Program of APPTC 2007

Dec 11, 2007

09:00-09:40 : Registration

09:40-09:50 : Welcome Address

Session 1: Laser plasma interactions (Session Chair: Amita Das)

09:50-10:30: Invited Talk (I-11-01) : Prasad Naik on “High order harmonic generation and other ultrashort pulse laser-plasma interaction studies at RRCAT”

Tea/Coffee Break (10:30-10:50)

Session 1 (Contd.)

10:50-11:30: Invited Talk (I-11-02) : Sudip Sengupta on “Spatio-temporal evolution of Relativistically Intense Waves in a Cold Homogeneous Plasma”

11:30-11:50: Oral Presentation (O-11-01) : Devendra Sharma on “Ion-acoustic solitons in a collisionless warm ion plasma”

11:50-12:10: Oral Presentation (O-12-02) : Vikrant Saxena on “Destabilization of envelope solitons in a plasma due to ion response”

Lunch Break (12:10-13:40)

Session 2: Turbulence in plasmas and transport processes (Session Chair: Predhiman K Kaw)

13:40-14:20 : Invited Talk (I-11-03) : Sadruddin Benkadda on “Anomalous Self-Similarity of Impurity Transport in Plasma Edge Turbulence”

14:20-15:00 : Invited Talk (I-11-04) : Rowenna Ball on “From chaos to structure in quasi two-dimensional plasma and planetary flows”

15:00-15:20: Oral Presentation (O-11-03) : Nirmal Bisai on “A comprehensive study of Scrape-off-layer plasma turbulence”

Tea/Coffee Break (15:20-15:40)

Session 3: Space and Astrophysical plasmas (Session Chair: Avinash Khare)

15:40-16:20: Invited Talk (I-11-05) : Dipankar Bhattacharya on “ Plasma flow on strongly magnetized neutron stars”

16:20-17:00: Invited Talk (I-11-06) : G.S. Lakhina on “ Electrostatic solitary structures in space plasmas”

17:00-17:20: Oral Presentaion (O-11-04) : Mofiz Uddin Ahmed on “On Dark Solitons Generated By Gravitational Waves In Astrophysical Plasmas”

Cultural Program (19:00-20:00)

IPR Director’s Dinner (20:00-21:30)

Dec 12, 2007

Session 4: Beam and accelerator physics (Session Chair: Yogesh C. Saxena)

09:00-09:40: Invited Talk (I-12-01) : Srinivas Krishnagopal on “Free-Electron Lasers and Plasma-Based Accelerators - An Overview”

09:40-10:20: Invited Talk (I-12-02) : Arun Chakrabarty on “Negative ion based Neutral Beams in Fusion Research – the ITER perspective”

10:20:10:40: Oral Presentaion (O-11-01) : Kazuo Minami on “Theoretical and Experimental Studies of Cyclotron Emission from Neutralized Electron Beams”

Tea/Coffee Break (10:20-10:40)

Session 5: Magnetic and inertial fusion plasmas (Session Chair: Sadruddin Benkadda)

10:40-11:20: Invited Talk (I-12-03) : H. Nagatomo on “Integrated simulation on relativistic electron transport in fast ignition”

11:20-12:00: Invited Talk (I-12-04) : Matthew Hole on “A stepped pressure profile model for internal transport barriers”

12:00-12:40: Invited Talk (I-12-05) : Ritoku Horiuchi on “Multi-Hierarchy Simulation Model of Magnetic Reconnection in Collisionless Plasmas”

12:40-13:00: Oral Presentation (O-12-02) : Indranil Bandyopadhyay on “Simulations of major disruptions in ITER using TSC”

Lunch Break (13:00-14:20)

14:20-16:30: Poster Session (Tea/Coffee served within poster session)

16:30-18:00: IPR Lab Visit

Dec 13, 2007

Session 6: Low temperature, dusty and nano-plasmas (Session Chair: Satoshi Hamaguchi)

09:00-09:40: Invited Talk (I-13-01) : Tae Hun Chung on “ Effect of plasma parameters in ion current to the cylindrical probe in electro-negative plasmas”

09:40-10:20: Invited Talk (I-13-02) : Khare Avinash “Dust - Plasma Thruster for Space Propulsion”

10:20-10:40: Oral Presentation (O-13-01) : Pintu Bandyopadhyay on “Investigation of correlation effects on low frequency collective modes in strongly coupled dusty plasmas”

10:40-11:00: Oral Presentation (O-13-02) : Md. Khairul Islam on “On the Sheath Limited Currents in Dust Grain Charging”

Tea/Coffee Break (11:00-11:20)

Session 7: Various plasma based devices (Session Chair: P I John)

11:20-12:00: Invited Talk (I-13-03) : Satoshi Hamaguchi on “Numerical simulations and ion beam experiments on plasma surface interactions”

12:00-12:40: Invited Talk (I-13-04) : S. Mukerjee on “Ion Sheaths And Its Use In Low Pressure Industrial Plasma Applications”

12:40-13:00: Oral Presentation (O-13-03) : Manash Kumar Paul on “Studies in Toroidal Helicon Plasma Device”

13:00-13:10 : Concluding Remarks

Lunch Break (13:10-14:20)

14:30-19:00 Local Sight Seeing