Program

Sunday, April 6, 2025

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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  
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