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07:00 08:00 09:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00	Arrival to Les Houches Bus transfer from Geneva Airport 15:00 - 19:30 (4h30) Arrival to Les Houches Participants can check in at the conference center no earlier than 3pm on Sunday. 17:30 - 19:00 (1h30) Bus transfer from Geneva Airport Direct trip to Les Houches Dinner 19:30 - 20:30 (1h) Dinner	Breakfast 7:45 - 8:45 (1h) Breakfast Welcome and practical information 8:50 - 9:00 (10min) Welcome and practical information Benoît Cerutti https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/SPAWN2025_Intro_LesHouches.pdf Relativistic magnetosphere: Major challenges & opportunities 9:00 - 9:40 (40min) Relativistic magnetosphere: Major challenges & opportunities Roger Blandford https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/250407leshouches_Blandford.pdf Pulsar magnetospheres: An observational perspective 9:40 - 10:20 (40min) Pulsar magnetospheres: An observational perspective Arache Djannati-Ataï https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/AdaPulsarMagnetospheresObservationalPerspective_LesHouches_2026.pdf Coffee break 10:20 - 11:00 (40min) Coffee break Radio polarization and the pulsar magnetosphere 11:00 - 11:20 (20min) Radio polarization and the pulsar magnetosphere Lucy Oswald https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/LOswald_MagnetospheresTalk.pdf On the Crab pulsar radio interpulse (and more) 11:20 - 11:40 (20min) On the Crab pulsar radio interpulse (and more) Mikhail Medvedev A parametric study of neutron star electrospheres 11:40 - 12:00 (20min) A parametric study of neutron star electrospheres Fabrice Mottez & Théo Francez https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/Les_Houches_Mottez_MondayMorningSession.pdf Lunch 12:30 - 13:30 (1h) Lunch Pulsar magnetospheres: A computational perspective (remote speech) 14:00 - 14:40 (40min) Pulsar magnetospheres: A computational perspective (remote speech) Hayk Hakobyan https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/Hakobyan_LesHouches2025.pdf Investigating sources of coherent radio emissions in pulsar polar caps by particle-in-cell kinetic simulations 14:40 - 15:00 (20min) Investigating sources of coherent radio emissions in pulsar polar caps by particle-in-cell kinetic simulations Jan Benáček https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/presentation_Benacek.pdf Pair Formation in Pulsar Magnetospheres: where, how, how much, and what are the implications 15:00 - 15:20 (20min) Pair Formation in Pulsar Magnetospheres: where, how, how much, and what are the implications Andrey Timokhin Coffee break 15:20 - 16:00 (40min) Coffee break Multi-wavelength emission and particle acceleration in pulsar magnetospheres 16:00 - 16:20 (20min) Multi-wavelength emission and particle acceleration in pulsar magnetospheres Jérôme Pétri https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/petri_les_houches.pdf Fitting all spectra and light curves of gamma-ray pulsars with an austere synchro-curvature model 16:20 - 16:40 (20min) Fitting all spectra and light curves of gamma-ray pulsars with an austere synchro-curvature model Daniel Íñiguez-Pascual https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/Daniel_Iniguez_Pascual_les_houches_2025.pdf Towards Modelling AR Sco: Particle Dynamics, Calibration, and First Results 16:40 - 17:00 (20min) Towards Modelling AR Sco: Particle Dynamics, Calibration, and First Results Christo Venter https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/High_Energy_Presentation_CV.pdf Force-free-PIC numerical approach to model pulsar magnetospheres 17:00 - 17:20 (20min) Force-free-PIC numerical approach to model pulsar magnetospheres Adrien Soudais https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/Houches_Soudais.pdf Precursor Electromagnetic Signals, High-Energy Emissions, and Orbital Dynamics in Merging Neutron Star Magnetospheres 17:20 - 17:40 (20min) Precursor Electromagnetic Signals, High-Energy Emissions, and Orbital Dynamics in Merging Neutron Star Magnetospheres Dimitrios Skiathas https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/Dimitrios_Skiathas_Precursor_Electromagnetic_Signals_High_Energy_Emissions_and_Orbital_Dynamics_in_Merging_Neutron_Star_Magnetospheres.pdf Welcome cocktail 19:00 - 19:30 (30min) Welcome cocktail Dinner 19:30 - 20:30 (1h) Dinner	Breakfast 7:45 - 8:45 (1h) Breakfast Black hole accretion: Observational perspective 9:00 - 9:40 (40min) Black hole accretion: Observational perspective Monika Moscibrodzka Black hole accretion: Computational perspective 9:40 - 10:20 (40min) Black hole accretion: Computational perspective Bart Ripperda https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/LesHouches2025_Ripperda.pdf Coffee break 10:20 - 11:00 (40min) Coffee break Magnetically arrested disk flux eruption events to describe SgrA* flares 11:00 - 11:20 (20min) Magnetically arrested disk flux eruption events to describe SgrA* flares Eleni Antonopoulou https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/MAD_flux_eruption_events_to_describe_SgrA_flares_Antonopoulou.pdf Magnetic Limits Redefined: Energy Dissipation