ECPD EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS
The 2nd European conference on plasma diagnostics was located this year in Bordeaux. The conference is an biennial event. Scientists from low temperature and industrial plasmas, inertial fusion, magnetic confinement fusion, beam plasmas, as well as astrophysical scientists
It took place from April 18th until 21th, 2017. Prof. von Keudell gave an invited overview lecture with the title "Physics and Diagnostics of Non-equilibrium Atmospheric Pressure Plasmas".
Astronomy
Dr. Andrew Fletcher
Dr. Andrew Fletcher from the Newcastle University, UK, stayed at the research group for Astronomy of Prof. Dettmar for four weeks. He started his visit on April 18th and left at May 15th, 2017. In this time he collaborated with the people from Bochum on magnetic fields.
A highlight of his stay was the seminar talk with the title "Magnetic field in the multi-phase interstellar medium" on May 4th, 2017.
Abstract: I will review what is known about the general properties of magnetic fields in the diffuse interstellar medium. New results will then be presented, addressing questions such as:
is the mean, large-scale, magnetic field preferentially connected to a particular phase of the ISM? what effect does the generation of the mean-field have on ISM structure? what are the space and time correlations of random fluctuations in the ISM? how are these correlation scales related to observables?
EP5
Prof. Dr. Mizuki Sakamoto
On Monday, May 15th, 2017, Prof. Dr. Mizuki Sakamoto from Tsukuba University, Japan, visited the research group of Pof. Czarnetzki. He had a talk in the seminar room NABF 05/694 at 15.00. The title was "Divertor simulation experiment and PWI study using linear devices in University of Tsukuba"
Radiohalos of spiral galaxies - the impact of CHANG-ES in Bochum
Between June 6th and 10 th, 2017 the meeting concerning Radiohalos of spiral galaxies - the impact of CHANG-ES takes place in Bochum. The research group of Prof. Dettmar is coordinating group. The meeting is distributed over four days, where scientists from the CHANG-ES group as well as guests will come together.
The Galaxy survey “Continuum HAlos in Nearby Galaxies – an Evla Survey (CHANG-ES)“ was observed at the Expanded Very Large Array (EVLA radio telescope), New Mexico, USA. It contains a galaxy sample of significant size over a variety of angular spatial scales, which will help to address fundamental questions regarding radio halos and magnetic fields in spiral galaxies. The galaxies were observed at the two low frequencies, 1.5 GHz (20 cm wavelength) and 6 GHz (6 cm wavelength). CHANG-ES can also exploit the wide bandwidths that are provided by the EVLA. These wide bandwidths permit enormous improvements in continuum sensitivity. In addition, the wide bands provide a wealth of spectral information that will be unique to this survey. Moreover, CHANG-ES is the first survey of edge-on galaxies for which all polarization products will be obtained, providing important information on halo magnetic fields (Irwin et al. 2012).
Webpage of the CHANG-ES meeting
