Objective
The research field of controlled thermonuclear fusion of light atomic nuclei is at the advent of a crucial event: in a few years time, the construction, possibly in Cadarache (France), of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) will start. This tokamak will either demonstrate man's capabilities to harness energy released from fusion reactions and the economical potential to rely on this process for future energy production or it will prove that another base-load and environmentally acceptable method of energy production will have to be identified and developed to satisfy society's energy needs once, a few decades from now, fossil fuels will be depleted. ITER 's success will non-negligibly depend on European scientists.
Facing this challenge requires preparing the future by optimally bundling present-day expertise and passing it on to the next generation of young researchers. Ample possibilities exist to acquire experimental experience on one of Europe's fusion machines. Because of the extensiveness of the physics and technological areas involved, universities cannot take up the task of lecturing extensively on these rather specialised topics, although basic courses on plasma theory are taught at various European universities. Courses on a high level covering both basic and advanced concepts are required to complement experimental training. The Carolus Magnus summer schools fill up this niche. Through its lecturers, it provides a deep physics insight both from the theoretical (starting from first principles) as well as from the experimental point of view. The school primarily aims at young researchers working towards a Ph.D. in the fusion field and has the ambition to give a wide but sufficiently deep overview of the various aspects involved in magnetic confinement fusion (equilibrium and instabilities, confinement and heating, plasma-wall interaction, diagnostics), side glancing at related topics such as inertial fusion and environmental issues.
The summer school is organised every 2 years by the Trilateral Euregio Cluster (TEC) consisting of the Laboratory for Plasma Physics (Brussels, Belgium), the Institut fiir Plasmaphysik (Jülich, Germany) and the FOM-Institute "Rijnhuizen" (The Netherlands), three teams collaborating intensively on the TEXTOR tokamak in Jülich.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences physical sciences plasma physics
- natural sciences physical sciences nuclear physics nuclear fusion
- engineering and technology environmental engineering energy and fuels
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