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The 1st JPP Frontiers in Plasma Physics Conference Abbazia di Spineto, 24-26 May, 2017 |
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LOC: Francesco Califano & Silvio Cerri (U di Pisa) |
INVITED PARTICIPANTS
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| Firm commitment: will attend
barring World War III or personal emergency. Please book/register by December 10, using this form. |
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| Has
interest in this topic, although that may not be primary/sole focus in
attending |
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| Staying in Spineto on Saturday
27 May (JPP has its Board meeting on that day; there will be no conference talks, but people are welcome to make arrangements to stay over, discuss or enjoy the place) |
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Name | Affiliation | Pair Plasmas |
Stella- rators |
Magneto- kinetics |
JPP Board |
Original
Paper (A), Review (B) or White Paper (C) Title | Paper Text |
| Arturo
Alonso |
CIEMAT |
Fri-pm |
[A] Can we use the relative
phase of
electrostatic potential and impurity density asymmetries to control
impurity transport in stellarators? | draft |
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| Elena Amato |
INAF Arcetri |
Wed-am |
[A or B] 3D MHD simulations of
electron-positron plasmas in PWNe | JPP 82, 635820601 (2017): reprint |
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| Jonathan
Arons |
UC Berkeley |
SOC |
chair: Fri-pm |
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| Nicolas Aunai |
LPP Paris |
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| Michael Barnes | Oxford |
Fri-am |
[A] Heating of pair plasmas via drift-wave turbulence | draft |
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| Andrei
Beloborodov |
Columbia |
Wed-am* Thu-am |
1. [A] Radiative reconnection near accreting black holes 2. [A] Magnetic energy dissipation and pair creation around neutron stars 3. [B] Tutorial on pair plamas in astrophysics (plenary) | 1. arXiv:1701.02847 or preprint 2. arXiv:1610.10036 or preprint 3. slides |
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| Roger Blandford |
Stanford |
Thu-pm Fri-pm* |
1. [A] Magnetoluminescence 2. [B/C] Summary and outlook on this conference (plenary) | 1. arXiv:1705.02021 or preprint 2. plenary talk |
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Allen
Boozer |
Columbia |
Thu-pm |
Wed-pm |
1. [A] Magnetic reconnection in three dimensions 2. [C] Future of stellarator research (with M. Landreman) [for background, see Stellarator design, JPP 81, 515810606 (2015): reprint] | 1. JPP, submitted (2017): preprint; see also slides for 3D discussion 2. see white paper by Landreman |
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| Antoine Bret |
C. La Mancha |
Fri-am |
[A] Kinetic inhibition of MHD-shocks in the vicinity of a parallel magnetic field | arXiv:1703.07411 or JPP 83, 715830201 (2017): reprint |
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| Francesco
Califano |
U di Pisa |
SOC Wed-am chair: Wed-pm Fri-am |
[A] Linking large to small scales through current sheets in turbulence (with S. Cerri) | see reprint posted by Cerri |
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Damiano
Caprioli |
Chicago |
Thu-pm |
[A] Diffusive shock reacceleration | draft |
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| Troy Carter |
UCLA |
Fri-am |
[C] Possibility of observing
mirror and firehose instabilities in the laboratory | slides |
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Paul Cassak |
West Virginia U |
Wed-pm |
[B] Why is the steady-state magnetic reconnection rate at order 0.1? | JPP, submitted (2017): preprint |
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Peter
Catto |
MIT |
SOC chair: Thu-am Fri-pm |
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| Silvio Cerri |
U di Pisa |
Fri-pm |
[A]
Magnetic reconnection as primary driver of the turbulent cascade below
the ion gyroradius: hybrid-kinetic simulations (with F. Califano) | NJP 19 (2017) 025007: reprint |
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| Hui Chen |
LLNL |
Wed-pm |
[C] White Paper: Challenges of laboratory experiments on relativistic pair plasmas (see also L. Silva) | slides see white paper by Silva |
