Shocks, Reconnection, and Particle Acceleration in Plasma-fluids

June 20-21, 2013 Location: Les Houches, Rhone-Alpes, France Website of the 3rd Les Houches School in computational physics

Organizing committee:

• Rolf Walder, CRAL, École normale supérieure de Lyon
• Christophe Winisdoerffer, CRAL, École normale supérieure de Lyon

Administrative coordination:

• Samantha Barendson, CBP, ENS de Lyon, France (samantha.barendson @ ens-lyon.fr)

The workshop is supported by:

• Centre Blaise Pascal
• FLMSN
• CRAL

The acceleration of non-thermal particles in large scale flows is of prime importance in astrophysics and beyond, for example in earth science where high-energy cosmic rays likely have a strong influence on climate and weather. However, the mechanism of accelerators embedded in large scale MHD flows in space is barely understood. The computational group of CRAL at ENS-Lyon has started to establish unified models : MHD/plasma-kinetics/radiation. The suggested 2 days workshop shall bring together the French with the European community and strengthen the collaboration between them, specially emphasizing the Rhône-Alpes region.