and Extreme Efficiency in Black Hole Jets 11:20 - 11:40 (20min) Magnetic Limits Redefined: Energy Dissipation and Extreme Efficiency in Black Hole Jets Antonios Nathanail https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/Les_Houches_4_2025_Nathanail.pdf A comprehensive study of accretion during magnetic flux eruption events through 3D GRMHD simulations 11:40 - 12:00 (20min) A comprehensive study of accretion during magnetic flux eruption events through 3D GRMHD simulations Argyrios Loules https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/A_comprehensive_study_of_accretion_during_magnetic_flux_eruption_events_through_3D_GRMHD_simulations_Argyrios_Loules.pdf Lunch 12:30 - 13:30 (1h) Lunch Relativistic reconnection: Theoretical and computational perspectives 14:00 - 14:40 (40min) Relativistic reconnection: Theoretical and computational perspectives Dmitri Uzdensky https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/uzdensky_LesHouches_2025.pdf Galactic cosmic rays and PeVatrons 14:40 - 15:20 (40min) Galactic cosmic rays and PeVatrons Gwenaël Giacinti https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/Giacinti_LesHouches_April2025.pdf Coffee break 15:20 - 16:00 (40min) Coffee break 3D geometry and magnetic connections of erupting black hole jet 16:00 - 16:20 (20min) 3D geometry and magnetic connections of erupting black hole jet Mateusz Kapusta First-principles Simulations of Black-hole Accretion: Recent Advances 16:20 - 16:40 (20min) First-principles Simulations of Black-hole Accretion: Recent Advances Fabio Bacchini https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/les_houches_apr2025_Bacchini.pdf Particle Acceleration in Collisionless Magnetically Arrested Disks 16:40 - 17:00 (20min) Particle Acceleration in Collisionless Magnetically Arrested Disks Jesse Vos Whispering black holes - The very sub-Eddington regime 17:00 - 17:20 (20min) Whispering black holes - The very sub-Eddington regime Ileyk El Mellah https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/Les_Houches_25_ElMellah.pdf Magnetospheric GeV-TeV emission from Galactic isolated stellar-mass black holes 17:20 - 17:40 (20min) Magnetospheric GeV-TeV emission from Galactic isolated stellar-mass black holes Koki Kin https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/slide_250408_Koki_KIN.pdf Particle-in-cell simulations of an inclined black hole magnetosphere 17:40 - 18:00 (20min) Particle-in-cell simulations of an inclined black hole magnetosphere Enzo Figueiredo https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/EnzoFigueiredo_PIC_Inclined_BH.pdf Poster session with wine & beer 18:00 - 19:30 (1h30) Poster session with wine & beer https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/Abolmasov_poster.pdf Dinner 19:30 - 20:30 (1h) Dinner	Breakfast 7:45 - 8:45 (1h) Breakfast Magnetars and long-period radio transients 9:00 - 9:40 (40min) Magnetars and long-period radio transients Nanda Rea https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/Rea_LesHouces_april2025_public.pdf X-ray polarization: what we can learn 9:40 - 10:00 (20min) X-ray polarization: what we can learn Ruth Kelly https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/Les_Houches_Ruth_Kelly_2025.pdf The Role of Fallback Discs in the Long-Term Evolutionary Links Between the Isolated Neutron Star Populations 10:00 - 10:20 (20min) The Role of Fallback Discs in the Long-Term Evolutionary Links Between the Isolated Neutron Star Populations Ali Arda Gençali https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/The_Evolutionary_Links.pdf Coffee break 10:20 - 11:00 (40min) Coffee break Ultra-long period magnetars 11:00 - 11:20 (20min) Ultra-long period magnetars Zorawar Wadiasingh https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/Wadiasingh.pdf A new class of force-free semi-analytical solutions of the twisted magnetar magnetosphere 11:20 - 11:40 (20min) A new class of force-free semi-analytical solutions of the twisted magnetar magnetosphere Guillaume Voisin https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/202504_Les_houches_Forcefree_twisted_magnetosphere_Voisin.pdf Particle-in-cell electromagnetic solver for QED polarization in super-strong magnetic fields approach 11:40 - 12:00 (20min) Particle-in-cell electromagnetic solver for QED polarization in super-strong magnetic fields approach Mahmoud Alawashra https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/QED_PIC_Les_Houches_Alawashra.pdf Lunch 12:30 - 13:30 (1h) Lunch Free afternoon 13:30 - 19:30 (6h) Free afternoon Dinner 19:30 - 20:30 (1h) Dinner	Breakfast 7:45 - 8:45 (1h) Breakfast Relativistic magnetospheres: Insights from X-ray polarimetry 9:00 - 9:40 (40min) Relativistic magnetospheres: Insights from X-ray polarimetry Alexandra Veledina https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/Veledina_10Apr.pdf Rotational evolution of an accreting neutron star and its governing torques 9:40 - 10:00 (20min) Rotational evolution of an accreting neutron star and its governing torques Anton Biryukov https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/Biryukov_NS_obliquity_evolution_2025.pdf Probing the interaction between the relativistic pulsar