23.12.2009.
Sasa Dujko (LGE member) presented a talk about topics in his PhD work completed in the School of Engineering and Physical Science at James Cook University, Australia. The PhD title is 'The Multi-term Boltzmann Equation Analysis and Monte Carlo Study of Hydrodynamic and Non-Hydrodynamic Charged Particle Swarms'.

16.12.2009.
Milovan Suvakov (LGE member) presented a talk about topics in his PhD work completed in Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The PhD title is 'Network Models of Self-Assembled Functional Nanomaterials'.

16.11.2009.
COE members, prof. Zoran Petrovic and Ana Bankovic are co-authors on paper selected into the IOP Select. The paper 'Total and positronium formation cross sections for positron scattering from H2O and HCOOH' by C. Makochekanwa, A. Bankovic, W. Tattersall, A. Jones, P. Caradonna, D. S. Slaughter, K. Nixon, M. J. Brunger, Z. Petrovic, J. P. Sullivan and S. J. Buckman is a result of collaboration between Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia and Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. The IOP Selected paper can be viewed here.

20-23.10.2009.
Members of LGE group, prof. Zoran Petrovic, Sasa Dujko and Zeljka Nikitovic contributed the 62nd Gaseous Electronics Conference in Saratoga Springs, NY, USA. Prof. Petrovic was a chairmen at the pre-conference workshop: Advances in the Kinetic Description of Low-Temperature Plasmas: Applications to Modeling and Simulation and Sasa Dujko presented lecture 'Recent advancements in the kinetic theory of hydrodynamic and non-hydrodynamic charged particle swarms in gases'. There were several poster presentations from the members of our group at the conference. More information at the conference proceedings website.

29.09.-02.10.2009.
Members of LGE group Nevena Puac, Zeljka Nikitovic and prof. Zoran Petrovic participated 2nd International Conference on Advanced Plasma Technologies (iCAPT-II) & International Plasma Nanoscience Symposium in Piran, Slovenia. Prof. Petrovic gave invited lecture 'Theoretical foundations, numerical techniques and application of transport coefficients in modelling of plasmas and gas breakdown' and Nevena Puac and Zeljka Nikitovic presented posters. More information at the conference website.

20-24.09.2009.
Mira Anicic is participating the Fifth International Workshop on Biomonitoring of Air Pollution in Buenos Aires, Argentina with the poster: 'Biomonitoring of trace elements with leaves of deciduous trees (Aesculus hippocastanum & Tilia spp.) in Belgrade urban area'. More information at the conference website.

16-19.09.2009.
Milica Tomasevic is participating the 2nd Symposium of Chemistry and Environment in Bar, Montenegro with the contribution:'Trace elements accumulation in urban tree leaves and atmospheric bulk deposition'.

Prof. Zoran Petrovic and Zeljka Nikitovic were participants of the 11th YUCOMAT in Herceg Novi, Montenegro.

31.08-04.09.2009.
Prof. Zoran Petrovic and Zeljka Nikitovic were participants of the 11th YUCOMAT in Herceg Novi, Montenegro. Further information at the conference website.

17-20.08.2009.
Eva Kovacevic and Johannes Berndt from GREMI, Universite d'Orleans, Orleans, France visited COE. Eva Kovacevic presented a talk 'Plasma-polymerized CN nanoparticles'.

26-31.07.2009.
Nevena Puac and Sasa Lazovic took part in the 19th International Symposium on Plasma Chemistry in Bochum, Germany. They presented a poster 'Mass spectrometric detection of N, O, and NO radicals generated by a plasma needle'.

29.07-04.08.2009.
Ana Bankovic and prof. Zoran Petrovic particiated the 25th International Workshop on Low Energy Positron and Positronium Physics & 26th International Symposium on Electron-Molecule Collisions and Swarms conferences in Toronto, Canada. Ana Bankovic presented invited lecture 'Nonconservative transport of electrons and positrons in gases' and prof. Zoran Petrovic 'On new developments in the physics of positron swarms'. Further information at the conference website.

