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International Workshop on Frontiers of Plasma Science | (smr 1765)
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  • Monday, 21 August 2006
    • 08:30 - 10:00 Registration and Administrative Formalities
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 08:30 Registration and Administrative Formalities 1h30'
    • 10:20 - 10:30 Opening
      • 10:20 Opening 10'
        Speaker: Workshop Directors and Organizers
    • 10:30 - 11:30 Two Fusion Reactors- The Gravitational and the Magnetic
      • 10:30 Two Fusion Reactors- The Gravitational and the Magnetic 1h0'
        Speaker: S.M. Mahajan (University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Fusion Studies, USA)
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Nonlinear wake waves in a plasma and single cycle pulse generation/1
      • 11:30 Nonlinear wake waves in a plasma and single cycle pulse generation/1 1h0'
        Speaker: F. Pegoraro (Universita' di Pisa, Dept. of Physics, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 17:00 Working Groups
      • 14:00 Working Groups 3h0'
    • 18:00 - 20:00 Reception
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 18:00 Reception 2h0'
  • Tuesday, 22 August 2006
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Partially Ionized Astrophysical Plasmas
      • 09:00 Partially Ionized Astrophysical Plasmas 1h0'
        Speaker: V. Krishan (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India)
    • 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 10:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 10:30 - 11:30 Magnetic Reconnection and Self-organization of Laboratory and Space Astrophysical Plasmas
      • 10:30 Magnetic Reconnection and Self-organization of Laboratory and Space Astrophysical Plasmas 1h0'
        Speaker: M. Yamada (Princeton University, Plasma Physics Lab., USA)
        Material: abstract
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Linear-Nonlinear Waves/2
      • 11:30 Linear-Nonlinear Waves/2 1h0'
        Speaker: S.M. Mahajan (University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Fusion Studies, USA)
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 15:30 -
      • 14:30 - 1h0'
        Speaker: J. Dorning (University of Virginia, Charlottsville, USA)
    • 15:30 - 16:30 Dynamo and Reverse Dynamo-Acceleration/Generation of Flows
      • 15:30 Dynamo and Reverse Dynamo-Acceleration/Generation of Flows 1h0'
        Speaker: N. Shatasvili (Tbilisi State University, Georgia)
        Material: lecture notes
  • Wednesday, 23 August 2006
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Nonlinear wake waves in a plasma and single cycle pulse generation/2
      • 09:00 Nonlinear wake waves in a plasma and single cycle pulse generation/2 1h0'
        Speaker: F. Pegoraro (Universita' di Pisa, Dept. of Physics, Italy)
    • 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 10:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 10:30 - 11:30 Recent Development of Magnetic Reconnection Research for Laboratory and Space Astrophysical Plasmas
      • 10:30 Recent Development of Magnetic Reconnection Research for Laboratory and Space Astrophysical Plasmas 1h0'
        Speaker: M. Yamada (Princeton University, Plasma Physics Lab., USA)
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Partially Ionized Astrophysical Plasmas
      • 11:30 Partially Ionized Astrophysical Plasmas 1h0'
        Speaker: V. Krishan (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India)
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 17:00 Working Groups
      • 14:00 Working Groups 3h0'
  • Thursday, 24 August 2006
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Landau Damping and Irreversibility in Numerical Simulations
      • 09:00 Landau Damping and Irreversibility in Numerical Simulations 1h0'
        Speaker: W. Dorland (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
    • 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 10:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 10:30 - 11:30 Magnetic Fields in Astrophysics
      • 10:30 Magnetic Fields in Astrophysics 1h0'
        Speaker: D. Gomez (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Variational Principle and Topology of Plasma Structures
