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2007 Summer College on Plasma Physics | (smr 1856)
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  • Monday, 30 July 2007
    • 08:00 - 09:15 REGISTRATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS - All participants should go to Registration Desk, outside Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 08:00 REGISTRATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS - All participants should go to Registration Desk, outside Kastler Lecture Hall 1h15'
    • 09:15 - 09:30 Welcome Introduction
      • 09:15 Welcome Introduction 15'
        Speaker: S.M. Mahajan & P.K. Shukla (Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA & Ruhr Univers. Bochum, Germany)
    • 09:30 - 10:30 Momentum Transport from Magnetic Fluctuations
      • 09:30 Momentum Transport from Magnetic Fluctuations 1h0'
        Speaker: S. Prager (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Usa)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:30 - 11:30 Introduction to Magnetic Island Theory-1
      • 10:30 Introduction to Magnetic Island Theory-1 1h0'
        Speaker: R. Fitzpatrick (University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:30 - 12:00 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 11:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 12:00 - 12:30 Formation of Working Groups
      • 12:00 Formation of Working Groups 30'
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 17:00 Working Group Seminars
    • 18:30 - 20:30 Welcome Reception
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 18:30 Welcome Reception 2h0'
  • Tuesday, 31 July 2007
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Fluctuations in Non Uniform Tokamak Plasmas -Part 1-
      • 09:00 Fluctuations in Non Uniform Tokamak Plasmas -Part 1- 1h0'
        Speaker: P. K. Shukla (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Bochum, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Fluctuations in Non Uniform Tokamak Plasmas -Part 2-
      • 10:00 Fluctuations in Non Uniform Tokamak Plasmas -Part 2- 1h0'
        Speaker: P. K. Shukla (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Bochum, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Clebsch Parameterization and Applications
      • 11:30 Clebsch Parameterization and Applications 1h0'
        Speaker: Z. Yoshida (University of Tokyo, 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 Group Seminars
      • 14:00 Working Group Seminars 3h0'
  • Wednesday, 1 August 2007
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Magnetic stochasticity: origin, consequences, and control
      • 09:00 Magnetic stochasticity: origin, consequences, and control 1h0'
        Speaker: S. Prager (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Usa)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Introduction to Magnetic Island Theory-2
      • 10:00 Introduction to Magnetic Island Theory-2 1h0'
        Speaker: R. Fitzpatrick (University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Fluctuations in Non Uniform Tokamak Plasmas -Part 3-
      • 11:30 Fluctuations in Non Uniform Tokamak Plasmas -Part 3- 1h0'
        Speaker: P. K. Shukla (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Bochum, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 17:00 Working Group Seminars
  • Thursday, 2 August 2007
    • 09:00 - 11:00 -
      • 09:00 - 2h0'
        Speaker: S.M. Mahajan (University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Nonlinear Dynamics of Incoherent Superstrong Radiation in a Plasma
      • 11:30 Nonlinear Dynamics of Incoherent Superstrong Radiation in a Plasma 1h0'
        Speaker: N. Tsintsadze (Georgian Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi, Georgia)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 17:00 Working Group Seminars
      • 14:00 Working Group Seminars 3h0'
  • Friday, 3 August 2007
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Introduction to Magnetic Island Theory - 3
      • 09:00 Introduction to Magnetic Island Theory - 3 1h0'
        Speaker: R. Fitzpatrick (University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Lagrangian for collective matter-field coupling
      • 10:00 Lagrangian for collective matter-field coupling 1h0'
        Speaker: Z. Yoshida (University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 ITER and its Heating and Diagnostics Systems
      • 11:30 ITER and its Heating and Diagnostics Systems 1h0'
        Speaker: D. Bora (Centre d'Etudes de Cadarache, St. Paul Lez Durance, France)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 17:00 Working Group Seminars
  • Monday, 6 August 2007
    • 09:00 - 10:00 General properties of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in different plasma configurations: the plasma foil model.
