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PROF. PETR VASINA AND JAREK HNILICA
Tomorrow, Tuesday, June 09, 2015, Assoc. Prof. Petr Vasina and Jarek Hnilica from Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic will be guests at SFB-TR 87. Starting at 3 p.m. they will give short talks on these topics:
- Cathode voltage and discharge current oscillations and spoke behaviour during HiPIMS discharge.
- Determination of sputtered species number densities by optical emission spectroscopy
All interested parties are cordially invited to attend. Meeting point is building NB of the Ruhr-University Bochum, room 5/158.
Prof. Vasina and Jarek Hnilica come from the second largest university in the Czech Republic and work there in the Department of Physical Electronics. Both are specialized in the field of plasma physics.
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PROF. DR. WILLIAM HITCHON
From June 17 to 19, 2015, Prof. Hitchon from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA) will be a guest at SFB-TR 87. He has worked in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering since 1982 and will give an overview of his research on the simulation of low temperature plasmas. The talk has been held on Friday, June 19, 2015 at 10:30 a.m. (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Building ID, Room 03/411).
Prof. Hitchon already visited the SFB-TR 87 in Bochum during the first funding phase. Since then a fruitful cooperation exists.
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DANIEL SCHRÖDER AM GREMI
PhD student Daniel Schröder visits Prof. Dr. Eva Kovacevic at GREMI in Orléans, France, from May 17th-22nd, 2015.
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DR. HELENA BARMINOVA
Dr. Helena Barminova from the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI Moscow will give a lecture on "Instabilities of a negative ion beam in the initial stage of its formation" on 19.05.2015 from 10:15 am in building ID. The room is ID 04/401. Interested persons are welcome!
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8TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MICROPLASMAS
The 8th 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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MAE MOURNS LOSS OF PROFESSOR WALTER LEMPERT
The Research Department Plasma is deeply saddened by the passing of Prof. Walter Lempert on April 11, 2015. He collaborated closely for many years with Prof. Uwe Czarnetzki and his group at EP5. He will be greatly missed.
"The department was deeply saddened by the passing of Walter Lempert on April 11, 2015.
Lempert was a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and co-director of the Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics Laboratory (NETL), a major research laboratory containing state-of-the-art computational and experimental facilities among the most advanced at any U.S. university.
The NETL thrust area is energy, fluid and thermal systems, studying effective fuel use, reduced emissions, improved performance and cost effectiveness – critically important industrial and societal goals. Lempert and his colleagues led research and education focused on analytical, computational and experimental techniques for achieving these goals.
Lempert’s primary research was on the application of atomic and molecular spectroscopy to problems of engineering interest, inherently interdisciplinary, combining such diverse subjects as nonlinear optics, fluid mechanics, plasma physics and energy transfer. He is a notable author of numerous publications, papers and presentations helping to enhance the department’s reputation in energy, fluid and thermal systems.
Lempert left an indelible mark at Ohio State and a legacy of dedicated excellence in education and research. His cheerful personality, friendliness and warmth among faculty, staff and students will be greatly missed."
link to obituary Walter Lempert
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MARC VAN DER SCHANS
Marc van der Schans from the Department of Applied Physics, Elementary Processes in Gas discharges (EPG) of TU Eindhoven (Netherlands) will give a talk on "Manipulation and Application of Cold Plasmas in Open Air" on Thursday 07.05.2015, 16:15 in the seminar room NABF 05/694. Interested parties are welcome!
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DR. VOLKER SCHULZ-VON DER GATHEN & SEBASTIAN BURHENN AM GREMI
Dr. Volker
Schulz-von der Gathen and Master student Sebastian Burhenn visited Prof. Dr. Remi Dussart at GREMI, Université d'Orléans from April 20th-23rd, 2015.
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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.
link to conference website
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CEDRIC PATTYN
Cédric Pattyn from GREMI (Université d'Orléans) is doing an internship with Jun.-Prof. Dr. Jan Benedikt from the beginning of April until the end of September 2015 as part of his engineering studies. He is specialized in plasma engineering (part of his profile as a research engineer) and is working here on various atmospheric pressure plasma technologies for thin films, plasma medicine and plasma water treatment.
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PROF. DR. ABDULLAH AL MAMUN
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is repeatedly sponsoring the research stay of Prof. Dr. Abdullah Al Mamun from Jahangirnagar University - Department Physics in Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He was already AvH Friedrich Bessel awardee in 2009.
He will be conducting research at the Institute of Theoretical Physics IV / Chair of Space and Astrophysics (Prof. Dr. Reinhard Schlickeiser) as a guest of Prof. Dr. Reinhard Schlickeiser from June 01 to August 31, 2015.
Prof. Mamun will give a talk on "Physics of Dusty Plasmas: Wave Phenomena" at the Physics Colloquium on June 22, 2015 (HNB, 12:15 pm). Interested parties are welcome to attend!
- 2015-04-08 - ÉCOLE DE PHYSIQUE DES HOUCHES: FUNDAMENTALS OF AERODYNAMIC FLOW AND COMBUSTION CONTROL BY PLAMAS
- 2015-04-08 - GAST: PROF. ALEX LAZARIAN
- 2015-04-06 - GAST: DR. GIANFRANCO BRUNETTI
- 2015-03-30 - MOHAMED MOKHTAR HEFNY AND JUN.-PROF. DR. JAN BENEDIKT VISIT TO INSTITUTE OF PLASMA PHYSICS (IPP) IN CZECH REPUBLIC












