Fédération de Recherche et d'Animation Plasmas à Paris

PLAS@PAR Workshop on Bridging Plasma Experiments and High-Energy Space and Astrophysical Phenomena

23-24 November 2026

The PLAS@PAR Workshop on Bridging Plasma Experiments and High-Energy Space and Astrophysical Phenomena will bring together researchers working on laboratory astrophysics, high-energy-density plasmas, space plasmas, astrophysics, and numerical plasma physics.

Recent developments in high-power laser facilities, pulsed-power platforms, and advanced simulations now enable laboratory studies of fundamental plasma processes relevant to astrophysical environments, including shocks, magnetic reconnection, particle acceleration, relativistic outflows, and strong-field plasma effects.

This two-day workshop will provide a forum for interdisciplinary discussions connecting laboratory experiments, astrophysical observations, and numerical modeling. The program will combine invited talks, contributed presentations, and discussion sessions to identify common challenges and foster new collaborations across the plasma physics community.

Program

Conference Programme — 23–24 November

23 November

Energy Dissipation and Particle Acceleration through Fundamental Plasma Processes
09:00 Welcome from the LOC and SOC
09:10 – 10:00 Martin Lemoine Overview
Energy dissipation and particle acceleration in astrophysics
10:00 – 10:30 Rebecca Diesing
Shock Acceleration from Plasma to Astrophysical Scales
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30 Illya Plotnikov
Solar Coronal Shock waves: how and where they produce radio type II emissions?
11:30 – 12:00 Clotilde Busschaert
CIRENE: a nova experimental platform using powerful lasers
12:00 – 12:30 Thales Silva
Magnetised kinetic plasma instabilities in ultrafast laser-ionised gases
Relativistic and Strong-Field Plasmas: Jets and QED Effects
14:10 – 15:00 Dmitri Uzdensky Overview
15:00 – 15:30 Claire Guepin
Multi-messenger probes of extreme plasmas in the vicinity of compact objects
15:30 – 16:00 Adrien Soudais
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 17:00 Tatiana Smorodnikova
17:00 – 17:30 Gianluca Gregori
Accelerator and high-power laser experiments to probe astrophysical plasmas
* In case 1 short talk selected from the poster application

24 November

Observations and Laboratory Studies of Explosive Solar and Space Plasma Phenomena
09:00 – 09:50 Nicole Vilmer Overview
09:50 – 10:20 Julia Stawarz
10:20 – 10:50 Frederic Perez
Laser-driven plasma harmonics as a laboratory analog for solar radio bursts
10:50 – 11:10 Coffee break
11:10 – 11:40 Archie Bott
Microturbulent regulation of energy and particle transport in weakly collisional plasmas
11:40 – 12:10 Vicente Valenzuela Vilaseca
12:10 – 12:40 Sergei Lebedev
Astrophysically relevant differentially rotating plasma experiments
Numerical Challenges in Multi-Scale Plasma Modeling
14:30 – 15:20 Philip Moesta Overview
Modelling astrophysical plasmas – opportunities and challenges
15:20 – 15:50 Luca Franci
15:50 – 16:20 Kaushik Satapathy
Hybrid Modeling of Particle Acceleration in Astrophysical Jets
16:20 – 16:50 Coffee break
16:50 – 17:20 Joonas Nattila
Radiative particle-in-cell simulations of extreme astrophysical plasmas
17:20 – 17:50 Matteo Bugli
Magnetic dissipation and particle acceleration in relativistic outflows: focus on GPU-accelerated applications

Practical information

Dates: 23-24 November 2026
Format: Two days
Location: 4 Place Jussieu, Paris. Buildings 44-45, room 106

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