Joint ICTP-IAEA College on Plasma Physics | (smr 2369) (01-12 October 2012)

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Joint ICTP-IAEA College on Plasma Physics | (smr 2369)

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Monday, 1 October 2012

08:30 - 09:30 Registration
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All attendees of the College are required to complete registration formalities
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Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building, Lobby
- 08:30 Registration 1h0'

09:30 - 10:30 Magnetic confinement fusion: history and fundamentals

Location:

Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

09:30 Magnetic confinement fusion: history and fundamentals 1h0'

Speaker:	Michael Bell (Princeton University, USA)
Material:	lecture notes

10:30 - 11:30 Overview of nuclear fusion via magnetic confinement

Location:

Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

10:30 Overview of nuclear fusion via magnetic confinement 1h0'

Speaker:	Mitsuru Kikuchi (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
Material:	lecture notes

11:30 - 12:30 Intense laser-matter interactions: some basics

Location:

Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

11:30 Intense laser-matter interactions: some basics 1h0'

Speaker:	Gattamraju Ravindra Kumar (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India)
Material:	lecture notes

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 12:30 Lunch 1h30'
14:00 - 15:00 Informal Discussions
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Led by Michael Bell and Mitsuru Kikuchi
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Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 14:00 Informal Discussions 1h0'
15:00 - 15:20 Coffee Break

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 15:00 Coffee Break 20'
15:20 - 16:30 Informal Discussions
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Led by Michael Bell and Mitsuru Kikuchi
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Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 15:20 Informal Discussions 1h10'
19:00 - 21:00 Welcome Reception

Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
- 19:00 Welcome Reception 2h0'

Tuesday, 2 October 2012

09:00 - 10:00 Progress and outstanding challenges in tokamak research

Location:

Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

09:00 Progress and outstanding challenges in tokamak research 1h0'

Speaker:	Michael Bell (Princeton University, USA)
Material:	lecture notes

10:00 - 10:20 Coffee Break

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 10:00 Coffee Break 20'

10:20 - 11:20 Topology and Lagrange-Hamilton mechanics of magnetic confinement fusion

Location:

Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

10:20 Topology and Lagrange-Hamilton mechanics of magnetic confinement fusion 1h0'

Speaker:	Mitsuru Kikuchi (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
Material:	lecture notes

11:20 - 12:20 Introduction to remote experiments on the GOLEM tokamak

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 11:20 Introduction to remote experiments on the GOLEM tokamak 1h0'
  
  Speaker: Jan Stockel (Institute of Plasma Physics, Prague, Czech Republic)
12:20 - 14:00 Lunch

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 12:20 Lunch 1h40'
14:00 - 15:00 Remote experiments on the GOLEM tokamak

Location: Computer Lab. (LB)
- 14:00 Remote experiments on the GOLEM tokamak 1h0'
  
  Speaker: Richard Kamendje and Jan Stockel
15:00 - 15:20 Coffee Break

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 15:00 Coffee Break 20'
15:20 - 16:30 Remote experiments on the GOLEM tokamak

Location: Computer Lab. (LB)
- 15:20 Remote experiments on the GOLEM tokamak 1h10'
  
  Speaker: Richard Kamendje and Jan Stockel

Wednesday, 3 October 2012

09:00 - 10:00 High energy density science (HEDS) experiments with table top terawatt lasers: the why and how

Location:

Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

09:00 High energy density science (HEDS) experiments with table top terawatt lasers: the why and how 1h0'

Speaker:	Gattamraju Ravindra Kumar (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
Material:	lecture notes

10:00 - 10:20 Coffee Break

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 10:00 Coffee Break 20'

10:20 - 11:20 Dense plasma focus

Location:

Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

10:20 Dense plasma focus 1h0'

Speaker:	Vladimir A. Gribkov (Institute of Theoretical & Experimental Physics, Russian Federation)
Material:	lecture notes

11:20 - 12:20 Spherical tokamaks: achievements and prospects

Location:

Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

11:20 Spherical tokamaks: achievements and prospects 1h0'

Speaker:	Michael Bell (Princeton University, USA)
Material:	lecture notes

12:20 - 14:00 Lunch

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 12:20 Lunch 1h40'
14:00 - 15:00 Informal Discussions
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Led by Zensho Yoshida and G. Ravindra Kumar
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Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 14:00 Informal Discussions 1h0'
15:00 - 15:20 Coffee Break

