CDP

Research sessions

CDP supports thematic research sessions, ranging in time between a few weeks to one year. During such a session, guest researchers and lecturers are invited, seminars and topical courses are held, and research workshops are arranged. The activities should to a considerable degree be accessible for graduate students and researchers from different disciplines.

Themes for sessions that are on-going or planned for the future are as follow:

Structures in atmospheres and magnetospheres

The atmosphere of the Earth and the atmospheres of the other planets in the Planetary system, as well as the solar and stellar atmospheres offer important examples of structure formation in dissipative systems. Though they exhibit a plethora of complexity, they can be studied in large-scale computer simulations as well in advanced detailed observations, with instruments both on the ground and aboard spacecraft, and are in a number of cases now close to being theoretically understood. What can we learn from that? When magnetic fields are considered in addition to the gasdynamic processes, the complexity gets considerably greater, but also here rather general principles seem possible to find. These circumstances will be discussed in courses and seminars. Examples will be taken from geophysics, astrophysics and space physics, but will be selected to have a broader interest, with bearings on the climate of the Earth, the formation of habitable planets, and fundamental turbulence theory.

For more information, contact Bengt Gustafsson, or Bo Thidé.

Biological interactions

The Biological interactions session will host a seminar serie "Evolutionary genomics" in September. A symposium "Evolution of innate immunity" will take place 8-9 of December. During the autumn seminars will be given concerning "Conquering the land". More information about this session can be obtained from Mats Björklund.

Chemical processes

Chemical processes have two visitor during February, Dr. Imre Bako Chemical Research Center, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Dr. Adri van Duin, California Institute of Technology, USA. A workshop on water is planned for in May. For more information contact Kersti Hermansson.