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DPG in Erlangen 2018
On Monday, 4th March 2018, the 82nd Annual Conference of the DPG and DPG Spring Meeting started at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in Erlangen. It took four days, where scientists from all over Germany met to discuss their newest results on atomic, molecular, plasma physics, and quatnum optics.
Three groups from Bochum also joined the traditional meeting with 1 poster presentation and 6 oral contributions from the experimental physics II group. The group of Prof. Czarnetzki presented 3 oral presentations and one poster presentation. Further, from the field of theoretical electrical engineering one oral and one poster presentation was contributed.
Beside the scientific program, social events like an EinsteinSlam or an award ceremony with interludes of musical accompanists.
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RUB PhD students at WELTPP 2017
At the end of November, the 20th WELTPP took place in the old convent Rolduc in Kerkrade, the Netherlands. The scientific program was made up of five oral and two poster sessions which covered various topics in the field of low temperature plasma physics with a good balance of theoretical and experimental works. The very interested audience -mostly young researchers - led to a lot of good questions after the talks and fruitful discussions during the poster sessions.
Besides the scientific part, the programm was rounded by good food and a guided tour through the old Abbey. For me it was a great pleasure to take part in this workhop and for next year I recommend it for every young researcher in this field.
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ISPC 23 in Montreal
The 23rd International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry was held in Montréal, Canada, from July 30th to August 4th, 2017. This year around 430 scientists from all over the world attended the conference which is held every two years at different places. The next conference is planned for 2019 in Neapel, Italy.
Prof. Achim von Keudell and Prof. Uwe Czarnetzi joined this international event. Prof. Czarnetzki had a plenary talk about "Helium ns-Pulsed Atmospheric Pressure Discharges and the Key Role of Rydberg Molecules".
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Carles Corbella at CIP conference
Jan Benedikt, Dennis Engel, Denis Eremin, Ante Hecimovic and Carles Corbella (image) participated at the joint conference CIP-MIATEC 2017, which took place during June 26-30 in Nice, France.
Plasma processing of materials was the main topic of the meeting. These participants contributed with oral and poster presentations to disseminate the activities related to the collaborative research centre SFB-TR 87.
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ExB Plasmas for Space and Industrial Applications 2017
From June 21st until 23rd, 2017 the annual meeting EXB Plasmas for Space and Industrial Applications took place in Touluse, France. The focus was on the transport of charged particles within magnetic fields. The knowledge, optics, diagnostics, theory, and simulations were discussed within the presentations.
Prof. Achim von Keudell from the Research Department Plasmas with Complex Interactions joined this event of about 40 scientists.
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HIPIMS conference in Braunschweig 2017
On June 13th and 14th, 2017, the annual HIPIMS conference took place in Braunschweig. Since eight years, the two-day conference offers scientists as well as industrial operators to discuss physcial questions of pulsed high power impulse magnetron discharges. The place of conference changes every year between the Sheffield Hallam University and the Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films.
Julian Held, Vincent Layes, Wolfgang Breilmann from the RUB were joining this conferene contributing one oral presentation and one poster.
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IWM 2017
The IWM 2017 was in the Riessersee Hotel in Garmisch-Partenkirchen from June 6-9, 2017. The workshop with familiar atmosphere was a great success for participants as well as for the organization team. Great discussion around the individual sessions and contributions made the four days workshop special. Also, the social program with a hiking tour and a visit of castel Linderhof contributed to the overall success of the workshop.
Within the workshop was the final symposium of the Marie Curie - Initial Training Network - Reactive Atmospheric Plasma Processing (www.rapid-itn.eu).
The next IWM 10 will take place in Kyoto from May 21st until May 24th, 2019.
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ECPD EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS
The 2nd European conference on plasma diagnostics was located this year in Bordeaux. The conference is an biennial event. Scientists from low temperature and industrial plasmas, inertial fusion, magnetic confinement fusion, beam plasmas, as well as astrophysical scientists
It took place from April 18th until 21th, 2017. Prof. von Keudell gave an invited overview lecture with the title "Physics and Diagnostics of Non-equilibrium Atmospheric Pressure Plasmas".
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Radiohalos of spiral galaxies - the impact of CHANG-ES in Bochum
Between June 6th and 10 th, 2017 the meeting concerning Radiohalos of spiral galaxies - the impact of CHANG-ES takes place in Bochum. The research group of Prof. Dettmar is coordinating group. The meeting is distributed over four days, where scientists from the CHANG-ES group as well as guests will come together.
The Galaxy survey “Continuum HAlos in Nearby Galaxies – an Evla Survey (CHANG-ES)“ was observed at the Expanded Very Large Array (EVLA radio telescope), New Mexico, USA. It contains a galaxy sample of significant size over a variety of angular spatial scales, which will help to address fundamental questions regarding radio halos and magnetic fields in spiral galaxies. The galaxies were observed at the two low frequencies, 1.5 GHz (20 cm wavelength) and 6 GHz (6 cm wavelength). CHANG-ES can also exploit the wide bandwidths that are provided by the EVLA. These wide bandwidths permit enormous improvements in continuum sensitivity. In addition, the wide bands provide a wealth of spectral information that will be unique to this survey. Moreover, CHANG-ES is the first survey of edge-on galaxies for which all polarization products will be obtained, providing important information on halo magnetic fields (Irwin et al. 2012).
Webpage of the CHANG-ES meeting
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DPG Bremen
The DPG Spring Meeting has been held this year in Bremen, Germany, March 13-16, where scientists from the fields of plasma physics, matter and cosmos, short-range physics, environmental physics can exchange ideas. The Research Department Plasmas with Complex Interactions is represented at the DPG by talks and posters from students as well as PIs.
