2024 Alfvén Lecture, Professor Tünde Fülöp
Alfvén Lecture 2024 is given by Professor Tünde Fülöp, from Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg.
Faster Than Lightning: Electron Beams in Laboratory Plasmas
Speaker: Professor Tünde Fülöp, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg
Location: Lecture Hall E3, Osquars backe 18, KTH Campus
Date/time: 24th September 2024, 15:30 - 16:30
Hosts:
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Anita Kullen, Head of Space and Plasma Physics Division, EECS, KTH
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Andris Vaivads, Former head of Space and Plasma Physics Division, EECS,KTH
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Christer Fuglesang, Director of KTH Space Center
Abstract
Electron acceleration and its associated radiation in plasmas has fascinated human kind with its beauty for centuries. It occurs in such diverse phenomena as laser-produced plasmas, electrical discharges associated with thunderstorms, aurorae in planetary magnetospheres, solar flares and fusion plasmas. However, the natural beauty of the observable signatures of these processes is not the only reason we are interested in them. Understanding their causes, characteristics and consequences has practical importance in several fields, ranging from clean energy generation to protection against solar storms. In this lecture, I will describe relativistic electron beams in magnetic fusion and laser-produced plasmas, as well as strategies for how to create and control them.
The lecture is supported by Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences through its Nobel Institute for Physics
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