Prof. Michael Bonitz, Lehrstuhl Statistische Physik, ITAP, CAU Kiel

News

Conference "Progress in Nonequilibrium Greens Functions V"

the conference will be organized by Robert van Leeuwen and held in Jyväskylä
Conference dates: 27.-31. August 2012
The official web page is here
For earlier conferences and proceedings click here

Third Summer Institute "Complex Plasmas"

July 30 - August 8 2012, Seton Hall University, South Orange (NJ), USA
Homepage of the Summer Institute
Information on the second Summer Institute
Information on the first Summer Institute

PhD thesis award

December 2011: Hanno Kählert's PhD thesis is awarded the degree "Summa cum laude"
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APS fellowship award

November 2011: Michael Bonitz is elected "Fellow" of the American Physical Society. The citation reads:
"For pioneering contributions to the field of strongly correlated classical and quantum plasmas, including the development of a statistical theory and first-principle computer simulations."

PhD thesis award

October 2011: Karsten Balzer's PhD thesis is awarded the degree "Summa cum laude"
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Excotic crystal of excitons discovered

See paper Crystallization of an Exciton Superfluid
by J. Böning, A.V. Filinov, and M. Bonitz,
Phys. Rev. B 84 , 075130 (2011) | local pdf-file
see brief summary and figures
Press release of Kiel university | Deutsche Pressemitteilung

Mini-Conference "Dense quantum plasma simulation"

at the APS meeting of the division of plasma physics, Nov. 14-18 2011, Salt Lake City

June 2011: the program committee of the 2011 DPP conference has approved the mini-conference.
Abstract Deadline for talks and posters: July 15.
Mini-conference Goals and outline
Speakers, abstracts and program
for further information contact Michael Bonitz

2nd Research workshop "Solving the Two-time Kadanoff-Baym Equations. Status and Open Problems"

12-13 October 2011 Kiel University, Physikzentrum
Homepage of the workshop

Diploma award

May 2011: Hauke Thomsen is awarded the prize for the best diploma thesis of the Kiel Physics Department in 2010/11.

March 2011: New grant for CPU time

Michael Bonitz is awarded a grant for computing time a the Hochleistungsrechenzentrum Nord (HLRN). The award grants the Bonitz group 195 kNPL for supercomputing applications in strongly coupled plasmas and intense laser matter interaction and is worth 195.000 Euros.