Clasine
van Winter Memorial Lecture in Mathematical Physics
“Classical
Electromagnetodynamics”
Professor
Roger Blandford
Room 155,
Refreshments at
Abstract
A
simple application of Maxwell's Equations can be developed by supplementing the
evolution equations for the electromagnetic field with the requirement that the
net electromagnetic force density vanish. This is appropriate in the
presence of plasma which can freely supply charges and currents without
contributing inertia. These conditions could be satisfied in some of the most
energetic cosmic sources. In this talk, I will motivate the investigation of
classical electromagnetodynamics (CED), discuss the physical behavior of
electromagnetic field under these circumstances and describe some new formal
and computational results.
This lecture is co-sponsored by the
Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Department of Mathematics. It is
partially supported by the van Winter Memorial Endowment.