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 15:00 Coffee Break 20'
15:20 - 16:30 Informal Discussions
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Led by Zensho Yoshida and G. Ravindra Kumar
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Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 15:20 Informal Discussions 1h10'

Thursday, 4 October 2012

09:00 - 10:00 Plasma confinement and turbulent transport in tokamak

Location:

Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

09:00 Plasma confinement and turbulent transport in tokamak 1h0'

Speaker:	Mitsuru Kikuchi (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)
Material:	lecture notes

10:00 - 10:20 Coffee Break

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 10:00 Coffee Break 20'

10:20 - 11:20 Physics issues and challenges in HEDS with table top lasers: some examples

Location:

Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

10:20 Physics issues and challenges in HEDS with table top lasers: some examples 1h0'

Speaker:	Gattamraju Ravindra Kumar (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India)
Material:	lecture notes

11:20 - 12:20 Acceleration of plasma flows: Theory and simulation

Location:

Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

11:20 Acceleration of plasma flows: Theory and simulation 1h0'

Speaker:	Nana Shatashvili (Ivane Javakhshvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia)
Material:	lecture notes

12:20 - 14:00 Lunch

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 12:20 Lunch 1h40'
14:00 - 16:30 Poster Session
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Prizes will be awarded to the participants judged to have presented the best two posters.
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Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building, Lobby
- 14:00 Poster Session 2h30'
15:00 - 15:20 Coffee Break

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 15:00 Coffee Break 20'

Friday, 5 October 2012

09:00 - 10:00 Space-time problems in plasma physics I

Location:

Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

09:00 Space-time problems in plasma physics I 1h0'

Speaker:	Zensho Yoshida (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Material:	lecture notes

10:00 - 10:20 Coffee Break

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 10:00 Coffee Break 20'

10:20 - 11:20 Self heating of solar corona by sheared flow-driven electrostatic instabilities

Location:

Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

10:20 Self heating of solar corona by sheared flow-driven electrostatic instabilities 1h0'

Speaker:	Hamid Saleem (National Centre for Physics, Islamabad, Pakistan)
Material:	lecture notes

11:20 - 12:20 Confinement stability: conceptual survey

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 11:20 Confinement stability: conceptual survey 1h0'
  
  Speaker: Swadesh M. Mahajan (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
12:20 - 14:00 Lunch

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 12:20 Lunch 1h40'
14:00 - 15:00 Participant led discussion

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 14:00 Participant led discussion 1h0'
15:00 - 15:20 Coffee Break

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 15:00 Coffee Break 20'
15:20 - 16:30 Participant led discussion

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 15:20 Participant led discussion 1h10'
19:00 - 22:00 ENSF Banquet and prize-giving ceremony

Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
- 19:00 ENSF Banquet and prize-giving ceremony 3h0'

Monday, 8 October 2012

09:00 - 10:00 Hall magnetohydrodynamics and applications I

Location:

Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

09:00 Hall magnetohydrodynamics and applications I 1h0'

Speaker:	Daniel O. Gomez (IAFE, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Material:	lecture notes

10:00 - 10:20 Coffee Break

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 10:00 Coffee Break 20'

10:20 - 11:20 Energy transfer and multiscale interactions in MHD turbulence I

Location:

Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

10:20 Energy transfer and multiscale interactions in MHD turbulence I 1h0'

Speaker:	Pablo D. Mininni (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Material:	lecture notes

11:20 - 12:20 Space-time problems in plasma physics II

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 11:20 Space-time problems in plasma physics II 1h0'
  
  Speaker: Zensho Yoshida (University of Tokyo, Japan)
12:20 - 14:00 Lunch

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 12:20 Lunch 1h40'
14:00 - 15:00 Informal Discussions
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Led by Daniel Gomez and Zensho Yoshida
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Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 14:00 Informal Discussions 1h0'
15:00 - 15:20 Coffee Break

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 15:00 Coffee Break 20'
15:20 - 16:30 Informal Discussions
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Led by Daniel Gomez and Zensho Yoshida
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Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 15:20 Informal Discussions 1h10'

