroplasmas.wikispaces.com/2018+Archive
| Date | Speaker | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/26/18 | Bart Ripperda and Fabio Bacchini (KU Leuven) | Generalized, energy-conserving numerical integration of geodesics in general relativity | |
| 02/09/18 | Eli Waxman (Weizmann Institute of Science) | Informal discussion on binary neutron star mergers | |
| 02/23/18 | Joonas Nättilä (KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University) | Relativistic plasma in silico - towards full 6D kinetic simulations | |
| 03/02/18 | Daniele Gaggero (GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam) | Learning the physics of CR transport from non-thermal Galactic emission | |
| 03/16/18 | Fabio Cruz (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal) | PIC simulations of magnetospheres: from the lunar surface to pulsars | |
| 04/06/18 | Alex Chen (Princeton) | Magnetar discharge and other numerical experiments on radiative transfer | |
| 04/13/18 | Adithan Kathirgamaraju (Purdue University) | Probing the presence of mildly relativistic components and structure in GRBs | |
| 04/20/18 | Alexander Tchekhovskoy (Northwestern University) | When Pulsars Get Hungry: putting new spin on magnetospheric accretion | |
| 05/25/18 | Anna Tenerani (UCLA) | Alfvén waves in the solar wind and the problem of constant-B field fluctuations: theory and predictions for the Parker Solar Probe | |
| 06/01/18 | TBA | TBA | |
| 06/08/18 | TBA | TBA | |
| 06/15/18 | TBA | TBA | |
| 06/22/18 | TBA | TBA |