Relativistic Plasma Astrophysics

Lectures by Prof. Maxim Lyutikov · RCAAM, Academy of Athens · November 2026

Research Center for Astronomy and Applied Mathematics, Academy of Athens
Official RCAAM seminar · Monday 2 November 2026

Astrophysical Fast Radio Bursts: the plasma physics frontier

Prof. Maxim Lyutikov, Purdue University Purdue University

Fast Radio Bursts are millisecond flashes of radio emission of extraordinary brightness, most likely produced by magnetars. Understanding how such coherent, relativistically strong radio waves are generated, and how they escape the dense magnetized plasma around the star, pushes plasma physics into a new regime.

Monday 2 Novembertime to be announced
RCAAMAcademy of Athens · Soranou Efesiou 4
Open to allno registration needed
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Notes

This talk is the official seminar of the Research Center for Astronomy and Applied Mathematics. It is independent of the course: you are welcome to attend the seminar only, or the seminar and the course.

The time and room will be posted here and on the RCAAM seminars page.

The two-day course goes deeper into the physics touched on in the seminar: relativistic MHD and force-free plasmas, coherent emission, and relativistically strong waves. Syllabus →