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JAN BENEDIKT AT THE SCIENTIFIC KICK OFF MEETING OF THE COST ACTION: BIO-PLASMA MP1101
The scientific kick off meeting of the COST Action: Bio-Plasma MP1101 has been organised in Bari, Italy, on February 16th/17th, 2012. The main goals of this action are to intensify the knowledge base relevant to medical and biomedical applications of atmospheric pressure plasma technology within Europe, and to raise the general awareness of the potential of this technology via the establishment of a communication platform. The network is looking towards early exploitation of plasma treatment techniques with enormous potential for patient care, particularly to reduce infection, enhance the speed of wound healing and treat cancer. The COST Action is divided into four workgroups: WG1: Plasma Therapeutics, WG2: Functional Coatings for Biomaterials, WG3: Bio-Plasma Interactions, and WG4: Plasma Sources for Biomedical Applications. The group of Jun.-Prof. Benedikt is with its unique atmospheric pressure X-Jet involved in the analysis of plasma sources for biomedical applications. This research is performed in close collaboration with Jun.-Prof. Julia Bandow and Prof. Peter Awakowicz, both located at RUB, and Dr. Ralf Möller (German Aerospace Centre in Cologne).
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Orléans
14.02.2012 - DR. VOLKER SCHULZ-VON DER GATHEN AT GREMI, UNIVERSITÉ ORLÉANS
On Februar 16th and 17th, 2012, Dr. Volker Schulz-von der Gathen visited Ph.D. student Mukesh Kumar Kulsreshath, his supervisor Remi Dussart and our Master-student Judith Golda who is for an exchange semester at GREMI [Groupe de Recherches sur l'Energetique des Millieux Ionises], Université Orléans, (France). The cooperative work on the development of microarrays is supported by the DAAD in the frame of a bilateral PROCOPE project (ID 54366312).
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8TH EU-JAPAN JOINT SYMPOSIUM ON PLASMA PROCESSING IN NARA / JAPAN
Prof. Uwe Czarnetzki nahm am 8. "EU-Japan Joint Symposium on Plasma Processing (JSPP2012) with special emphasis on Atomic and Molecular Database for Plasmas and Surfaces" vom 16.-18. Januar 2012 in Nara / Japan teil und hielt am Montag einen eingeladenen Vortrag.
Foto v.l. Prof. Masaharu Shiratani Kyushu Univ., Prof. Kunihide Tachibana Osaka Electro-Communication
University, Prof. Shunjiro Shinohara Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology.
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Prague
06.12.2011 - DR. ILIJA STEFANOVIĆ AT CHARLES UNIVERSITY, PRAGUE
From 27th November to 29th November 2011 Dr. Ilija Stefanović, PI of Research Dept. «Plasmas with Complex Interactions», was guest of Department of Macromolecular Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. During his stay he visited the laboratories and dicussed with Prof. H. Biderman, Dozent A. Shukurov and others about new developments in the field of plasma polymers. On 29th of November, he gave the lecture for the Faculty members with the title «CONTROLLED HYDROCARBON NANOPARTICLE FORMATION IN LOW PRESSURE, LOW TEMPERATURE RF PLASMA».
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Junior scientist event WELTPP-14
The 14th Workshop on the Exploration of Low Temperature Plasma Physics (WELTPP-14) will be held on December 1st and 2nd, 2011 at the old convent Rolduc in Kerkrade. This workshop is intended for active scientists working in the field of low temperature plasma physics.
The aim of this workshop is to create a forum for young low temperature plasma scientists, that is graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, to meet, learn from each other, exchange knowledge, present results and establish new contacts. The emphasis is on the presentation of the work of the people new in this field. The meeting will be a two days session starting on Thursday before lunch and finishing on Friday afternoon.
The program can be found here.
http://www.phys.tue.nl/EPG/WELTPP/
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ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION (ALD) WORKSHOP
Prof. Anjana Devi had an invited talk about "Tuning precursor characteristics for ALD applications" at the ALD Workshop at the IMEC conference, which took part November 28th-29th, 2011, in Leuven, Belgium. IMEC performs world-leading research in nano-electronics and nano-technology. Imec’s research is applied in better healthcare, smart electronics, sustainable energy, and safer transport. To promote collaboration and the exchange of knowledge within Europe, as well as to discuss about new trends and opportunities, imec organizes a workshop on the principles and use of ALD. The workshop is organized by Imec Belgium and Imec-NL. The workshop will take place at imec’s research facilities in Leuven, Belgium.
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CALIFA CONSORTIUM MEETING IN LA LAGUNA
The CALIFA collaboration will celebrate a 2nd Busy Week the 29th of November to the 2nd of December 2011 (both included). PD Dr. Dominik Bomans is going to participate in that meeting.
The main goals of this meeting are: To put in common the current status of the first generation of science articles, stimulating the collaboration between the different groups and to prepare the data release of the first data sets.
