Invited Speakers

The GEC Executive Committee will select several topics for special emphasis. The invited speakers, their affiliations and tentative titles of their presentations for the 2016 GEC are listed here.

Lorenzo Ugo Ancarani, Université de Lorraine, France
Electron-atom collisions:
A Sturmian approach for ionization processes of atoms and molecules.
Connor Ballance, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Electron-atom collisions:
R-matrix calculations in support of impurity influx measurements
Edward Barnat, Sandia National Labs, USA
Diagnostics:
Development and application of laser-collision induced fluorescence for studying dynamic and structured plasmas
Zdenek Bonaventura, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Plasma Modeling:
Fluid and hybrid models for streamers
Michael Brunger, Flinders University, South Australia
Electron-small-molecule collisions:
Recent results for electron scattering from biomolecules and molecules formed due to plasma treatment of biomass
Mario Capitelli, Department of Chemistry - University of Bari, Italy
Plasma Processing and Chemistry:
Selfconsistent vibrational and free electron kinetics for CO2 dissociation in cold plasmas
Christine Charles, Australian National University, Australia
Propulsion:
From laboratory plasma experiments to space plasma experiments with `CubeSat' nano-satellites
Aranka Derzsi, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungary
Low pressure sources and their applications:
Experimental and simulation study of capacitively coupled electronegative discharges
Zoltan Donko, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Foundation talk:
Playing with charged particles: a way to understand kinetic effects in transport and in low-temperature plasmas
Leigh Hargreaves, Cal State Fullerton
Electron-small-molecule collisions:
Electronic excitation of molecular hydrogen by low-energy electrons
Peter Hartmann, Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungary
Bio/Liquids/Other:
Collective dynamics and transport in extremely magnetized dusty plasmas
Hisataka Hayashi, Toshiba
Plasma Processing and Chemistry:
Layer by layer etching of LaAlSiOx
Jeff Hopwood, Tufts University, USA
Atmospheric Pressure:
Peering inside microplasmas sustained by microwaves, millimeter waves and beyond
Alan Howling, EPFL SB SPC-PP
Low pressure sources and their applications:
RF inductive probe to measure plasma complex conductivity
Tsuyohito Ito, Osaka University, Japan
Bio/Liquids/Other:
Plasma-water systems studied with optical diagnostics including sum-frequency generation spectroscopy
Masafumi Jinno, Ehime University, Japan
Bio/Liquids/Other:
The Synergistic Effect between Electrical and Chemical Factors in Plasma Gene/Molecule-Transfection
Gaetana Laricchia, University College London, UK
Collisions involving antimatter
Asa Larson, Stockholm University, Sweden
Electron-small-molecule collisions:
Theoretical studies on dissociative recombination of molecular ions
Matsukuma Masaaki, Tokyo Electron
Plasma Modeling:
Hybrid molecular dynamics simulation for plasma induced damage analysis
Luis Mendéz, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Heavy-particle collisions:
Numerical calculation of charge exchange cross sections for plasma diagnostics.
Keiji Nakamura, Chubu University, Japan
Diagnostics:
Development and Miniaturization of RF based probes for Electron Density Measurements
Sander Nijdam, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Atmospheric Pressure:
Attraction of positive streamers to surfaces and free electrons
Nikolay Popov, Moscow State University, Russia
Propulsion, Combustion, Flow Control:
Non-equilibrium kinetics of plasma-assisted combustion: the role of electronically excited atoms and molecules
Shahid Rauf, Applied Materials, Inc.
Low pressure sources and their applications:
Atomic Precision Plasma Processing - Modeling Investigations
Greg Severn, University of San Diego, USA
Sheaths:
First experimental studies of ion flow in 3 ion species plasmas at the presheath-sheath transition
Keisuke Takashima, Tohoku University, Japan
Atmospheric Pressure:
Control of Reactive Species Generated by Low-frequency Biased Nanosecond Pulse Discharge in Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Effluent
Jonathan Tennyson, University College London, UK
Collisions involving antimatter:
R-matrix calculations of electron molecule collision data for plasma models
Thomas Trottenberg, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany
Diagnostics:
Measurements of the momentum flux from a low-temperature plasma to a surface
Xavier Urbain, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Heavy-particle collisions:
State-to-state measurements of low-energy ion-molecule and ion-ion collisions by three dimensional momentum imaging
Jan van Dijk, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Propulsion, Combustion, Flow Control:
Modeling Complex Chemical Systems: Problems and Solutions
Ayyaswamy Venkattraman, University of California, Merced, USA
Plasma Modeling:
Operating principles of microplasmas assisted by field emitting cathodes

Publication of invited speaker articles in Plasma Sources Science & Technology

All GEC invited speakers are invited to submit their conference article to the IOP journal Plasma Sources Science and Technology. Articles are required to contain at least 30% of new and unpublished research and need to be within the scope of the Journal. The articles will be reviewed to the usual Journal standards and published as regular papers. Once all the articles are published they will be gathered in a web page dedicated to the 69th GEC and free to download for a period of time. This year, the Guest Editors are Prof. Lorenzo Ugo Ancarani (Université de Lorraine), Dr. Costel Biloiu (Applied Materials, Inc.), Prof. John Foster (University of Michigan), and Prof. Uwe Czarnetzki (Ruhr-University Bochum). Please contact the Guest Editors to submit your GEC invited talk article to the Journal.