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13th International Workshop on Non-Neutral Plasmas: It's back! Call for abstracts

24 May 2022

We are finally able to re-launch the NNP workshop originally planned for 2020 and postponed due to the pandemic. The 13th NNP workshop continues a series of conferences devoted to the physics of non-neutral plasmas and related phenomena. Please send your abstracts by 1 July 2022! More information can be found on the workshop website.

 

PhD in Physics at the University of Milano, XXXVII cycle: The call for applications is open

1 June 2021

A PhD in plasma physics... Well, why not? The call for applications at the Physics, Astrophysics and Applied Physics PhD School of the University of Milano is open. This is the only opportunity to enroll in our PhD program (in any subfield of physics). Details about the PhD can ben found here and here. The deadline for applications is 2:00 PM, 28 June 2021. Also, you may want to contact us to get information about research prospects and some guidance concerning the application.

 

A workshop on Andrei Sakharov's contributions to science and human rights

21 May 2021

On the 100th anniversary of Andrei Sakharov's birth, a webinar witha 5-hour worth of prestigious contributions celebrates Sakharov (recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1975) and his outstanding efforts both in physics and in the defense and awareness of human rights.  Sakharov played a primary role in the conception of the tokamak as a fusion device and contributed to science in various capacities, from plasma physics to astrophysics, from energy to the debate on non-proliferation, and his political activity - that cost him a long exile under the USSR regime - is no less significant. The entire mini-workshop is available here.

 

PhD in Physics at the University of Milano, XXXVI cycle: The call for applications is open

26 June 2020

Fancying about a PhD in plasma physics? This is the time: The call for applications at the Physics, Astrophysics and Applied Physics PhD School of the University of Milano is open. This is the only opportunity to enroll in our PhD program (in any subfield of physics). Details can be found here. The deadline for applications is 2:00 PM, 20 July 2020. Also, you may want to contact us to get information about research prospects and some guidance concerning the application.

 

13th International Workshop on Non-Neutral Plasmas

31 March 2020

Due to the Coronavirus pandemic the 13th International Workshop on Non-Neutral Plasmas is regretfully postponed to 2021.

 

COVID-19 emergency, access prohibited to university and online activities

12 March 2020

Due to the Coronovirus health emergency the access to the Physics Department is currently prohibited. Students are invited to contact us and to refer to the pages dedicated to our courses for information about the continuation of teaching activities online (lectures, examinations, course materials).

 

13th International Workshop on Non-Neutral Plasmas

1 January 2020

We are glad to be organizing the 13th International Workshop on Non-Neutral Plasmas and look forward to welcome all colleagues in Milano. The conference website is under constructions, but it already contains essential information. Please check for updates! You are also welcome to write us for any information request.

 

Seminar about plasma physics and fusion research

6 March 2018

Thomas Sunn Pedersen is today's speaker in the PhD School's Colloquium series. His talk is titled "Fusion energy research: The W7-X stellarator experiment"). T. S. Pedersen is director of the Stellarator Edge and Divertor Physics Division at the W7-X stellarator, Max-Planck Institut für Plasmaphysi, Greifswald branch and has also been active for many years in the field of nonneutral and trapped plasmas, first at the University of Columbia, NY, where he developed the Nonneutral Columbia Torus, and then at IPP-Greifswald leading the PAX/APEX experiment towards the production of a pair plasma of electrons and positrons. The seminar (held in Aula A at 2:30 PM, Physics Department) is open to a general audience of both scholars and students.

 

Best presentation award at the 102nd SIF National Congress

23 December 2016

Giancarlo Maero was awarded the prize for the best communication in the Section 2 - Physics of Matter at the 102nd National Congress of the Società Italiana di Fisica (Italian Physics Society), where he presented the talk "Generation, dynamics and coherent structures in RF-generated trapped non-neutral plasmas".

 

43rd EPS Conference on Plasma Physics

31 March 2016

Massimiliano Romé is one of the invited speakers at the 43rd EPS Conference on Plasma Physics in Leuven (Belgium), from 4 to 8 July 2016. He will give the talk "Structures and turbulent relaxation in non-neutral plasmas".

