INSTITUTET FÖR RYMDFYSIK	UPPSALA
Swedish Institute of Space Physics	(59°50.272′N, 17°38.786′E)

Swedish Plasma and Space Physics Workshop/Plasma- och rymdfysik möte 2010

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Information for visitors

The workshop will have have the Beurlingsroom on the ground floor of the Ångströmlaboratoriet of the Uppsala University plus smaller meeting rooms for splinter sessions.

Preliminary Programme

• 09:00-10.00: Coffee at the IRF Uppsala, hus/house 8, floor 3 tr., guided institute tour, poster preview in the Beurling room
  

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• 10.00-11.15: Presentations, summarizing group activities or describing results of relatively wide interest
• 10.00-10.36: Chalmers Inst. för Teknisk Fysik, Nukleär Teknik
• Impurity transport in tokamak plasmas (Tünde Fülöp)
  
• Effect of electric fields on the neoclassical transport in the tokamak pedestal (Istvan Pusztai)
  
• Simulation of runaway electron generation during plasma shutdown by impurity injection (Tamas Feher)
  
• Runaway electron losses due to resonant magnetic perturbations (Gergely Papp)
  
• 10.36-11.03: Umeå, Institutionen för Fysik
• A comparison of classical and quantum mechanical theory of plasma waves (Gert Brodin)
  
• A generalized Vlasov theory for spin-1/2 particles (Jens Zamanian)
  
• A comparison of classical and quantum mechanical theory of plasma  waves (Martin Stefan)
• 11.03-11.21: IRF Uppsala
• Magnetic reconnection at the magnetopause (Mats André)
• Dusty plasma near Enceladus South Pole (Muhammad Shafiq )

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• 11.21-12.21: Coffee and posters

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• 12.21-13.15: Continued Presentations
• 12.21-12.48: IRF Kiruna
• Plasma escape from planetary atmospheres (Hans Nilsson)
• Foreshock and Planetary Size: a Earth-Venus-Mars comparison (Masatoshi Yamauchi)
• Recent activities of Solar System Physics and Space Technology group in Kiruna
  - Lunar plasma and neutral atom environment (Yoshifumi Futaana)
• 12.48-13.06: KTH, Fusionsplasma
• Overview of the European fusion programme and the ITER experiment (James Drake)
• A JET tokamak with ITER-Like Wall (Marek Rubel)
• 13.06-13.15: KTH, Rymdfysik
• Overview of Space Plasma Physics at the Alfvénlaboratory (Göran Marklund)

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• 13.15: Lunch with local space physics friends at Cafe Ångström

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• 14:00: Celsius Lecture (Siegbahnsalen): Prof. Anton Zeilinger, Quantum information and the foundation of quantum theory
  
• -15.30: Coffee after the lecture
  

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• 15.30-15.45: Introduction to splinter sessions. Splinter sessions are meetings among a small group of scientists discussing relatively specialized topics. 
• 15.45-17.45: Splinter sessions
  
• Fusion Plasma Physics, runaway electrons (Tamas Feher)
• Fusion Plasma Physics, electric fields and transport (Istvan Pusztai)
• Space plasma turbulence and its intermittent properties (Emiliya Yordanova and Vladimir Pavlenko)
  
• Finite gyroradius effect in laboratory and space plasma (Masatoshi Yamauchi)
• 17.45-18.00: TBD
  

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• 18:30 Workshop dinner, place TBD
  

• 9:00 Splinter sessions, normally topics different from the previous day 
• Ion outflow (Hans Nilsson)
• Electric fields at gradients (Andris Vaivads)
  
• Similarities and differences between the dusty space plasma in the Earth's ionosphere and Saturn magnetosphere and impurities in fusion plasma (Muhammad Shafiq and Stephan Buchert)
• 10:30 Coffee
• 11:00 Presentation of splinter session summaries
• 11:30 Towards imaging plasma dynamics in 3D
  
• 12:30 Lunch

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