First Meeting

First Meeting Schedule

28/01                  Arrival of team members
29/01 Speaker Title
10:00-10:10 Elena Besley Introduction
10:10-11:10 Sergey Popel Dusty plasmas at the Moon: investigations at the Space Research Institute RAS
11:10-11:30 Coffee break & free discussion
11:30-12:30 Tatiana Burinskaya Surface charging of Earth’s moon exposed to the solar radiation
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Yulia Izvekova Dusty plasma effects in the atmospheres of planets
14:30-16:30 Round table Available and desirable data from the Moon
18:00-21:00 Welcome dinner
30/01 Speaker Title
10:00-11:00 Ingrid Mann Nanodust and its interactions in the heliosphere and ionosphere
11:00-11:20 Coffee break & free discussion
11:20-12:20 André Melzer Laboratory experiments on dusty plasmas
12:20-13:20 Lunch
13:20-14:20 Tony Stace Small charged particles: Experiment and theory
14:20-16:20 Round table Interlinks between Space and Lab
31/01 Speaker Title
10:00-11:00 Anatoly Filippov Kinetic and hydrodynamic simulation of charging and screening of dust particles in equilibrium and nonequilibrium dusty plasmas
11:00-11:20 Coffee break & free discussion
11:20-12:20 Frédérique Charles Kinetic modelling and numerical simulation of the transport of dust particles in a rarefied atmosphere
12:20-13:20 Lunch
13:20-14:20 Ivan Derbenev Unexpected manifestations of electrostatics and their possible applications for dusty plasmas
14:20-14:50 Eric Lindgren Dynamics of electrostatically driven particle aggregation
14:50-16:20 Round table Gaps in modelling of lunar dusty plasma
01/02 Speaker Title
10:00-10:30 Carsten Baumann Nanometer-sized dust within Earth’s lower ionosphere
10:30-11:00 Joshua Baptiste A mechanism for the electrostatic self-assembly of macroanions
11:00-11:20 Coffee break & free discussion
11:20-12:50 Benjamin Stamm INVITED LECTURE

  • An efficient numerical method to solve the electrostatic many-body interaction of charged dielectric spheres
  • Continuum/implicit solvation models
12:50-13:50 Lunch
13:50-16:20 Round table Summary and focus on the project goals
18:00-21:00  Farewell dinner
02/02
10:00-12:00 Round table Milestones and preliminary schedule for the second meeting
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:00  Closing remarks