SCEECS collaboration

Simons Collaboration on Extreme Electrodynamics of Compact Sources (SCEECS) is a new, multi-national, collaboration that focuses on the theory of neutron stars and black holes, building on recent astrophysical discoveries and upcoming experimental opportunities that confront classical and quantum electrodynamics with new challenges. With a highly synergistic research approach, we are addressing these challenges by following a methodology that is both “bottom up” and “top down” to span a vast range of length scales. These approaches involve the physics of collisionless relativistic plasmas (including in strong quantum electrodynamical fields), relativistic magnetohydrodynamics and the physics of dense matter of relevance to the interior of neutron stars.