We announce the RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting on:
non-equilibrium plasmas, from the X-rays to the UV: challenges for modelling.
Friday 11 April 2014, 10:30-15:30.
The Geological Society,Burlington House,LONDON.
Abstract submission deadline: 21 March 2014.
To submit an abstract for a talk, send an e-mail to Giulio Del Zanna: gd232 (at) cam.ac.uk with names of authors, affiliation, title, and abstract.
Non-equilibrium effects such as time-dependent ionization, non-Maxwellian particle distributions and non-coronal density effects are ubiquitous in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas. It is therefore essential to have models of plasma emission that both assess the presence of non-equilibrium effects and provide techniques to obtain details of the plasma conditions from spectroscopic measurements, from the X-rays to the UV.
This meeting will bring together laboratory and solar physicists, together with astronomers and atomic physicists, to discuss advances and common techniques for studying non-equilibrium plasma conditions. In the future we are bound to have higher-cadence, high-resolution observations and non-equilibrium effects will become important; one example is the solar IRIS spectroscocopic mission, launched in 2013.
Organisers: Dr Giulio Del Zanna, Dr Helen Mason (University of Cambridge), Prof Nigel Badnell (University of Strathclyde)