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12 Jun. 2025
LPP organized the NASA MMS mission 10th anniversary workshop in Paris
LPP organized the NASA Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission 10th anniversary, 11th MMS Community workshop, at the Pierre and Marie Curie Campus of Sorbonne Université in Paris between 12th and 14th of May 2025. MMS mission is constituted of 4 identical...
21 May. 2025
Sophie Masson defended her Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) entitled "The dynamics of the solar corona and solar energetic particle events."
Sophie MASSON’s research field is solar physics, with a particular focus on eruptive and impulsive phenomena. To address these topics, she uses two distinct yet complementary approaches: modeling and observational diagnostics. Her work is part of the...
21 May. 2025
Phase transition between turbulence and zonal flows in the Hasegawa-Wakatani system.
The Hasegawa-Wakatani system is a simplified model for instability-driven 2D turbulence in the edge of tokamak magnetised plasmas [1]. In this system, a dissipative drift-wave linear instability is generated by a background density gradient, which acts as...
07 May. 2025 - 07 Sep. 2025
PLASMAScience Launches the Second Edition of its Summer School
📍 Île de Porquerolles, France – June 22–28, 2025 Following the success of its inaugural Summer School dedicated to astrophysical plasmas in June 2024, EUR PLASMAScience is pleased to announce the second edition of its Summer School , this time focusing on...
28 Mar. 2025
Victor Lafaurie defended his PhD "Pulsed plasma approach for mild or strong ignition of a detonation wave using gradient of atomic species"
On March, 2025, Victor Lafaurie defended his PhD "Pulsed plasma approach for mild or strong ignition of a detonation wave using gradient of atomic species". Abstract : This thesis presents a study conducted on the ignition of a detonation wave with non...