Presentations were given by:
- Astrophysikalische MHD-Schockstrukturen am Beispiel von λ Cephei
Lennart Robin Baalmann - An improved analytical model of the local interstellar magnetic field: The extension to compressibility
Jens Kleimann, Christian Röken, and Horst Fichtner - Linear Disturbances in the Local Interstellar Medium: The Plasma-Gas Interaction in the Two-Fluid Approximation
Lukas Westrich - Semi-Analytical Calculation of Interplanetary Magnetic Field Configurations
Sophie Aerdker - Coronal active region modelling based on SDO data
Stephan Barra - A generalized two-component model of solar wind turbulence
Horst Fichtner, Tobias Wiengarten, Sean Oughton, Eugene Engelbrecht, Jens Kleimann, and Klaus Scherer - How hot is the heliosheath?
Klaus Scherer, Hans-Jörg Fahr, Horst Fichtner, Adama Sylla, and John Richardson
Durch Poster vertreten:
- Deposition of SiOx coatings by means of inductively coupled plasma
Markus Brochhagen, Vincent Layes, Marc Böke, and Jan Benedikt - Argon Implantation in Composite Magnetron Targets
Sascha Monje and Vincent Layes - Investigation of Microarray Plasmas with an adjacent dielecric
Sebastian Dzikowski, Ronan Michaud, Remi Dussart, and Volker Schulz-von der Gathen - Correlation of spatially resolved in-vacuum XPS characterisation and optical diagnostics for composite magnetron targets in HiPIMS plasma
Vincent Layes, Sascha Monjé, Carles Corbella, Volker Schulz-von der Gathen, Achim von Keudell, and Teresa de los Arcos - Deposition of a-C:H layers using an atmospheric pressure He/Acetylene plasma jet
Theresa Urbanietz, Katja Rügner, Gert Willems, Achim von Keudell, and Jan Benedikt - Broadening and shift of optical emission lines in a high power impulse magnetron sputtering discharge
Julian Held, Ante Hecimovic, and Volker Schulz-von der Gathen - Investigations on the dynamics of non-reactive and reactive high-power impulse magnetron sputtering plasmas
Katharina Grosse, Wolfgang Breilmann, Christian Maszl, Jan Benedikt, and Achim von Keudell - Electron dynamics in magnetized technological plasmas: A kinetic description
Ralf Peter Brinkmann and Dennis Krüger
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Gaseous Electronics Conference (GEC)
It is one of the world's largest plasma conferences and is normally only held in convention centers or hotels. In Bochum, the Gaseous Electronics Conference will be held for the first time on the campus of a university.
The organizers of this year's Gaseous Electronics Conference, or GEC for short, are expecting around 450 international participants. The 69th edition, which will take place from October 10 to 14, 2016 at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), is thus expected to be the largest GEC ever.
The logistical and planning challenge includes, for example, 64 invited and 222 submitted talks, 262 poster contributions, a conference dinner at the Henrichshütte in Hattingen, a show at the Planetarium Bochum, laboratory tours at the RUB, a concert at the Audimax, a visit to the Botanical Garden, and an accompanying industrial exhibition with more than 20 companies.
Not in the USA for the fourth time only.
The organizer is the American Physical Society (APS). The meeting is organized locally by the Research Department "Plasmas with Complex Interactions" at RUB, in particular by Prof. Dr. Uwe Czarnetzki and his team.
"For only the fourth time in its nearly 70-year history, the meeting has not been held in the USA," explains Czarnetzki. "And for the first time ever, the meeting venue is the campus of a university. We are proud to have brought the GEC to Bochum." Last year, experts in plasma physics and technology met at the Honolulu Convention Center in Hawaii.
Plasmas are extremely versatile
In terms of content, the focus is on so-called low-temperature plasmas and the associated atomic and molecular physics. These are partially ionized - electrically charged - gases. They are characterized by high conductivity. They also exhibit unique chemistry and interaction with surfaces.
Their applications are broad, ranging from lighting to cancer treatment. Low-temperature plasmas can be used to coat, activate and clean surfaces, produce gas lasers and semiconductor devices, or disinfect medical equipment. They are also used in wound healing.
Broad and well positioned: Plasma research in Bochum
"Research and development are often interdisciplinary and primarily encompass physics, electrical engineering, chemistry - and more recently biology and medicine," like this. The Bochum Research Department Plasmas with Complex Interactions is correspondingly broadly positioned.
"The RUB has long been one of the world's strongest research universities in the field of plasma physics and technology and therefore enjoys an excellent international reputation," says Czarnetzki. Scientists from various faculties cooperate across disciplines in the Plasma research focus: a total of 23 chairs and research groups with more than 300 employees from physics and astronomy, electrical engineering, chemistry, biology and mechanical engineering.
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Prof. Achim von Keudell ist Chair der GRC 2016
Die Gordon Research Conferences zählen zu den renommiertesten Konferenzen überhaupt. Mit der Verpflichtung der Vortragenden über aktuelle und unpublizierte Arbeiten zu sprechen und der Verpflichtung der Teilnehmer diese Informationen vertraulich zu behandeln, zählt diese Konferenzreihe zu den spannendsten und interessantesten überhaupt. Nirgendwo sonst bekommt man mehr Einblicke in die aktuelle Entwicklung der Plasmaphysik und hat zusätzlich noch die Gelgenheit in entspannter Atmosphäre mit hochkarätigen Experten zu diskutieren.
Als Chair der GRC 2016 „Plasma with Complex Interations-Exploiting the Non-Equilibrium“ war Prof. Achim von Keudell maßgeblich an Organisation und Programmgestaltung beteiligt. Eine kleine EPII Delegation bestehend aus DoktorandInnen und einem Postdoc war ebenfalls vor Ort und konnte von dieser außergewöhlichen Konferenz profitieren.
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