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Workshop "Plasma Theory"
A special workshop on plasma theory ranging from astrophysical topics to fusion science has been organized by Prof. Grauer from TPI. Special guests were Dr. Daniel Told from the IPP Helmholtz Group on Computational Plasma Physics and Dr. Moritz Püschel from the University of Texas/University of Wisconsin.
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International School on Low Temperature Plasma Physics: Basics and Applications
The traditional summer school on low temperature plasma physics will go on in Octobre next year. The summer school takes place in Physikzentrum in Bad Honnef and is from Octobre 5th, 2018 until Octobre 10th, 2019. After the school, the master class will be from Octobre 10th, 2019 until Octobre 12th, 2019.
Participants are welcomed to sign in for registration until June 15th, 2019. Due to limitation in the number of rooms at the Physikzentrum, the attendance is limited.
- For more information, see Homepage Summer School
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International School on Plasma Physics 2018
The 21st International School on Low Temperature Plasma Physics started in Bad Honnef. The School is attended by 68 students from 14 nations. The success of hand-on workshop from the last summer school was repeated. This year, Volker Schulz-von der Gathen also prepared an intensive workshop, in which students could experience practical challenges in spectroscopy.
The scientific Chairmen were Olivier Guiatella and Anne Bourdon from CNRS/LPP in France.
At Friday, 11th October the Master Class with the title Electronegative plasmas took place with 31 participants.
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International School on Plasma Physics 2017 started
The 21st International School on Low Temperature Plasma Physics started in Bad Honnef. The School is attended by 65 students from 16 nations. 22 teachers from all over the world talk about basics and forefront plasma physics during the 5 days of the Plasma School.
The scientific Chairmen are Olivier Guiatella and Anne Bourdon from CNRS/LPP in France.
At Friday, 12th October the Master Class with the title New approaches for plasma/surface interaction studies will take place.
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RAPID workshop in Eindhoven
The workshop with the focus on "Process technology from Nano-Scale to Large-scale" and "Emerging concepts in diagnostics and modelling" of the EU programm RAPID was between April 11th and 13th, 2017 at the Eindhoven University of Technlogy.
In sum 15 contributions were presented of researchers of different fields, from PhD students to well-known professors. In between the sessions, discussions about different research topics and the lab tour helped the workshop to reach its successfulness.
The Bochum group with three participants from the Research Department Plasmas with Complex Interactions could welcome a former member of the group, Dr. Gina Oberbossel. She was one of the presenter at the workshop and visited the labs in Bochum previously to the workshop.
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General meeting of the SFB-TR 87 in Raesfeld
On April 4th and 5th, 2017 the annual general meeting of the SFB-TR 87 took place in the castle of Raesfeld.
The focus was the objective of each project for the third funding phase. The general idea of the special research field was recovered in the presentations of the individual projects. Moreover, three new projects were introduced and two projects were integrated into one project for the next phase. Based on the fruitful discussions, the members left the meeting with the aim to write the proposal for the final funding phase 2018 - 2022.
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Workshop an der North-West University, Campus Potchefstroom, in Südafrika
Im Rahmen des BMBF-Projkets "Astrophysical Processes in the Heliospheric Environment" findet ein Workshop an der Kooperationshoschule in Südafrika statt. Neben einer Delegation aus Bochum werden von den anderen Projektpartner sich Vertreter in Südafrika zusammentreffen um die Ergebnisse zu diskutieren.