12-17.07.2009.
Members of LGE group prof. Zoran Petrovic, Gordana Malovic, Olivera Sasic and Dragana Maric took active part at the 29th International Conference on Phenomena in Ionized Gases in Cancun, Mexico. Gordana Malovic had topical lecture 'Mass analysis of atmospheric pressure discharges', prof. Zoran Petrovic co-organized and Olivera Sasic participated workshop Nonequilibrium phenomena in ion, electron and positron transport in gases: Data needs and applications and gave invited lecture 'Low energy electron scattering cross sections and transport coefficients' and Dragana Maric presented poster 'Low Pressure Breakdown in Water Vapour'. Further information at the conference website.

03.07.2009.
Prof. Zoran Petrovic took part at the 2nd Workshop on Plasma for Environmental Issues, a satellite meeting of the 36th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, Sofia, Bulgaria. He presented a lecture 'Volt-Ampere Characteristics and Regimes of operation of Hollow Cathode Discharges'. Further information at the workshop website.

22-24.06.2009.
Nikola Skoro participated the 4th International Congress on Cold Atmospheric Pressure Plasmas: Sources and Applications in Ghent, Belgium. He presented a poster 'DC breakdown and low current micro-discharges'. Further information at the conference website.

01.06.2009.
Prof. Zoran Petrovic participated at the 1st ICPC NanoNet Workshop in Prague, Czech Republic as a member of the steering committee. He presented a lecture 'Applications of plasmas for nanoelectronics and nanotechnologies: new plasma sources, new understanding of plasma surface interaction'. Further information at the conference website.

27-29.05.2009.
Nestorovic Jasmina, Micic Danijela, Devic Marijana, Stojic Andreja, Malovic Gordana, Dragoljub Grubisic had poster presentation at XVIII Symposium of Biological Society, Vrsac: PTR-MS and HPLC analysis of nepetalactone in shoots cultures of Nepeta rtanjensis Diklić & Milojević.

17-20.05.2009.
Prof. Zoran Petrovic took part in the 40th Annual Meeting of the Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. Featured posters: Monte Carlo simulation of thermalziation of positronium in helium and water vapour, S. Marjanovic, Z. Petrovic (more); Temporal relaxation of the electron transport properties in magnetized plasma discharges, S. Dujko, R. White, Z. Petrovic (more); Calculations of cross sections data for scattering of electrons on BF3, M. Vranic, M. Radmilovic-Radjenovic, Z. Petrovic, H. N. Varambhia, J. Tennyson (more). Further information at the conference website.

17-20.05.2009.
Marija Radmilovic-Radjenovic (Senior Research Associate) participated Workshop on Radio-Frequency Discharges in La Badine - Presqu'île de Giens, France. She held featured topical lecture about modeling of a RF breakdown phenomenon. More at the conference website.

23-26.04.2009.
LGE group members, Prof. Zoran Petrovic and Milovan Suvakov, participated the 7th EU-Japan Joint Symposium on Plasma Processing in Liblice, Czech Republic. Prof. Zoran Petrovic gave invited lecture 'Modeling of Fast Neutral Transport in Low Pressure Discharges' and Milovan Suvakov presented a poster. More at the conference website.

11.03.2009.
Post-graduate lectures and LGE group seminars for the summer semester have started.
Prof. Zoran Petrovic teaches subject 'Collisions and transport processes in ionized gases' on a master course of School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade. Lectures will be held at the Institute of Physics during summer semester 2008/2009.
COE members seminars: PTR Mass Spectrometry-capabillity and applications, Andreja Stojic (Research trainee); Determination of the drift velocity, Marija Radmilovic-Radjenovic (Associate Research Professor); RF discharges, Sasa Lazovic (Research trainee).

01-06.03.2009.
Prof. Zoran Petrovic participated Fundamentals and Applications of Microplasmas Conference in San Diego, California, USA. He presented topical lecture 'Volt-Ampere Chracteristics And Diagnostics Of Micro Discharges' and took part in the meeting of the future regular committee. More at the conference website.

17-19.02.2009.
Andreja Stojic participated the 4th International Conference on Proton Transfer Mass Spectrometry and its Applications and a training course Hands on PTR-MS in Obergurgl, Austria. He presented two posters: 'Assessment of ambient VOCs levels in Belgrade semi-urban area' and 'In vitro selection of nepetalactone-rich genotypes of Nepeta rtanjensis by using HPLC and PTR-MS'.