      • 09:00 General properties of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in different plasma configurations: the plasma foil model. 1h0'
        Speaker: F. Pegoraro (Univ. di Pisa, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Laser-based ion acceleration: experimental evidences and introduction to a theoretical comprehension
      • 10:00 Laser-based ion acceleration: experimental evidences and introduction to a theoretical comprehension 1h0'
        Speaker: M. Passoni (Politecnico di Milano, CESNEF, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Turbulence in Interstellar Medium - 1
      • 11:30 Turbulence in Interstellar Medium - 1 1h0'
        Speaker: D. Shaikh (Univ. of California, Riverside, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 17:00 Working group seminars/Computer course
      • 14:00 Working group seminars/Computer course 3h0'
  • Tuesday, 7 August 2007
    • 09:00 - 10:00 The Rayleigh-Taylor instability of a plasma foil accelerated by the radiation pressure of an ultra intense laser pulse.
      • 09:00 The Rayleigh-Taylor instability of a plasma foil accelerated by the radiation pressure of an ultra intense laser pulse. 1h0'
        Speaker: F. Pegoraro (Univ. di Pisa, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Quiescent and Catastrophic Events in Stellar Atmospheres -1
      • 10:00 Quiescent and Catastrophic Events in Stellar Atmospheres -1 1h0'
        Speaker: N. Shatashvili (Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Parallel computing applied to Vlasov simulations
      • 11:30 Parallel computing applied to Vlasov simulations 1h0'
        Speaker: B. Eliasson (Ruhr Univers. Bochum, Germany)
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 17:00 Working group seminars/Computer course
      • 14:00 Working group seminars/Computer course 3h0'
  • Wednesday, 8 August 2007
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Laser-based ion acceleration: theoretical models
      • 09:00 Laser-based ion acceleration: theoretical models 1h0'
        Speaker: M. Passoni (Politecnico di Milano, CESNEF, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Quiescent and Catastrophic Events in Stellar Atmospheres -2
      • 10:00 Quiescent and Catastrophic Events in Stellar Atmospheres -2 1h0'
        Speaker: N. Shatashvili (Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Properties of drift and Alfven waves in strongly collisional plasmas
      • 11:30 Properties of drift and Alfven waves in strongly collisional plasmas 1h0'
        Speaker: J. Vranjes (Center for Plasma Astrophysics, Leuven, Belgium)
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 17:00 Working group seminars/Computer course
      • 14:00 Working group seminars/Computer course 3h0'
        Material: lecture notes
  • Thursday, 9 August 2007
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Numerical laboratory for plasma astrophysics
      • 09:00 Numerical laboratory for plasma astrophysics 1h0'
        Speaker: R. Matsumoto (Chiba University, Japan)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Current driven acoustic oscillations in weakly ionized plasmas
      • 10:00 Current driven acoustic oscillations in weakly ionized plasmas 1h0'
        Speaker: J. Vranjes (Center for Plasma Astrophysics, Leuven, Belgium)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Turbulence in Interstellar Medium - 2
      • 11:30 Turbulence in Interstellar Medium - 2 1h0'
        Speaker: D. Shaikh (Univ. of California, Riverside, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 17:00 Working Group Seminar/Computer Course
      • 14:00 Working Group Seminar/Computer Course 3h0'
  • Friday, 10 August 2007
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Collective Nonlinear Effects in Very Dense Plasmas
      • 09:00 Collective Nonlinear Effects in Very Dense Plasmas 1h0'
        Speaker: P.K. Shukla (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Nonlinear phenomena in magnetized accretion disks
      • 10:00 Nonlinear phenomena in magnetized accretion disks 1h0'
        Speaker: R. Matsumoto (Chiba University, Japan)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Plasma Accelerators
      • 11:30 Plasma Accelerators 1h0'
        Speaker: R. Bingham (Rutherford Appleton Lab., Didcot, UK)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 17:00 Working Group Seminar/Computer Course
      • 14:00 Working Group Seminar/Computer Course 3h0'
  • Monday, 13 August 2007
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Parametric instabilities of white light
      • 09:00 Parametric instabilities of white light 1h0'
