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Acknowledge KITP: This research was supported in part by grant NSF PHY-2309135 to the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP).
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WEEK 1 | |
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Monday June 3 | |
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10:30 - 11:30 |
Meet and greet |
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14:15 - 15:15 |
1/ Kinetics for gravity |
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Tuesday June 4 | |
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11:15 - 12:30 |
Stellar dynamics in the periodic cube |
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18:30 - |
BBQ |
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Wednesday June 5 | |
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11:15 - 12:30 |
Galactokinetics, or, why dynamics is hard and what we can do about it |
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Thursday June 6 | |
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11:15 - 12:30 |
The role of stochastic excitation in driving structure |
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Friday June 7 | |
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11:30 - 12:45 |
Bubble induced orbital diffusion in cusps bars and disc: what happens when you are desperate |
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15:30 - 16:15 |
Thermalisation close to marginal stability |
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WEEK 2 | |
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Monday June 10 | |
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12:15 - 13:15 |
“The original is unfaithful to the translation”: Kinetic theory, from Plasmaish to Galacticese |
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14:15 - 15:30 |
1/ Direct summation methods for the gravitational N-body problem |
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18:30 - |
BBQ |
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Tuesday June 11 | |
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11:30 - 12:45 |
Structure-preserving numerics |
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15:15 - 16:15 |
Outstanding problems in Saturn’s rings |
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Wednesday June 12 | |
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11:30 - 12:45 | |
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16:00 - |
KITP drinks |
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Thursday June 13 | |
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10:00 - 11:30 |
1/How well do we have gravothermal phases in self-interacting dark matter halos? |
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11:30 - 12:45 |
Phase mixing pendula and galactic structure |
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15:15 - 16:15 |
Groove instabilities |
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Friday June 14 | |
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11:30 - 12:45 |
Stochastic echos in Vlasov-Poisson plasmas |
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15:30 - 16:15 |
Nonlinear phase mixing |
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WEEK 3 | |
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Monday June 17 | |
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10:30 - 11:30 |
Meet and greet |
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12:15 - 13:15 |
Dark Matter Physics in the Sky |
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14:15 - 15:30 |
1/ Particle acceleration in reconnection and turbulence |
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18:30 - |
BBQ |
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Tuesday June 18 | |
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11:30 - 12:45 | |
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15:30 - 16:15 |
Hermite integration and classical regularization after Levi-Civita |
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Wednesday June 19 | |
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Juneteenth holiday | |
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17:00 - 17:45 |
Generalized plasma dispersion function |
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18:30 - |
Potluck |
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Thursday June 20 | |
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11:30 - 12:45 |
Quasilinear relaxation of collisionless plasmas and self-gravitating systems |
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15:30 - 16:15 |
Structure-preserving numerical integration |
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Friday June 21 | |
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11:30 - 12:45 |
Linear response theory of self-gravitating systems |
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15:30 - 16:15 |
Transport in collisional and collisionless plasma |
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WEEK 4 | |
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Monday June 24 | |
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10:30 - 11:30 |
Meet and greet |
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13:45 - 15:15 |
1/ Field-particle correlations |
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18:30 - |
BBQ |
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Tuesday June 25 | |
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11:30 - 12:45 |
Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal modes, what are they, and why are they tilted |
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15:30 - 16:15 |
Landau damping in weakly collisional plasmas and galaxies: new results in old problems |
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Wednesday June 26 | |
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11:30 - 12:45 |
Traversing the Slopes of Phase Space with ALPS: Linear Dispersion Relations from Plasma Peaks to Gravitational Valleys |
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16:00 - 16:45 |
Computing plasma dispersion function -- Continued |
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17:00 - |
KITP Wine and Cheese |
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Thursday June 27 | |
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11:30 - 12:45 |
1/Fully self-consistent collisional relaxation in spherical and axisymmetric stellar systems |
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15:30 - 16:15 |
Balescu-Lenard at marginal stability |
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Friday June 28 | |
