Dr. Horst Fichtner and Dr. Christian Schwarz at Swarthmore Collage
From June 9-11, 2010, the General Meeting of the Center of Magnetic Self-Organization (CMSO) has been held at Swarthmore Collage, near Philadelphia. From the Ruhr-University Bochum PD Horst Fichtner as representative of the "Research Group 1048: Cosmic Magnetic Fields") and Dr. Christian Schwarz of the "Research Department for Plasmas with Complex
Visit of Dr. Schulz-von der Gathen at The Queen's University of Belfast
From Sunday, December 12th, 2010 till Wednesday, December 15th, 2010, Dr. Volker Schulz-von der Gathen visited Dr. Timo Gans at The Queen's University of Belfast (QUB) to discuss future common projects. During this stay. he also prepared a publication with the former RUB student Arthur Greb who is now working as a phd in Belfast.
Visit of the Queen's University in Belfast
Dr. Volker Schulz-von der Gathen and research student Arthur Greb visited the partner group of Timo Gans at Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, from February 19th to 21st, 2009. Common comparative measurements on oxygen detection in the micro plasma jet were discussed. A reserach visit of a Belfast student has been agreed upon. Arthur Greb presented a setup for ozone concentration measurements by UV absorption spectroscopy. A second topic of discussions were micro plasma arrays. Here, D. O'Connell is the main partner at QUB.
New DAAD project (PPP) with Serbia
In December 2009, the DAAD and Ministry of Science of Republic of Serbia gave the green light for starting the joint project of Gaseous Electronics Laboratory (Institute of Physics, Belgrade University) and our Forschergruppe “Physics of Microplasmas”, Project A4 (Research Dep. “Plasma Physics with Complex Interactions”). The participators are from the Gaseous Electronics Group Prof. Zoran Lj. Petrović, Dr. Dragana Marić and Nikola Škoro, PhD student and form the Reasearch Department Prof. Jörg Winter, Dr. Ilija Stefanović and Thomas Kuschel, PhD student. Thus the both groups share the common interest in the new developing field of microplasmas this colaboration will intensify our contacts and exchange of the young scientists for the next two years. The first visit of Belgrade group will be at the and of the March during the International Workshop «Diagnostics of Microplasmas» where D. Marić from Belgrade shall give an invited lecture.