        Speaker: O. Luis Silva (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Particle-in-cell limitations
      • 10:00 Particle-in-cell limitations 1h0'
        Speaker: M. Dieckmann (Linkopings University, Norrkoping, Sweden)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:30 - 13:00 ICTP Prize ceremony in honour of Rajesh Gopakumar
      Location: Main Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 ICTP Prize ceremony in honour of Rajesh Gopakumar 1h30'
    • 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Break
      • 13:00 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:30 - 17:30 Working Group Seminar/Computer Course
  • Tuesday, 14 August 2007
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Dusty Plasma Physics I
      • 09:00 Dusty Plasma Physics I 1h0'
        Speaker: R.L. Merlino (Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Beam-plasma interaction in the solar wind and electron foreshock region
      • 10:00 Beam-plasma interaction in the solar wind and electron foreshock region 1h0'
        Speaker: V. Krasnosselskikh (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Orleans, France)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Nonlinear Dusty Plasma Physics I
      • 11:30 Nonlinear Dusty Plasma Physics I 1h0'
        Speaker: A.A. Mamun (Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh)
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 17:00 Working group seminar/Computer course
  • Wednesday, 15 August 2007
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Dusty Plasma Physics II
      • 09:00 Dusty Plasma Physics II 1h0'
        Speaker: R.L. Merlino (Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, USA)
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Shock waves in space
      • 10:00 Shock waves in space 1h0'
        Speaker: V. Krasnosselskikh (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Orleans, France)
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Physics of nanoplasmas
      • 11:30 Physics of nanoplasmas 1h0'
        Speaker: O. Luis Silva (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 17:00 Working Group Seminar/Computer Course
      • 14:00 Working Group Seminar/Computer Course 3h0'
  • Thursday, 16 August 2007
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Dusty Plasma Physics III
      • 09:00 Dusty Plasma Physics III 1h0'
        Speaker: R. L. Merlino (University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA)
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Plasma based charged particle acceleration
      • 10:00 Plasma based charged particle acceleration 1h0'
        Speaker: R. Bingham (Rutherford Appleton Lab., Didcot, UK)
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Theory of Cosmological Seed Magnetic Fields
      • 11:30 Theory of Cosmological Seed Magnetic Fields 1h0'
        Speaker: H. Saleem (PINSTECH, Islamabad, Pakistan)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 16:00 - 17:00 Working Group Seminar
  • Friday, 17 August 2007
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Dusty Plasma Physics IV
      • 09:00 Dusty Plasma Physics IV 1h0'
        Speaker: R. L. Merlino (University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA)
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Wave-wave interactions in plasmas
      • 10:00 Wave-wave interactions in plasmas 1h0'
        Speaker: L. Stenflo (University of Umea, Sweden)
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:00 Neutrino Plasma interactions
      • 11:30 Neutrino Plasma interactions 30'
        Speaker: R. Bingham (Rutherford Appleton Lab., Didcot, UK)
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Electro-Acoustic Solitary And Shock Waves In Dusty Plasmas
      • 11:30 Electro-Acoustic Solitary And Shock Waves In Dusty Plasmas 1h0'
        Speaker: A.A. Mamun (Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 17:00 Working group seminars/Computer course
      • 14:00 Working group seminars/Computer course 3h0'
  • Sunday, 19 August 2007
    • 09:00 - 09:10 Welcome by the Organizers
      • 09:00 Welcome by the Organizers 10'
    • 09:10 - 10:00 Dielectric relaxation and ac universality in materials with disordered structure
      • 09:10 Dielectric relaxation and ac universality in materials with disordered structure 50'
        Speaker: J.J. Rasmussen (Risoe National Lab., Roskilde, Denmark)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 10:30 Plasmonics
      • 10:00 Plasmonics 30'
        Speaker: C.S. Liu (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 11:30 High Field Physics and Collective Vacuum Effects
      • 11:00 High Field Physics and Collective Vacuum Effects 30'
