The Les Houches Physics School, entitled "The multiple approaches to plasma physics from laboratory to astrophysics" is to be held on 13–24 May 2019 in Les Houches, France. Pre-registration for the conference is now open, and will close on 15 February 2019. The venue for the school can hold 46 participants and, as such, selected attendees will be notified at the beginning of March.
This two-week school held in the French Alps focuses on plasma physics and its manifestations in laboratory experiments, space environment and in astrophysics. It targets an international audience primarily composed of PhD students and junior postdoctoral researchers. The objective is to introduce the participants to a wide range of fundamental aspects of plasma physics, as well as to the state-of-the-art in many of the sub-disciplines. The school will feature blackboard-style lectures, hands-on activities, talks on latest research, presentation by students, as well as group work such as journal clubs and social activities. This school is the latest of a series of programs held every two years since 2011 at the Les Houches School of Physics on similar topics (2011, 2013, 2015, 2017).
More information about the Les Houches Physics School can be found at the school's website. If you have any questions, the organising committee can This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
The list of confirmed lecturers so far is:
- Troy Carter (UCLA, USA)
- Benoît Cerutti (CNRS & Université Grenoble Alpes, France)
- Christopher Chen (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
- Andrea Ciardi (Sorbonne Université, France)
- Mickaël Grech (CNRS & Ecole Polytechnique, France)
- Thomas Grismayer (IPFN Portugal)
- Per Helander (IPP, Germany)
- Emmanuel d'Humières (Université de Bordeaux, France)
- Karine Issautier (CNRS & Observatoire de Paris, France)
- Miho Janvier (Université Paris-Sud, France)
- Kumiko Kotera (CNRS & Sorbonne Université, France)
- Matthew Kunz (Princeton University, USA)
- Henrik Latter (University of Cambridge, UK)
- Sergei Lebedev (Imperial College London, UK)
- Nuno Loureiro (MIT, USA)
- Andrea Mignone (University of Torino, Italy)
- Paolo Ricci (EPFL, Switzerland)
- François Rincon (CNRS & Université Paul Sabatier, France)
- Alexander Schekochihin (University of Oxford, UK)
- Anatoly Spitkovsky (Princeton University, USA)
- Hendrik Spruit (MPIA Garching, Germany)
- Tommaso Vinci (CNRS & Ecole Polytechnique, France)
- Philippe Zarka (CNRS & Observatoire de Paris, France)
- Ellen Zweibel (Wisconsin-Madison, USA)