Scientific Program and Presentation Files


Wed. Nov. 18 (full day)

- Physics of Collisionless Shocks

9:00-9:10 Opening

Chair - Randy Jokipii

9:10-9:40 Tony Bell - Shocks, Instabilities and Particle Acceleration

9:40-10:10 Pat Diamond - On Modeling Multi-Scale Interaction in DSA

10:10-10:40 Misha Malkov - Analytic Studies of the Diffusive Shock Acceleration

10:40-11:10 Coffee Break

Chair - Tony Bell

11:10-11:40 Tom Jones - Diffusive Shock Acceleration: Current Issues

11:40-12:00 Brian Reville - Particle Acceleration and Turbulence Generation at Collisionless Shocks

12:00-12:30 Taik S. Hahm - Nonlinear Gyrokinetic Description of Alfvenic Turbulence

12:30-14:00 Lunch

Chair - Pat Diamond

14:00-14:30 Ethan Vishniac - Turbulence and the Early Generation of Magnetic Fields in the Universe

14:30-15:00 Jungyeon Cho - Properties of Small-Scale MHD Turbulence

15:00-15:30 Alex Lazarian - 3D Reconnection of Weakly Stochastic Magnetic Field and the Acceleration of CRs

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

Chair - Alex Lazarian

16:00-16:20 Alexandre Marcowith - Turbulence in Collisionless Shocks and Fermi Acceleration Efficiency

16:20-16:40 Qinghuan Luo - Saturation of CR-Streaming Instabilities at Supernova Shocks

16:40-17:00 Yutaka Ohira - Plasma Instabilities as a Result of Charge Exchange in the Downstream Region of SNR Shocks


Thu. Nov. 19 (full day)

Chair - Ethan Vishniac

9:00-9:30 J. Martin Laming - Electron Heating and Injection at SNR Shocks

9:30-10:00 Shuichi Matsukiyo - Mach Number Dependence of Electron Heating in Quasi-Perpendicular Shocks

10:00-10:20 Takanobu Amano - Electron Injection in Non-relativistic Shocks

10:20-10:40 Ken-ichi Nishikawa - Simulation of Relativistic Shocks and Associated Radiation from Turbulent Magnetic Fields

10:40-11:10 Coffee break

Chair - Marty Lee

11:10-11:40 John Kirk - Radiative Signatures of Relativistic Shocks

- Simulations of Collisionless Shocks

11:40-12:10 Masahiro Hoshino - Particle Acceleration and Injection in Magnetosonic Shock Wave

12:10-12:40 Tsunehiko Kato - Non-relativistic Collisionless Shocks in Unmagnetized and Weakly Magnetized Electron-Ion Plasmas

12:40-14:00 Lunch

Chair - John Kirk

14:00-14:30 Chang-Mo Ryu - PIC Simulation Study of the Relativistic Weibel Instability

14:30-14:50 Joe Giacalone (Randy Jokipii) - Hybrid Simulations of Particle Acceleration at Shocks

14:50-15:20 Andrey Vladimirov - Spectra of MHD Turbulence Produced by Nonlinear Shocks

15:20-15:50 Coffee Break

Chair - J. Martin Laming

15:50-16:20 Hyesung Kang - Self-Similar Evolution of CR modified shocks

16:20-16:40 Paul Edmon - Multidimensional Diffusive Shock Acceleration in Winds from Massive Stars

16:40-17:00 Tsuyoshi Inoue - Turbulence and Magnetic Field Amplification in SNRs

- Banquet


Fri. Nov. 20 (full day)

- Collisionless Shocks in Astrophysics Environments: Heliosphere

Chair - Masahiro Hoshino

9:00-9:30 Randy Jokipii - Understanding Collisionless Shocks in the Heliosphere

9:30-10:00 Marty Lee - Current Issues Associated with Particle Acceleration in the Heliosphere: Shocks and Stochastic Acceleration

10:00-10:30 Coffee break

- Collisionless Shocks in Astrophysics Environments: SNRs, etc

Chair - Heinrich Voelk

10:30-11:00 Stephen Reynolds - Overview of Particle Acceleration at SNRs

11:00-11:30 Jacco Vink - X-ray and Optical Evidence for Efficient CR Acceleration by SNRs

11:30-12:00 Yasunobu Uchiyama - X-ray and GeV Gamma-ray Observations of SNRs

12:00-12:30 Fabio Acero - Recent Discoveries from TeV Gamma-ray and X-ray Non-thermal Emission from SNRs

12:30-14:00 Lunch

Chair - Stephen Reynolds

14:00-14:30 Heinrich Voelk - SNRs in Wind Bubbles and Their Emission

14:30-14:50 Ryo Yamazaki - Cosmic-ray Acceleration at RCW 86

14:50-15:10 Jae-Joon Lee - Hα Emission from the CR Precursor of the Supernova Shock

15:10-15:40 Coffee Break

- Collisionless Shocks in Astrophysics Environments: the LSS of the Universe

Chair - Tom Jones

15:40-16:10 Dongsu Ryu - Properties and Roles of Shock Waves in the LSS of the Universe

16:10-16:40 Gianfranco Brunetti - Particle Acceleration in Galaxy Clusters and Large-Scale Non-thermal Emission

16:40-17:00 Giulia Vannoni - Proton Acceleration and Emission in Galaxy Clusters

17:00-17:20 Franco Vazza - Accelerating and Transporting CRs in Galaxy Clusters: the Issue of Convergence between Eulerian and SPH Codes


Sat. Nov. 21 (morning session only)

Chair - Gianfranco Brunetti

9:00-9:30 Klaus Dolag - Magnetic Fields and CR Acceleration in Large Scale Structures: Powering the Radio Emission  of Galaxy Clusters

9:30-9:50 Julius Donnert - Radio Halos from Cosmological MHD Simulations

9:50-10:10 Motokazu Takizawa - Magnetic Field Structures in Merging Clusters of Galaxies

10:10-10:30 Renyi Ma - Radiations from CRs Accelerated at Cosmological Shocks

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

Chair - Dongsu Ryu

11:00-11:20 Matthias Hoeft - The Radio Signature of Structure Formation Shocks

11:20-11:40 Takuya Akahori - Non-Equilibrium Ionization State and Electron-Ion Two Temperature Structure as a Probe of Shocks in Merging Galaxy Clusters

- Review Summary and Discussion

11:40-12:10 Malcolm Longair - Summary

12:10-12:30 Discussion & Closing