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Presentations Plasma Day 2015
01a Plasma Research at AEPT (1) Peter Awakowicz (11.3 MB)
01b Plasma Research at AEPT (2) Katharina Stapelmann (2.2 MB)
02 Microplasmas Volker Schulz-von der Gathen (54.5 MB)
03 Dynamics of high power pulsed magnetron plasmas Achim von Keudell (11.7 MB)
04 Plasma Medicine at RUB Julia Bandow / Jan Benedikt (3.1 MB)
05 Plasma Physics in Galaxy Evolution Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar (19.3 MB)
06 Modeling and Simulation of Technical Plasmas Thomas Mussenbrock (15.0 MB)
07 Electromagnetic Plasma Diagnostics from DC to visible Tsanko Vaskov Tsankov (4.8 MB)
08 Heliophysics Horst Fichtner (9.3 MB)
09 Jets in Active Galactic Nuclei Dominik Elsässer (3.8 MB)
10a Flares, dynamos and turbulence: from kinetics to instantons (1) Jürgen Dreher (4.8 MB)
10b Flares, dynamos and turbulence: from kinetics to instantons (2) Rainer Grauer (4.2 MB)
11 Combinatorial Thin Film Research for the Development of New Materials Alfred Ludwig
Plasma Day 2015 Programm (6.3 MB)
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Plasma Day 2016
This year's Plasma Day (26/09/2016) had been held in the premises of the Event Center of the Ruhr-University Bochum. Members of the Research Department Plasmas with Complex Interactions presented their main research topics and the latest results.
At the beginning Prof. Dr. Achim von Keudell (Experimental Physics II, RUB) welcomed the Verwsammelten (schedule). Björn Offerhaus & Friederike Kogelheide gave a talk on "Comparison of a surface DBD with a volume DBD", then Dr. Ante Hecimovic presented on "High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering".
A preview of upcoming research intentions was given by Prof. Dr. Achim von Keudell on the outline of the Collaborative Research Center 1316 "Transient atmospheric plasmas from plasmas to liquids to solids".
Marco Krewing, who spoke on "Selected examples of plasmas in biology and medicine", worked in an application-oriented way. Kerstin Weis spoke about "Plasmas in Astrophysics", followed by Jan Trieschmann with the contribution "Simulation Methods for Technological Plasmas".
The experienced scientists Prof. Dr. Czarnetzki swoei Dr. Tsanko V. Tsankov spoke about "Ion transport in plasmas and the kinetic Bohm criterion".
From theoretical physics there were three lectures by Dr. Klaus Scherer on "Astrospheres", Dr. Jens Kleimann on "Ruhr Astroparticle and Plasma Physics Center" and Prof. Dr. Grauer on "Multiscale/Multiphysics simulations of collisionless plasmas".
The day was concluded with a contribution by Prof. Dr. Dirk Reiser on "Theoretical Plasma Physics at FZJ IEK-4, Tokamaks, Stellarators and Linear Devices".
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Excursion to Greifswald 2016
From September 5-7, 2016, Prof. Dr. Uwe Czarnetzki (Experimental Physics V) and eleven students went on a field trip to the INP (Dr. Torsten Gerling) and the MPI (Prof. Robert Wolf) in Greifswald.
On Tuesday morning, there was a lecture by Dr. Ronny Brandenburg at the INP, in which he generally introduced the INP and its research directions. This was followed by a guided tour of the laboratories (including spectroscopy, coating, plasma medicine) with a discussion with PhD students and scientists at posters as a conclusion. Tuesday afternoon at the MPI Prof. Robert Wolf gave a lecture and introduced the MPI-IPP and its research directions, gave an introduction to controlled nuclear fusion and even a guided tour at Wendelstein (for the group the magnetic field was shut down in the meantime to allow such a tour!), a guided tour at the microwave heating, gyratrons and beamlines and a discussion with Prof. Wolf.
The evening ended with a dinner in the city center and a cozy evening at the bar of the youth hostel.
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RAPP Center: Inauguration workshop
In this first conference and opening ceremony of the "Ruhr Astroparticle and Plasma Physics Center" (RAPP Center) September 21-23, 2016, international speakers are invited to review knowledge on central questions with connection to activities within the RAPP center. The conference will start with an opening reception at the planetarium Bochum Wednesday evening. On Thursday and Friday, we will have one and a half days of plenary-only talks with additional time for discussions. The expected number of participants is about 100, talks are by invitation only, each 22 Minutes long plus 3 minutes for direct questions. We hope to intensify discussions about the frontiers of plasma- and particle-astrophysics in order to enhance the collaboration within the RAPP center and with our international friends even further.