Dr. Dominik Bomans "Plasmas in and around Galaxies"
Prof. Dr. Ralf-Peter Brinkmann demonstrates that theory does not have to be gray, as Mephistopheles claimed in Faust. The plasma researcher addresses the following questions: Why are plasmas hot and cold at the same time? What does this have to do with theory? And what is the ultimate practical use of all this?
End of lecture plasma barbecue
This year's SFB-TR 87 plasma barbecue for the undergraduate students has been held last Thursday, July 21, 2016. With good weather this was a good opportunity for them to talk to the staff of the chairs AEPT and TET. For the first time, the barbecue had been held on one of the still very new permanent barbecue areas of the Ruhr-Universität behind the Hörsaalzentrum Ost. For all participants it was a successful event.
RAPP Center: Inauguration workshop
In this first conference and opening ceremony of the "Ruhr Astroparticle and Plasma Physics Center" (RAPP Center) September 21-23, 2016, international speakers are invited to review knowledge on central questions with connection to activities within the RAPP center. The conference will start with an opening reception at the planetarium Bochum Wednesday evening. On Thursday and Friday, we will have one and a half days of plenary-only talks with additional time for discussions. The expected number of participants is about 100, talks are by invitation only, each 22 Minutes long plus 3 minutes for direct questions. We hope to intensify discussions about the frontiers of plasma- and particle-astrophysics in order to enhance the collaboration within the RAPP center and with our international friends even further.
PD Dr. Horst Fichtner "Plasma in the solar system"
PD Dr. Horst Fichtner could introduce in his lecture different plasmas of the solar system and for phenomena like "the solar fire", the hundred thousand degrees hot solar wind, to which interplanetary space probes and astronauts are exposed, detailed and vrständliche explanations supply. Also the energetic cosmic rays he conveyed with an ease in his execution.
He was able to explain why the understanding of these plasmas is important for fundamental physics as well as for the prediction of the so-called space weather and space climate.