Scientific program


November 10, 2014 (Monday)


8:30 – Registration

9:00 – 9:10 Opening


Morning Session: Observation of the intracluster medium – T. Kitayama


9:10 – 9:50 Luigina Feretti: Magnetic fields measurements and future (including review)

9:50 – 10:30 Simona Giacintucci: Statistics of radio minihalos and high-resolution SZ observations of cluster cool cores


10:30 – 10:50 Coffee break


10:50 – 11:30 Gabriele Giovannini: Non Thermal Emission in Galaxy Clusters and Beyond

11:30 – 12:00 Huub Rottgering: Update of LOFAR observation of radio relics in clusters of galaxies


12:00 – 12:30 Discussion – H. Rottgering


12:30 – 2:00 Lunch break


Afternoon Session: Observation of the intracluster medium – L. Feretti


2:00 – 2:40 Reinout J. van Weeren: Particle acceleration at radio relics

2:40 – 3:20 Maxim Markevitch: X-ray constraints on microphysics of the intracluster plasma (including review)


3:20 – 4:00 Coffee break


4:00 – 4:40 Hiroki Akamatsu: Suzaku X-ray observations of radio relics in clusters of galaxies

4:40 – 5:20 Daniel Wik: The NuSTAR Galaxy Cluster Program: Latest Results


5:20 – 5:50 Discussion – M. Markevitch



November 11, 2014 (Tuesday)


Morning Session: Observation of the ICM – R. van Weeren


9:00 – 9:40 Olaf Reimer: Gamma-ray emission from galaxy clusters: Are we getting there soon? (including review)

9:40 – 10:20 Tetsu Kitayama: Prospects of galaxy cluster studies by ASTRO-H and ALMA


10:20 – 11:00 Coffee break


11:00 – 11:40 Andra Stroe: Challenging theory: low and high frequency radio spectral study of the Sausage cluster


11:40 – 12:10 Discussion – O. Reimer


12:00 – 2:00 Lunch break


Afternoon Session: Turbulence, waves, and shocks in the interplanetary medium – M. Hoshino


2:00 – 2:40 T. W. Jones: ICMs and the IPM: Birds of a Feather? (including review)

2:40 – 3:20 Lynn B. Wilson: Collisionless shocks in the interplanetary medium (lecture)

3:20 – 4:00 Mitsuo Oka: Electron acceleration at shocks in the interplanetary medium


4:00 – 4:30 Coffee break


4:30 – 5:10 Peter Yoon: Whistler waves and electron acceleration/heating in the planetary magnetospheres and interplanetary medium

5:10 – 5:50 Lynn B. Wilson: Wave-particle interactions at interplanetary shock waves


5:50 – 6:20 Discussion – P. Yoon



November 12, 2014 (Wednesday)


Morning Session: Turbulence, magnetic fields and particle transport- S. Oh


9:00 – 9:40 Jungyeon Cho: Magnetic fields in the large-scale structure of the universe: primordial or astrophysical?

9:40 – 10:00 Hyunju Yoo: Effects of Multiple-scale Driving on Turbulence Statistics

10:00 – 10:20 Kiwan Park: Influence of small scale magnetic energy and helicity on the growth of large scale magnetic field


10:20 – 10:40 Coffee break


10:40 – 11:20 Peter Yoon: Plasma turbulence and particle acceleration (lecture)

11:20 – 12:00 Siming Liu: Turbulence and stochastic particle acceleration in high-beta plasmas of SNRs


12:00 – 12:30 Discussion – T. W. Jones


12:30 – 2:00 Lunch break


Afternoon Session: Turbulence, magnetic fields and particle transport  – G. Giovannini


2:00 – 2:40 Gianfranco Brunetti: Turbulence and particle acceleration mechanisms in galaxy clusters (including review)

2:40 – 3:20 Francesco Miniati: Cosmological simulation of time dependent intracluster turbulence: insights on stochastic acceleration and the impact of microphysics

3:20 – 3:40 Masahiro Hoshino: Particle Acceleration and Angular Momentum Transport by Magneto-Rotational Instability in Kinetic Accretion Disks


3:40 – 4:10  Coffee break


4:10 – 4:50 Christoph Pfrommer: : Cosmic ray feedback in galaxies and cool core clusters

4:50 – 5:30 S. Peng Oh: Cosmic Ray Transport and Heating in the Intracluster Medium


5:30 – 6:00 Discussion – G. Brunetti


6:30 –      Banquet



November 13, 2014 (Thursday)


Morning Session: Shocks and particle acceleration – L. Wilson


9:00 – 9:40 Dongsu Ryu: Intracluster shock waves in simulations (including review)

9:40 – 10:20 Sam Skillman: Particle acceleration at structure formation shocks in the intracluster medium


10:20 – 10:50 Coffee break


10:50 – 11:30 Anders Pinzke: Reacceleration of Cosmic Rays in the Intra-Cluster Medium

11:30 – 12:00 Hyesung Kang: Radio Synchrotron Emission From Weak Spherical Shocks


11:00 – 12:30 Discussion - D. Ryu


12:30 – 2:00 Lunch break


Afternoon Session: Shocks and particle acceleration – H. Kang


2:00 – 2:40 Anatoly Spitkovsky: Particle acceleration and field generation in high-beta plasmas: PIC simulations (including review)

2:40 – 3:20 Masahiro Hoshino: Electron acceleration and reconnection at a high Mach number shock

3:20 – 4:00 Tsunehiko Kato: Particle Acceleration in Quasi-Parallel High-Mach-Number Shocks


4:00 – 4:30  Coffee break


4:30 – 5:10 Damiano Caprioli: Hybrid simulations of ion acceleration at shocks

5:10 – 5:40 Xinyi Guo: Non-Thermal Electron Acceleration in Low Mach Number Shocks

5:40 – 6:00 Jaehong Park: Diffusive shock acceleration of cosmic-ray ions and electrons in non-relativistic high Mach number quasi-parallel shocks


6:00 – 6:30 Discussion - A. Spitkovsky


6:30 -      Closing