All times are EDT. Note that 10:00am EDT = 9:00am CDT = 7:00am PDT.
MONDAY, JUNE 7, 2021
Introduction to astrophysical plasmas: Overview of systems and scales (Kunz)
Lunch (EDT) or Breakfast (PDT)
Fundamentals of fluid dynamics: Conservation laws and mathematical matters (Kunz)
(extra in-class lecture notes)
Break (EDT) or Lunch (PDT)
Fundamentals of plasmas: Debye shielding, plasma oscillations, collisions, and scales (Brown)
Basic magnetohydrodynamics: Magnetic forces, induction equation, flux freezing (Brown)
End of day
10:00am
10:30am
12:00pm
1:00pm
3:00pm
4:00pm
5:00pm
6:00pm
TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 2021
Linear theory of MHD waves: Alfvén, fast, and slow modes (Tolman)
Lunch (EDT) or Breakfast (PDT)
MHD instabilities, part one (Kunz)
(extra in-class lecture notes)
Livestream tour of SSX (Brown)
Break (EDT) or Lunch (PDT)
Introduction to fluid and MHD turbulence (Klein)
End of day
10:00am
12:00pm
1:00pm
2:45pm
3:00pm
4:00pm
6:00pm
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 2021
MHD instabilities, part two (Ostriker)
MHD flows and the virial theorem (Ostriker)
Lunch (EDT) or Breakfast (PDT)
Problem session and solutions (password protected)
MHD shocks (Sironi)
Break (EDT) or Lunch (PDT)
Magnetic reconnection (Loureiro)
End of day
10:00am
11:00am
12:00pm
1:00pm
2:00pm
3:00pm
4:00pm
6:00pm
THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 2021
Motion of charged particles in electromagnetic fields (Tolman)
(movies of mirroring particles in a magnetic bottle: initial pitch angle 45°, initial pitch angle 15°)
Introduction to kinetic theory: Klimontovich, Vlasov, and Landau (Loureiro)
Lunch (EDT) or Breakfast (PDT)
Introduction to kinetic theory: Resonances, collisionless damping, and kinetic instabilities (Klein)
Break (EDT) or Lunch (PDT)
Introduction to high-energy plasma astrophysics (Sironi)
End of day
10:00am
11:10am
12:00pm
1:00pm
3:00pm
4:00pm
6:00pm
FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 2021
Introduction to high-energy-density plasmas and laboratory astrophysics (Willingale)
Lunch (EDT) or Breakfast (PDT)
Numerical methods in plasma astrophysics (Fiuza)
Break (EDT) or Lunch (PDT)
Problem session and solutions (password protected)
Introduction to the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (Slava Lukin)
Navigating Graduate Programs: From admissions to receiving your doctorate (Gonzalez-Perez)
Q&A with lecturers on graduate school applications
End of school
10:00am
12:00pm
1:00pm
3:00pm
4:00pm
4:55pm
5:15pm
5:45pm
6:00pm
