SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ‘PARTICLE ACCELERATION AND TRANSPORT: FROM THE SUN TO EXTRAGALACTIC SOURCES’, 12-16 NOVEMBER 2018, UNIVERSITA’ DELLA CALABRIA, RENDE, ITALY

The University of Calabria will host the international workshop on ‘Particle acceleration and transport: from the Sun to extragalactic sources’ on November 12-16, 2018.
Abstract submission and registration are now open at http://astroplasmas.unical.it/workshop2018/

Deadlines:
Contributing talks abstract submission: September 16th, 2018

Main Topics:
-Observations of energetic particles in the solar, heliospheric, galactic and extragalactic environments
-Properties of cosmic ray transport and acceleration from in-situ and remote observations
-Solar flares, Crab flares, flaring phenomena in astrophysics
-Shock acceleration: problems and advances
-Particle acceleration in magnetic reconnection, including the relativistic regimes
-Particle acceleration in accretion flows and relativistic jets
-Transport and acceleration in non-linear regimes
-Magnetic turbulence in astrophysical plasmas: properties from large to small scales and effects on particle transport
-Theoretical models and numerical simulations of particle transport and acceleration

SOC:

Silvia Perri (Chair, Università della Calabria, Rende, Italy)
Elena Amato (co-chair, INAF, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Italy)
Gianfranco Brunetti (IRA-INAF, Bologna, Italy)
Andrei Bykov (Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia)
Silvia Dalla (University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK)
Horst Fichtner (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)
Natasha Jeffrey (University of Glasgow, UK)
William H. Matthaeus (University of Delaware, USA)
Reinout J. van Weeren (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Gaetano Zimbardo (Università della Calabria, Rende, Italy)

For further info visit http://astroplasmas.unical.it/workshop2018/

Contact: workshopunical2018@gmail.com

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