 

European Science Photo Competition 2015

21 March 2016

This photo of our Lab ("The human side of science") by Saverio Vincenzi won the European Science Photo Competition 2015 for the category "People in Science" for Italy! Follow this link for a full resolution image.

 

4th International Conference Frontiers in Diagnostics Technologies

02 February 2016

Giancarlo Maero is one of the invited speakers at the 4th International Conference Frontiers in Diagnostics Technologies from 30 March to 1 April  2016 in Frascati (Italy). He will give the talk "Measurement of RF-excited non-neutral plasmas in Penning-Malmberg traps".

 

XXXI PhD cycle selection

25 August 2015

The call for applications for the XXXI PhD cycle has been announced. Details can be found on the PhD School's website. The closing date is 30 September, with candidates' interviews taking place in October. If you are interested in a PhD in the physics of plasmas and related topics you can also contact Massimiliano Romé or Giancarlo Maero (see People page) for specific information.

 

XXXII International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases

02 May 2015

Massimiliano Romé is one of the general invited speakers at the XXXII International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases in Iasi (Romania), from 26 to 30 July 2015. He will give the talk "Instabilities and turbulence in magnetized plasmas with a single sign of charge".

 

Call for Papers: Complex Plasma Phenomena

10 February 2015

In the spirit of the positive experience at the recent workshop held in the Accademia dei Lincei we would like to draw your attention to a Special Issue of Journal of Plasma Physics edited by Francesco Califano (University of Pisa) and Massimiliano Romé (University of Milan) entitled: Complex Plasma Phenomena in the Laboratory and in the Universe. For further information please go to the workshop website or to the dedicated Journal of Plasma Physics page.

 

Workshop "Complex Plasma Phenomena in the Laboratory and in the Universe"

20 October 2014

We are organizing a Workshop on "Complex Plasma Phenomena in the Laboratory and in the Universe", Roma, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 19-20 January 2015. For more information please visit the website.

 

11th International Workshop on Non-Neutral Plasmas

15 August 2014

Massimiliano Romé is one of the invited speakers at the 11th International Workshop on Non-Neutral Plasmas (1-4 December 2014) in Takamatsu (Japan). He will present contributions about the current research activity of our group.

 

Group 'update'!

15 November 2013

We welcome to our group Dr. Shi Chen, who is joining us for two years as a post-doc visiting scientist from his parent Institute of Fluid Physics (IFP), China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP). At the same time we thank Dr. Bruno Paroli  for the great contribution he gave to our group during the past years, his friendship and the good time we spent together. Dr. Paroli is beginning a new research endeavour within our department's Optics Research Laboratory, yet we plan to collaborate with him and his new group in various capacities. We'll see you around, Bruno!

 

XCIX National Congress of the Italian Physical Society

18 September 2013

Massimiliano Romé is one of the invited speakers at the XCIX National Congress of the Italian Physical Society in Trieste, from 23 to 27 September 2013. He will give the talk "Investigation of magnetized non-neutral complex plasmas".

 

Workshop of the Physics of Complex Systems Group, 11 September 2013

3 September 2013

We are approaching a fairly dense mid-September! In addition to the FisMat2013 conference, our group will not miss the occasion of showing up at the first Workshop of the Physics of Complex Systems Group, a newborn network established within our department to connect researchers dealing with a range of topics that share the rather broad concept of "complexity". Giancarlo Maero will give the talk "Confinement and dynamics of non-neutral and complex plasmas: theory and experiments". The participation is free and students are welcome.

 

FisMat 2013

2 September 2013

The whole group will participate in the FisMat 2013 - Italian National Conference on Condensed Matter Physics conference, organized by CNISM and Politecnico di Milano from 9 to 13 September 2013. A series of sessions devoted to plasma physics is scheduled from Wednesday to Friday and we will present several oral and poster contributions together with our collaborators from the University of Calabria.

