Programme

The outline of the meeting is as follows:

Thursday 23rd April 2009 
  Delegates travel to Liblice Castle from Brno (Frontiers Meeting) or Prague (from JJ Heyrovsky Institute). Buses will be arranged  
  Arrival at Liblice in the late afternoon (est 18.00)  
 
  Registration  
 
19:00  Dinner/Buffet  
 
Friday 24th April 2009 
  Talks to be held in the conference hall  
 
09:00 - 09:10   Opening   N J Mason
(Open University)  
   
Session 1 Chair: N J Mason, Open University  

09:10 - 10:00   Is the plasma state important in surface plasma interactions?  Dan Schram
(Eindhoven)  
10:00 - 10:30   Atmospheric Pressure Plasmas and Their Biological Applications  Satoshi Hamaguchi,
(Osaka University)  
10:30 - 11:00   Coffee break  
 
   
Session 2 Chair: Satoshi Hamaguchi Osaka University  

11:00 - 11:30   Exploring the chemistry that underpins growth of diamond by microwave plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition   Michael Ashfold
(University of Bristol)  
11:30 - 12:00   Simulation of microwave plasma CVD for synthesis of large-size diamond crystals  Hideaki Yamada
(Diamond Research Center of AIST)  
12:00 - 12:30   Deposition profile control of carbon films in trenches using a plasma CVD method  Kazunori Koga
(Kyushu University)  
12:30 - 14:00   Lunch Break  
 
   
Session 3 Chair: Mark Bowden, Open University  

14:00 - 14:30   Liquid Related Discharge and Electrolyte Plasmas for Creation of Bio-Nano Composite Materials  Toshiro Kaneko
(Tohoku University)  
14:30 - 15:00   Sub-microsecond pulsed discharges in and in contact with water   Peter Bruggeman
(University of Ghent)  
15:00 - 15:30   Atomic, molecular and optical data requirements for plasma processing  N J Mason
(Open University)  
15:30 - 16:00   Coffee break  
 
   
Session 4 Chair: Dan Schram, Eindhoven  
Talks to be held in the Marble Hall
16:00 - 16:30   Modeling of post-discharge plasmas for medical sterilization: effect of the wall material on the species density distributions in a large volume reactor   Kinga Kutasi
(Budapest)  
16:30 - 17:00   Modelling plasma surface interactions   Erik Neyts
(University of Antwerp)  
17:00 - 17:30   Numerical simulations of microplasma formation in consideration of gas heating and gas flow  Satoshi Uchida
(Tokyo Metropolitan University)  
19:00  Dinner  
 
   
 
Saturday 25th April 2009 
   
Session 5 Chair: Zoran Petrovic, Institute of Physics, Belgrade  

Talks to be held in the conference hall
09:00 - 09:30   The effect of an atmospheric pressure plasma jet on DNA Mark Bowden
(The Open University)  
09:30 - 10:00   Emerging electric-acoustic metrology for industrial and research atmospheric pressure plasma   V Law
(National Centre for Plasma Science and Technology (NCPST) Dublin City University)  
10:00 - 10:30   Mass spectrometry for atmospheric plasmas.   Yolanda Gonzalvo
10:30 - 11:00   Coffee break  
 
   
Session 6 Chair: Petr Carsky, Heyrovsky Institute  

11:00 - 11:30   Dipole alignment and device fabrication   David Field
(University of Aarhus)  
11:30 - 12:00   Modeling of Fast Neutral Transport in Low Pressure Discharges   Zoran Petrovic
(Institute of Physics, Belgrade)  
12:00 - 12:30   Plasma-surface interactions in the context of ITER   Juergen Rapp
(FOM Instituut for Plasmafysica Rijnhuizen)  
12:30 - 14:00   Lunch Break  
 
14:00  Trip to Melnik wine tasting & dinner in Melnik  
 
   
 
Sunday 26th April 2009 
   
Session 7 Chair:  
Talks to be held in the conference hall
09:00 - 09:30   Deposition of microcrystalline silicon films by magnetron sputtering: deposition mechanism explored with laser-aided diagnostics  Koichi Sasaki
(Nagoya University)  
09:30 - 10:00   Measurements of the ion flux to the substrate in low-pressure plasma deposition systems   Petr Virostko
(Charles University)  
10:00 - 10:30   Laser Thomson Scattering and Optical Emission Spectroscopy for Low Temperature Recombining Plasmas   Shinichiro Kado
(University of Tokyo)  
10:30 - 11:00   Coffee, Tea  
 
   
Session 8 Chair:  

11:00 - 11:30   Plasma interactions with catalytic surfaces   Christopher Whitehead
(University of Manchester)  
11:30 - 12:00   Independent Control of Ion Energy and Flux in CCPs by the Electrical Asymmetry Effect   Uwe Czarnetzki
(Ruhr Bochum)  
12:00 - 12:30   Dynamics of radio-frequency driven atmospheric pressure plasmas jets  Tim Gans
(Queens University Belfast)  
12:30 - 14:00   Lunch  
 
14:00  Departure for Prague (buses will be arranged)