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Created: 05 October 2015

SYMPOSIUM ON THE OCCASION OF THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GERMAN JSPS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

Prof. Dr. Uwe Czarnetzki participates at the Symposium on the Occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the German JSPS Alumni Association at Meiji University Tokyo, Surugadai Campus, Japan on October 6th, 2015.
The symposium is jointly organized by German JSPS Alumni Association and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Prof. Czarnetzki has founded the JSPS Club 20 years ago and was its chair for the first eight years.

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Created: 29 September 2015

LAPD17 SYMPOSIUMIN HOKKAIDO, JAPAN

The LAPD17 Symposium is organized jointly by Hokkaido University and the National Institute for Fusion Science and takes place from Sunday, 27 September 2015 (evening reception) to Thursday, 1 October 2015 at Gateaux Kingdom Sapporo in Hokkaido, Japan. Prof. Dr. Uwe Czarnetzki from Experimentalphysics V gives a talk about "Time resolved evolution of the EVDF in a ns-pulsed atmospheric pressure plasma jet in helium". The LAPD17 Symposium is organized jointly by Hokkaido University and the National Institute for Fusion Science and takes place from Sunday, 27 September 2015 (evening reception) to Thursday, 1 October 2015 at Gateaux Kingdom Sapporo in Hokkaido, Japan. Prof. Dr. Uwe Czarnetzki from Experimentalphysics V gives a talk about "Time resolved evolution of the EVDF in a ns-pulsed atmospheric pressure plasma jet in helium".

Photo (from left to right): Prof. Katsunori Muraoka from Kyushu University (founding father and Spiritus Rector of the Laser Aided Plasma Diagnostics) and Prof. Dr. Uwe Czarnetzki 

The LAPD17 Symposium is the continuation of a biennial series that began at Kyushu University in 1983. It brings together physicists and chemists in diverse areas of laser-based plasma diagnostics including the physics of nuclear fusion, laser physics and low-temperature plasma chemistry and physics. The symposium aims to promote cross-vertilization of these fields via fruitful discussion, and covers all diagnostics using electromagnetic waves (lasers and microwaves) applied to fusion plasmas, industrial process plasmas, environmental plasmas, plasmas for medical applications, atmospheric plasmas, plasmas in liquids and other plasma applications. Topics on hardware developments related to laser-aided plasma diagnostics are also welcome.

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Created: 09 June 2015

11^TH FRONTIERS IN LOW TEMPERATURE PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS

The 11th biennial Frontiers in Low Temperature Plasma Diagnostics (FLTPD) workshop was being organised by the PIIM laboratory (Aix-Marseille University and the CNRS). It was held on the beautiful Mediterranean island of Porquerolles, approximately 15 min by boat from the mainland. It took place from Sunday 24th to Thursday 28th May, 2015 at the IGESA conference centre.
Marcel Fiebrandt and Moritz Oberberg (both AEPT), Dr. Volker Schulz-von der Gathen (EP2) as well as Prof. Dr. Uwe Czarnetzki, Dr. Emile Carbone, Dr. Tsanko Tsankov, and Xi-Ming Zhu (all EP5) participated.

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Created: 15 May 2015

8^TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MICROPLASMAS

The 8^th International Workshop on Microplasmas (IWM 2015) was held from May 11-15, 2015 at Seton Hall University, Seton Hall Law School campus, located in Newark, New Jersey. The IWM is hosted by the Department of Physics of the College of Arts & Sciences and the Gibbons Institute, Science & Technology Law of Seton Hall University. The German-French collaboration between GREMI (Orléans) and RUB (Bochum) continues and was being strengthened overseas as well as you can see on the photo: PhD students Judith Golda from RUB (right) together with Valentin Felix from GREMI (left).
Prof. Dr. Remi Dussart (GREMI) gave an invited talk about the common resarch topic "Performances
and instabilities of silicon based microdischarges".

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Created: 23 April 2015

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON METALLURGICAL COATINGS AND THIN FILMS (ICMCTF)

The International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films (ICMCTF) is internationally recognized as the premier international conference focused on thin-film deposition, characterization, and advanced surface engineering. It brings together scientists, engineers, and technologists from academia, government laboratories, and industry, thereby merging cutting-edge research with real-world applications. The conference consistently draws more than 700 attendees each year within 37 oral technical sessions and a well-attended poster session.
It took part in San Diego from April 20th-24th, 2015. Postdoc Dr. Ante Hecimovic (Experimental Physics II) gave a presentation entitled "Plasma oscillations and ion transport in DC and HiPIMS magnetron discharges". He was also a session chair on a topical symposia "Plasma diagnostic and modelling". At the end, he has organised a round table disccusion on "Plasma diagnostic and modelling techniques for improved understanding of deposition process".
Prof. Dr. Peter Awakowicz and his PhD student Stefan Ries participated at ICMCTF as well.

