Dr. Marian Lazar at COSPAR 2010
The Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) is the biggest interdisciplinary conference on space science worldwide, and this year it took place in Bremen (July 18-25, 2010). A large number of technical exhibitions from space industry and research have also been associated to the scientific program.
The Research Department enabled the participation of Dr. Marian Lazar to this special event. He presented new kinetic models for the plasma waves and instabilities based on the existence of suprathermal populations in the solar environments: the corona, the solar wind and the Earth’s magnetosphere. Waves and instabilities play an important role in the acceleration and general transport processes of electrons and ions in interplanetary space. Modeling deviations from Maxwellian equilibrium with suprathermal distributions of Kappatype provides better predictions and fits to the observations. This was a great opportunity to find an increasing interest and support for further analysis of these realistic models, but also to establish new valuable contacts.