Week One 16th - 20th July 2012

Monday 16th July	Tuesday 17th July	Wednesday 18th July	Thursday 19th July	Friday 20th July
9:00 – 9:10 Course Introduction 9:10 – 9:40 Dr. Roy McAdams • Welcome • Administrative arrangements • Overview of the Summer Professor Steve Cowley LECTURE DETAILS 9:40 – 11:20 Particle Dynamics Dr. Colin Roach LECTURE DETAILS	9:00 – 10:40 Plasma Kinetic Theory II Professor Tony Arber LECTURE DETAILS	9:00 – 10:40 Magnetohydrodynamics II Dr. Michael Coppins LECTURE DETAILS	9:00 - 10:40 Inertial Confinement Fusion Dr. Kate Lancaster LECTURE DETAILS	9:00 – 10:40 Computational Plasma Physics Dr. Colin Roach LECTURE DETAILS
11:20 – 11:40 Coffee Break & Student packs	10:40 – 11:15 Coffee Break	10:40 – 11:15 Coffee Break	10:40 – 11:15 Coffee Break	10:40 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:40 – 12:55 Fusion and the Future Energy Market Dr. David Ward LECTURE DETAILS	11:15 – 12:55 Magnetohydrodynamics I Dr. Michael Coppins LECTURE DETAILS	11:15 – 12:55 Magnetic Confinement Fusion Dr. William Morris LECTURE DETAILS	11:15 – 12:55 Waves in Plasmas Dr. Chippy Thyagaraja LECTURE DETAILS	11:15 – 12:55 Realisation and Application of Low Temperature Plasmas Dr. Deborah O'Connell LECTURE DETAILS
12:55 – 14:20 Lunch	12:55 – 14:00 Lunch	12:55 – 14:00 Lunch	12:55 – 14:00 Lunch	12:55 – 14:00 Lunch
14:20 – 16:00 Plasma Kinetic Theory I Professor Tony Arber LECTURE DETAILS	14:00 - 14:45 Plasma Particle Dynamics Problem Solving Dr. Colin Roach	14:00 – 14:45 Plasma Kinetic Theory Problem Solving Dr. Tony Arber	14:00 – 14:45 Magnetohydrodynamics Problem Solving Dr. Michael Coppins	Free Time
15:00 – 15:15 Coffee Break	14:45 – 15:00 Coffee Break	14:45 – 15:00 Coffee Break	14:45 – 15:00 Coffee Break
	15:00 – 16:30 Poster Session	15:00 – 16:30 Space Plasma Physics Dr. Jonathan Eastwood LECTURE DETAILS	15:00 – 16:30 Low Temperature Plasmas Dr. Mark Bowden LECTURE DETAILS	Free Time

Week Two 23rd - 27th July 2012

Monday 23rd July	Tuesday 24th July	Wednesday 25th July	Thursday 26th July	Friday 27th July
9:00 – 10:40 Plasma Instabilities Dr. Ken McClements LECTURE DETAILS	9:00 – 10:40 Laser Plasma Physics Professor Paul McKenna LECTURE DETAILS	9:00 – 10:40 Magnetohydrodynamics II Dr. Michael Coppins LECTURE DETAILS	9:00 - 10:40 Controlling the Plasma-Wall Interaction Dr. Geoff Fishpool LECTURE DETAILS or Physics of Implosion, Ignition and Burn Dr. John Pasley LECTURE DETAILS	9:00 – 10:40 Connecting Theory and Experiment in Complex Systems Dr. Jakob Svensson LECTURE DETAILS
10.40 – 11:15 Coffee Break	10:40 – 11:15 Coffee Break	10:40 – 11:15 Coffee Break	10:40 – 11:10 Coffee Break	10:40 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:55 Plasma Transport Dr. Chippy Thyagaraja LECTURE DETAILS	11:15 – 12:55 Particle Acceleration in Plasmas Professor Bob Bingham LECTURE DETAILS	11:15 – 12:55 Plasma Turbulence Professor Steve Cowley LECTURE DETAILS	11:10 – 11:55 Transport in the Plasma Edge and SOL Dr. Fulvio Militello LECTURE DETAILS or Modelling of low Temperature Plasmas Dr. Felipe Iza LECTURE DETAILS 12:00 – 12:55 Wave Interactions with Particles Dr. R Vann LECTURE DETAILS or Laser Wakefield Acceleration Dr. Stuart Mangles LECTURE DETAILS	11:15 – 12:55 Topics in Astrophysics Professor Philippa Browning LECTURE DETAILS
12:55 – 14:00 Lunch	12:55 – 14:00 Lunch	12:55 – 14:00 Lunch	12:55 – 14:00 Lunch	12:55 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:45 Waves in Plasmas Problem Solving Dr. Chippy Thyagaraja	14:00 – 15:00 Plasma Physics at RAL ANO LECTURE DETAILS	14:00 – 15:00 Diagnostics Dr. Kieran Gibson LECTURE DETAILS	14:00 – 14:55 Dusty Plasmas Dr. Dmitry Samsonov LECTURE DETAILS or Equation of State and Opacity Dr. Christopher Murphy LECTURE DETAILS	End of summer school
14:45 – 15:00 Coffee Break	15:00 – 15:15 Coffee Break	15:00 – 15:15 Coffee Break	14:55 – 15:10 Coffee Break
15:00 – 15:30 MAST Overview Mr. Alan Sykes LECTURE DETAILS	15:15 – 16:30 Tour of RAL	15:15 – 15:45 Overview of JET Dr. Ivor Coffey LECTURE DETAILS	15:10 – 16:05 Heating and Current Drive Dr. Martin O'Brien LECTURE DETAILS or Microdischarges: from kinetics to applications Dr. James Walsh LECTURE DETAILS
15:30 – 16:30 MAST Visit		15:45 – 17:00 JET visit

NOTES: - Tuesday 24th July will take place at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory - Participants may choose between the indepth lectures on offer on Thursday 26th July.