Invited Seminar Talks and Research Visits

1. Anticipated (near future) Research Visits:

1. TBA

2. Seminar Talks and Research Visits (invited)

(in inverse chronological order)

1. July 2017:
   Research visit to Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Germany: hosted by Prof Reinhard Schickeiser.
2. May 2016:
   Research collaboration and seminar visit to UCD (University College Dublin): hosted by Dr Miguel Bustamante.
   Freak waves in negative-ion plasmas: an experiment revisited - Seminar talk at UCD (11 May 2016)
   Copy of the oral presentation slides: click on the link above.
3. November 2014:
   Research visit to Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Germany: hosted by Prof Reinhard Schickeiser.
   Theoretical modelling of electromagnetic freak (rogue) waves in beam-plasma interactions
   Copy of the oral presentation slides: click on the link above.
4. 16-21 June 2014:
   Research visit to Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Germany: hosted by Prof Reinhard Schickeiser.
   Modelling electrostatic solitary waves in suprathermal plasmas: existence and propagation characteristics from first principles
   Copy of the oral presentation slides: click on the link above.
5. 9-12 June 2014:
   Research visit to CCQCN - Crete Center for Quantum Complexity and Nanotechnology, Heraklion Crete, Greece: hosted by Dr Nikos Lazarides and Prof George Tsironis.
   Theoretical modelling of electromagnetic freak (rogue) waves in beam-plasma interactions - Seminar talk (12 June 2014).
   Copy of the oral presentation slides: click on the link above.
6. March, May, October 2014 (3 visits):
   Special Visiting Researcher (Pesquisador Visitante Especial - PVE) visit to Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil, supported by the Brazilian Research Fund (CNPq - Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico - Brasil); two visits, in March and in May 2014: hosted by Dr Fernando Haas.
   Nonlinear Waves in Physics: from tsunami and freak waves to optical signal transport - Colloquium talk at UFRGS, Department of Physics (27 May 2014)
   Copy of the oral presentation slides: click on the link above.
7. 5-8 Oct. 2013:
   Research visit to SANSA (South-African National Space Agency), Hermanus, South Africa: hosted by Dr Shimul Maharaj.
   Modelling solitary waves and shocks in suprathermal plasmas from first principles - Seminar talk @SANSA (7 Nov. 2013).
   Copy of the oral presentation slides: click on the link above.
8. 24 Oct. - 24 Nov. 2013:
   Research visit to NITheP (National Institute of Theoretical Physics), University of Kwazulu - Natal, Durban, South Africa: hosted by Prof Manfred A. Hellberg.
   Theoretical modelling of electromagnetic freak (rogue) waves in beam-plasma interactions - Seminar talk @NITheP (14 Nov. 2013).
   Copy of the oral presentation slides: click on the link above.
9. Dec. 2010 - January 2011:
   Research visit to Sydney University, Australia: hosted by Prof Sergey Vladimirov.
10. Nonlinear excitations in dusty plasma (Debye) crystals: what plasma physics can learn from nonlinear lattice theories
    I. Kourakis
    Series of invited seminars in Australia: University of Sydney: Complex Systems (20 Feb. 2009) and Physics Dept (26 Feb. 2009); Australian National University, Canberra (Nonlinear Physics Center) (4 March 2009)
    Copy of the oral presentations: click on the respective links above.
11. Nonlinear excitations in dusty plasma (Debye) crystals: what plasma physics can learn from nonlinear lattice theories
    I. Kourakis
    Atomistic Simulation Centre, QUB; invited seminar (April 2008)
    Copy of the oral presentation.
12. Brief Personal Introduction (Overview of Research Activities by IK)
    I. Kourakis
    Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece, April 28, 2007
    Original talk (in greek) available here in .pdf form.
13. Brief Personal Introduction (Overview of Teaching and Research Activities by IK)
    I. Kourakis
    Queen's University, Belfast, UK, March 22, 2007
    Original talk available here in .pdf form.
14. Fluid theory for electrostatic wave packet amplitude self-modulation in Space and laboratory plasmas
    Internal seminar
    Lehrstuhl Theoretische Physik IV, Ruhr Universitaet Bochum, Germany, 16 Nov. 2005
    .pdf copy of the talk (4.5 MB).
15. Nonlinear wavepacket modulation and reductive perturbation theory: a Primer to the formalism and Focus on electrostatic modes in dusty plasmas
    Invited Talk (introductory seminar)
    Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Engineering (Polytechnic) School, General Department, Thessaloniki (Greece), 3 Nov. 2005
    .pdf copy of the talk (4.5 MB).
16. Fokker-Planck kinetic equation from the microscopic equations of motion for many-body systems in an external force field: application in plasma
    Invited Talk (introductory seminar, in greek language)
    NTUA - National Technical University of Athens, School of Applied Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Mathematics Department, Athens (Greece), 25 Feb. 2005
    .pdf copy of the talk.