11.02.2009.
Prof. Bill Graham from Queen's University Belfast visited our COE and gave lecture 'Electronegative plasmas - the pluses and minuses'.

16.12.2008.
Prof. Robert Robson from ARC Centre for Antimatter-Matter Studies, School of Mathematics, Physics and Information Technology, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia gave a lecture: Introductory transport theory for charged particles in gases. Lecture presentation can be seen here.

15.12.2008.
Dr Ronald White from ARC Centre for Antimatter-Matter Studies, School of Mathematics, Physics and Information Technology, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia presented a lecture: Towards kinetic theory in soft-condensed matter.

03-06.12.2008.
Mira Anicic (Research Assistant) took part at the 9th European Meeting on Environmental Chemistry in Girona, Spain. She presented a poster: M. Anicic, M. Tomasevic, M. Tasic, S. Rajsic, A. Popovic, M.V. Frontasyeva, S. Lierhagen and E. Steinnes, Trace elements in Moss bags: Influence of exposure time on Moss accumulation capacity. More at the conference website.

01.12.2008.
Ilija Stefanovic (Senior Research Associate) gave a talk 'Electron and metastable argon dynamics in reactive compex plasma'.

17-21.11.2008.
Prof. Zoran Petrovic participated at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Division of Plasma Physics in Dallas, Texas (conference website). Prof. Petrovic gave oral presentation (abstract) and participated in topical lecture of Dr Joan Marler (abstract).

14.11.2008.
A BSEC (Black Sea Economic Cooperation) project 'Revitalization of urban ecosystems through vascular plants: assessment of technogenic pollution impact', Metaphor: GARDEN CITY, proposed by Institute of Botany-BAS, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Turkey was signed in November 2008. The purpose of the project is to make an expert examination of accumulation of heavy metals and other toxic elements of industrial and transport emissions by various tree and bush species with the aim to find sorts capable to accumulate the maximal number of pollutants and to resist the effect of adverse anthropogenic factors. The other purpose is to compare bioaccumulation of toxic elements in woody species in the areas of temperate-continental and subtropical Black Sea climate. For more information see BSEC website.

20.10.2008.
Seminars of the LGE Group for the winter semestar have started. Marija Radmilovic - Radjenovic gave talk about atmospheric pressure discharges, Nikola Skoro talked about applications of microdischarges and Sasa Lazovic gave talk about Langmuir probes.

13-17.10.2008.
Members of the LGE participated at the 61st Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference in Dallas, Texas. Prof. dr Zoran Petrovic together with Prof. Paul Maguire gave invited lecture 'Micro-Discharge Scaling and Development from Centimetres to Microns: DC and RF Breakdown and Discharge Characterization around the Paschen Minimum' (abstract). Ana Bankovic (Reserch Trainee) and Sasa Dujko (Research Assistant) had oral presentations - abstracts available here and here.

08-11.10.2008.
Prof. dr Zoran Petrovic gave active contribution to the 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Science and Technology and 21st Symposium on Plasma Science for Materials held in Huangshan, China.

01.10.2008.
Prof. Eiliv Steinnes from Department of Chemistry of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology visited Centre for nonequilibrium processes in October and held an invited lecture "Distribution and fate of metals supplied to Norway by long-range atmospheric transport". The results of the analysis of moss bags completed in the Department of Chemistry of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Throndheim during the one month stay of Mira Anicic in February 2008 were discussed. Plans for further cooperation were prepared as well.

17.09.2008.
Prof. Paul Maguire from University of Ulster, Jordanstown, visited LGE and held lecture 'Carbon nanotubes for Field Emission and Biosensors and other applications'.

10-14.09.2008.
Nevena Puac, Vladimir Stojanovic and Zeljka Nikitovic participated at the YUCOMAT 2008 in Herceg Novi, Montenegro. Nevena Puac gave lecture about 'Studies of atmospheric discharge of small dimensions used for treatment of biological samples' and Vladimir Stojanovic and Zeljka Nikitovic presented their work on posters. More details available at the conference website.

