SCEECS Summer School on Extreme Electrodynamics and Plasma Physics

Date and Time

Sunday, June 1 2025 at 12:00 PM CDT to

Saturday, June 14 2025 at 1:00 PM CDT

Location

Alvarez Hall

6908 N Loop 1604 W San Antonio, TX 78249, San Antonio, TX

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Description

The Simons Collaboration for Extreme Electrodynamics and Compact Sources (SCEECS) will support UTSA Prof. Richard Anantua and national/international colleagues to lead a summer school at UTSA Jun 1-14. Students will reside at Alvarez Hall and partake in in depth lectures, seminars and tutorials on campus.

 

Extreme Electrodynamics June 2-6, 2025

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  1. Mathematical Methods 
  2. Introduction to Scientific Computing 
    • Basic UNIX and Python 
    • High Performance Computing
    • Applications of Coding         
  3. Introduction to 
    • Classical Mechanics/Lagrangian & Hamiltonian Mechanics
    • Statistical Physics/Kinetic Theory 
  4. Electromagnetism 
    • Introduction
    • Radiative processes - dipole radiation 
  5. Introduction to Relativity 
  6. Astronomy 
    • Neutron Stars 
    • Black Holes 
  7. Fluid Mechanics 
    • Hydro and MHD equations, waves 
    • Hydro Instabilities 

 

Plasma Physics June 9-13, 2025

 

  1. Introduction to plasmas 
    • Non-extreme astrophysical plasmas
    • Extreme astrophysical plasmas
    • Solar wind + Earth magnetosphere
  2. More on fluids
    • ​​ MHD instabilities 
  3. Shocks and Diffusive Shock Acceleration
  4. Motion of charged particles in EM fields
  5. Turbulence
    • ​ MHD turbulence
    • Kinetic turbulence
  6. Magnetic reconnection
  7. Relativistic magnetospheres and flows/jets
  8. Numerical methods
  9. Laser-plasma interactions
  10. Fusion plasmas 

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Lecturers: 

Richard Anantua  (University of Texas at San Antonio/Rice University),
Roger Blandford (Stanford University),
Will Fox (University of Maryland),
Noémie Globus (IA-UNAM/Stanford University),
Sam Gralla (University of Arizona),
Hayk Hakobyan (Columbia University/PPPL),
Philipp Kempski (Princeton University),
Kris Klein (University of Arizona)
Matt Kunz (Princeton University),
Yuri Levin (Columbia University),
Amir Levinson (Tel Aviv University),
Alexander Philippov  (University of Maryland),
Jason TenBarge (Princeton University, PPPL),
Adelle Wright (University of Wisconsin-Madison),
Yajie Yuan  (Washington University in St. Louis), 
Vladimir Zhdankin (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

 

Confer: https://www.simonsceecs.com/summer-school-2025

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