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Jack Connor |
Culham |
See Plunk | --- |
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| Antonino
Di Piazza |
MPIK Heidelberg |
Wed-pm |
[A] Analytical tools to
investigate strong-field QED processes in tightly-focused laser beams | arXiv:1612.04132 or PRA 95, 032121 (2017): reprint |
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Bill Dorland |
Maryland |
SOC chair: Fri-pm |
Wed-am Fri-pm |
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Matteo Faganello |
Marseille |
Wed-pm |
[A] Magnetic reconnection in
dynamical systems driven by localized hydrodynamic instabilities:
competition between local and remote reconnection | slides |
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| Frederico
Fiuza |
Stanford |
Thu-am* |
1. [B/C] Opportunities for laboratory studies of the microphysics of particle acceleration, shocks, and reconnection (plenary) 2. Coordinating a White Paper on the above subject (with N. Loureiro and whomever else is interested) | PoP 24, 041408 (2017): reprint |
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| Cary
Forest |
UW Madison |
Fri-am |
[A] Experiments on
transformation of energy between forms in the Big Red Plasma Ball [for background, see The Wisconsin Plasma Astrophysics Laboratory, JPP 81, 345810501 (2015): reprint] | draft |
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Thomas
Grismayer |
IST Lisbon |
Wed-pm |
1. [A] Magnetic reconnection with QED effects in near-critical magnetic field 2. [A] Seeded QED cascades in counterpropagating laser pulses | 1. preprint 2. PRE 95, 023210 (2017): reprint |
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Greg Hammett |
Princeton |
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James Hanson |
Auburn U |
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Per
Helander |
IPP Greifswald |
SOC Fri-am* chair: Wed-am Thu-pm |
[A] Available energy and ground states of collisionless plasmas (plenary) See also Plunk | JPP, submitted (2017): preprint |
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Mark Herrmann |
NIF/LLNL |
chair: Thu-pm |
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| Carlos
Hildalgo |
CIEMAT |
Thu-pm |
[A]
Development of plasma diagnostics as trigger for new physics:
non-linear saturation mechanisms of plasma turbulence and dynamics of
neutrals in fusion plasmas See also Zocco | extended abstract PPCF 59, 014051 (2017): reprint |
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| Stuart Hudson |
Princeton |
Wed-am |
[B] Smooth magnetohydrodynamic equilibria with arbitrary, three-dimensional boundaries | JPP, submitted (2017): preprint | ||||
| John Kirk |
MPIK Heidelberg |
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| Karl
Krushelnick |
Michigan |
Thu-pm |
[A] Relativistic reconnection using high power lasers | arXiv:1610.06866 see reprint |
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| Matt
Kunz |
Princeton |
Fri-pm |
1. [A] MRI turbulence and dynamo in a collisionless plasma 2. [A] Dissipation-range kinetic turbulence in pressure-anisotropic astrophysical plasmas | 1. PRL 117, 235101 (2016): reprint 2. draft |
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| Matt
Landreman |
Maryland |
Thu-pm |
[C] White Paper: Opportunities and priorities in stellarator theory and computation (with A. Boozer) | white paper |
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| Giovanni
Lapenta |
Brussels |
Wed-pm |
[A] Secondary reconnection sites in reconnection- generated flux ropes and reconnection fronts | draft |
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| Samuel
Lazerson |
Princeton |
Wed-am |
[A] From tokamaks to
stellarators: understanding the role of 3D shaping | JPP, to be submitted (2017): preprint or arXiv:1705.00517 |
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| Sergey Lebedev |
Imperial |
Fri-am |
[A] Magnetic reconnection
experiments with colliding magnetised plasma flows (V_flow ~ V_Alfven,
plasma beta ~ 1, radiative cooling) | PRL 118, 085001 (2017): reprint PRL 116, 225001 (2016): reprint |
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| Joaquim
Loizu |
IPP Greifswald |
Wed-am Fri-pm |
1. [A] Equilibrium beta-limits in classical stellarators 2. [B] Unified nonlinear theory of spontaneous and forced helical resonant MHD states | 1. JPP, to be submitted (2017): preprint 2. PoP 24, 040701 (2017): reprint |
