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Wednesday, May 13, 2015
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM
CNLS Conference Room (TA-3, Bldg 1690)

Seminar

Kinetic Plasma Lectures: Collisions” bring self-organization to plasmas: dielectric behavior and Debye shielding

D. F Escande
Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS

Topics:
* How a particle can be shielded by all other ones, while contributing to shielding them all
* Leads to revisiting the Vlasovian picture
* A single Vlasov equation, but several non equivalent derivations: what is the velocity distribution function?
* Beam-plasma system: a secondary instability beyond the Vlasovian one

Host: Gian Luca Delzanno