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GRC
01.08.2014 - GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCE: PLASMA PROCESSING SCIENCE
The Gordon Research Conference "Plasma Processing Science: Many Scales, Many Applications, One Discipline" was held from July 27 - August 1, 2014 at Bryant University in Smithfield, RI (USA). Prof. Achim Von Keudell was Vice Chair, Postdoc Dr. Ante Hecimovic gave a talk about "Spokes, Instabilities and Self Organisation Phenomena in HiPIMS Discharges" and Jun.-Prof. Jan Benedikt about "Plasma-Cell Interaction: Can We Ever Understand and Control It?" .
The Plasma Processing Science Gordon Research Conference was held in conjunction with the Plasma Processing Science Gordon Research Seminar.
Plasma processing science, due to its intrinsic nonequilibrium nature, has been at the heart of many key enabling technologies and provided breakthrough solutions in areas of energy, human health, and environmental sustainability. The 2014 Gordon Research Conference on Plasma Processing Science featured a comprehensive program that highlights the most cutting edge scientific advances in plasma science and technology. It emphasized the common thread underlying all these applications that holds the promise to provide the knowledge base required to address future technological grand challenges. Fundamental science sessions focused on plasma physics and chemistry and their interaction on solid and liquid surfaces and for a wide range of applications, ranging from medicine, materials synthesis to energy production and storage. The conference brought together leaders in the field with junior investigators and graduate students. The special format of the Gordon Conferences, with programmed discussion sessions and ample time for informal gatherings in the afternoons and evenings, provided for a fertile atmosphere of brainstorming and creative thinking among the attendees.
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DR. ANTE HECIMOVIC IN MONS
Dr. Ante Hecimovic visited Prof. Stephanos Konstantinidis and Dr. Nikolay Britun at University of Mons from July 21st till 25th, 2014. During the visit a measurement campaign was undertaken, where the spatial distribution of the Ti atoms and ions in transient HiPIMS plasma was observed using the laser induced fluorescence (LIF).
Photo: Dr. Nikolay Britun performing a measurement.
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ESCAMPIG
21.07.2014 - XXII ESCAMPIG
Prof. Dr. Achim von Keudell, Dr. Ante Hecimovic and PhD student Simon Große-Kreul went to the XXII Europhysics Conference on Atomic and Molecular Physics of Ionized Gases (ESCAMPIG) which was held in Greifswald, Germany, July 15-19, 2014.
The ESCAMPIG is an international biennial conference of the EPS (European Physical Society). The conference topics comprise basic and applied plasma research ranging from atomic and molecular processes in plasmas and plasmasurface interaction to self-organization in plasmas and to the new research lines with low and high pressure plasma sources.
The XXII ESCAMPIG is organized jointly by the Institute of Physics of the University of Greifswald (IfP), the Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP Greifswald) and the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP), Greifswald branch.
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EP5
DR. MANFRED KETTLITZ
Dr. Manfred Kettlitz from INP Greifswald is a guest of Prof. Dr. Uwe Czarnetzki from the Institute for Experimental Physics V on 10/07/2014.
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PROF. YI-KANG PU
Prof. Dr. Yi-Kang Pu from the Department of Engineering Physics at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China is visiting Prof. Uwe Czarnetzki at the Chair of Plasma and Atomic Physics at Ruhr-Universität Bochum in July 2014.
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EP5
DR. AHMED M. HALA
Dr. Ahmed M. Hala is a Research Assistant Professor at the Plasma Physics Group of the Materials Science Research Institute of King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology - KACST in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Hala is a guest of Prof. Dr. Uwe Czarnetzki at the Chair of Plasma and Atomic Physics (Experimental Physics V) from 21.07.14- 23.07.14. He will give a talk on "Hybrid Plasma Source development at KACST" on 22.7.2014 (10:00 am, NABF 05/694).
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DR. VOLKER SCHULZ-VON DER GATHEN AT GREMI
Dr. Volker Schulz-von der Gathen stayed at GREMI in Orléans from July 1st till 3rd, 2014.
Photo (from left to right): Volker with PhD student Valentin Felix and Dr. Larry Overzet.
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Junior scientist event WELTPP-17
The 17th Workshop on the Exploration of Low Temperature Plasma Physics (WELTPP-17) will be held on November 20th-21st, 2014 at the old convent Rolduc in Kerkrade. This workshop is intended for active scientists working in the field of low temperature plasma physics and is sponsored by the Research Department of Plasmas with Complex Interactions of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, SFB-TR 87 and Eindhoven University of Technology.
This year a complementary workshop for Young Professionals in Microplasmas Research will be organised at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum just after WELTPP (24-26th November 2014).
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JUDITH GOLDA AT NCPST / DCU, IRELAND
PhD student Judith Golda stayed at National Centre for Plasma Science & Technology (NCPST) at DCU from 23th - 28th June 2014 to visit PhD student Sean Kelly working in Prof. Miles Turner's group. The stay was supported by European Cooperation in Science and Technolgy (COST) BIOPLASMA action MP1101.
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NONLINEAR EXCITATIONS IN QUANTUM PAIR PLASMAS: APPLICATION TO SEMICONDUCTORS
In June 2014, the workshop "Nonlinear Excitations in Quantum Pair Plasmas: Application to Semiconductors" will have been held in NB 7/67. The following lectures will be given:
- 11.06.2014, 10:00 Uhr: Prof. Waleed Moslem, Port Said University, Egypt, "Surface Nanostructuring by ion-induced plasma expansion"
- 11.06.2014, 15:00 Uhr: Prof. Bengt Eliasson, University of Glasgow Scotland, UK, "Electron acceleration and ionization fronts induced by high-frequency turbulence in magnetized plasma"
- 12.06.2014, 10:00 Uhr: Marwa Shaheen, Port Said University, Egypt, "Information and entanglement due to interaction between atoms and elektomagnetic field"
- 12.06.2015, 15:00 Uhr: Samir Eltantawy Port Said Univesity, Egypt, "Head-on solitons collision in plasmas"
- 18.06.2014, 15:00 Uhr: Prof. I. Kourakis, Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland, "Modelling solitary waves and shocks in suprathermal plasmas from first sprinciples: dynamics existence and propagation characteristics"
- 20.06.2014, 10:00 Uhr: Gina Williams, Queens University Belfast, Nothern Ireland, "A Schamel-type theory for ion acoustic solitary waves in superthermal plasmas"
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DANIEL SCHRÖDER IN YORK
PhD Student Daniel Schröder went on a research stay for three months at the York Plasma Institute (YPI), University of York, UK (March 4th - May 31st, 2014). Together with the local physicists and scientists from different disciplines (biology and chemistry), he worked on the investigation of the ozone radical for biomedical treatments. Plasma scientists use electrically-driven gas discharges, so-called plasma devices, to generate chemical reactive species like ozone, that are used for several treatments e.g. wound healing of human skin.
During his stay, they achieved to characterise the dynamics of ozone in dependence of the induced electrical power, within their plasma source. By understanding these, biologists will be able to taylor the dosis of ozone reaching organic substrates like cells or skin according to the desired medical effect.