Lecturer: Brain Reville

Date and time: 2026-10-28,14:00-16:00

Lecture Location: 320,3F,Tianfu Cosmic Ray Research Center

Tencent Meeting: 349-413-791

Introduction:

This lecture will introduce some of the essential concepts that play a role in acceleration of relativistic particles in astrophysical plasmas. Specia attention will be given to the role magnetic fields,transport in collisionless plasmas, and acceleration mechanisms underpinning VHE cosmic rays.

Speaker Biography:

Since 2010, Brian Reville has been a research assistant at the University of Oxford Physics Department. He received his B.Sc.(2004) and Ph.D.(2007) from University College Dublin before moving to the Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow. In 2013 he joined the Centre for Plasma Physics at Queen's University Belfast.His research focus is primarily in the areas of theoretical and laboratory astrophysics.