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This School is the 42nd in the series organized at Culham Science Centre, near Oxford. No preceding knowledge of the subject is assumed. Previous Schools have attracted students from more than 50 different countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Ghana, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, Ukraine, USA, and over 20 European countries. In 2004, for example, more than two thirds of the students were from outside the UK. A large proportion of the international plasma physics and fusion community has attended the course.

Lecturers are drawn from joint Euratom fusion research laboratories across Europe, from the European Commission, and from leading space, astrophysical and other research groups at Institutes and Universities in Britain and abroad.

Astrophysical/Solar/Space/Laser/Fusion plasmas

Fundamental principles are introduced, together with the broad range of applications:

Plasma particle dynamics Waves in plasmas Kinetic theory
MHD Transport Chaos and turbulence Computational techniques
Fusion plasmas Laser plasmas Space plasmas Solar plasmas
Astrophysical plasmas Gravitational plasmas Industrial technologies
Poster session Diagnostics Materials effects Laboratory visits

A copy of the book Plasma Physics: An Introductory Course (Cambridge University Press, 1993), a full set of lecture notes, plus a certificate of attendance, are given to each student.

Social events include a boat trip with music on the River Thames and a Summer School banquet.

Leaving from Folly Bridge
Dates: Monday - Friday, 18th - 29th July 2005
Registration Deadline: 27th May 2005
(Late applications may be accepted)
  St Edmund Hall, Oxford
Location: Close to Oxford at Culham Science Centre, home of the EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Association - operators of JET on behalf of Europe and the domestic programme centred on MAST.
Accommodation will be in a
modern purpose-built annexe of
St. Edmund Hall (right), a historic college of Oxford University.
Contact: Mrs Kathy Patton, Summer School Administrator
Email: kathy.patton@ukaea.org.uk
Phone: (44) 1235 466635
Fax: (44) 1235 466379
Address: EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Association,
Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3DB, UK.