EPS/IUPAP/PPCF plasma poster prize winners announced!
The international journal Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion (PPCF), the European Physical Society (EPS) and the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics are proud to present the winners of the PPCF/EPS/IUPAP PhD Poster Prize. The winners were announced at the closing ceremony of the 45th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics, Prague, Czech Republic.
2018 winners
- Javier Rodrigo Pinzón Acosta, Max-Planck Institut für Plasmaphysik, Garching, Germany and Physics-Department E28, TUM, Garching Germany . Experimental investigation of the mean turbulence structure tilt angle and its comparison with gyrokinetic simulationS
- Viktor Schneider, Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany
An optically trapped microparticle as plasma probe
- Meenakshee Sharma, Institute for Plasma Research, HBNI, Gandhinagar, India
Study of propagation of ion acoustic soliton in multi-cusp plasma device
- Petr Valenta, ELI-Beamlines, Institute of Physics, 182 21 Prague, Czech Republic and Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
On high-quality electron beam generated by breaking wake wave in near-critical density plasmas
Congratulations to all!
Previous winners
2017
- Aaron Alejo (Queen’s University Belfast) for a poster entitled “‘Stabilisation of radiation pressure driven ion acceleration from ultra-thin targets, studied by fast neutron spectroscopy”.
- Giannandrea Inchingolo (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon) for a poster entitled “‘Large Scale PIC simulations of high β magnetorotaional instability”.
- Michael Griener (IPP Garching) for a poster entitled “‘Implementation of fast line ratio spectroscopy on helium as plasma edge diagnostic at ASDEX upgrade”.
- Axel Jardin (CEA Cadarache) for a poster entitled “‘Investigation of impurity cooling factor robustness against transport and application to GEM detectors for W core density reconstruction on WEST”
2016
- Arkaprava Bokshi (York University) for a poster entitled “The self-consistent response of linear micro-instabilities to profile evolution”.
- Mark Coughlan (QUB) for a poster entitled “Ultrafast dynamics of crystals irradiated by few-ps proton pulses”.
- Cristian Sommariva (CEA/IRFM) for a poster entitled “Modeling runaway electron dynamics in realistic fields from 3D non-linear MHD disruption simulations”.
- Hannah Willett (York University) for a poster entitled “The role of plasma instabilities in the onset of detachment in the York Linear Plasma Device”.
2015
- M Bailly-Grandvaux (CELIA, France) for a poster entitled “External magnetic field pinching effect on a relativistic electron beam in dense matter”.
- N Bakharev (IOFFE, Russia) for a poster entitled “Modeling of the fast ion behavior in the Globus-M spherical tokamak”.
- S Esponisa (PSFC-MIT, USA) for a poster entitled “Theoretical explanation for strong poloidal impurity asymmetry in tokamak pedestals”.
- L Horvath (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary) for a poster entitled “Fast changes in the mode structure of chirping energetic particle driven modes”.
2014
- Alexandra Vallet (CELIA, France) for a poster entitled “Semi-analytic modelling of shock ignition”.
- Brendan Kettle (QUB, UK) for a poster entitled “XUV absorption of warm dense aluminium”.
- Livia Casali (IPP Garching, Germany) for a poster entitled “Transport analysis of high radiation and high density plasmas at ASDEX Upgrade”.
- Himank Anand (EPFL, Switzerland) for a poster entitled “First experimental results of plasma shape control using real time equilibrium reconstruction in TCV”.