07-12.09.2008.
Zoran Petrovic and Jasmina Jovanovic took part at the XVII International Conference on Gas Discharges and their Applications in Cardiff, UK. They presented a lecture 'Electron and positron swarms: collision and transport data and kinetic phenomena'. More details available at the conference website.

31.08-04.09.2008.
Nevena Puac (Research Assistant) held invited lecture 'Diagnostics of the Properties of the Plasma Needle' at the Second Central European Symposium on Plasma Chemistry (CESPC) in Brno, Czech Republic (conference website).

31.08-05.09.2008.
Prof. dr Zoran Petrovic participated at the 15th International school on condensed matter physics in Sofia, Bulgaria. More information available at the conference website.

23-29.08.2008.
Almost all members of CNP participated at the Second International Workshop on Nonequilibrium Processes in Plasma Physics and Studies of Environment and SPIG 2008 in Belgrade and Novi Sad. Dragana Maric (Research Assistant) and Zoran Petrovic (Head of CNP) gave invited lectures. More information about participants can be found at the Workshop and SPIG websites.

15-19.07.2008.
Members of CNP Zoran Petrovic, Gordana Malovic, Dragana Maric, Nevena Puac, Sasa Lazovic and Nikola Skoro, took part in 19th ESCAMPIG in Granada, Spain. Dragana Maric gave topical invited lecture, Zoran Petrovic gave talk at Sprite chemistry Workshop and other members presented posters.

18-20.06.2008.
Jasmina Jovanovic, Olivera Sasic, Aleksandra Nina and Ana Bankovic from Laboratory for Gaseous Electronic presented their work at poster sessions at CEPAS conference in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

16-18.06.2008.
Members of CNP participated at 23rd Symposium on Plasma Physics and Technology in Prague, Czech Republic. Prof. dr Zoran Petrovic gave invited lecture and Zeljka Nikitovic, Marija Radmilovic Radjenovic and Sasa Lazovic presented posters.

14.05.2008.
Nikola Skoro(Research Trainee) presented seminar titled 'Microdischarges-small gap gas breakdown and properties of dc discharges'.

09.05.2008. Sasa Dujko (Research Assistant) presented a lecture about the determination of low energy electron-molecule cross sections via swarm analysis.

07.05.2008.
Olivera Sasic (Teaching Assistant) presented a lecture about electron scattering cross sections and transport coefficients in molecular gases and their mixtures.

30.04.2008.
Vladimir Stojanovic (Research Assistant) had seminar about thermalisation of high energetic electrons in the upper atmospheric layers.

21-23.04.2008.
Prof. dr Zoran Petrovic and Gordana Malovic (Research Professor) gave invited lectures at 6th EU - Japan Joint Symposium on Plasma Processing. Zoran Petrovic's lecture was about voltampere characteristic of low current micro discharges and transport coefficients in CFx/CF4 mixtures and Gordana Malovic talked about mass analysis of products of atmospheric pressure discharges.

16.04.2008.
Gordana Malovic (Research Professor) presented a lecture about mass analysis of products of atmospheric pressure discharges.

09.04.2008.
Marija Radmilovic Radjenovic (Associate Research Professor) gave a talk on mode transition in rf CCP discharges.

26.03.2008.
Sasa Lazovic (Research Trainee) talked about diagnostic of atmospheric pressure discharge by mass-energy analyzer Hiden HPR60.

19.03.2008.
Branislav Radjenovic presented seminar titled '3D level set anisotropic etching profile evolution simulations'.

12.03.2008.
Hemal Varambhia from University College London gave seminar on QUANTEMOL - getting electron molecule scattering cross sections easily. Seminar presentation can be seen here.

05.03.2008.
Ana Bankovic (Research Trainee) gave a talk on transport of positrons in water.

18.12.2007.
Kinga Kutasi from Technical University Lisboa, Portugal visited COE and presented a lecture 'Characterization by modelling of the low-pressure N2-O2 post-discharge systems used for medical sterilization'.

