Name: Modelling Astrophysical Plasmas with iPIC3D: First Conference on Implicit PIC Simulations and Beyond
Start: 2026-02-04T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-02-06T15:00:00+01:00
Location: Huis Bethlehem

Modelling Astrophysical Plasmas with iPIC3D: First Conference on Implicit PIC Simulations and Beyond

from Wednesday, 4 February 2026 (08:00) to Friday, 6 February 2026 (15:00)

Monday, 2 February 2026
Tuesday, 3 February 2026
Wednesday, 4 February 2026

08:00 Registration

08:00 - 09:00

09:00 Welcome

09:00 - 09:15
Room: Aula Wolfspoort (00.08)
09:15 iPIC3D: A Particle-in-Cell Code for Simulating Astrophysical Plasmas (Keynote Talk, online) - Stefano Markidis (KTH Swedden)
iPIC3D: A Particle-in-Cell Code for Simulating Astrophysical Plasmas (Keynote Talk, online)
- Stefano Markidis (KTH Swedden)
09:15 - 09:50
Room: Aula Wolfspoort (00.08)
09:50 Energy Conserving algorithms with iPIC3D (Keynote Talk) - Fabio Bacchini (KU Leuven)
Energy Conserving algorithms with iPIC3D (Keynote Talk)
- Fabio Bacchini (KU Leuven)
09:50 - 10:25
Room: Aula Wolfspoort (00.08)
10:25 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:25 - 11:00
11:00 iPIC3D Session 1: Chair - Nicolas Moens
Chair - Nicolas Moens
11:00 - 12:15
Room: Aula Wolfspoort (00.08)
Contributions

11:00 Machine-Learning Closure of Kinetic Plasma Turbulence in the Earth’s Magnetosheath - George Miloshevich (KU Leuven)

11:25 TBD - Felipe Nathan de Oliveira Lopes (KU Leuven)

11:50 Generation of proton beams at switchback boundary-like rotational discontinuities in the solar wind (online) - Rong Lin (Peking University)
12:15 Lunch
Lunch
12:15 - 13:45
13:45 iPIC3D Session 2: Chair - Nadja Reisinger
Chair - Nadja Reisinger
13:45 - 15:25
Room: Aula Wolfspoort (00.08)
Contributions

13:45 PIC simulations of nonrelativistic high-Mach-number oblique shocks propagating in a turbulent medium - Martin Pohl (University of Potsdam)

14:10 Double-Adiabatic Equations of State for Relativistic Plasmas - Agnieszka Wierzchucka (Oxford University)

14:35 Non-linear X-mode propagation in highly magnetized pair plasmas - Pablo Bilbao (University of Oxford)

15:00 Shock-generated particles and waves drive filaments on all scales (online) - Lorenzo Sironi (Columbia University)
15:25 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:25 - 15:45
Room: Aula Wolfspoort (00.08)
15:45 iPIC3D Session 3: Chair - Silvia Ferro
Chair - Silvia Ferro
15:45 - 17:00
Room: Aula Wolfspoort (00.08)
Contributions

15:45 Whistler-mode waves in the tail of Mercury’s magnetosphere: A numerical study - Giulio Ballerini

16:10 Self-consistent generation of kinetic-scale magnetic holes driven by plasma turbulence (online) - Giuseppe Arro

16:35 From Kinetic Scales to Global Transport: Plasma Energization in the Magnetotail - Liutauras Rusaitis
Thursday, 5 February 2026
09:00 iPIC3D Session 4: Chair - Fabio Bacchini
Chair - Fabio Bacchini
09:00 - 10:25
Room: Aula Wolfspoort (00.08)
Contributions

09:00 Electron physics with iPic3D (Keynote Talk) - Francesco Pucci

09:35 Simulations of forced and decaying sub-ion scale turbulence with iPIC3D (online) - Kirit Makwana

10:00 iPIC3D: Unveiling the Mysteries of Planetary and Cometary Magnetospheres Through Global Kinetic Simulations (online) - Pierre Henri
10:25 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:25 - 11:00
11:00 iPIC3D Session 5: Chair - Maximilien Péters de Bonhome
Chair - Maximilien Péters de Bonhome
11:00 - 12:15
Room: Aula Wolfspoort (00.08)
Contributions

11:00 Plasma Mixing in Collisionless Plasmas Driven by the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability - Silvia Ferro

11:25 TBD - Luca Pezzini

11:50 Comparison of Particle Energy Distributions from Fully Kinetic Simulations and Observations of Magnetic Reconnection in Earth's Magnetotail - Nadja Reisinger
12:15 Lunch
Lunch
12:15 - 13:45
13:45 iPIC3D Session 6: Chair - Pranab J Deka
13:45 - 15:25
Room: Aula Wolfspoort (00.08)
Contributions

13:45 Next-Generation Realism in Extreme Astrophysical Plasma Simulations with Entity (online) - Jens Mahlmann

14:10 Zeltron: From Solar-Wind Expansion to Extreme Astrophysical Plasmas - Jesse Vos Maximilien Péters de Bonhome

14:35 Energy Conserving Semi-Lagrangian Scheme for plasma simulations - Hongtao Liu

15:00 Balancing self-consistency and practical realism – Can we truly understand cross-scale energy transfer at shocks? - Immanuel Jebaraj
15:25 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:25 - 15:45
15:45 iPIC3D Session 7: Chair - Luca Pezzini
Chair - Luca Pezzini
15:45 - 17:25
Room: Aula Wolfspoort (00.08)
Contributions

15:45 Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) enabled semi-implicit PIC to study the onset of reconnection during substorms (online) - Talha Arshad

16:10 The nature of electric field fluctuations in the near-Sun solar wind and its implication for the turbulent energy transfer at sub-ion scales - Luca Franci

16:35 Formation of sub-ion scale current sheets in kinetic Alfvén wave turbulence using iPIC3D (online) - Johan Sharma

17:00 Implicit PIC Simulations for Fusion Research (online) - Jaeyoung Park
Friday, 6 February 2026

09:00 Hands-on Training with iPIC3D

09:00 - 10:30
Room: Aula Wolfspoort (00.08)

10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00

11:00 Hands-on Training with iPIC3D

11:00 - 12:15
Room: Aula Wolfspoort (00.08)

12:15 Conclusions and Outlook

12:15 - 12:25
Room: Aula Wolfspoort (00.08)

12:25 Final Remarks

12:25 - 12:30
Room: Aula Wolfspoort (00.08)

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