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Created: 08 April 2015

ÉCOLE DE PHYSIQUE DES HOUCHES: FUNDAMENTALS OF AERODYNAMIC FLOW AND COMBUSTION CONTROL BY PLAMAS

Dr. Volker Schulz-von der Gathen (EP2, RUB) gives a talk about "Dynamics of the discharge evolution of micro discharge arrays" at the École de Physique des Houches in France (from April 12, 2015 to April 17, 2015).
This conference is the fifth of a cycle of conferences dedicated to the fundamental issues in the scientific disciplines relevant to aeronautics and space development. The previous editions of this workshop were held in Villa Monastero, Italy (2007), Les Houches (2009 & 2011) and Aussois (2013). The program will feature twenty invited lectures. Presentations will again address fundamental issues, experimental challenges, measurement methods and advanced numerical simulation.
The conference is managed by a team from the Paris region, with Svetlana Starikovskaia (Chairperson, Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, Ecole Polytechnique), Christophe Laux (vice-Chair, Ecole Centrale de Paris), Jean-Pierre Taran (local organisation, Onera) and a Steering Committee composed of leading scientists in the field.
The program of invited lectures can be found here.

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Created: 05 March 2015

DPG Spring Meeting Plasma Physics & Short Time Physics 2015

Location: Audimax Foyer & Lecture Hall Center East (HZO), RUB
Date: 2-5.3.2015
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Created: 27 January 2015

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP "COSMIC RAY ANISOTROPIES"

This interdisciplinary workshop will give a synoptic overview of the cosmic ray anisotropy observations by the large area telescopes as IceCube, Milagro, the Tibet airshower array among others, and those observed by spacecraft especially by the Voyager and Pamela spacecraft and the AMS instrument, as well as the theory and modeling efforts including that of the large scale heliosphere. The anisotropies in the cosmic ray flux appear from the high energy range (TeV) to low energy range (keV to MeV) that is in the propagation of galactic cosmic rays to the propagation of solar energetic particles as well as that of Jovian electrons. Recent Voyager observations also suggest that the low energy flux at the heliopause is anisotropic.
To describe the anisotropic transport a couple of models are discussed in literature. In the inner heliosphere focussed transport theories are used, which are solved numerically with the help of the equivalent stochastic differential equations. In the heliotail, for the high energy, the gyroradius is of the order of the cylindric diameter of the tail and thus one has to use the full orbit theory.
In addition all the transport models need as input the state of the local plasma enviroment. The latter is provided by large scale magnetohydrodynamic models.
Finallly, the transport of cosmic rays depends on the diffusion tensor, which is affected by the local magnetic field fluctuations and its turbulence. The acceleration or deceleration depends on the local structure of the shock fronts.
The positron anisotropy observed by Pamela spacecraft and the AMS instrument onboard of the ISS are another aspect of anomalies in the cosmic ray spectra, and some aspects shall be discussed with the emphasis on anisotropic distribution functions.
The workshop takes place at Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, 26 - 30 Januar 2015.

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Created: 23 January 2015

PROF. JAN BENEDIKT AT SAPP CONFERENCE

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Jan Benedikt has an invited talk “Study of plasma-chemistry processes in atmospheric plasmas: Absolute density measurements of radicals, VUV spectroscopy and some simulations” at the SAPP XX conference. This is the 20th Symposium on Applications of Plasma Processes (SAPP XX), which was this year combined with the COST TD1208 Workshop on Application of Gaseous Plasmas with Liquids. The symposium is held every two years in Slovakia and was located at Hotel SLOVAN in Taranská Lomnica, Vysoké Tatry between January 17 and January 22, 2015. 

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Created: 30 October 2014

GEC 2014 IN RALEIGH, USA

The 67th GEC will be hosted by North Carolina State University from November 3rd - November 7th, 2014 in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. PhD students Katja Rügner and Daniel Schröder (Research Unit FOR 1123 "Physics of Microplasmas", Experimentalphysics II, RUB) participated.
NCSU is one of the leading educational and research universities in the United States, and home to numerous groups focused on plasma science and plasma application. This presence is further strengthened by nearby Duke University and the University of North Carolina; the three universities forming the science and technology hub known as the Research Triangle, home to industry giants and high tech start-ups, many of which were launched out of NCSU.