Name: Discussions and synergies on astrophysical plasma with PIC simulations - Prague 2026 edition
Start: 2026-09-29T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-07T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Slovanka

Monday, 28 September 2026
Tuesday, 29 September 2026

14:00 Caj a kava: afternoon break
afternoon break
14:00 - 14:30
Room: Slov - "Sál V. Dvořáka: hlavní sál" - A/1.NP/10
14:30 Presentations & discussions: Session I.a.
Session I.a.
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Slov - "Sál V. Dvořáka: hlavní sál" - A/1.NP/10
Contributions

14:30 Welcome notes & logistics - Michelle Tsirou (Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (FZU))

14:40 Preliminary simulations of astrophysical double-shock structures - Michelle Tsirou (Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (FZU))

15:10 Caviton-Driven Bremsstrahlung: A novel mechanism for fast radio bursts from magnetars - Anabella Teresa Araudo
16:00 Buffer break
Buffer break
16:00 - 16:15
Room: Slov - "Sál V. Dvořáka: hlavní sál" - A/1.NP/10
16:15 Presentations & discussions: Session I.b.
Session I.b.
16:15 - 18:15
Room: Slov - "Sál V. Dvořáka: hlavní sál" - A/1.NP/10
Contributions

16:15 The Role of Bell Turbulence Driven by Proton Cosmic Rays on Electron Acceleration at Oblique Shocks - Karol Fulat (UW-Madison)

17:15 Nonthermal Particle Acceleration by Magnetic Pumping in Pulsating Plasmas - Giuseppe Arrò (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
19:00 Casual dinner
Casual dinner
19:00 - 21:00
Wednesday, 30 September 2026

09:30 Caj a kava: dobry den
dobry den
09:30 - 10:00
Room: Slov - "Sál V. Dvořáka: hlavní sál" - A/1.NP/10
10:00 Presentations & discussions: Session II.a
Session II.a
10:00 - 11:45
Room: Slov - "Sál V. Dvořáka: hlavní sál" - A/1.NP/10
Contributions

10:00 PIC simulations of shocks at novae - Oleh Kobzar (Astronomical Observatory, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)

11:00 Kinetic Study of Shock Formation in Protostellar Jets - Jakub Gazdoš
11:45 Lunch
Lunch
11:45 - 13:15
Room: Slov - "Sál V. Dvořáka: hlavní sál" - A/1.NP/10
13:15 Presentations & discussions: Session II.b
Session II.b
13:15 - 15:15
Room: Slov - "Sál V. Dvořáka: hlavní sál" - A/1.NP/10
Contributions

13:15 Transition from Proton Cyclotron to Weibel Instabilities in Perpendicular Non-relativistic Shocks - Valentine Devos (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics)

14:15 Kinetic Simulations of moderate Relativistic Pair Shocks with Trace Ion Admixture - Mahmoud Alawashra (DESY)
15:15 Caj a kava: afternoon break
afternoon break
15:15 - 15:45
Room: Slov - "Sál V. Dvořáka: hlavní sál" - A/1.NP/10
15:45 Presentations & discussions: Session II.c
Session II.c
15:45 - 18:45
Room: Slov - "Sál V. Dvořáka: hlavní sál" - A/1.NP/10
Contributions

15:45 Nonthermal particle acceleration in shock-mediated relativistic plasma turbulence - Karol Fulat (UW-Madison)

16:45 Kinetic simulations of oblique high-Mach number shocks propagating in Alfvenic turbulence - Eloise Moore (Uni Potsdam)
19:00 Dinner
Dinner
19:00 - 22:30
Thursday, 1 October 2026

10:15 Caj a kava: dobry den
dobry den
10:15 - 10:45
Room: Slov - "Sál V. Dvořáka: hlavní sál" - A/1.NP/10
10:45 Presentations & discussions: Session III.a.
Session III.a.
10:45 - 11:45
Room: Slov - "Sál V. Dvořáka: hlavní sál" - A/1.NP/10
Contributions

10:45 Signatures of Weibel instability on Earth`s bow shock: MMS observations - Valentina Villaflor (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics)
11:45 Lunch
Lunch
11:45 - 13:15
Room: Slov - "Sál V. Dvořáka: hlavní sál" - A/1.NP/10
13:15 Presentations & discussions: Session III.b
Session III.b
13:15 - 15:15
Room: Slov - "Sál V. Dvořáka: hlavní sál" - A/1.NP/10
Contributions

13:15 Charge Accumulation in Rotating Black Hole Magnetospheres: A First-Principles Study - Farukh Abdulkhamidov (Silesian University in Opava)

14:15 Kinetic modeling of binary neutron star magnetospheres - Jan Benacek
15:15 Caj a kava: afternoon break
afternoon break
15:15 - 16:00
Room: Slov - "Sál V. Dvořáka: hlavní sál" - A/1.NP/10
16:00 Presentations & discussions: Session III.c
Session III.c
16:00 - 19:00
Room: Slov - "Sál V. Dvořáka: hlavní sál" - A/1.NP/10
Contributions

16:00 Energy partition in collisionless counter-streaming plasmas - Frederico Fiuza

16:20 Mapping particle acceleration across collisionless shock parameter space - Marco Costa

16:40 Data-driven anomalous resistivity models from kinetic simulations - João Biu

17:00 Analytical time-dependent distribution functions for driven PIC simulations - Francisco Ley (University of Chile)
19:00 Casual dinner
Casual dinner
19:00 - 21:00
Friday, 2 October 2026

09:30 Caj a kava: dobry den
dobry den
09:30 - 10:00
Room: Slov - "Sál V. Dvořáka: hlavní sál" - A/1.NP/10
10:00 Presentations & discussions: Session IV.a
Session IV.a
10:00 - 12:00
Room: Slov - "Sál V. Dvořáka: hlavní sál" - A/1.NP/10
Contributions

10:00 Particle acceleration and heating in a highly magnetized mildly relativistic shock - Gabriel Torralba Paz (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics)

11:00 Kinetic simulations of mildly relativistic weakly magnetized shocks in AGN jets - Artem Bohdan (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30
Room: Slov - "Sál V. Dvořáka: hlavní sál" - A/1.NP/10
13:30 Presentations & discussions: Session IV.b
Session IV.b
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Slov - "Sál V. Dvořáka: hlavní sál" - A/1.NP/10
Contributions

13:30 THATMPI : the road to an updated main branch - Martin Pohl
15:00 Presentations & discussions: Farewells + information for the hackathon
Farewells + information for the hackathon
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Slov - "Sál V. Dvořáka: hlavní sál" - A/1.NP/10
Saturday, 3 October 2026
Sunday, 4 October 2026