 

Nobel Prize 2012 awarded to David Wineland

9 October 2012

We sincerely congratulate with David Wineland, who has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics (together with Serge Haroche), motivated by his "ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems" through the use of ion traps. This exciting announcement represents a confirmation of the importance of particle trapping studies and a further source of motivation in carrying out basic research of this kind.

 

10th International Workshop on Non-Neutral Plasmas

15 August 2012

Massimiliano Romé will be in Greifswald during the last week of August to participate in the 10th International Workshop on Non-Neutral Plasmas (27-30 Augsut 2012), hosted by the Max-Planck-institut für Plasmaphysik. He will present contributions about the current research activity of the Plasma Physics group.

 

Joint EPS and ICPP Conference

21 June 2012

Massimiliano Romé and Giancarlo Maero will be in Stockholm during the first week of July to participate in the joint 39th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics and 16th International Congress on Plasma Physics (2-6 July 2012), hosted by the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm. They will present contributions about the current research activity of the Plasma Physics group.

 

Seminar about fusion energy

8 May 2012

Massimiliano Romé will give the seminar "Prospettive della Fusione Termonucleare Controllata" ("Perspectives for Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion") on Tuesday 15 May at 15:00 in the lecture hall C of the Physics Department of our university. The seminar is organized by the EnergyLab Foundation. Participation is free and open to everyone.

 

Seminar about dusty plasmas

25 February 2012

Prof. Svetlana Ratynskaia (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden) will give the seminar "Dusty plasmas vs. multi-component plasmas" on Wednesday 29 February at 12:00 in the lecture hall "Caldirola" of the Physics Department of our university. Participation is free and open to everyone.

 

PAL2 Workshop

18 November 2011

Massimiliano Romé is participating to "PAL2 - Modelling instabilities in high-energy plasmas", the second workshop in the series "Plasmi in astrofisica e in laboratorio" ("Astrophysical and laboratory plasmas") scheduled 23-24 November 2011 in Torino with the contribution "Numerical codes for non-neutral plasmas".

 

PRIN 2009 project approved - ready to start up!

1 September 2011

We come back from the summer (quasi-)break with excellent news. Our project proposal 'Nonlinear dynamics of non-neutral complex plasmas', submitted to the Ministry of Educations, Universities and Research two-year project call 'PRIN 2009', has been approved. As for the PRIN 2007 project, once again the proposal had been submitted last year by our group jointly with a group from the University of Calabria. Massimiliano Romé will be the National Scientific Coordinator and Coordinator for the Research Unit here at the University of Milano. Dr. Fabio Lepreti will lead the Research Unit at the University of Calabria.

The project will officially start on 15 October 2011 and foresees numerical investigations on a dust-contaminated electron plasma in a Malmberg-Penning trap as well as the construction of part of the set-up to create and confine such a complex plasma. This is for us both a continuation and expansion of our work in trapped plasmas as well as a new research topic - deemed as a 'hitherto unexplored area of research' by the evaluation committee. Definitely a challenge, yet a great opportunity and source of excitement.

 

Promo shoot in our lab

17 May 2011

Today the guys from CTU (the multimedia service center of the University of Milano) came to our lab to shoot a promo for the university digital library. Prof. Francesco Ragusa, our department head, was interviewed about the importance of the digital library while having the ELTRAP set-up as a background. As users of this service we were pleased to help. And we were also pleased that the choice fell on our lab - it looks like it is the most telegenic around here!

 

 

Workshop "Plasmi in astrofisica e in laboratorio"

10 May 2011

Massimiliano Romé is participating to the first joint CIFS-CNR workshop "Plasmi in astrofisica e in laboratorio"("Astrophysical and laboratory plasmas") scheduled for Wednesday, 18 May, with the contribution "Strutture coerenti e turbolenza in plasmi di laboratorio" ("Coherent structures and turbulence in laboratory plasmas").

Cover article

3 May 2011

Our newest paper "Turbulence and coherent structures in non-neutral plasmas" has been chosen as cover article of the most recent issue of the European Physical Journal Plus. [See our Publications page.]