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| Nuno Loureiro | MIT |
chair: Wed-pm |
[C] Interested in a White Paper (see also F. Fiuza) | --- |
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| Maxim Lyutikov |
Purdue |
Thu-pm |
[A or B] Explosive reconnection
and particle acceleration in relativistic plasmas | JPP, submitted (2017): preprint | ||||
| Piero
Martin |
Padua |
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Michael Medvedev |
Kansas |
Fri-pm |
1. [A] Quasi-nonlinear approach to the Weibel instability 2. [A] Pair cascade in a spinning BH magnetosphere | 1. JPP, submitted (2017): preprint or arXiv:1705.03169 2. --- |
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| Motoki
Nakata |
NIFS, Japan |
Thu-pm |
[A] Isotope
effects on turbulent transport and entropy transfer processes in
toroidal plasmas See also Plunk | preprint |
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| Felix
Parra Diaz |
Oxford |
Thu-am* |
[B] Magnetised particle motion in 3D magnetic fields and the nature of 3D equilibria (plenary) | PPCF 59, 055014 (2017): reprint slides |
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| Thierry
Passot |
OCA Nice |
Fri-pm |
[A] Reduced fluid models and phenomenological predictions for kinetic/inertial Alfvén wave turbulence | arXiv:1704.02576 or JPP, submitted (2017): preprint |
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| Thomas Sunn Pedersen |
IPP Greifswald |
Wed-am* |
1. [B/C] Stellarators and pair plasmas (plenary) 2. [C] White Paper on pair plasmas in the lab (see also L. Silva) [for background, see JPP 83, 595830106 (2017): reprint] | 1. slides 2. white paper draft |
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Francesco Pegoraro |
Pisa |
Wed-pm Thu-pm |
[A] Frame-independent definition of relativistic reconnection | JPP 82, 555820201 (2016): reprint or see slides |
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Alexander Philippov |
Princeton |
Wed-am Thu-am |
1. [A] Ab initio pulsar magnetosphere 2. [A] An inition simulations of radiative magnetic recnnection | 1. draft 2. draft |
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Gabriel
Plunk |
IPP Greifswald |
Thu-am |
1. [A] Collisionless microinstabilities in stellarators (with P. Helander and J. Connor) 2. [A] Nonlinear decay of zonal flows (with M. Nakata) |
1. JPP, submitted (2017): preprint 2. preprint |
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| Josefine
Proll |
TU Eindhoven |
Thu-pm |
[A] Low trapped-electron mode turbulence in Wendelstein 7-X (in spite of weak zonal flows) | draft |
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| Paolo
Ricci |
EPF Lausanne |
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| Christopher Ridgers |
York |
Wed-pm |
[A] Electron and positron dynamics in strong electromagnetic fields | JPP, to be submitted (2017): preprint |
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| Fouad
Sahraoui |
LPP Paris |
Fri-am* Fri-pm |
1. [A] Non-universality of the turbulent spectra at sub-ion scales in the solar wind: dispersive effects vs the Doppler shift 2. [B] Tutorial on turbulence in solar wind (plenary) | 1. preprint on request 2. slides |
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| Gianluca
Sarri |
QU Belfast |
Wed-pm |
1. [B] Laser-driven generation of
pair plasmas in the laboratory and their relevance to modelling
astrophysical phenomena 2. [A] Strong-field effects in the ultrarelativistic domain: known unknowns (with A. Di Piazza) 3. [C] White paper on pair plasmas in the lab (see L. Silva) | 1. JPP 81, 455810401 (2015): reprint fresh off the press: preprint (submitted to PRL) 2. preprint 3. see white paper by Silva |
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| Alex Schekochihin | Oxford |
chair: Wed-am |
SOC Fri-pm chair: Fri-am |
Wed-am |
1. [A/B] Sub-Larmor electron
turbulence in 5D gyrokinetic phase space 2. [B] MHD turbulence + reconnection: a complete story at last? | 1. slides 2. MNRAS 468, 4862 (2017): reprint or see draft review |
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| Luis
Silva |
IST Lisbon |
SOC Thu-pm* chair: Wed-pm Fri-am |
chair: Thu-am |
[C] White paper on pair plasmas in the lab (with G. Sarri, T. Pedersen, H. Chen and anyone else who shows interest) | white paper to be discussed at the meeting |
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| Lorenzo Sironi |
