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Title: 5th East-Asia School and Workshop
on Laboratory, Space, and Astrophysical Plasmas
When: 17 -- 22 August, 2015
Where: POSCO International Center, POSTECH, Korea
Homepage: https://apctp.org/plan.php/eastplasma2015
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Scientific Rationale:
- Plasma physical processes play an important role in various laboratory, space, and astrophysical environments, including fusion experiment, Earth magnetosphere, Sun, interstellar medium, and intergalactic medium. This summer school intends to 1) introduce basic physics of laboratory, space, and astrophysical plasmas and provide training to young scientists; 2) bring scientists from laboratory physics, space physics, and astrophysics together and exchange ideas and latest results; 3) foster future collaborations especially in the East-Asian region and also around the world.
- An important consideration is to keep the School lectures at relatively entry level, given the fact that many students are probably not very familiar with all these topics. We choose two lecture formats: (1) in-depth lecture where the lecturer can have enough time to cover the material in relative depth, or (2) basic lecture where the lecturer can keep the content at the basic level so that students can benefit the most. We also encourage lecturers to assign small amount of homework (with answers) so that students can work on them at breaks and nights.
Format of the meeting:
- mornings: lectures to introduce basics of plasma physics and phenomena mostly to students as well as to postdocs
- afternoons: workshops that will feature recent developments in individual topical areas.
Topics to be covered:
- reconnection
- turbulence
- dynamo
- momentum transport
- wave-particle interaction
- plasma physics in geomagnetosphere
- shocks and particle acceleration
- MHD, PIC, GK codes
Scientific Organizing Committee
Taik Soo Hahm (Seoul, Korea), Matthew Hole (ANU, Austrailia), Masahiro Hoshino (Tokyo, Japan), Katsumi Ida (NIFS, Japan), Hantao Ji (PPPL, USA), Dong-Hun Lee (Kyunghee, Korea), Hui Li (LANL, USA), Zhihong Lin (Peking, China), Roji Matsumoto (Chiba, Japan), Hyeon Park (UNIST, Korea, Chair), Dongsu Ryu (UNIST, Korea, Co-chair), Xiao-Gang Wang (Harbin, China)
We particularly encourage students and postdocs to attend the meeting. Those who present contributions, other oral or poster, will be receive supports of local accommodation.
For further information or questions, please visit the workshop homepage or contact Gunsu Yun, the LOC Chair, gunsu_at_postech.edu
