Mini-Course

As part of SOFE 2015, a special one-day mini-course on Plasma Material Interactions (PMI) for Fusion Plasmas Applications will be offered on Sunday May 31, 2015. The mini-course will be held at the Hilton Austin, Austin, TX.  International experts from academia and national Labs will provide a set of comprehensive lectures on plasma material interactions, plasma edge physics and their applications in fusion.

The aim of the mini-course is to provide a comprehensive introduction of plasma-material interactions with emphasis on fusion plasmas. This mini-course will address rising interest in the area of plasma-material interactions and will in part introduce the breadth and depth of the subject in areas including: plasma-surface interactions in fusion edge plasmas, plasma diagnostics for PMI and modelling of the plasma edge and materials, where the plasma/material interface plays a crucial role in materials performance and behavior.  A unique aspect of this mini-course is to bring instructors who not only have an expertise in plasma-material interactions, but also extensive experience both in PMI experiments and atomistic/multi-scale computational PMI modeling.  The course will uniquely describe the challenges of PMI experiments and computational modeling and the areas in which these two thrusts can complement each other.  The course instructors include leading researchers in the areas of experimental and computational plasma-material interactions. 

Minicourse Organizers.

Professor Davide Curreli (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Professor Daniel Andruczyk (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Instructors:

David Ruzic (University of Illinois)
Brian Wirth (University of Tennessee – Knoxville)
Martin Nieto-Perez (Instituto Politecnico Nacional)
Rajesh Maingi (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

Minicourse Outline.

Time	Topic	Instructor
8:00 – 8:15	REGISTRATION
8:15 – 8:30	Introduction and Overview	Davide Curreli Daniel Andruczyk
8:30 – 9:15	Fundamentals of PMI	Daniel Andruczyk
9:15 – 10:00	The Plasma Sheath	Davide Curreli
10:00 –10:30	BREAK
10:30 – 11:15	Plasma facing materials in fusion	David Ruzic
11:15 – 12:00	Diagnostics for PMI	Daniel Andruczyk
12:00 – 13:00	LUNCH
13:00 – 13:45	Computational PMI 1 Plasma edge models	Davide Curreli
13:45 – 14:30	Computational PMI 2 Material models	Brian Wirth
14:30 – 15:00	BREAK
15:00 – 15:45	PMI in Small Scale Devices	Martin Nieto-Perez
15:45 – 16:30	PMI in Fusion Devices	Rajesh Maingi
16:30 – 17:00	Discussion and Closing