Schools
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Past Schools
"Mini-school on Industrial and Fusion Plasmas"
July 7 - 9, 2010, at the Research School of Physics and Engineering, ANU, Canberra
This minischool spanned fundamental plasma processes, plasma formation and heating of plasma suited for processing and propulsion through to the burning plasma physics of fusion power. A common theme across the school was the physics of wave-particle interactions for plasma formation and heating, the subsequent drive of resonant wave modes, and diagnostics that measure wave phenomena.
It is an exciting time for ANU plasma physics research, with growth in plasma theory and modelling research pursuits, and $7m investment into the Australian Plasma Fusion Research Facility. Participation in the mini-school provided exposure to an excellent range of research opportunities across the plasma science discipline, with feeders to plasma processing, plasma propulsion, and fusion energy projects. The skills developed at the mini-school are directly relevant to burning plasma physics for ITER, the next step fusion energy experiment - also the world's largest science experiment.
"CEMRACS'10" summer school and research session no "Numerical Modelling of Fusion". CEMRACS'10 took place at the CIRM (Marseille, France) from July 19th to August 27th, 2010.
This scientific event of the SMAI consisted of two parts:
- a one week summer school, which is alson a SMF State of Research session on mathematics for ITER (July 19th-23rd)
- a five week research session (July 26th-August 27th)