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May 24 2023 International Conference of Plasma Science ICOPS Santa Fe New Mexico USA

Our congratulations!!!

Prof Yakov Krasik Interview at Israel TV

Prof Yakov Krasik Interview at Israel TV

2023 Plasma Science and Applications (PSAC) Award Winner is Professor Yakov Krasik

PSAC Award is given for his significant contribution to the understanding of the physics of high-current ion diodes, plasma opening switches, plasma cathodes, nanosecond timescale discharges, warm dense plasma, converging strong shock waves, and high-power microwaves generation and interaction with plasma.

This is a great honor for our laboratory, our congratulations, Professor!

 

 

 


March 29 2023 Samuel Goldsmith Student Prize for Best Presentation laureates

Nikita Asmedianov Ron Grishkas and Daniel Maler

From left to right: Nikita Asmedianov, Ron Grikshtas, and Daniel Maler

Congratulations to our plasma laboratory colleagues for several prizes this month –

Daniel Maler for winning the Samuel Goldsmith Student Prize for Best Presentation 1st place, Ron Grikshtas and Nikita Asmedianov for winning the Samuel Goldsmith Student Prize for the Best Presentation 2nd place, of the Israel Vacuum Society, Science, Technology & Application IVS-IPSTA 2023 40th Annual Conference. Daniel Maler also received the Jacobs Prize for Outstanding Student Research Paper.

Well done, we are proud of you!

 


December 2022: Yakov Krasik, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

Prof Yakov Krasik with team members

 

Our Professor Yakov Krasik won the prestigious Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS)

 Plasma Science and Applications (PSAC) 2023 Award, awarded annually to recognize outstanding contributions to the field of Plasma Science. Yakov won for his significant contribution to the understanding of the physics of high-current ion diodes, plasma opening switches, plasma cathodes, nanosecond timescale discharges, warm dense plasma, converging strong shock waves, and high-power microwaves generation, and interaction with plasma.

This is a great honor for our laboratory, congratulations Yakov!

 


April 2022. Daniel Maler won the 2022 NPSS Barker Graduate Student Award

Ph.D. sudent Daniel Maler

Ph.D. sudent Daniel Maler

Our Ph.D. student Daniel Maler has been selected as the recipient of the 2022 NPSS (Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society) prestigious Robert J. Barker Graduate Student Award. The Barker award is to recognize and enable outstanding graduate students enrolled in an accredited MS or Ph.D. level research program in the field of pulsed power applications.

Over the past few months, Daniel also won the Jacobs scholarship for the year 2021/22 academic year and received the International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS) 2021 Outstanding Student Paper award honorable mention.

Congratulations Daniel on another well-deserved award!


 

December 2020. Our Lab Leader, Professor Yakov Krasik elevated to IEEE Fellow and received the IEEE Magne “Kris” Kristiansen Award

Prof. Yakov Krasik

Prof. Yakov Krasik

 The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Board of Directors elevated Prof. Yakov Krasik to IEEE Fellow, effective 1 January 2021, “for contributions to plasma-based electron sources”.

 In addition, Yakov also won the IEEE Magne “Kris” Kristiansen Award. The Kristiansen award is given to recognize individuals for outstanding contributions in experimental nuclear and plasma science with preference given to areas within the broadest scope of plasma sciences encompassing the generation of strong pulsed electromagnetic fields including their interaction with plasmas and other pulsed power applications

An IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting. Each year, following a rigorous evaluation procedure, the IEEE Fellow Committee recommends
a select group of recipients for elevation to IEEE Fellow, the highest grade of membership in the IEEE. Less than 0.1% of voting members are selected annually for this member grade elevation.

Congratulations, Boss! This is a great honor to all of us!


December 2020, Yang Cao won the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Best Student Paper Award for the second time

Yang Cao

Yang Cao

 Our PhD student Yang Cao is one of the two winners of the 47th International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS 2020) Best Student Paper Award.  Yang also won the award in 2019.

 The Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society  ( NPSS ) Outstanding  Student Paper  Awards seek to recognize  outstanding  student oral papers submitted to ICOPS 2020 and selected by a special committee.

 The purpose of these awards is to encourage both outstanding student contributions and greater student participation as principal or sole authors of papers as well as to acknowledge the importance of student contributions to the fields embraced by the ICOPS 2020.

The award ceremony took place online on December 8th 2020. Congratulations Yang!


October 2019,  Alexander Rososhek won the Igor Alexeff Outstanding Student in Plasma Science Award -PSAC

Alexander Rososhek

Alexander Rososhek

Our  Ph.D.   student   Alexander Rososhek will receive the  2020 prestigious   Igor Alexeff Outstanding Student Award of the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS, Plasma Science and Applications PSAC Awards). Earlier this year Alexander was one of the recipients of the 2019 Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Student Paper Awards.

The Igor Alexeff Outstanding Student Award recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of plasma science and technology by undergraduate or graduate students. It is a prize of $1000 and a certificate funded by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society’s Plasma Science and Applications Committee. The prize will be presented at the 2020 International Conference on Plasma Sciences (ICOPS) to be held in Singapore.  Our congratulations to Alexander!

