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

New post-doc January 19th
Björn Zaar will join our group from 16 February. He will mainly work on runaway electrons.

Upcoming events

Seminar Tünde will give a "Subatomic, high energy and plasma physics" seminar on 14 February at 13:15-14:15 in the Eva von Bahr seminar room.


Ansh Patel from Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching will visit between February 17th — 21st.


Tünde will go to Stockholm between February 26th — 28th. She will participate at meetings at KVA.


István will go to Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory between March 10th — April 1st. He will participate in the workshop "MR2025 - International Workshop on Magnetic Reconnection in Space, Solar, Astrophysical, and Laboratory Plasmas". The title of his presentation is "Eulerian electron energization in collisionless magnetic reconnection".


Seminar Tünde will give a Plasma Science and Fusion Center seminar "A brief history of runaway electrons", on 14 March at 8pm (remote).


Emil, István and Konrad will go to Kiruna between March 25th — 26th. They will participate in the Swedish Space Plasma meeting.


Sam Fletcher from Oxford University will visit on April 25th.


Tünde will go to EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland between May 2nd — 4th. She will participate in the Journal of Plasma Physics Editorial Board meeting.


Licentiate Seminar Ida Ekmark is planning to defend her Licentiate thesis on 7 May. Discussion leader will be Håkan Smith from the Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald.


Konrad will go to Paris between May 12th — 14th. He will participate in the [MMS workshop](https://10thmmsanniv.sciencesconf.org/).


MSc thesis presentations Lise Hanebring and Liam Antonsson plan to present their MSc theses on 10 June, 13-15 in the Eva von Bahr seminar room.


Tünde will go to Stockholm between June 11th — 12th. She will participate at meetings at KVA.


Tünde will go to Merton College, Oxford between June 16th — 20th.


Tünde will go to Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald between September 16th — 19th. She will participate in a meeting with the IPP Fachbeirat.


PhD defense Oskar Vallhagen is planning to defend his PhD thesis on 28 November.


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.
Alfvén prize gathering
Contact details

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

Email: tunde at chalmers.se

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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