PHYSICS SYMPOSIUM AT THE ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
Academician Professor Padma Kant Shukla CorrFRSE and FORMemb of the Physics Class of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA) and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) was invited to deliver a plenary talk on Dusty Plasmas at the Physics Symposium (15-17 November 2011) of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA) that awards the Nobel Prize in Physics. The meeting was focused on the cutting edge physics of multi-disciplinary sciences and was hosted by the Academy's Physics Class Chair Björn Jonson. At the Physics Symosium, Academician Ludwig Faddeev of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, and Academician Steven Girvin of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, USA delivered plenary talks as well.
In the photo: Professor Padma Kant Shukla (RUB International Chair holder) and the Physics Nobel Prize Chair Börje Johansson in the Academy meeting room where the Nobel Prize in Physics, Chemsitry, and Medicine is annually announced.
ITFPC 2011 & MIATEC 2011
The Innovations in Thin Film Processing and Characterisation & Magnetron, Ion processing and Arc Technologies European Conference (ITFPC & MIATEC 2011) was held in Nancy, France, from 14th to 17th November, 2011. The aim of the conference is to promote thin film growth techniques and processes, contribution of characterisation techniques to thin film science and engineering, process diagnostics, modelling and numerical simulation and applications and functional properties. The conference was a great opportunity to present and observe recent progress in research of magnetron and ion processing technologies. It had one dedicated sessions for High Impulse Power Magnetron Sputtering (HIPIMS), where recent achievements in the field were presented. Prof. Dr. Jörg Winter, Prof. Dr. Achim von Keudell, Dipl-Phys. Marina Prenzel and Dr. Ante Hecimovic attended the conference where they had a chance to find about the latest achievements in the field of magnetron plasma, furthermore they made valuable contacts with experts from the field and agreed on future collaborations.
CALIFA CONSORTIUM MEETING IN LA LAGUNA
The CALIFA collaboration will celebrate a 2nd Busy Week the 29th of November to the 2nd of December 2011 (both included). PD Dr. Dominik Bomans is going to participate in that meeting.
The main goals of this meeting are: To put in common the current status of the first generation of science articles, stimulating the collaboration between the different groups and to prepare the data release of the first data sets.
INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE FRONTIERS OF FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS (FFP12) AT THE UNIVERSITY OF UDINE, ITALY
Academician Professor Padma Kant Shukla CorrFRSE and Foreign Member of the Physics Class of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA) and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) was invited to deliver a plenary talk on Relativistic Nonlinear Quantum Plasmas at Nanoscales at the International Symposium on the Frontiers of Fundamental Physics (21-23 November 2011) at the University of Udine, Italy. The Symposium focused on various aspects of condensed matter physics, statistical physics, particle physics, quantum mechanics and quantum gravity, emerging areas of plasma physics (e.g. plasma assisted nanotechnology and high energy density plasmas, plasma based charged particle acceleration, etc.), and nonlinear sciences.
The Symposium was organized by Prof. Marisa Michelini (University of Udine) and Prof. Gautam Sidharth Burra (DG, B. M. Birla Science Centre, Hyderabad, India) together with an International Advisory Board composed of several members including the honorary chair Nobel Laureate (NL) Douglas Osheroff (Stanford University, California), Prof. Walter Greiner (Director, Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies, Germany), and RUB International Chair holder Prof. Padma Kant Shukla. During the opening ceremony of the Symposium, Prof. Shukla emphasized the importance of international scientific collaboration, in addition to presenting the plenary talk dealing with the table-top quantum free-electron lasers, thereby exploring new quantum x-ray and gamma ray regimes by using super-intense short laser pulses and relativistic electron beams in dense plasmas. This is one of the innovative approaches in emerging and cutting edge areas of plasma physics that holds the promise of producing high-power coherent radiation sources in the new parameter regimes that are going to set a new horizon in applied physics. At the FFP12, the Nobel Laureate Prof. Douglas Osheroff (Stanford University, California and The National Academy of Sciences, Washigton, USA), the 1996 Nobel Laureate in Physics for the discovery of the superfluidity in Helium 3, presented a special lecture on How (Experimental) Advances in Science are Made? Specifically, the NL Osheroff focused on the innovation, as well as on innovative and curiosity-driven challenging researches in physical sciences.
In the photo: Professor Padma Kant Shukla and the Physics Nobel Laureate Professor Douglas D. Osheroff.