Postgraduate plasma lectures
This course is intended for first year Plasma Physics PhD students, but other students are welcome to attend - please contact the course organisers Brian Appelbe (b.appelbe07@imperial.ac.uk) and Stuart Mangles (stuart.mangles@imperial.ac.uk) if you are interested. Unless otherwise stated, all lectures are on Wednesdays 10 am-12 pm in the Plasma Physics Group 'The Malcolm Haines' seminar room (Blackett 741).
Academic year 2019-2020 - First Term Lectures
| Date | Topic | Lecturer |
|---|
| Wed 13 Nov 2019 |
Z-pinches |
Jerry Chittenden |
| Wed 27 Nov 2019 |
Laser-plasma interactions 1 |
Zulfikar Najmudin |
| Wed 4 Dec 2019 |
Dusty plasmas |
Michael Coppins |
| Wed 11 Dec 2019 |
Computational physics - Fluids |
Chris Walsh |
Academic year 2019-2020 - Second Term Lectures
| Date | Topic | Lecturer |
|---|
| Wed 22 Jan 2020 |
Laser-plasma interactions 2 |
Stuart Mangles |
| Wed 29 Jan 2020 |
Plasma diagnostics |
Sergey Lebedev |
| Wed 5 Feb 2020 |
Atomic and radiation physics in the laboratory and in astrophysics |
Steve Rose |
| Wed 12 Feb 2020 |
Laboratory astrophysics |
Sergey Lebedev / Francisco Suzuki-Vidal |
| Wed 19 Feb 2020 |
Kinetic studies of HED plasmas |
Grigory Kagan |
| Wed 26 Feb 2020 |
Laser-plasma interactions 3 |
Robert Kingham |
| Wed 4 Mar 2020 |
Shocks and equations of state |
Simon Bland |
| Wed 11 Mar 2020 |
High power lasers |
Roland Smith |