wind and the accretion flow with transitional systems 10:00 - 10:20 (20min) Probing the interaction between the relativistic pulsar wind and the accretion flow with transitional systems Alessandro Papitto https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/Papitto_2025_04_LesHouches.pdf Coffee break 10:20 - 11:00 (40min) Coffee break 3D Particle-in-cell simulations of a pulsar wind interacting with a disk: An application to transitional millisecond pulsars 11:00 - 11:20 (20min) 3D Particle-in-cell simulations of a pulsar wind interacting with a disk: An application to transitional millisecond pulsars Valentina Richard-Romei https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/Houches25_VRR.pdf Probing Pulsar Winds and Particle Acceleration from High Energy Emission in Spider Pulsars 11:20 - 11:40 (20min) Probing Pulsar Winds and Particle Acceleration from High Energy Emission in Spider Pulsars Andrew Sullivan https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/AndrewSullivan_SpidersPresentation_LesHouches_2025.pdf X-ray mode switching in transitional millisecond pulsars: insights from GRMHD simulations and radiative transfer 11:40 - 12:00 (20min) X-ray mode switching in transitional millisecond pulsars: insights from GRMHD simulations and radiative transfer Raphaël Mignon-Risse https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/Mignon_Risse_Les_Houches.pdf Lunch 12:30 - 13:30 (1h) Lunch Fast Radio Bursts: An observational perspective 14:00 - 14:40 (40min) Fast Radio Bursts: An observational perspective Fabian Jankowski Fast Radio Bursts: A theoretical perspective 14:40 - 15:20 (40min) Fast Radio Bursts: A theoretical perspective Andrei Beloborodov Coffee break 15:20 - 16:00 (40min) Coffee break Wave Physics of Fast Radio Bursts 16:00 - 16:20 (20min) Wave Physics of Fast Radio Bursts Ethan Van Woerkom https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/van_woerkom_les_houches_2025_web.pdf Propagation of strong electromagnetic waves in tenuous plasmas 16:20 - 16:40 (20min) Propagation of strong electromagnetic waves in tenuous plasmas Emanuele Sobacchi https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/Sobacchi_LesHouches.pdf Fast radio bursts as precursor radio emission from monster shocks 16:40 - 17:00 (20min) Fast radio bursts as precursor radio emission from monster shocks Arno Vanthieghem Two Dimensional Particle In Cell Simulations of Monster Shocks in a Dipolar Magnetosphere 17:00 - 17:20 (20min) Two Dimensional Particle In Cell Simulations of Monster Shocks in a Dipolar Magnetosphere Dominic Bernardi https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/Bernardi_Monster_Shocks.pdf Collisionless bremsstrahlung as a mechanism for Fast Radio Bursts 17:20 - 17:40 (20min) Collisionless bremsstrahlung as a mechanism for Fast Radio Bursts Anabella Araudo A parametric study of population inversions in relativistic plasmas through nonresonant interactions with Alfvén waves and their applications to Fast Radio Bursts 17:40 - 18:00 (20min) 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 https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/Peer_Sync_maser.pdf Dinner 19:30 - 20:30 (1h) Dinner	Breakfast 7:45 - 8:45 (1h) Breakfast Black-hole disk coronae and high-energy neutrinos 9:00 - 9:40 (40min) Black-hole disk coronae and high-energy neutrinos Kohta Murase https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/LesHouches2025.pdf Black Hole Jet Sheath as a Candidate for the Comptonizing Corona 9:40 - 10:00 (20min) Black Hole Jet Sheath as a Candidate for the Comptonizing Corona Navin Sridhar https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/black_hole_corona_navin.pdf 3D Kinetic Simulations of Radiative Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection in Black Hole Coronae 10:00 - 10:20 (20min) 3D Kinetic Simulations of Radiative Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection in Black Hole Coronae Valeriia Rohoza Coffee break 10:20 - 11:00 (40min) Coffee break Photo-hadronic pair creation and neutrino production in magnetospheric current sheets of accreting black holes 11:00 - 11:20 (20min) Photo-hadronic pair creation and neutrino production in magnetospheric current sheets of accreting black holes Despina Karavola https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/Karavola_Corona.pdf Pair production by radiative turbulence may link energy dissipation to material composition in blazar jets 11:20 - 11:40 (20min) Pair production by radiative turbulence may link energy dissipation to material composition in blazar jets John Mehlhaff https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/JMehlhaff_TurbPairProdInBlazars.pdf Radiative plasma simulations of turbulent accretion flows 11:40 - 12:00 (20min) Radiative plasma simulations of turbulent accretion flows Joonas Nättilä https://r-magnetosphere.sciencesconf.org/data/program/nattila_turbulence_leshouches25.pdf Lunch 12:30 - 13:30 (1h) Lunch Farewell Bus transfer to Geneva Airport 13:30 - 15:00 (1h30) Farewell The conference center will close at 3pm 13:30 - 15:00 (1h30) Bus transfer to Geneva Airport Departure from Les Houches

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