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1. MERCUR WINTER SCHOOL ON PLASMA ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS
This winter school has been held at the Physikzentrum Bad Honnef from 12 to 17.01.2014. The organizers are Wolfgang Rhode, Reinhard Schlickeiser & Julia Tjus. This PhD school consists of block lectures and accompanying exercises, which is intended for further education in corresponding focus areas.
There will be lectures focusing on cosmic ray detection, interaction, and transport. Speakers in these areas include: Giancarlo Brunetti, Brian Lacki, Francis Halzen, Katharina Morik, Günter Sigl, and Eli Waxman.
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Junior scientist event WELTPP-16
The 16th Workshop on the Exploration of Low Temperature Plasma Physics (WELTPP-16) will be held in November, 2013 at the old convent Rolduc in Kerkrade. This workshop is intended for active scientists working in the field of low temperature plasma physics.
http://www.tue.nl
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Internationaler Workshops "Wind Bubbles, Astrospheres, Heliosphere: Environments and Cosmic Rays"
The interdisciplinary workshop will give a synoptic overview of the commonality and differences between astrospheres (or stellar wind bubbles) and the heliosphere, as well as the production and leakage of cosmic rays in such 'Spheres'.
Er findet vom 04.11.-08.11.2013 an der RUB mit führenden Wissenschaftler/innen aus 12 Nationen und 3 Kontinenten im Raum Shanghai, IBZ (Beckmann's Hof) statt.
Organisation: PD Dr. Horst Fichtner & Dr. Klaus Scherer
http://helio_cr.tp4.rub.de/Astrosphere
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18. European Summer School
18. European Summer School, Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, 5.-12. Oktober 2013
“Low Temperature Plasma Physics: Basics and Applications” (5.-10. Oktober 2013)
und Masterclass "Plasma Medicine"(11./12. Oktober 2013)
http://www.plasma-school.org/
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H.E.S.S. Meeting 2013
22.04. - 26.04.2013 Event Center
Faculty of Physics and Astronomy
Institute for Theoretical Physics IV
http://www.mpi-hd.mpg.de/hfm/HESS/
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KICK-OFF MEETING OF COST ACTION TD1208 “ELECTRICAL DISCHARGES WITH LIQUIDS FOR FUTURE APPLICATIONS”
Kick-off meeting of COST Action TD1208 “Electrical discharges with liquids for future applications”, has been held on Aril 11th, 2013 in Brussels. Plasmas generated in liquids and gas discharges interacting with liquids are today hot research. Plasma-liquid systems can produce strongly non-equilibrium environments and plasma-liquid interactions represent a great opportunity for developing novel chemistries and related technologies. This proposed Action aims bringing together a high level of experimental, simulation and theoretical expertise available around Europe and will support a coordinated effort that will improve our knowledge of basic processes responsible for initiating and sustaining discharges in/on liquids. Potential technological impact is foreseen in a range of application fields such as water and surface treatment, synthesis of nanoparticles, catalysis, formation of new organic compounds, and biochemistry. The chair of this action is Prof. Prof Frantisek Krcma from Brno University of Technology in Czech Republic and 23 countries are up to now the members of the Management Committee. Germany is represented by Jun.-Prof. Jan. Benedikt (Ruhr-Univeristy Bochum) and Dr. Stephan Reuter (INP, Greifswald).
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HERAEUS-SEMINAR "PLASMA AND RADIATION ENVIRONMENT IN ASTROSPHERES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE HABITABILITY OF EXTRASOLAR PLANETS"
The 527. Wilhelm und Else Heraeus-Seminar "Plasma and Radiation Environment in Astrospheres and Implications for the Habitability of Extrasolar Planets", took place from March 10th-15th, 2013 in the "Physikzentrum" of the German Physical Society (DPG) in Bad Honnef.
About 60 participants from 8 nations were discussing the conditions for habitability that are defined by the astrospheres, magnetospheres, and atmospheres surrounding extrasolar planets, including the question how signatures of life, so-called biomarkers, could be observed. The workshop brought together established experts on the various topics, young scientists as well as graduate students, and contributed to activities that will go well beyond the seminar week. The latter was supplemented by a Mini-Workshop within the framework of the ongoing collaboration between the Heliophysics group of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, the Astroparticle Physics group at the University of Kiel, and the Centre for Space Research at the North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, South Africa.
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527th Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Seminar
Plasma and Radiation Environment in Astrospheres and Implications for the Habitability of Extrasolar Planets
10 - 15 March 2013, Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany
Organization: PD Dr. Horst Fichtner & Dr. Klaus Scherer, Group Heliophysics, RUB
For this Heraeus seminar the emphasis is put on five key questions for the following topics:
Astrospheres: What is the spectrum of the cosmic ray flux outside an astrosphere and how is it transported through it?
Stellarspheres: How does the host star influence the exo-planetary environment by its electromagnetic radiation and energetic particle production?
Magnetospheres: What are the possible magnetosphere configurations of an exo-planet and what is its influence on the transport of energetic particles?
Atmospheres: How does the chemistry, the atmospheric dynamics and interaction with energetic particles influence the observability of an exo-planet?
Biospheres: Can possible signatures of life such as atmospheric ozone, methane be observed, and what is their possible contamination by energetic particle and radiation processes in the exo-planetary atmosphere?
http://helio_cr.tp4.rub.de/Heraeus/
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Les Houches Winter school on plasma astrophysics
"The future of plasma astrophysics: Combining experiments, observations, simulations and theory"
February 25 - March 8 2013, Les Houches, France
(Organizers: F. Rincon, T. Passot, C. Forest, R. Grauer)
http://userpages.irap.omp.eu/~frincon/houches/
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H.E.S.S. MEETING 2013
From April 22-26, 2013, the Chair of Theoretical Space and Astrophysics will host the Spring Meeting of the H.E.S.S. Collaboration. It has been held at the RUB Event Center.
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Junior scientist event WELTPP-15
The 15th Workshop on the Exploration of Low Temperature Plasma Physics (WELTPP-15) will be held on November 22nd and 23rd, 2012 at the old convent Rolduc in Kerkrade. This workshop is intended for active scientists working in the field of low temperature plasma physics.
http://www.tue.nl/fileadmin/content/faculteiten/tn/PMP/Guidelines__PMP__TuMo_/announcement.pdf