Announcement

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The International Symposium “Plasmas in the Laboratory and in the Universe: interactions, patterns, and turbulence” will be held at Società del Casino, on Lake Como, about 50 km North of Milano. It will start in the morning of Tuesday December 1st 2009 and end in the afternoon of Friday December 4th. This Symposium falls within a long tradition of Conferences and Schools held regularly either in Varenna or in Como (in particular, it follows the general goals of the International Symposium “Plasmas in the Laboratory and in the Universe: new insights and new challenges”, September 2003).

The conference program will address the following broad themes:

(1) Turbulence, magnetic fields, and star formation

(2) The disk-jet connection

(3) Mechanisms for angular momentum transport in accretion disks

(4) Complex and non-neutral plasmas

(5) Turbulence in laboratory and space plasmas

(6) Coherent and self-organized structures

(7) Plasma-wave interactions

(8) High energy plasmas

The structure of the Symposium is planned to be in the form of four full-day sessions (broadly corresponding to the eight areas indicated above) and a poster session. The selection of the contributed papers and the division into oral and poster presentations will be made on the basis of a one-page abstract submitted by the participants.

As for the Symposium held in 2003, the Proceedings will be published by the American Institute of Physics.

List of confirmed invited speakers that will attend the Symposium:

F. Aharonian (MPI, Heidelberg, Germany)

V. Carbone (Università della Calabria, Italy)

C. Clarke (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK)

B. Coppi (MIT, Cambridge, USA)

S. Cowley (Culham, UK)

J. Ferreira (Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Grenoble, France)

D. Galli (INAF - Osservatorio di Arcetri, Firenze, Italy)

G. Ghisellini (INAF – Osservatorio di Brera, Merate, Italy)

E. A. Kuznetsov (Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia)

S. Lebedev (Imperial College, London, UK)

R. Lovelace (Cornell University, Ithaca, USA)

A. Melzer (Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität, Greifswald, Germany)

G. Morfill (MPE, Garching, Germany)

P. Padoan (UCSD, San Diego, USA)

F. Pegoraro (Università di Pisa, Italy)

D. Price (Monash University, Clayton, Australia)

D. Ryutov (LLNL, Livermore, USA)

S. Shore (Università di Pisa, Italy)

Co-organized by

Dipartimento di Fisica

Università degli Studi di Milano

Via Celoria 16

20133 Milano, Italy

Centro di Cultura Scientifica “Alessandro Volta”

Villa Olmo – Via Cantoni 1

22100 Como, Italy

International Advisory Board

C. Clarke (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK)

B. Coppi (MIT, Cambridge, USA)

S. Lebedev (Imperial College, London, UK)

R. Lovelace (Cornell University, Ithaca, USA)

G. Morfill (MPE, Garching, Germany)

D. Ryutov (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)

Scientific Organizing Committee

Giuseppe Bertin (Co-chairman) (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano)

Franca De Luca (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano)

Giuseppe Lodato (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano)

Roberto Pozzoli (Co-chairman) (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano)

Massimiliano Romé (Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Milano)

Registration and Abstracts

Deadline for registration, abstract submission and accommodation: 10 October 2009.

Please send your one-page abstract to plasma09@centrovolta.it, following the templates shown here.

On the basis of the Abstracts received, the final selection between oral and poster papers will be made by 31 October 2009.

Registration Fees

If paid before 10 October 2009: 300,00 Euro (VAT 20% included)

If paid after: 400,00 Euro (VAT 20% included)

The Conference registration fee includes the Proceedings volume (hardcover).

Click here to register

Poster session

Poster panels are 180 cm height and 90 cm width.

Poster session will be open from Tuesday December 1st, and will continue through the whole Symposium.

Pins will be available at the registration desk.

Proceedings Guidelines

Style files can be found at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/authors.jsp#forms

6 X 9 inch format.

To comply with the signed contract with AIP, the firm deadline for submitting the final manuscript for the Proceedings is January 15th, 2010.