TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2019

Welcome and logistics

Introduction to astrophysical plasmas: Overview of systems and scales (Kunz)
(slides and lecture notes)

Break

Fundamentals of fluid dynamics: Conservation laws and mathematical matters (Kunz)

Coffee & Tea

Fundamentals of plasmas: Debye shielding, plasma oscillations, and collisions (Kunz)

Basic magnetohydrodynamics: Magnetic forces, induction equation, flux freezing (Brown)

Lunch (provided)

Introduction to turbulence: Cascades and Kolmogorov theory (TenBarge)
(slides and lecture notes)

Break

Linear theory of MHD waves: Alfvén, fast, and slow modes (Klein)

Coffee & Tea

Introduction to magnetic reconnection: Ohmic diffusion and Sweet-Parker reconnection (Brown)
(additional notes on reconnection including tearing and plasmoid instabilities)

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