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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE FRONTIERS OF FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS (FFP12) AT THE UNIVERSITY OF UDINE, ITALY
Academician Professor Padma Kant Shukla CorrFRSE and Foreign Member of the Physics Class of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA) and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) was invited to deliver a plenary talk on Relativistic Nonlinear Quantum Plasmas at Nanoscales at the International Symposium on the Frontiers of Fundamental Physics (21-23 November 2011) at the University of Udine, Italy. The Symposium focused on various aspects of condensed matter physics, statistical physics, particle physics, quantum mechanics and quantum gravity, emerging areas of plasma physics (e.g. plasma assisted nanotechnology and high energy density plasmas, plasma based charged particle acceleration, etc.), and nonlinear sciences.
The Symposium was organized by Prof. Marisa Michelini (University of Udine) and Prof. Gautam Sidharth Burra (DG, B. M. Birla Science Centre, Hyderabad, India) together with an International Advisory Board composed of several members including the honorary chair Nobel Laureate (NL) Douglas Osheroff (Stanford University, California), Prof. Walter Greiner (Director, Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies, Germany), and RUB International Chair holder Prof. Padma Kant Shukla. During the opening ceremony of the Symposium, Prof. Shukla emphasized the importance of international scientific collaboration, in addition to presenting the plenary talk dealing with the table-top quantum free-electron lasers, thereby exploring new quantum x-ray and gamma ray regimes by using super-intense short laser pulses and relativistic electron beams in dense plasmas. This is one of the innovative approaches in emerging and cutting edge areas of plasma physics that holds the promise of producing high-power coherent radiation sources in the new parameter regimes that are going to set a new horizon in applied physics. At the FFP12, the Nobel Laureate Prof. Douglas Osheroff (Stanford University, California and The National Academy of Sciences, Washigton, USA), the 1996 Nobel Laureate in Physics for the discovery of the superfluidity in Helium 3, presented a special lecture on How (Experimental) Advances in Science are Made? Specifically, the NL Osheroff focused on the innovation, as well as on innovative and curiosity-driven challenging researches in physical sciences.
In the photo: Professor Padma Kant Shukla and the Physics Nobel Laureate Professor Douglas D. Osheroff.
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ITFPC 2011 & MIATEC 2011
The Innovations in Thin Film Processing and Characterisation & Magnetron, Ion processing and Arc Technologies European Conference (ITFPC & MIATEC 2011) was held in Nancy, France, from 14th to 17th November, 2011. The aim of the conference is to promote thin film growth techniques and processes, contribution of characterisation techniques to thin film science and engineering, process diagnostics, modelling and numerical simulation and applications and functional properties. The conference was a great opportunity to present and observe recent progress in research of magnetron and ion processing technologies. It had one dedicated sessions for High Impulse Power Magnetron Sputtering (HIPIMS), where recent achievements in the field were presented. Prof. Dr. Jörg Winter, Prof. Dr. Achim von Keudell, Dipl-Phys. Marina Prenzel and Dr. Ante Hecimovic attended the conference where they had a chance to find about the latest achievements in the field of magnetron plasma, furthermore they made valuable contacts with experts from the field and agreed on future collaborations.
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PHYSICS SYMPOSIUM AT THE ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Academician Professor Padma Kant Shukla CorrFRSE and FORMemb of the Physics Class of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA) and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) was invited to deliver a plenary talk on Dusty Plasmas at the Physics Symposium (15-17 November 2011) of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA) that awards the Nobel Prize in Physics. The meeting was focused on the cutting edge physics of multi-disciplinary sciences and was hosted by the Academy's Physics Class Chair Björn Jonson. At the Physics Symosium, Academician Ludwig Faddeev of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, and Academician Steven Girvin of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, USA delivered plenary talks as well.
In the photo: Professor Padma Kant Shukla (RUB International Chair holder) and the Physics Nobel Prize Chair Börje Johansson in the Academy meeting room where the Nobel Prize in Physics, Chemsitry, and Medicine is annually announced.
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64TH GASEOUS ELECTRONICS CONFERENCE IN SALT LAKE CITY
The 64th Gaseous Electronics Conference (GEC) is, together with the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics, held November 4th-18th, 2011 in Salt Lake City, USA. This year, the GEC contains 37 invited talks, 209 oral talks and 175 poster presentations with topics ranging from fundamental studies of for example Electron and photon collisions with atoms and molecules, to plasma applications such as processing of materials or treatment of living tissues. The “Research Department Plasmas with Complex Interactions “of RUB is represented very well this year. Thirteen researches are visiting the conference with three invited talks (Jan Benedikt talks about the diagnostics of atmospheric pressure plasma jets, Julian Schulze discusses the electric asymmetry effect in capacitively coupled discharges, and Prof. Uwe Czarnetzki gives a talk at the Monday workshop "Control of Distribution Functions in Low Temperature Plasmas: Creating the Roadmap"), 9 oral talks and 10 posters. This counts for almost 5% of all contributions at the conference and illustrates the leading position of RUB in the low temperature plasma research!