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DTSTART:20161007T203000Z
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LOCATION:2241 Chamberlin hall
SUMMARY:In silico extreme plasmas: from plasma based accelerators to p
 air plasmas\, Physics Department Colloquium\, Luis Silva\, University 
 of Lisbon
DESCRIPTION:The advent of ultra intense lasers and particle beams is o
 pening new frontiers in physics by triggering the exploration of scena
 rios with unprecedented extreme conditions dominated by relativistic e
 ffects ranging from plasma based accelerators and intense light source
 s to collisionless shocks and the magnetospheres of pulsars. In some o
 f these conditions\, even QED effects play an importance role\, with t
 he production of hard photons and electron-positron pairs. These scena
 rios are highly nonlinear and can only be fully captured via self cons
 istent ab initio massively parallel kinetic simulations. I will revise
  some of the most important advances and the open challenges in the fi
 eld\, illustrating how large scale numerical simulations are helping u
 s to capture in silico these extreme laboratory and astrophysical envi
 ronments. 
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=4190
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