Sunday, April 6, 2025
Time | Event | (+) |
15:00 - 19:30 | Arrival to Les Houches - Participants can check in at the conference center no earlier than 3pm on Sunday. | |
17:30 - 19:00 | Bus transfer from Geneva Airport - Direct trip to Les Houches | |
19:30 - 20:30 | Dinner |
Monday, April 7, 2025
Time | Event | (+) |
07:45 - 08:45 | Breakfast | |
08:50 - 09:00 | Welcome and practical information - Benoît Cerutti | |
09:00 - 09:40 | Relativistic magnetosphere: Major challenges & opportunities - Roger Blandford | |
09:40 - 10:20 | Pulsar magnetospheres: A theoretical perspective - Yuri Lyubarsky | |
10:20 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |
11:00 - 11:40 | Pulsar magnetospheres: An observational perspective - Arache Djannati-Ataï | |
11:40 - 12:00 | Radio polarization and the pulsar magnetosphere - Lucy Oswald | |
12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch | |
14:00 - 14:40 | Pulsar magnetospheres: A computational perspective - Hayk Hakobyan | |
14:40 - 15:00 | Investigating sources of coherent radio emissions in pulsar polar caps by particle-in-cell kinetic simulations - Jan Benáček | |
15:00 - 15:20 | Pair Formation in Pulsar Magnetospheres: where, how, how much, and what are the implications - Andrey Timokhin | |
15:20 - 16:00 | Coffee break | |
16:00 - 16:20 | A parametric study of neutron star electrospheres - Fabrice Mottez & Théo Francez | |
16:20 - 16:40 | On the Crab pulsar radio interpulse (and more) - Mikhail Medvedev | |
16:40 - 17:00 | Multi-wavelength emission and particle acceleration in pulsar magnetospheres - Jérôme Pétri | |
17:00 - 17:20 | Force-free-PIC numerical approach to model pulsar magnetospheres - Adrien Soudais | |
17:20 - 17:40 | Fitting all spectra and light curves of gamma-ray pulsars with an austere synchro-curvature model - Daniel Íñiguez-Pascual | |
17:40 - 18:00 | Assessing TeV Pulsar Visibility - Christo Venter | |
19:00 - 19:30 | Welcome cocktail | |
19:30 - 20:30 | Dinner |
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Time | Event | (+) |
07:45 - 08:45 | Breakfast | |
09:00 - 09:40 | Black hole accretion: Observational perspective - Monika Moscibrodzka | |
09:40 - 10:20 | Black hole accretion: Computational perspective - Bart Ripperda | |
10:20 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |
11:00 - 11:20 | Magnetically arrested disk flux eruption events to describe SgrA* flares - Eleni Antonopoulou | |
11:20 - 11:40 | Magnetic Limits Redefined: Energy Dissipation and Extreme Efficiency in Black Hole Jets - Antonios Nathanail | |
11:40 - 12:00 | A comprehensive study of accretion during magnetic flux eruption events through 3D GRMHD simulations - Argyrios Loules | |
12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch | |
14:00 - 14:40 | Relativistic reconnection: Theoretical and computational perspectives - Dmitri Uzdensky | |
14:40 - 15:20 | Galactic cosmic rays and PeVatrons - Gwenaël Giacinti | |
15:20 - 16:00 | Coffee break | |
16:00 - 16:20 | 3D geometry and magnetic connections of erupting black hole jet - Mateusz Kapusta | |
16:20 - 16:40 | First-principles Simulations of Black-hole Accretion: Recent Advances - Fabio Bacchini | |
16:40 - 17:00 | Particle Acceleration in Collisionless Magnetically Arrested Disks - Jesse Vos | |
17:00 - 17:20 | Whispering black holes - The very sub-Eddington regime - Ileyk El Mellah | |
17:20 - 17:40 | Magnetospheric GeV-TeV emission from Galactic isolated stellar-mass black holes - Koki Kin | |
17:40 - 18:00 | Particle-in-cell simulations of an inclined black hole magnetosphere - Enzo Figueiredo | |
18:00 - 19:30 | Poster session with wine & beer | |
19:30 - 20:30 | Dinner |
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Time | Event | (+) |
07:45 - 08:45 | Breakfast | |