        Speaker: M. Marklund (University of Umea, Sweden)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:30 - 12:00 QED and Quantum Plasmas
      • 11:30 QED and Quantum Plasmas 30'
        Speaker: G. Brodin (University of Umea, Sweden)
    • 12:00 - 12:30 Nonlinear Alfven waves in space
      • 12:00 Nonlinear Alfven waves in space 30'
        Speaker: O.A. Pokhotelov (Institute of of Physics of the Earth, Moskow, Russia)
  • Monday, 20 August 2007
    • 09:00 - 09:15 Welcome by College Directors
      • 09:00 Welcome by College Directors 15'
    • 09:15 - 10:00 Nonlinear Plasma Physics
      • 09:15 Nonlinear Plasma Physics 45'
        Speaker: R.Z. Sagdeev (University of Maryland, USA)
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Plasma Accelerators
      • 10:00 Plasma Accelerators 1h0'
        Speaker: C. Joshi (Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA)
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:00 Revised Quantum Electrodynamics with Fundamental Applications
      • 11:30 Revised Quantum Electrodynamics with Fundamental Applications 30'
        Speaker: B. Lehnert (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:00 - 12:30 STRUCTURE FORMATION IN PLASMA KINETICS- A source of new challenges in plasma theory
      • 12:00 STRUCTURE FORMATION IN PLASMA KINETICS- A source of new challenges in plasma theory 30'
        Speaker: H. Schamel (Univers. of Bayreuth, Germany)
    • 12:30 - 13:00 Formation of large amplitude solitary waves in space plasmas
      • 12:30 Formation of large amplitude solitary waves in space plasmas 30'
        Speaker: F. Verheest (State University of Ghent, Belgium)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 13:00 - 14:30 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 13:00 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:30 - 15:30 Theory of wind-driven sea
      • 14:30 Theory of wind-driven sea 1h0'
        Speaker: V.E. Zakharov (University of Arizona, USA)
    • 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:00 - 16:30 Plasma effects in cold atom physics
      • 16:00 Plasma effects in cold atom physics 30'
        Speaker: J.T. Mendonca (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 16:30 - 17:00 The noctilucent cloud region in the Earth’s atmosphere – a natural dusty plasma laboratory
      • 16:30 The noctilucent cloud region in the Earth’s atmosphere – a natural dusty plasma laboratory 30'
        Speaker: O. Havnes (University of Tromso, Norway)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 17:00 - 17:30 Soliton solutions of the 3D Gross-Pitaevskii equation by the potential control method
      • 17:00 Soliton solutions of the 3D Gross-Pitaevskii equation by the potential control method 30'
        Speaker: R. Fedele (Univ. Federico II, Napoli, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 17:30 - 18:00 Turbulence spreading and nonlocal transport in magnetized plasmas
      • 17:30 Turbulence spreading and nonlocal transport in magnetized plasmas 30'
        Speaker: J.J. Rasmussen (Risoe National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 18:30 - 20:30 Welcome Reception
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 18:30 Welcome Reception 2h0'
  • Tuesday, 21 August 2007
    • 09:15 - 10:00 Electromagnetic radiation generation by relativistic electron beams
      • 09:15 Electromagnetic radiation generation by relativistic electron beams 45'
        Speaker: A. Phelps (SUPA, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 10:30 Effects of Perpendicular Shear Superposition and Hybrid Ions Introduction on Parallel Velocity-Shear Driven Plasma Instabilities
      • 10:00 Effects of Perpendicular Shear Superposition and Hybrid Ions Introduction on Parallel Velocity-Shear Driven Plasma Instabilities 30'
        Speaker: R. Hatakeyama (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Spin Plasma Dynamics
      • 10:30 Spin Plasma Dynamics 30'
        Speaker: M. Marklund (Umea University, Sweden/Centre for Fundamental Physics, U.K.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:00 Opportunities for Dust Experiment and Application in Highly-Ionized Plasmas and Magnetic Fusion
      • 11:30 Opportunities for Dust Experiment and Application in Highly-Ionized Plasmas and Magnetic Fusion 30'
        Speaker: Z. Wang (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:00 - 12:30 The Structure Formation of Coulomb Clusters
      • 12:00 The Structure Formation of Coulomb Clusters 30'
        Speaker: O. Ishihara (Yokohama National University, Japan)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 14:30 Mirror waves in non-Maxwellian space plasmas: Collapse or solitons ?
