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.ukif 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

DateTopicLecturer
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

DateTopicLecturer
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