      • 11:30 Variational Principle and Topology of Plasma Structures 1h0'
        Speaker: Z. Yoshida (University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Frontier Science, Chiba, JAPAN)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 17:00 Working Groups
      • 14:00 Working Groups 3h0'
  • Friday, 25 August 2006
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Laboratory Studies of Turbulence Induced by the Magnetorotational Instability
      • 09:00 Laboratory Studies of Turbulence Induced by the Magnetorotational Instability 1h0'
        Speaker: W. Dorland (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
    • 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 10:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 10:30 - 11:30 Reduced MHD Turbulence and Coronal Heating
      • 10:30 Reduced MHD Turbulence and Coronal Heating 1h0'
        Speaker: D. Gomez (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Magnetosphere-like Plasma Experiment
      • 11:30 Magnetosphere-like Plasma Experiment 1h0'
        Speaker: Z. Yoshida (University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Frontier Science, Chiba, JAPAN)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 17:00 Working Groups
      • 14:00 Working Groups 3h0'
  • Sunday, 27 August 2006
    • 08:45 - 09:00 Opening
      • 08:45 Opening 15'
        Speaker: R. Bingham, M. Marklund & P.K. Shukla
    • 09:00 - 09:30 Laser Plasma Acceleration of Charged Particles
      • 09:00 Laser Plasma Acceleration of Charged Particles 30'
        Speaker: Chuan Sheng Liu (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
    • 09:30 - 10:00 Unruh Radiation - and how to (not) Detect it
      • 09:30 Unruh Radiation - and how to (not) Detect it 30'
        Speaker: G. Brodin (University of Umea, Sweden)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 10:30 Challenges for Relativistic Plasma Astrophysics
      • 10:00 Challenges for Relativistic Plasma Astrophysics 30'
        Speaker: L.O. Silva (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal)
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Stimulated Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves in Various Plasmas, e.g. Quantum Plasmas
      • 11:00 Stimulated Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves in Various Plasmas, e.g. Quantum Plasmas 30'
        Speaker: L. Stenflo (University of Umea, Sweden)
    • 11:30 - 12:00 New Understanding of the Monsters of the Oceans
      • 11:30 New Understanding of the Monsters of the Oceans 30'
        Speaker: M. Marklund (University of Umea, Sweden)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:00 - 12:30 Collective Neutrino Plasma Interactions
      • 12:00 Collective Neutrino Plasma Interactions 30'
        Speaker: R. Bingham (Rutherford Appleton Lab., U.K.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 13:00 Collapse Dynamics, Singularity Formation and Regularization
      • 12:30 Collapse Dynamics, Singularity Formation and Regularization 30'
        Speaker: J.J. Rasmussen (Risoe National Lab., Roskilde, Denmark)
        Material: lecture notes
  • Monday, 28 August 2006
    • 08:45 - 09:00 Opening
      • 08:45 Opening 15'
        Speaker: R. Bingham, P.K. Shukla & L. Stenflo
    • 09:00 - 10:30 Unsolved Misteries of Nonlinear Plasma Behavior
      • 09:00 Unsolved Misteries of Nonlinear Plasma Behavior 1h30'
        Speaker: R.Z. Sagdeev (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Plasma Processes Ruled by Phase Space Vortices
      • 10:30 Plasma Processes Ruled by Phase Space Vortices 30'
        Speaker: H. Schamel (Universitaet Bayreuth, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:00 Time Refraction and the Quantum Vacuum
      • 11:30 Time Refraction and the Quantum Vacuum 30'
        Speaker: J.T. Mendonca (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal)
    • 12:00 - 12:30 Oblique Electromagnetic Modulated Envelope Structures in e-p-i and Pair Ion Plasmas
      • 12:00 Oblique Electromagnetic Modulated Envelope Structures in e-p-i and Pair Ion Plasmas 30'
        Speaker: I. Kourakis (State University of Ghent, Belgium)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 14:30 Multiple Undamped Collective Waves and Final States in Nonlinear Landau Damping
