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Modern Trends in Theoretical Plasma Physics
The 2-day workshop is part of the DFG Research Unit FOR 1048 events and will be held at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, February 21-22, 2011.
This workshop aims to bring together world leading experts in the fields of
* Eulerian and Lagrangian turbulence
* Kinetic and fluid descriptions of plasmas
* Energetic particles and transport properties
* High Performance Computations of fluids and plasmas.
Talks will be given in the seminar room NB 7/173.
http://moderntrends2011.tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/
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WELTPP-13: 25.-26. November 2010
The 13th Workshop on the Exploration of Low Temperature Plasma Physics (WELTPP-13) will be held on the 25th and 26th of November 2010 at the old convent Rolduc in Kerkrade. This workshop is intended for active scientists working in the field of low temperature plasma physics. The workshop is sponsored by the Research Department "Plasmas with complex interactions" of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, the "Centre for Plasma Physics" of the Queen’s University Belfast and the Dutch 'onderzoekschool Centrum voor Plasmafysica en Stralingstechnologie' (CPS) of the Eindhoven University of Technology.
The aim of this workshop is to create a forum for young low temperature plasma scientists, that is graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, to meet, learn from each other, exchange knowledge, present results and establish new contacts. The emphasis is on the presentation of the work of the people new in this field. The meeting will be a two days session starting on Thursday before lunch and finishing on Friday afternoon.
http://www.phys.tue.nl/EPG/WELTPP/
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Workshop "Kinetic processes in plasmas: instabilities, turbulence and transport"
The workshop "Kinetic processes in plasmas: instabilities, turbulence and transport" will have been held from November 8 to 11, 2010 at the Event Center of the Ruhr-University Bochum and will be organized in cooperation with the research group FOR 1048.
http://kinetics2010.physik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/
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3rd Internal Workshop of FOR 1123
The third internal workshop of the research group FOR 1123 "Physics of Microplasmas" has been held on October 25, 2010 at the RUB Event Center (Room 3). The aim of the workshop is to draw an interim balance for FOR 1123 after almost two years and to prepare the renewal application. The current status of all projects was presented and discussed.
http://www.for1123.rub.de/FG1123/
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European Summer School: 9.-16.10.2010
15. European Summer School, Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, 9.-16. Oktober 2010
“Low Temperature Plasma Physics: Basics and Applications” (9.-14. Oktober) und
“Atmospheric Pressure Plasmas" (Masterclass, 15./16. Oktober)
Weitere Informationen finden Sie hier.
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Computational Plasma Physics at the RUB and in Copenhagen
From 22.09. to 24.09.2010 an informal meeting on Computational Plasma Physics between the working group of Prof. Dr. Rainer Grauer and Prof. Dr. Åke Nordlund (Computational Astrophysics) has been held in Copenhagen at the Niels Bohr Institute. In particular, the progress of the use of graphics card clusters in this field was discussed.
On this occasion, Martin Rieke gave an introductory talk on CUDA and solving 2D EMHD equations on graphics cards. Dr. Christian Schwarz reported on his new framework cudaHYPE and its use in parallel solving of 3D MHD equations on a GPU cluster. From the Copenhagen group, Dr. Troels Haugbølle told us about his experiences with PIC (Particle in Cell) simulations on graphics cards.
In Prof. Grauer's talk, he explained strategies for coupling kinetic and fluid systems (Vlasov/MHD coupling). Last in the lecture series, Prof. Nordlund reported on new simulation results in the field of solar physics.
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Computational Plasma Physics
The PostGraduate School "Computational Plasma Physics" of FOR1048 and the Research Department Plasmas with Complex Interactions has been held from September 6 to 9, 2010 at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
The number of participants is limited to 30.
http://compschool2010.tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
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Plasma Doctoral Workshop
The Research Department "Plasmas with Complex Interactions" organizes in cooperation with the research group FOR 1123 "Microplasmas" and the SFB-TR 87 a workshop for PhD students. This workshop has been held on August 9 and 10, 2010 in Rolduc, Kerkrade (Netherlands).
Starting on Monday morning, the PhD students will present and discuss their current research results individually or in groups of two.
In addition to the Bochum students, Pascal Chabert and Claudia Lazzaroni (both LPP, France) as well as doctoral students from Paderborn and RWTH Aachen will also participate.
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Culham Plasma Physics Summer School 2010
The Research Department enabled the participation of Michael Zacharias, Tomislav Skoda, and Michal Michno in the „Culham Plasma Physics Summer School 2010“ from July 12th to July 23rd. This school was the 47th in the series organized at Culham Science Centre, near Oxford. The school was addressed to graduate and PhD students from all over the world and offered lectures in fundamental principles of plasma physics on the one hand and a broad range of applications on the other hand. The participants deepened their understanding of MHD and kinetic theory and broadened their knowledge by studying the applications in fusion, astrophysics and industrial plasmas. The lectures on space plasmas by Dr. Jonathan Eastwood from the Imperial College London and on astrophysical plasmas by Dr. Philippa Browning from the University of Manchester were of particular interest for the Research Department. There was also a lot of room for scientific exchange and the participants made valuable contacts to other researchers.
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Trip by Martino Olivo to the IceCube meeting in Annapolis, MD (May 2010)
IceCube is the best instrument for observing neutrinos from astrophysical plasmas. The measurement of neutrinos is essential for understanding the structure of shocked plasmas, which occur e.g. in supernova remnants, active galaxies and gamma ray bursts. Since July 2009, Jun.-Prof. Julia Becker's group and thus the Research Department "Plasmas with Complex Interactions" is a member of the IceCube collaboration. Every 6 months the members of IceCube meet to discuss the status of the experiment, new analysis techniques and the development of theoretical models for neutrino emission. The meetings are essential for the collaboration to advance the progress of IceCube and for us as a working group to take an active role in the experiment. PhD student Martino Olivo gave a talk on neutrino production in Gamma Ray Bursts at the Maryland meeting. At the collaboration meeting he was able to have discussions about the results of the Becker, Halzen, O'Murchada & Olivo, ApJ (2010) publication on neutrino emission from gamma-ray bursts with the IceCube collaboration specialists on this topic.
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Jens Dreyer at the IceCube Collaboration Meeting
The IceCube neutrino telescope is currently the most powerful instrument for observing neutrinos from astrophysical plasmas. All scientists involved in this project are united in the IceCube Collaboration. This international collaboration meets semi-annually, in the spring in the U.S. and in the fall in Europe. The collaboration meetings are used for exchange of ideas and discussion among the members, who come from the USA, New Zealand, Japan, Switzerland, Sweden, Belgium and Germany, among others. Mr. Dreyer and Mr. Olivo attended the collaboration meeting in Annapolis, Maryland, USA, from May 1 to 10, 2010. During the meeting, Mr. Dreyer presented a software project that is being conducted in Bochum at the RD. This project deals with the reprogramming and improvement of a central software component of the simulation chain of IceCube and was therefore received with great interest.
Furthermore, Mr. Dreyer was able to discuss ideas for future data analysis with many experts of the collaboration. Furthermore, Dr. Dreyer represented the interests of the Research Department within the IceCube collaboration on the Collaboration Board. Martino Olivo gave a talk on neutrino production in Gamma Ray Bursts, which was also received with great interest by the collaboration. Furthermore, Mr. Olivo was able to discuss the results of a publication dealing with neutrino production within shocked plasmas in Gamma Ray Bursts with the specialists of the IceCube collaboration.