09:00 - 09:40 | Magnetars and long-period radio transients - Nanda Rea | |
09:40 - 10:00 | X-ray polarization: what we can learn - Ruth Kelly | |
10:00 - 10:20 | The Role of Fallback Discs in the Long-Term Evolutionary Links Between the Isolated Neutron Star Populations - Ali Arda Gençali | |
10:20 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |
11:00 - 11:20 | Ultra-long period magnetars - Zorawar Wadiasingh | |
11:20 - 11:40 | A new class of force-free semi-analytical solutions of the twisted magnetar magnetosphere - Guillaume Voisin | |
11:40 - 12:00 | Particle-in-cell electromagnetic solver for QED polarization in super-strong magnetic fields approach - Mahmoud Alawashra | |
12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch | |
13:30 - 19:30 | Free afternoon | |
19:30 - 20:30 | Dinner |
Thursday, April 10, 2025
Time | Event | (+) |
07:45 - 08:45 | Breakfast | |
09:00 - 09:40 | Relativistic magnetospheres: Insights from X-ray polarimetry - Alexandra Veledina | |
09:40 - 10:00 | Rotational evolution of an accreting neutron star and its governing torques - Anton Biryukov | |
10:00 - 10:20 | Probing the interaction between the relativistic pulsar wind and the accretion flow with transitional systems - Alessandro Papitto | |
10:20 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |
11:00 - 11:20 | Enhanced particle acceleration in a pulsar wind interacting with a companion - Valentina Richard-Romei | |
11:20 - 11:40 | Probing Pulsar Winds and Particle Acceleration from High Energy Emission in Spider Pulsars - Andrew Sullivan | |
11:40 - 12:00 | X-ray mode switching in transitional millisecond pulsars: insights from GRMHD simulations and radiative transfer - Raphaël Mignon-Risse | |
12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch | |
14:00 - 14:40 | Fast Radio Bursts: An observational perspective - Fabian Jankowski | |
14:40 - 15:20 | Fast Radio Bursts: A theoretical perspective - Andrei Beloborodov | |
15:20 - 16:00 | Coffee break | |
16:00 - 16:20 | Wave Physics of Fast Radio Bursts - Ethan Van Woerkom | |
16:20 - 16:40 | Propagation of strong electromagnetic waves in tenuous plasmas - Emanuele Sobacchi | |
16:40 - 17:00 | Fast radio bursts as precursor radio emission from monster shocks - Arno Vanthieghem | |
17:00 - 17:20 | Two Dimensional Particle In Cell Simulations of Monster Shocks in a Dipolar Magnetosphere - Dominic Bernardi | |
17:20 - 17:40 | Collisionless bremsstrahlung as a mechanism for Fast Radio Bursts - Anabella Araudo | |
17:40 - 18:00 | A parametric study of population inversions in relativistic plasmas through nonresonant interactions with Alfvén waves and their applications to Fast Radio Bursts - Asaf Pe'er | |
19:30 - 20:30 | Dinner |
Friday, April 11, 2025
Time | Event | (+) |
07:45 - 08:45 | Breakfast | |
09:00 - 09:40 | Black-hole disk coronae and high-energy neutrinos - Kohta Murase | |
09:40 - 10:00 | Black Hole Jet Sheath as a Candidate for the Comptonizing Corona - Navin Sridhar | |
10:00 - 10:20 | 3D Kinetic Simulations of Radiative Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection in Black Hole Coronae - Valeriia Rohoza | |
10:20 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |
11:00 - 11:20 | Photo-hadronic pair creation and neutrino production in magnetospheric current sheets of accreting black holes - Despina Karavola | |
11:20 - 11:40 | Pair production by radiative turbulence may link energy dissipation to material composition in blazar jets - John Mehlhaff | |
11:40 - 12:00 | Radiative plasma simulations of turbulent accretion flows - Joonas Nättilä | |
12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch | |
13:30 - 15:00 | Farewell - The conference center will close at 3pm | |
13:30 - 15:00 | Bus transfer to Geneva Airport - Departure from Les Houches |