Columbia |
Thu-pm |
Wed-pm* | 1. [A] Flavors of relativistic reconnection 2. [B] Tutorial on particle acceleration (plenary) | 1. MNRAS 462, 48 (2016): reprint 2. slides |
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| Anatoly
Spitkovsky |
Princeton |
Wed-am | [A] Making fast radio bursts like it's 1962 | preprint coming soon |
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| Jonathan
Squire |
Caltech |
Fri-pm |
[A] Nonlinear MHD waves in
weakly collisional plasmas | JPP, to be submitted (2017): draft |
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| Steve
Tobias |
Leeds |
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| Kathleen Too |
CUP |
Thu-pm |
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Dmitri
Uzdensky |
UC Boulder |
SOC Fri-pm chair: Wed-am Thu-am |
SOC chair: Thu-pm |
[A] Relativistic collisionless turbulence [C] Interested in a White Paper See also Werner | PRL 118, 055103 (2017): reprint |
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| Greg Werner |
UC Boulder |
Thu-pm |
[A] Nonthermal particle acceleration in 3D relativistic magnetic reconnection in pair plasma (with D. Uzdensky) | arXiv:1705.05507 or preprint |
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| Elizabeth Woodhouse |
CUP |
Thu-pm |
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| Alessandro Zocco |
Fri-am |
Thu-am Fri-pm |
1. [A] Resonant destabilisation of Larmor scales by the toroidal ion-temperature-driven instability in general geometry 2. [C] Transport and confinement: stellarators for ITER physics basis (with C. Hidalgo) 3. [A] Linear waves and magnetic reconnection in ultra-low-beta non-relativistic pair plasmas | 1. preprint on request 2. white paper abstract 3. preprint |
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PROGRAMME
This is a draft!
NB: All papers in parallel sessions to be presented in the following format: 5 min summary from the corresponding author (NOT a talk), followed by extended discussion. Papers will be posted/distributed in advance (here), so they can be read by those interested in participating in the discussion. The format/length of these papers can be arbitrary but please assume that they are all that people will read and so they should contain all the information necessary for a specific discussion. Submitted papers will be dispalyed during the discussion. Plenary talks will be of tutorial nature and consist of 40 min speaking taime + 20 min discussion.
Those papers that are submitted to JPP and accepted will appear here. We will try to pick referees from amongst the conference participants.
COLLABORATIVE WHITE PAPERS
Several white paper projects have emerged. Participants who are interested should get in touch with these coordinators:
NB: All papers in parallel sessions to be presented in the following format: 5 min summary from the corresponding author (NOT a talk), followed by extended discussion. Papers will be posted/distributed in advance (here), so they can be read by those interested in participating in the discussion. The format/length of these papers can be arbitrary but please assume that they are all that people will read and so they should contain all the information necessary for a specific discussion. Submitted papers will be dispalyed during the discussion. Plenary talks will be of tutorial nature and consist of 40 min speaking taime + 20 min discussion.
Those papers that are submitted to JPP and accepted will appear here. We will try to pick referees from amongst the conference participants.
COLLABORATIVE WHITE PAPERS
Several white paper projects have emerged. Participants who are interested should get in touch with these coordinators:
1. Luis Silva & Thomas Pedersen: Pair plasmas in the laboratory (++H. Chen, A. Di Piazza, F. Fiuza, T. Grismayer, P. Helander, N. Loureiro, G. Sarri, D. Uzdensky ...)
2. Frederico Fiuza: Opportunities for laboratory studies of the microphysics of particle acceleration, shocks, and reconnection (++N. Loureiro, ...)
3. Matt Landreman: Opportunities and priorities in stellarator theory and computation (++A. Boozer, ...)
4. Alessandro Zocco: Transport and confinement: stellarators for ITER physics basis (++C. Hidalgo, ...)
2. Frederico Fiuza: Opportunities for laboratory studies of the microphysics of particle acceleration, shocks, and reconnection (++N. Loureiro, ...)
