International Cooperation Agreement FOR 1048 and Center of Magnetic Self-Organization, USA
The Research Department "Plasmas with Complex Interaction" announces a new cooperation: Prof. Rainer Grauer signed the International Cooperation Agreement between the Center for Magnetic Self-Organization in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas (CMSO), distributed over six institutions in the U.S. (the University of Wisconsin, the University of Chicago, Princeton University, Swarthmore College, University of New Hampshire, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory) and the Research Unit Instabilities, Turbulence and Transport in Cosmic Magnetic Fields (DFG-FOR 1048) at Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany) is approved and will enter into force on May 1, 2010.
Cooperation with Bilkent University Ankara
The Ruhr-Universität Bochum occupies a leading position in international microplasma research. Microplasmas in particular are a central topic of the Research Department "Plasmas with Complex Interactions". Scientists from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and Bilkent University, Ankara (Turkey) are now getting to the bottom of microplasmas with an ultra-fast "camera". The aim of the cooperation is to document the formation of the plasma with the very highest time resolution, as in a film. The cooperation agreement also includes joint teaching events and conferences as well as the exchange of students and scientists.
New DAAD project (PPP) with Serbia
In December 2009, the DAAD and Ministry of Science of Republic of Serbia gave the green light for starting the joint project of Gaseous Electronics Laboratory (Institute of Physics, Belgrade University) and our Forschergruppe “Physics of Microplasmas”, Project A4 (Research Dep. “Plasma Physics with Complex Interactions”). The participators are from the Gaseous Electronics Group Prof. Zoran Lj. Petrović, Dr. Dragana Marić and Nikola Škoro, PhD student and form the Reasearch Department Prof. Jörg Winter, Dr. Ilija Stefanović and Thomas Kuschel, PhD student. Thus the both groups share the common interest in the new developing field of microplasmas this colaboration will intensify our contacts and exchange of the young scientists for the next two years. The first visit of Belgrade group will be at the and of the March during the International Workshop «Diagnostics of Microplasmas» where D. Marić from Belgrade shall give an invited lecture.