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Kick-Off Meeting CRC 1316
On February 5th and 6th the Kick-Off Meeting of the newly approved collaborative research centre, CRC 1316, took place at Beckmanns Hof in Bochum.
Nearly 40 scientists from the collaboration presented their research goals and started to discuss about scientific goals and collaborations between the different projects.
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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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CRC 1316 approved by German Research Foundation
The German Research Foundation approved the proposal of Prof. Achim von Keudell and his consortium concerning the funding of a collaborative research project with the title "Transient atmospheric plasmas - from plasmas to liquids to solids". Within the consortium, 17 research projects on different topics are addressed. The funding period is from 2018 until 2022.
For more information see SFB 1316.
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Awards for TET students at GEC conference
Several members of the faculty for electrical engineering attended this the 70th Gaseous Electronics Conference in Pittsburgh, USA. Especially for two of them, the conference was very fruitfuil:
Sebastian Wilczek from the chair theoretical engineering was honored for his contribution with the title "Differences between Cartesian and spherical 1d3v particle-in-cell simulations" with the Student Excellence Award and Manaswi Daksha from the same chair won a Poster Award for his contribution "A real-time model for secondary electron emission coefficients in low temperature plasmas".
Congratulations to both of them!
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Workshop "Plasma Theory"
A special workshop on plasma theory ranging from astrophysical topics to fusion science has been organized by Prof. Grauer from TPI. Special guests were Dr. Daniel Told from the IPP Helmholtz Group on Computational Plasma Physics and Dr. Moritz Püschel from the University of Texas/University of Wisconsin.
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International School on Low Temperature Plasma Physics: Basics and Applications
The traditional summer school on low temperature plasma physics will go on in Octobre next year. The summer school takes place in Physikzentrum in Bad Honnef and is from Octobre 5th, 2018 until Octobre 10th, 2019. After the school, the master class will be from Octobre 10th, 2019 until Octobre 12th, 2019.
Participants are welcomed to sign in for registration until June 15th, 2019. Due to limitation in the number of rooms at the Physikzentrum, the attendance is limited.
- For more information, see Homepage Summer School
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Carles Corbella visiting Uppsala
Between 14th and 18th August, Dr. Carles Corbella (Experimentalphysik II, RUB) and Dr. Sabine Portal (Angewandte Festkörperphysik, RUB) visited Dr. Asim Aijaz and Dr. Tomas Kubart at the Ångström Laboratory of the Uppsala University, Sweden. The tasks, which were performed within the framework of the special research unit SFB-TR87, consisted in studying the deposition of diamond-like carbon films by means of high-power impulse magnetron sputtering.
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International School on Plasma Physics 2018
The 21st International School on Low Temperature Plasma Physics started in Bad Honnef. The School is attended by 68 students from 14 nations. The success of hand-on workshop from the last summer school was repeated. This year, Volker Schulz-von der Gathen also prepared an intensive workshop, in which students could experience practical challenges in spectroscopy.
The scientific Chairmen were Olivier Guiatella and Anne Bourdon from CNRS/LPP in France.
At Friday, 11th October the Master Class with the title Electronegative plasmas took place with 31 participants.
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International School on Plasma Physics 2017 started
The 21st International School on Low Temperature Plasma Physics started in Bad Honnef. The School is attended by 65 students from 16 nations. 22 teachers from all over the world talk about basics and forefront plasma physics during the 5 days of the Plasma School.
The scientific Chairmen are Olivier Guiatella and Anne Bourdon from CNRS/LPP in France.
At Friday, 12th October the Master Class with the title New approaches for plasma/surface interaction studies will take place.
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Prof. Dr. Yuri Litvinenko
Since 2013, Prof. Dr. Yuri Litvinenko from the University of Waikoto, New Zealand, is a continuous guest in Bochum. This year, the VIP grant was successfully extended, so that Prof. Litvinenko will visit the group of PD Dr. Horst Fichtner for three months from 1st Decemeber 2017 until 28th February 2018.
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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".