3. Matt Landreman: Opportunities and priorities in stellarator theory and computation (++A. Boozer, ...)
4. Alessandro Zocco: Transport and confinement: stellarators for ITER physics basis (++C. Hidalgo, ...)
| Wednesday 24 May | Thursday 25 May |
Friday 26 May |
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| Chair: Schekochihin [Oxford] 09:00 Welcome (Schekochihin/Dorland/Califano) 09:30 Beloborodov-3 [Columbia] (pair creation in astro) 10:30 Pedersen [Greifswald] (stellarators & pair plasmas) | Chair: Silva [IST Lisbon] 09:30 Fiuza [Stanford] (acc./shocks/rec. in the lab.) 10:30 Parra [Oxford] (3D fields and particle motion) |
Chair: Califano [Pisa] 09:30 Sahraoui-2 [LPP Paris] (turbulence in solar wind) 10:30 Helander [Greifswald] (available energy in a plasma) |
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| 11:00 Coffee |
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| 11:30 Coffee | 11:30 Coffee |
in Sala congressi | in Sala a volta | ||
| in Sala congressi |
in Sala a volta |
in Sala congressi |
in Sala a volta |
MAGNETOKINETICS-2 Lab Astro Chair: Schekochihin [Oxford] 11:30 Carter [UCLA] (mirror & firehose in LAPD) 12:00 Forest [UW Madison] (shocks/rec./acc. in Big Red Ball/MPDX) 12:30 Lebedev [Imperial] (lab. reconnection) |
PAIR PLASMAS-5 Pair Plasma Physics Chair: Silva [Lisbon] 11:30 Bret [UCLM] (shocks) 12:00 Zocco-3 [Greifswald] (waves) 12:30 Barnes [Oxford] (heating) |
| PAIR PLASMAS-1 Pair Plasma Flows Chair: Uzdensky [UC Boulder] 12:00 Amato [Arcetri] (MHD sims of PWNs) 12:20 Philippov-1 [Princeton] (kinetic sims of pulsar m-spheres) 12:40 Spitkovsky [Princeton] (radio bursts) | STELLARATORS-1: 3D Equlibria/Transport Chair: Helander [Greifswald] 12:00 Lazerson [Princeton] (3D shaping) 12:30 Hudson [Princeton] (MHD equlibria) & Loizu-2 [Greifswald] (helical resonant MHD states) |
PAIR PLASMAS-3 Pair Creation in Reconnection Chair: Uzdensky [UC Boulder] 12:00 Grismayer-1 [Lisbon] & Beloborodov-2 [Columbia] (stronger fields) 12:30 Philippov-2 [Princeton] & Beloborodov-1 [Columbia] (weaker fields) |
STELLARATORS-3: Turbulence Chair: Catto [MIT] 12:00 Plunk-1 [Greifswald] & Zocco-1 [Greifswald] (microinstabilities) 12:30 Plunk-2 [Greifswald] (zonal flows) |
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| 13:00 Lunch |
13:00 Lunch | 13:00 Lunch | |||
| PAIR PLASMAS-2 Laboratory Pair Plasmas Chair: Silva [IST Lisbon] 14:00 Sarri-1 [QU Belfast] & Chen [LLNL] (pair plasma in lab.) 14:50 Grismayer-2 [Lisbon] (QED cascades) 15:20 Ridgers [York] 15:50 Di Piazza-1 [Heidelberg], & Sarri-2 [QU Belfast] (QED+laser plasmas) |
MAGNETOKINETICS-1 Reconnection Chair: Loureiro [MIT] 14:00 Faganello [Marseille] (local vs. remote) 14:30 Lapenta [Brussels] (rec. to turbulence; MMS) 15:00 Califano [Pisa] (MHD to kinetic turbulence via rec.) 15:30 Cassak [W. Virginia] (rate=0.1) 16:00 Boozer-1 [Columbia] (3D reconnection) followed by extended discussion |
