WELCOME  to 

The Center for Multiscale Plasma Dynamics  and

The Center for Magnetic Self-Organization(CMPD/CMSO)

Winter School  Site

The Center for Multiscale Plasma Dynamics (CMPD) is a Department of Energy Fusion Science Center, hosted jointly by the University of Maryland and UCLA. Our mission is to extend established first-principles, microscopic, kinetic simulation techniques to problems that intrinsically involve the slow evolution of macroscopic variables, and to validate the simulations against experimental observations.

Understanding magnetic self-organization in plasmas is crucial to unraveling puzzles in astrophysical and laboratory plasma behavior. The Center for Magnetic Self-Organization (CMSO) is an NSF Physics Frontier Center Led by the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The Center unites laboratory plasma physicists with plasma astrophysicists for this purpose. Experimenters and theorists participate from six institutions: the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Chicago, Princeton University, the University of New Hampshire, Los Alamos National Labs, and Swarthmore College.

 

2010  - NEW WINTER SCHOOL

Shear Flows and Momentum Transport in Lab and Astrophysical Plasmas
January 4-8, 2010 - UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy

APPLICATION
Application Deadline:  October 30, 2009 for foreign students
Application Deadline: November 11, 2009 Local students
No extension for late submission

Winter School 2010 is supported by the National Science Foundation

2009
Common Themes in Space, Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas:
Dynamo, Heat Transport and Collisionless Shocks
January 5-10, 2009 - UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy