Workshop on Plasma Astrophysics
From the Laboratory to the Non-Thermal Universe

Programme

The full programme PDF for the conference can be found here.

A list of talk titles is given below.

The programme is composed of invited talks and reviews, and two discussion sessions within which we greatly look forward to all attendees interacting.

Opening Talk

Peter Duffy, "Introduction: Plasma Astrophysics from the Laboratory to the Non-thermal Universe".

Review Talks

Karl Krushelnick, "Laboratory astrophysics using high power lasers"
Yuri Lyubarsky, "Plasma physics of pulsars"
Colin Norman, The viscosity of relativistic plasmas"
Scott Wilks, "The Role of Laser-Plasma Interactions in Laboratory Astrophysics

Invited Talks

Takanobu Amano, "Coherent and Stochastic Acceleration in Quasi-pependicular Collisioless Shocks"
Elena Amato, "On the transport of Cosmic Rays throughout the Galaxy"
Matthew Baring, "Physics and Astrophysics in the Schwinger Domain"
Mitch Begelman, "Kinetic Modeling of Particle Acceleration in Relativistic Reconnection and Turbulence"
Tom Blackburn, "QED in laser-plasma interactions: theoretical and experimental challenges"
Roger Blandford,"Fast Radio Bursts"
Markos Georganopoulos, "What is the nature of the X-ray emission of the large-scale jets of powerful quasars?"
Paul Gibbon, "High-fidelity mesh-free kinetic plasma simulation"
Jim Hinton, "CTA and the Non-thermal Universe"
Robert Laing, "Large-scale Jets: Physical Conditions and Particle Acceleration"
Sergey Lebedev, "Magnetic reconnection experiments with pulsed power driven colliding plasma flows"
Francesco Miniati, "Cosmic rays in the large scale structure of the universe"
Guy Pelletier, "Towards an understanding of collisionless relativistic shocks"
Jérôme Pétri, "Neutron stars: macroscopic objects with quantum properties"
Chris Ridgers, "Signatures of strong-field QED effects in high-intensity laser-matter interactions"
Alex Robinson, "Propagation of Laser-Generated Relativistic Electron Beams in Dense Plasmas"
Lorenzo Sironi, "Reconnection in magnetically-dominated plasmas"
Anatoly Spitkovsky, "Collisionless shocks with all the Bell's and whistlers"
Andrew Taylor, "A Cut-Off Probe of the Acceleration Environment"
Richard Town, "The Pursuit of Indirect Drive Ignition at the National Ignition Facility"
Jacco Vink, "Shock heating and particle acceleration by astrophysical shocks"