Lab visit
Dr. habil. Sedina Tsikata visits plasma labs in Bochum
Within the frame of the physics collquium at Ruhr University in Bochum, Dr. habil. Sedina Tsikata from CNRS Orléans, France was invited to present her reserach topic. Her presentation had the title "With plasmas into space - physics of Hall thrusters". The visit was also used to discuss recent research topics with the groups of Prof. A. von Keudell and Prof. U. Czarnetzki.
Guests
Active exchange with international scientists continues at TP4
The very steady exchange between scientists from all over the world with the group around PD Dr. Horst Fichtner continues also at the end of 2019. Moreover, already for 2019, a visit for 2019 is planned.
(1) Between 17.11. and 7.12.2018, Prof. Sean Oughton from the Univeersity of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand visits the group. His research Topic is Turbulence Evolution in the Heliosphere.
(2) Dr. Dieter Nickeler with his research topic hydrodynamical flows in circumstellar environments spends two weeks at Bochum (2.12.-15.12.2018). He is from Astronomický ústav, Akademie věd České republiky, Czek Republic.
(3) Finally, the regular exchange with Prof Yuri Litvinenko from Univeersity of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand continues: he visits the group of PD Dr. Fichtner between 5.12. and 19.12.2018 as well as between 8.1. and 25.1.2019. With him, the focus in the scientific exchange is about nonlinear diffusion.
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Prof. Dr. Yuri Litvinenko
Since 2013, Prof. Dr. Yuri Litvinenko from the University of Waikoto, New Zealand, is a continuous guest in Bochum. This year, the VIP grant was successfully extended, so that Prof. Litvinenko will visit the group of PD Dr. Horst Fichtner for three months from 1st Decemeber 2017 until 28th February 2018.
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Prof. Ferreira at PD Dr. Horst Fichtner's group
In the frame of the bilateral German-South African BMBF-NRF foundation Prof. Dr. Stefan Ferreira from North-West-University, Campus Potchefstroom is going to visit the group of PD Dr. Horst Fichtner in Bochum between 19th and 25th November 2017. After 2016, it is the second visit of Prof. Ferreira in Germany within the fruitful collaboration.
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Roeland Schelfhout visits research group applied plasma physics
Being part of the Cod-to-Doc program in the SFB-TR 87, Vincent Layes from the research group applied plasma physics visited the research group of Prof. Depla from the Ghent University in September 2015. Now the PhD student from Ghent University, Roeland Schelfhout, came to work together with Vincent Layes at the RUB from June 19th, until June 30th, 2017. He had a seminar talk about "The reactive sputtering process from a target point of view" on June 29th, 2017.
The scientific goal of both PhD canditates for this time is "Thorough XPS investigation of the poisoning evolution along the racetrack for an aluminum target, sputtered in an argon/oxygen atmosphere in both standard DC sputtering as well as in HiPIMS."