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11:30 - 12:45 |
Nonlinear wave-particle interaction in galaxies |
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15:30 - 16:15 |
Bars |
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WEEK 5 | |
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Monday July 1 | |
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10:30 - 11:30 |
Meet and greet |
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13:45 - 15:15 |
1/ Phase space cascades in (simulations of) plasma turbulence |
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18:30 - |
BBQ |
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Tuesday July 2 | |
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11:30 - 12:45 |
Some aspects of orbit-averaging in quasi-Keplerian systems |
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15:30 - 16:15 | |
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Wednesday July 3 | |
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11:30 - 12:45 |
Gyrokinetics fundamentals |
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15:30 - 16:15 | |
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Thursday July 4 | |
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July 4 Holiday | |
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10:00 - 11:00 |
Hamiltonian Mean Field Model |
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18:00 - |
BBQ Potluck |
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Friday July 5 | |
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11:30 - 12:45 |
Getting the Core of the Core Dynamics |
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15:30 - 16:15 |
Eigenmodes, Landau poles and all that |
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WEEK 6 | |
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Monday July 8 | |
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10:30 - 11:30 |
Meet and greet |
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13:45 - 15:15 |
1/ Heating, maxwellianization, and nonthermal tails in violently collisionless plasmas |
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18:30 - |
BBQ |
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Tuesday July 9 | |
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11:30 - 12:45 |
Generalized entropies: foundation or abyss? |
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15:30 - 16:15 |
Coupling fluid and kinetic methods in simulations |
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Wednesday July 10 | |
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14:15 - 15:15 |
Gyrokinetics fundamentals -- continued |
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15:30 - 16:45 |
Universal equilibria in (non-)violent relaxation |
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Thursday July 11 | |
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11:30 - 12:45 |
Collisionless collision integrals and collisional collisionless equilibria |
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15:30 - 16:15 | |
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Friday July 12 | |
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11:30 - 12:45 |
Kinetic theory of two-dimensional vortices and stellar systems |
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15:30 - 16:15 |
Is there a theory of intermediate amplitude phase space fluctuations? |
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WEEK 7 | |
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Monday July 15 | |
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13:45 - 15:15 |
1/ Understanding electron heating in kinetic turbulence through phase-space dynamics |
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18:30 - |
BBQ |
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Tuesday July 16 | |
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11:30 - 12:45 |
At last, some use for the van Kampen modes: deriving the Balescu-Lenard equation |
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15:30 - 16:15 |
Phase-space turbulence in Vlasov-Poisson plasmas |
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Wednesday July 17 | |
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11:30 - 12:45 |
Kinetic theory of cosmic ray transport: more than wave-particle interactions? |
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15:30 - 16:15 |
Kinetic theory of two-dimensional vortices and stellar systems (second part) |
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Thursday July 18 | |
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11:30 - 12:45 | |
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15:30 - 16:15 |
Vector Resonant Relaxation and Closure Theory |
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Friday July 19 | |
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11:30 - 12:45 |
Metastable atmospheres and the statistical mechanics of their relaxation |
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15:30 - 16:15 |
Self-organization in collisionless, high-beta plasma turbulence |
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WEEK 8 | |
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Monday July 22 | |
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12:15 - 13:15 |
Phage evolution, bedside to biosphere |
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14:00 - 15:15 |
1/ How to coarse-grain cosmic-ray propagation? |
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15:30 - 16:15 |
Large deviations theory for the Landau equation |
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Tuesday July 23 | |
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11:30 - 12:45 |
Phase-space methods for modeling of linear and nonlinear waves in inhomogeneous media |
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15:30 - 16:15 |
Nonlinear saturation by particle trapping in the HMF model |
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Wednesday July 24 | |
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11:30 - 12:45 |
On Landau prescription |
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15:30 - 16:15 |
Field theory methods for stellar dynamics |
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18:30 - |
BBQ |
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Thursday July 25 | |
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11:30 - 12:45 |
Flip-flop field |
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15:30 - 16:15 |
Caloric curves |
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Friday July 26 | |
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11:30 - 12:45 |
Summary |