Tentative programme
Seminar & two-day course
Lectures start at 09:30 on both course days · times are indicative
Monday 2 November
Official seminar| Time TBA | RCAAM official seminar, Astrophysical Fast Radio Bursts: the plasma physics frontier (Prof. M. Lyutikov). Open to all · details |
Tuesday 3 November
Course · day 1| 09:00 – 09:30 | Welcome & coffee |
| 09:30 – 11:00 | Lecture I, Relativistic plasmas (1): primer on relativistic MHD, the force-free limit |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | Lecture I, Relativistic plasmas (2): the pulsar equation, the Blandford–Znajek process |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30 – 16:00 | Lecture II, Coherent emission processes (1): reactive and kinetic instabilities |
| 16:00 – 16:45 | Discussion & questions |
Thursday 5 November
Course · day 2| 09:30 – 11:00 | Lecture II, Coherent emission processes (2): nonlinear instabilities |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | Lecture III, Astrophysical lasers (1): laser–plasma primer, the parameters a0 and χ |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30 – 16:00 | Lecture III, Astrophysical lasers (2): radiation formation, radiation reaction, ponderomotive effects, nonlinear scattering and mesoscopic effects |
| 16:00 – 16:45 | Wrap-up discussion |
Wednesday 4 November is free: no lectures. Coffee is provided; lunch is at participants' own arrangement (there are cafés on the BRFAA campus and around Katehaki).