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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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COOPERATION AGREEMENT WITH NAGOYA UNIVERSITY
Prof. Dr. Uwe Czarnetzki, as Dean of the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, extended the cooperation agreement with Nagoya University in Japan on behalf of Ruhr-Universität Bochum in early March in Japan. This is an agreement between the RUB, the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology with Nagoya University and the Faculty for Electrical Engineering. This involves the now indefinite continuation of a framework agreement for the exchange of students and scientists. In recent years, more than 20 students and scientists have been exchanged under the old agreement.
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13th WELTPP in Kerkrade (NL): a forum for young plasma scientists
On November 25-26, the thirteenth Workshop on the Exploration of Low Temperature Plasma Physics was held in Kerkrade (NL). This workshop is aimed at young scientists with a research focus on low-temperature plasma physics and, in particular, at young scientists in the diploma and master's phase, PhD students and post-docs. In particular, the WELTPP is intended to provide these young low-temperature plasma researchers with a forum for getting to know each other, learning from each other, and exchanging knowledge. Therefore, in addition to presenting research results and establishing contacts, the main focus is on integrating newcomers into this research community.
The international orientation of the workshop is reflected in both the organization and the origin of the participants. Organized and sponsored by the Research Department "Plasmas with complex interactions" of the Ruhr-University Bochum, the Centre for Plasma Physics of Queen's University Belfast and the Dutch Centrum voor Plasmafysica en Stralingstechnologie (CPS) of Eindhoven University of Technology, a large part of the 73 workshop participants also come from the Netherlands, Northern Ireland and Germany. The day's schedule will focus on the shared experience in the historic ambience of the former monastery complex of Rolduc. Therefore, the scientific program is rounded off with the common meals: a typical Dutch lunch and a coffee break. The social highlight will be the evening dinner followed by an informal and enjoyable bar atmosphere in the vaults of Rolduc. Finally, the program of the second day of the workshop is also broken up by a joint breakfast, a coffee break and lunch.
This community-oriented course of the day contributed once again to the relaxed and pleasant atmosphere during the workshop. In addition, new research findings were gathered on a scientific level and further collaborations were created. The thirteenth WELTPP has thus once again proven to be a success all along the line.
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Computational Plasma Physics at the RUB and in Copenhagen
From 22.09. to 24.09.2010 an informal meeting on Computational Plasma Physics between the working group of Prof. Dr. Rainer Grauer and Prof. Dr. Åke Nordlund (Computational Astrophysics) has been held in Copenhagen at the Niels Bohr Institute. In particular, the progress of the use of graphics card clusters in this field was discussed.
On this occasion, Martin Rieke gave an introductory talk on CUDA and solving 2D EMHD equations on graphics cards. Dr. Christian Schwarz reported on his new framework cudaHYPE and its use in parallel solving of 3D MHD equations on a GPU cluster. From the Copenhagen group, Dr. Troels Haugbølle told us about his experiences with PIC (Particle in Cell) simulations on graphics cards.
In Prof. Grauer's talk, he explained strategies for coupling kinetic and fluid systems (Vlasov/MHD coupling). Last in the lecture series, Prof. Nordlund reported on new simulation results in the field of solar physics.
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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.
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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.
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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.