MAGNETOKINETICS/ PAIR PLASMAS-4 Relativistic Reconnection & Particle Acceleration Chair: Uzdensky [UC Boulder] 14:00 Werner [UC Boulder] & Sironi-1 [Columbia] 14:40 Lyutikov [Purdue] & Blandford-1 [Stanford] 15:20 Krushelnick [Michigan] (relativistic rec. in lab.) 15:50 Caprioli [Chicago] (acc. in shocks) 16:10 Pegoraro-2 [Pisa] (frame dependence) 16:30 reserve time |
STELLARATORS-4: Turbulence Chair: Helander [Greifswald] 14:00 Proll [Eindhoven] (turbulence saturation) 14:30 Hidalgo [CIEMAT] (diagnostics/neutrals) 15:00 Nakata [NIFS, Japan] (isotope effect) 15:30 Landreman [Maryland] & Boozer-2 [Columbia] (opportunities & priorities) --- free discussion about the future directions of stellarator research, possibly leading to a white paper |
MAGNETOKINETICS-3 Turbulence/Instabilities Chair: Dorland [Maryland] 14:00 Passot [Nice] (KAW turbulence), Cerri [Pisa] (sub-ion-scale turbulence + reconnection) Sahraoui-1 [LPP Paris] (sub-ion-scale turbulence) Schekochihin-1 [Oxford] (sub-electron-scale turbulence) 14:50 Schekochihin-2 [Oxford] (MHD turbulence +reconnection redux) 15:10 Uzdensky [UC Boulder] (relativistic turbulence) 15:30 Kunz-1,2 [Princeton] (kinetic turbulence; dynamo) 15:50 Medvedev-1 [Kansas] (Weibel instability) 16:10 Squire [Caltech] (waves in high beta) 16:30 reserve time |
STELLARATORS-5: 3D Equlibria/Transport/ Turbulence Chair: Catto [MIT] 14:00 Alonso [CIEMAT] (impurity transport) 14:30 Loizu-1 [Greifswald] (beta limit) 15:00 Zocco-2 [Greifswald] & Hidalgo [CIEMAT] (effect of geometry on turbulence: ITER white paper discussion) 15:30 Summary/outlook (Helander/Catto) & free discussion |
| 16:45 Coffee |
16:45 Coffee |
16:45 Coffee |
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| Chair: Califano [Pisa] 17:15 Sironi-2 [Columbia] (particle acceleration) |
Chair: Herrmann [LLNL] 17:15 Silva [Lisbon] (lab. pair plasmas white paper) with free discussion 18:15 Welcome to JPP from CUP (Too & Woodhouse) |
Chair: Arons [Berkeley] 17:15 Blandford-2 [Stanford] (astro summary/outlook) with free discussion 18:15 Farewell (Dorland) |
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| 18:15 Free time |
18:30 Free time/Aperitivo (paying) | 18:30 Free time/Aperitivo (paying) | |||
| 19:00 Aperitivo (free; welcome to Spineto) |
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| 20:00 Dinner (served) |
20:00 Dinner in the Caves (Cena peripatetica) |
20:00 Dinner (served) |
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On Tuesday 23 May, there will be a buffet dinner 19:30-22:00, to feed late arrivals.
PAIR PLASMAS & MAGNETOKINETICS:
Leaving on Friday: Amato, Aunai, Cerri, Faganello
Staying all of Saturday: Beloborodov, Caprioli, Grismayer, Krushelnick, Lapenta, Lyutikov, Marklund, Medvedev, Philippov, Sarri, Werner
STELLARATORS:
Leaving on Friday: Boozer, Hammett, Hidalgo, Nakata, Proll
Staying all of Saturday: Hegna, Landreman
Leaving on Friday: Amato, Aunai, Cerri, Faganello
Staying all of Saturday: Beloborodov, Caprioli, Grismayer, Krushelnick, Lapenta, Lyutikov, Marklund, Medvedev, Philippov, Sarri, Werner
STELLARATORS:
Leaving on Friday: Boozer, Hammett, Hidalgo, Nakata, Proll
Staying all of Saturday: Hegna, Landreman