 


 

September 6, 2019, IVS- IPSTA annual conference

Meital Shiman-Tov reports on the plenary

Meital Shiman-Tov reports on the plenary

 The Israel Society for Plasma Science and Technology Applications (IPSTA) is a division within the Israel Vacuum Society (IVS), serving as a home for those in the community of researchers who work in various areas related to the science and technology of plasma.

Meital receives the Award diploma. With Chairman of the plenary Prof Gilad Marcus from Hebrew University (from right)

Meital receives the Award diploma. With Chairman of the plenary Prof Gilad Marcus from Hebrew University (from right)

 As part of its activities, IPSTA arranges annual conferences, sponsored by IVS. So far, IPSTA has organized the annual scientific meetings. The 2019 IPSTA annual conference as part of Israel Vacuum Society conference was remarkable by our Ph.D. student Mrs. Meital Siman-Tov lecture.

  She presented her experiments and results. At the end of the conference, Meital was awarded the Goldsmith Prize for this work. Our congratulations to Meital!


August 2019 Our Plasma Laboratory Head, Prof. Yakov Krasik on his sabbatical vacation

Prof. Yakov Krasik works on the inductor design

Prof. Yakov Krasik works on the inductor design

High voltage generator experiment installation

Our Plasma Laboratory Head, Prof. Yakov Krasik spend his sabbatical academic vacation in Prague on Czech Academy, in Science Institute of Plasma Physics. His Czech colleague Dr. Karel Kolacek, prof. Yakov Krasik and the Institute team members are working on the design of new experiments in high voltage generator hall of the Institute

 


8 July 2019 Dr. Tewari receives Homi Bhabha National Institute’s Outstanding Doctoral Student Award 

Dr. Somesh Vinayak Tewari was awarded the prestigious “Outstanding Doctoral Students Award”

Dr. Somesh Vinayak Tewari was awarded the prestigious “Outstanding Doctoral Students Award”

    Our recent colleague and postdoc student Mr Somesh Vinayak Tewari, already Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (SRM University AP) was awarded the prestigious “Outstanding Doctoral Students Award”, from Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI) at an event held at the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) Convention Centre, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai. Dr. Tewari was presented this award for his Ph.D. thesis titled “Study of surface flash-over of the insulator in gases at high pressure.”
                                           We congratulate him heartily!

 


22 – 28 June 2019 Our congratulations to Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Award laureates!

The Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) Awards were presented during the 2019 IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) International Pulsed Power and Plasma Science Conference (Florida, USA). Among 65 considered applications of Ph.D. students around the world, only 4 students have received this award and among them 2 students from our laboratory.

Yang Cao : The interaction of a high-power sub-nanosecond microwave pulse with preliminary formed plasma in a waveguide

Yang Cao receives the award diploma of the conference

Yang Cao receives the award diploma of the conference

and Alexander Rososhek: Shock waves generated by underwater electrical explosion of a single wire

Sasha Rososhek receives the award diploma of the conference

Sasha Rososhek receives the award diploma of the conference

 


22-28 JUNE 2019 The IEEE Pulsed Power and Plasma Science Conference, Orlando FL USA

poster and logo

The 2019 IEEE Pulsed Power and Plasma Science Conference (PPPS 2019) is the premier international conference dedicated to pulsed power and plasma science, combining the IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference and the IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science. Starting in 2001, the IEEE Pulsed Power Conference (PPC) and the IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS) have combined once every six years to become the Pulsed Power and Plasma Science Conference. PPPS 2019 brings together the fourth combined conference of the PPC and ICOPS. 

 

 


18-22 JUNE 2017 21st conference of Pulsed Power, Brighton United Kingdom.

Pulsed Power Conference 2017 Banner

One of the greatest honors you can bestow on the distinguished members of our community is to nominate them for an award. The Pulsed Power Science and Technology Technical Committee (PPS&T/TC) honors contributions and achievements in the field of Pulsed Power through distinguished awards. One of them is the Arthur H. Guenther award recognizes outstanding students in the field of pulsed power by identifying their unique achievements in the field of pulsed power science, engineering and technology development. 

Sergey Efimov and Yohanan Leopold at poster presentation . Pulsed Power 2017 Conference

Doctor Michail Nitishinski presentation

PhD student David Yanuka received his 2017 Award Diploma. Pulsed Power 2017 Conference


JUNE 2017 David Yanuka has won the Arthur H. Guenther Anniversary Award 

David Yanuka speakingOn David Yanuka's lecture

The winner of the 2017 Arthur H Guenther Student Award is David Yanuka. He has won Anniversary Award “for research on the implosion of shock waves generated by underwater electrical explosion of wire arrays”.

Our congratulations!!!


08 APRIL 2016  The Institute of Frontier Materials is hosting international experts in fibre and plasma technology.

Professor Yakov Krasik (left) and Professor Gregory Rutledge

Professor Yakov Krasik (left) and Professor Gregory Rutledge, IFM Thinkers in Residence

The 2016 Thinkers In Residence program has introduced two renowned scientists to Deakin’s Institute of Frontier Materials (IFM), Israel’s Professor Yakov Krasik and Professor Gregory Rutledge from the US, who have shared their knowledge about plasma and nanofibre research and how it can be applied to industry.
A world leader in plasma research and application, Professor Krasik, Professor of Physics at Technion in Haifa, Israel has been working with IFM’s Professor Jane Dai and her team on plasma research and possible industrial applications, building on the Institute’s growing reputation in this area. (A link to read full article)