The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will jointly organize this School to be held at ICTP in Miramare, Trieste, Italy, from 27 February to 3 March 2017. The event will provide advanced training in theoretical and computational methods for atomic processes in plasmas. The schedule will feature lectures by international experts, exposure to some important codes, invited and contributed research talks, posters and discussion sessions, with good time available for personal interaction. For further information, please refer to the following website.

Purpose

The conditions in laboratory and industrial plasmas, laser-produced plasmas, astrophysical plasmas, and warm and hot dense matter are determined by numerous atomic processes including electron-ion and heavy particle collisions, photon-induced processes, and radiative decays. Even in fully ionized plasmas, which are typical for fusion energy research, atomic processes are very important as they underlie all impurity-based spectroscopic diagnostics. The school will assist qualified Ph.D. students and early career researchers to develop their quantitative understanding of collisional and radiative atomic processes in plasmas with applications to fusion energy research, astrophysical science, laser-produced plasmas and other plasma environments.

Topics

The school is concerned with theoretical and computational methods for the study of collisional and radiative atomic processes in plasmas including the following:

• atomic processes in low-density plasmas, warm and hot dense matter and X-ray sources;
• computational methods for atomic structure and collisions;
• principles of spectroscopic diagnostics of plasma, methods for analysis of spectral line shapes and profiles;
• collisional-radiative modelling and calculation of plasma spectra;
• simulations of non-Maxwellian and highly transient plasmas;
• opacity (radiation transport) effects on plasma properties and plasma diagnostics;
• online codes for calculation of ionization distributions and spectra.