      • 14:00 Multiple Undamped Collective Waves and Final States in Nonlinear Landau Damping 30'
        Speaker: J. Dorning (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA)
    • 14:30 - 15:00 Relativistic Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal Modes in Plasmas - Theory and Simulations
      • 14:30 Relativistic Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal Modes in Plasmas - Theory and Simulations 30'
        Speaker: B. Eliasson (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany)
    • 15:00 - 15:30 Quantum Mechanical Approach to Complex Plasmas
      • 15:00 Quantum Mechanical Approach to Complex Plasmas 30'
        Speaker: O. Ishihara (Yokohama National University, Japan)
        Material: abstract
    • 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:00 - 17:30 Discussion
      • 16:00 Discussion 1h30'
  • Tuesday, 29 August 2006
    • 09:00 - 09:45 Collective Phenomena in Complex Plasma
      • 09:00 Collective Phenomena in Complex Plasma 45'
        Speaker: G. Morfill (Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching bei Munchen, Germany)
    • 09:45 - 10:15 Cold plasma - Bactericidal and Bacteriostatic Functions
      • 09:45 Cold plasma - Bactericidal and Bacteriostatic Functions 30'
        Speaker: E. Stoffels-Adamowicz
    • 10:15 - 10:45 Laser Plasma Interaction with Multi Layer Targets: Ion Acceleration and Ion Heating
      • 10:15 Laser Plasma Interaction with Multi Layer Targets: Ion Acceleration and Ion Heating 30'
        Speaker: G. Sorasio (Universidade Tecnica, Lisbon, Portugal)
    • 10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 10:45 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:15 - 12:00 Collective Interactions in Quantum Plasmas
      • 11:15 Collective Interactions in Quantum Plasmas 45'
        Speaker: P.K. Shukla (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:00 - 12:30 Ultra Strong Collisionless Shocks Driven by Laser Pulses
      • 12:00 Ultra Strong Collisionless Shocks Driven by Laser Pulses 30'
        Speaker: L.O. Silva (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal)
        Material: abstract
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 14:30 Acoustic Modes in Pair Plasmas
      • 14:00 Acoustic Modes in Pair Plasmas 30'
        Speaker: F.G. Verheest (State University of Ghent, Belgium)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 14:30 - 15:00 Microphysics of Collision-less Shocks and Fore Shock: Observations Versus Simulation
      • 14:30 Microphysics of Collision-less Shocks and Fore Shock: Observations Versus Simulation 30'
        Speaker: M.E. Dieckmann (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany)
    • 15:00 - 15:30 Alfvén waves, nonlinear wave couplings and inertial MHD.
      • 15:00 Alfvén waves, nonlinear wave couplings and inertial MHD. 30'
        Speaker: G.H. Brodin (University of Umea, Sweden)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:00 - 18:00 POSTER SESSION
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 16:00 POSTER SESSION 2h0'
    • 18:30 - 20:30 Reception
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 18:30 Reception 2h0'
  • Wednesday, 30 August 2006
    • 09:00 - 09:30 Non-Maxwellian Effects in Magnetosonic Solitons
      • 09:00 Non-Maxwellian Effects in Magnetosonic Solitons 30'
        Speaker: O.A. Pokhotelov (Institute of Physics of the Earth, Moscow, Russian Federation)
        Material: abstract
    • 09:30 - 10:00 A FLR-Landau Fluid Model for the Simulation of Alfven Wave Cascade and Mirror Structures in a Collisionless Plasma
      • 09:30 A FLR-Landau Fluid Model for the Simulation of Alfven Wave Cascade and Mirror Structures in a Collisionless Plasma 30'
        Speaker: P.L. Sulem (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Nice, France)
        Material: abstract lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 10:30 Color Collective Modes of QGP and Modes of Ultra-relativistic Electron Plasma
      • 10:00 Color Collective Modes of QGP and Modes of Ultra-relativistic Electron Plasma 30'
        Speaker: G. Murtaza (Government College University, Lahore, Pakistan)
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Kinetic Effects in the Collisionless Expansion of Spherical Nanoplasmas