      • 14:00 Mirror waves in non-Maxwellian space plasmas: Collapse or solitons ? 30'
        Speaker: O.A. Pokhotelov (Institute of Physics of the Earth, Moscow, Russia)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 14:30 - 15:00 Nonlinear theory of the mirror instability near its threshold
      • 14:30 Nonlinear theory of the mirror instability near its threshold 30'
        Speaker: E. Kuznetsov (Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russian Federation)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 15:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 15:30 - 16:00 Coherent Whistler Waves: PIC simulations of Oscillation Formation
      • 15:30 Coherent Whistler Waves: PIC simulations of Oscillation Formation 30'
        Speaker: K. Sauer (Institute of Geophysics, University of Alberta, Canada)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 16:00 - 16:30 Dynamics of large-amplitude whistler structures in plasmas
      • 16:00 Dynamics of large-amplitude whistler structures in plasmas 30'
        Speaker: B. Eliasson (Rhur University, Bochum, Germany)
    • 16:30 - 17:00 The forming of a relativistic partially electromagnetic planar plasma shock
      • 16:30 The forming of a relativistic partially electromagnetic planar plasma shock 30'
        Speaker: M. Dieckmann (Linkopings Univ., Norrkoping, Sweden)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 17:00 - 17:30 Nonlinear Field Line Random Walk and Generalized Compound Diffusion of Charged Particles in Turbulent Magnetized Plasmas
      • 17:00 Nonlinear Field Line Random Walk and Generalized Compound Diffusion of Charged Particles in Turbulent Magnetized Plasmas 30'
        Speaker: I. Kourakis (Ruhr Univers. Bochum, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
  • Wednesday, 22 August 2007
    • 09:15 - 10:00 Electron Skin Size Ballooning Mode and Anomalous Electron Thermal Diffusivity in Tokamaks
      • 09:15 Electron Skin Size Ballooning Mode and Anomalous Electron Thermal Diffusivity in Tokamaks 45'
        Speaker: A. Hirose (University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 10:30 Gravity wave in atmosphere (ionosphere) and dusty plasma
      • 10:00 Gravity wave in atmosphere (ionosphere) and dusty plasma 30'
        Speaker: C.S. Liu (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Ballooning instability in Tokamaks
      • 11:00 Ballooning instability in Tokamaks 30'
        Speaker: S. Cowley (UCLA, Los Angeles, USA)
    • 11:30 - 12:00 An investigation of new regimes in laser-plasma interaction
      • 11:30 An investigation of new regimes in laser-plasma interaction 30'
        Speaker: R. Trines (Rutherford Appleton Lab., Didcot, UK)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:00 - 12:30 Nonlinear waves in plasmas
      • 12:00 Nonlinear waves in plasmas 30'
        Speaker: G. Rowlands (University of Warwick, Coventry, U.K.)
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:30 - 17:00 Poster Session
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 14:30 Poster Session 2h30'
    • 20:00 - 22:30 Best Poster Prize Presentation and College Dinner
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 20:00 Best Poster Prize Presentation and College Dinner 2h30'
  • Thursday, 23 August 2007
    • 09:15 - 10:00 Nonlinear rapid cooling of relativistic electrons under cosmic equipartition plasma conditions
      • 09:15 Nonlinear rapid cooling of relativistic electrons under cosmic equipartition plasma conditions 45'
        Speaker: R. Schlickeiser (Ruhr Univers. Bochum, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 10:30 On Shear Flow Instabilities and its Applications
      • 10:00 On Shear Flow Instabilities and its Applications 30'
        Speaker: H. Saleem (PINSTECH, Islamabad, Pakistan)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Unruh Radiation
      • 11:00 Unruh Radiation 30'
        Speaker: G. Brodin (University of Umea, Sweden)
    • 11:30 - 12:00 Turbulence in Interstellar Medium - 3
      • 11:30 Turbulence in Interstellar Medium - 3 30'
        Speaker: D. Shaikh (Univ. of California, Riverside, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:00 - 12:30 Localized envelope excitations in pair plasmas
      • 12:00 Localized envelope excitations in pair plasmas 30'
        Speaker: I. Kourakis (Ruhr Univers. Bochum, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 17:00 Round-table discussions regarding Plasma Physics Activities at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
      • 14:30 Round-table discussions regarding Plasma Physics Activities at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics 2h30'
  • Friday, 24 August 2007
    • 09:15 - 10:00 Nonlinear mirror mode dynamics: simulations and modeling
      • 09:15 Nonlinear mirror mode dynamics: simulations and modeling 45'
        Speaker: P.L. Sulem (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Nice, France)
    • 10:00 - 10:30 Mach cones in dusty plasmas
      • 10:00 Mach cones in dusty plasmas 30'
        Speaker: A.A. Mamun (Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh)
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Electrostatic Wave Modes in a 4-Component Electron-Positron Plasma
      • 10:30 Electrostatic Wave Modes in a 4-Component Electron-Positron Plasma 30'
        Speaker: S. Pillay (University of Durban Westville, Durban, South Africa)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Closing session
      • 11:00 Closing session 30'
        Speaker: P.K. Shukla & R. Bingham (Ruhr Univ. Bochum, Germany & Rutherford Appleton Lab., Didcot, UK)
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