Plasma theory

Welcome to the website of the plasma theory research group at Chalmers University of Technology. We belong to the Division of Subatomic, High Energy and Plasma Physics of the Department of Physics.

News

Best PhD student presenters June 14th

Hannes Bergström and Ida Ekmark are the winners of the best PhD student presenter's prize at the 11th Runaway Electron Modelling meeting, held at Swiss Plasma Centre, EPFL, Lausanne. The prize is sponsored by Journal of Plasma Physics.

MSc thesis presentations May 19th

Christian Gustavsson and Nico Guth presented their MSc thesis seminars on 7 June 10-12. Nico presented a thesis on "The pellet rocket effect in magnetic confinement fusion plasmas" and Christian's presentation was on on "Sensitivities of the runaway current in JET disruptions to massive gas injection and initial plasma current".

Upcoming events

Emil, István, Konrad, Lise, Tünde and Victor will go to IRF Uppsala between August 29th — 30th. We will have a lunch-to-lunch general assembly for the Extreme Plasma Flares project.

Ida will go to ITER headquarters between September 3rd — 6th. She will attend [3rd IAEA Technical Meeting on Plasma Disruptions and their Mitigation](https://conferences.iaea.org/event/380/).

Tünde will go to Stockholm on September 24th. She has been invited to give the Alfvén lecture at KTH. The lecture will take place 15:30-16:30 in lecture hall E3.

Lise Meitner symposium We will organize the 2024 Lise Meitner Symposium with the title [Understanding complexity: network science and statistical physics](https://www.chalmers.se/en/current/calendar/gpc-symposium-lise-meitner-award-2024/) on 27 September, in the PJ seminar room.

Tünde will go to Oxford between September 29th — December 21st. She has been elected to a Visiting Research Fellowship at Merton College for the Michaelmas Full Term.

Alfvén prize gathering 2024-04-07

Celebrations for Tünde's and Per's Alfvén prize, with current and former members of the Chalmers Plasma Theory group.

Contact details

Address
Department of Physics
Chalmers University of Technology
SE-412 96 Göteborg
Sweden

Email: tunde at chalmers.se

Phone: +46 31 772380

Find us: The group's offices are on the top (3rd) floor of the Soliden part of the Physics building. The address is Fysikgården 1. This map shows various routes to find the place.

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