Charge Exchange Madrid

2010

Wednesday September 29 to Friday October 1

European Space Astronomy Centre

Madrid, Spain

Workshop schedule

2010 April	First announcement
2010 July 12	Registration opens
2010 September 5	Registration closes
	Abstract deadline
2010 September 7	Hotel deadline
2010 September 29	Meeting

Topics

• Early laboratory work on ionic impact phenomena
• Microscopic processes in plasmas
• Laboratory measurements of ion-ion interactions
• The lessons of beam-foil spectroscopy
• Energy losses in fusion plasmas
• Methods and approximations in the quantum mechanical treatment of ion-ion interactions
• Physical processes at work between the solar wind and the Earth's magnetosheath
• X-ray emission of comets
• Ion-ion collisions in the heliosphere
• The charge exchange layer in SNRs
• Winds in single and binary hot-stars
• Interfaces between cool and hot gas throughout the Universe
• Line-to-continuum ratios in astrophysical spectra
• Plasma emissivities without electrons

Scientific Organising Committee

Dennis Bodewits
Michael Collier
Konrad Dennerl
Rosine Lallement
Luis Méndez
Takaya Ohashi
Scott Porter

Conference organizers

Andy Pollock (European Space Agency)
Jenny Carter (University of Leicester)
Steve Sembay (University of Leicester)
Åsa Ericson (European Space Agency)