Tuesday, 9 October 2012

09:00 - 10:00 Dynamics of solar wind I

Location:

Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

09:00 Dynamics of solar wind I 1h0'

Speaker:	William H. Matthaeus (University of Delaware, USA)
Material:	lecture notes

10:00 - 10:20 Coffee Break

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 10:00 Coffee Break 20'
10:20 - 11:20 Energy transfer and multiscale interactions in MHD turbulence II

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 10:20 Energy transfer and multiscale interactions in MHD turbulence II 1h0'
  
  Speaker: Pablo D. Mininni (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)

11:20 - 12:20 Introduction of warm dense matter

Location:

Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

11:20 Introduction of warm dense matter 1h0'

Speaker:	Hitoki Yoneda (Institute for Laser Science, Tokyo, Japan)
Material:	lecture notes

12:20 - 14:00 Lunch

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 12:20 Lunch 1h40'
14:00 - 15:00 Informal Discussions
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Led by William Matthaeus and Pablo Mininni
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Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 14:00 Informal Discussions 1h0'
15:00 - 15:20 Coffee Break

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 15:00 Coffee Break 20'
15:20 - 16:30 Informal Discussions
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Led by William Matthaeus and Pablo Mininni
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Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 15:20 Informal Discussions 1h10'

Wednesday, 10 October 2012

09:00 - 12:00 Symposium on Quantum Plasmas

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 09:00 Symposium on Quantum Plasmas 3h0'
  
  Speaker: P. Andreev, F. Asenjo, M. Marklund
10:00 - 10:20 Coffee Break

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 10:00 Coffee Break 20'
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 12:00 Lunch 2h0'
14:00 - 16:00 Symposium on Quantum Plasmas

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 14:00 Symposium on Quantum Plasmas 2h0'
  
  Speaker: P. Andreev, F. Asenjo, M. Marklund

16:30 - 17:30 ICTP Colloquium: Nuclear Energy - 'Green' and 'Sustainable' Fusion Fission Hybrids

Refreshments will be served in the entrance area following the Colloquium

Location:

Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

16:30 ICTP Colloquium: Nuclear Energy - 'Green' and 'Sustainable' Fusion Fission Hybrids 1h0'

Speaker:	Swadesh M. Mahajan (Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin)
Material:	lecture notes

Thursday, 11 October 2012

09:00 - 10:00 Dynamics of the solar wind II

Location:

Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

09:00 Dynamics of the solar wind II 1h0'

Speaker:	William H. Matthaeus (University of Delaware, USA)
Material:	lecture notes

10:00 - 10:20 Coffee Break

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 10:00 Coffee Break 20'

10:20 - 11:20 Detailed physical model for warm dense matter

Location:

Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

10:20 Detailed physical model for warm dense matter 1h0'

Speaker:	Hitoki Yoneda (Institute for Laser Science, Tokyo, Japan)
Material:	lecture notes

11:20 - 12:20 Hall magnetohydrodynamics and applications II

Location:

Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

11:20 Hall magnetohydrodynamics and applications II 1h0'

Speaker:	Daniel O. Gomez (IAFE, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Material:	lecture notes

12:20 - 14:00 Lunch

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 12:20 Lunch 1h40'
14:00 - 15:00 Informal Discussions
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Led by William Matthaeus & Hitoki Yoneda
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Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 14:00 Informal Discussions 1h0'
15:00 - 15:20 Coffee Break

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 15:00 Coffee Break 20'
15:20 - 16:00 Informal Discussions
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Led by William Matthaeus & Hitoki Yoneda
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Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 15:20 Informal Discussions 40'

Friday, 12 October 2012

09:00 - 10:00 New physics from new stars magnetars

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 09:00 New physics from new stars magnetars 1h0'
  
  Speaker: Vikram Soni (National Physical Laboratory, New Delhi, India)
10:00 - 10:20 Coffee Break

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 10:00 Coffee Break 20'

10:20 - 11:20 New trends for warm dense matter research works and their applications

Location:

Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall

10:20 New trends for warm dense matter research works and their applications 1h0'

Speaker:	Hitoki Yoneda (Institute for Laser Science, Tokyo, Japan)
Material:	lecture notes

11:20 - 13:00 Closing remarks

Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
- 11:20 Closing remarks 1h40'