MONDAY, MAY 29, 2023
Introduction to astrophysical plasmas: Overview of systems and scales (Kunz)
Break
Fundamentals of fluid dynamics: Conservation laws and mathematical matters (Hosking)
Lunch
Fundamentals of plasmas: Debye shielding, plasma oscillations, collisions, and scales (Zhou)
Break
Basic magnetohydrodynamics: Magnetic forces, induction equation, flux freezing (Kunz)
End of day
9:00am
9:15am
10:30am
11:00am
12:30pm
1:30pm
3:00pm
3:30pm
5:00pm
TUESDAY, MAY 30, 2023
Linear theory of MHD waves: Alfvén, fast, and slow modes (Zhou)
Break
MHD instabilities (Kunz)
Lunch
Introduction to the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (Slava Lukin)
MHD relaxation (Hosking)
Break
Laboratory methods and Tour of Swarthmore Spheromak Experiment (Brown)
End of day
9:00am
10:30am
11:00am
12:30pm
1:15pm
2:00pm
3:30pm
4:00pm
5:30pm
WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2023
Nonlinear evolution of MHD instabilities (Stone)
Break
Turbulence, I. (Chandran)
Lunch
Discussion session on navigating grad school, from admissions to graduation
Shocks (Caprioli)
Break
Introduction to high-energy-density plasmas (Willingale)
End of day
9:00am
10:30am
11:00am
12:30pm
1:15pm
2:00pm
3:30pm
4:00pm
5:30pm
THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 2023
Numerical methods: Fluids (Stone)
Break
Turbulence, II. (Chandran)
Lunch
Magnetic reconnection (Tolman)
Break
Non-thermal particles (Caprioli)
End of day
9:00am
10:30am
11:00am
12:30pm
2:00pm
3:30pm
4:30pm
5:30pm
FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 2023
Motion of charged particles in electromagnetic fields (Tolman)
movies of mirroring particles in a magnetic bottle: initial pitch angle 45°, initial pitch angle 15°
matlab script using Boris integration in different field geometries: boris.m
Break
Introduction to kinetic theory: Klimontovich, Vlasov, and Landau (Kunz)
Lunch
Numerical methods: Kinetics (Philippov)
Break
Introduction to high-energy plasma astrophysics (Philippov)
Summary of school
End of school
9:00am
10:30am
11:00am
12:30pm
1:45pm
3:15pm
3:45pm
5:15pm
5:30pm
