Mission briefing

Official seminar & two-day lecture course

From pulsar magnetospheres to astrophysical lasers

The Research Center for Astronomy and Applied Mathematics (RCAAM) of the Academy of Athens welcomes Prof. Maxim Lyutikov for an official RCAAM seminar on Fast Radio Bursts, followed by a two-day lecture course on relativistic plasma astrophysics.

The course is aimed at students, junior postdocs and anyone interested in high-energy and plasma astrophysics. No registration is needed.

Mon 2 NovOfficial RCAAM seminar

Tue 3 NovCourse day 1 · from 09:30

Thu 5 NovCourse day 2 · from 09:30

AthensRCAAM, Academy of Athens

The course The seminar

At a glance

A short, intensive course of three lectures given over two days (3 and 5 November), preceded on 2 November by Prof. Lyutikov's official RCAAM seminar on Fast Radio Bursts.

Level. Advanced graduate. A working knowledge of electrodynamics and basic plasma physics is assumed; see the syllabus.

Undergraduate, MSc and PhD students, junior postdocs, and any researcher or engineer interested in relativistic plasmas. Both the seminar and the course are open to everyone; no registration is needed.

Just come along. Lectures start at 09:30 on both course days. Programme →

All events take place at the Research Center for Astronomy and Applied Mathematics, Soranou Efesiou 4, Athens (on the BRFAA campus, near Katehaki metro). Lectures start at 09:30 on both course days.

Seminar time on Monday 2 November will be announced on the seminar page. How to get there →

A leading theorist of relativistic plasma astrophysics: pulsar and magnetar magnetospheres, electromagnetic models of gamma-ray bursts and jets, relativistic reconnection, coherent emission and Fast Radio Bursts, and most recently the physics of "astrophysical lasers".