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SUMMARY:Electromagnetic Surges - Roger Blandford (KIPAC\, Stanford)
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DESCRIPTION:For over a decade\, radio astronomers have been observing Fast
  Radio Bursts - millisecond pulses of intense radio emission from cosmolog
 ically distant sources. They now appear to be associated with strongly mag
 netised neutron stars\, called magnetars\, where extreme QED and plasma pr
 ocesses take place. The rapidly developing observational picture will be s
 ummarised. The possibility that Fast Radio Bursts\, as well as pulsar radi
 o emission\, are an expression of force-free electrodynamics\, as original
 ly developed by Maxwell\, will be discussed. \n
LOCATION:Hybrid attendance (in person\, zoom\, streaming)
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