      • 11:00 Kinetic Effects in the Collisionless Expansion of Spherical Nanoplasmas 30'
        Speaker: F. Peano (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
    • 11:30 - 12:00 Cyclotron Maser Instabilities
      • 11:30 Cyclotron Maser Instabilities 30'
        Speaker: R.A. Cairns (University of St. Andrews, UK)
    • 12:00 - 12:30 Nonlinear QED in Magnetized Plasmas
      • 12:00 Nonlinear QED in Magnetized Plasmas 30'
        Speaker: M. Marklund (University of Umea, Sweden)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
  • Thursday, 31 August 2006
    • 09:00 - 09:45 Dynamics of Electrons Reflected at Collisionless Shock Front
      • 09:00 Dynamics of Electrons Reflected at Collisionless Shock Front 45'
        Speaker: B. Lembege (Centre de Recherches en Physique des Environnements Terrestres et Planetaires, Velizy, France)
    • 09:45 - 10:15 Beam-plasma Interaction in Inhomogeneous Plasmas, Theory and Simulation versus Observations
      • 09:45 Beam-plasma Interaction in Inhomogeneous Plasmas, Theory and Simulation versus Observations 30'
        Speaker: V. Krasnosselskikh (C.N.R.S., Orleans, France)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:15 - 10:45 Theoretical Analysis of Pair-Ion Plasmas in the Light of Recent Experiments
      • 10:15 Theoretical Analysis of Pair-Ion Plasmas in the Light of Recent Experiments 30'
        Speaker: H. Saleem (PINSTECH, Islamabad, Pakistan)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 10:45 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:15 - 11:45 Turbulence and Intermittent Transport in Magnetized Plasmas
      • 11:15 Turbulence and Intermittent Transport in Magnetized Plasmas 30'
        Speaker: J.J. Rasmussen (Risoe National Lab., Roskilde, Denmark)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:45 - 12:15 Exact Harris Sheet Solutions for Magnetized Quantum Plasmas
      • 11:45 Exact Harris Sheet Solutions for Magnetized Quantum Plasmas 30'
        Speaker: F. Haas (UNISINOS, Sao Leopoldo, Brazil)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:15 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:15 Lunch Break 1h45'
    • 14:00 - 14:30 Production and Transport of Energetic Particles Upstream from a Collision-less Planetary Bow Shock
      • 14:00 Production and Transport of Energetic Particles Upstream from a Collision-less Planetary Bow Shock 30'
        Speaker: C. Mazelle (C.N.R.S., Toulouse, France)
    • 14:30 - 15:00 Pressure Balance of Neutrals, Plasma and Fields in Space and Laboratory
      • 14:30 Pressure Balance of Neutrals, Plasma and Fields in Space and Laboratory 30'
        Speaker: A. Fruchtman (Holon Institute of Technology, Israel)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:00 - 15:30 Kinetic Phase Space Structures in Magnetized Space Plasmas
      • 15:00 Kinetic Phase Space Structures in Magnetized Space Plasmas 30'
        Speaker: D. Jovanovic (Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Serbia)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:00 - 17:30 Discussion
      • 16:00 Discussion 1h30'
    • 20:00 - 22:00 Dinner
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 20:00 Dinner 2h0'
  • Friday, 1 September 2006
    • 09:00 - 09:45 Physics of Coupled Drift Wave-Zonal Flow Systems
      • 09:00 Physics of Coupled Drift Wave-Zonal Flow Systems 45'
        Speaker: R. Bingham (Rutherford Appleton Lab., Didcot, UK)
    • 09:45 - 10:15 Computing Methods for the Nonlinear Landau-Fokker-Planck Equation and Applications for Collisional Plasma Problems
      • 09:45 Computing Methods for the Nonlinear Landau-Fokker-Planck Equation and Applications for Collisional Plasma Problems 30'
        Speaker: I. Potapenko (Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow, Russian Federation)
        Material: abstract
    • 10:15 - 11:00 Nonlinear Aspects of the Solar Coronal Heating
      • 10:15 Nonlinear Aspects of the Solar Coronal Heating 45'
        Speaker: P.K. Shukla (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany)
    • 11:00 - 11:15 Closing Session
      • 11:00 Closing Session 15'
        Speaker: S.M. Mahajan, P.K. Shukla, R. Bingham, L. Stenflo, Z. Yoshida
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