28-30.11.2007.
COE was visited by Joan Marler, Ron White and Stephen J. Buckman. The following seminars were presented at the Institute of Physics:

- on 28th of November: "When Antimatter attacks...'' - High Resolution Positron Scattering from Atoms and Molecules
Joan Marler, University of Aarhus, Denmark

- on 29th of November: Modern kinetic theory of electron and positron swarms in neutral gases
Ron White, James Cook University of Northern Queensland, Townsville Australia

- on 30th of November, Colloqium of the Institute of Physics: Low Energy Lepton Interactions - Electron and Positron Driven Processes and Their Applications
Stephen J. Buckman, Centre for Antimatter-Matter Studies, Australian National University

1-4.08.2007.
Members of Laboratory for Gaseous Electronics were paticipants of XV International Symposium on Electron-Molecule Collisions and Swarms in Reading, UK, from 1-4th August 2007. PhD Dragana Maric (research assistant) held lecture about space-time resolved kinetics of low-pressure breakdown and PhD Sasa Dujko (research assistant) had lecture "On developments in the theory of electron and positron swarms".

18.07.2007.
PhD Marija Radmilovic Radjenovic (Associate Research Professor), together with other members of Laboratory for Gaseuos Electronics, took part in XXVIII ICPIG in Prague, Czech Republic. She held invited topic lecture "Modeling of the gas breakdown in microgaps and 3D profile evolution during plasma etching".

8-19.07.2007.
M.Sc. Mira Anicic, research assistant, participated in Fourth International Summer School and Workshop: "Nuclear Physics Methods and Accelerators in Biology and Medicine" from 8 to 19 July, 2007, in Prague, Czech Republic. She received a Summer School Excellency Award for best student talk.

13-19.06.2007.
New equipment from HIDEN Analytical: ESPion – Advanced Langmuir Probe for Plasma Diagnostics and HPR-60 Molecular Beam Sampling Mass Spectrometer installed successfully. Y. Aranda Gonzalvo, from HIDEN Analytical, managed instalation and showed basic operating techniques. First measurement with the ESPion probe were conducted and some of the Mass Analyzer features were tested. Final installment is expected in the beginning of July.

7-9.03.2007.
5th EU-Japan Joint Symposium on Plasma Processing: Radicals and Non-Equilibrium processes in Low-Temperature Plasmas was held in Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and Institute of Physics, Belgrade. Organization of this conference was done by Laboratory for Gaseous Electronics. Conference list of speakers. More information about the Symposium is available at the web site.

18.01.2007.
M.Sc. Sasa Dujko (Research Assistant) gave a talk on Monte Carlo research of spatial relaxation of electron swarms

11.01.2007.
PhD Ilija Stefanovic (Research Associate Professor) held lecture titled: Dust in Fusion: Causations and Problems of 'Tritium Inventory'

6-9.12.2006.
M.Sc. Mira Anicic, research assistant, took part on the 7th European Meeting on Environmental Chemistry (EMEC7) Brno, Czech Republic, and presented two posters:

1. ACTIVE BIOMONITORING WITH WET AND DRY MOSS: BELGADE CASE STUDY
M. Anicic, M.V. Frontasyeva, M. Tomaševic , S. Rajšic, M. Tasic & E. Steinnes

2. ASSESSMENT OF THE LEVELS AND SOURCES OF TRACE ELEMENTS IN PM10 AND PM2.5 IN BELGRADE
S. Rajšic, Z. Mijic, M. Tasic, M. Radenkovic & J. Joksic

6.12.2006.
PhD Zoran Raspopovic (Research Assistant) gave a talk on flux and bulk velocities in a model gas.

29.11.2006.
M.Sc. Sasa Dujko (Research Assistant) gave a talk on Monte Carlo simulation
technique of electron transport in magnetized plasma discharges.

24.11.2006.
B. Sc. Zoran Mijic defended MSc thesis:" MASS CONCENTRATION MEASUREMENTS OF SUSPENDED PARTICLES IN AIR: THE USE OF STATISTICAL MODELS TO ESTIMATE THE CONTRIBUTION OF DIFFERENT EMISSION SOURCES" at Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade

14. 11. 2006.
Prof. Marina Vladimirovna Frontasyeva from Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Dubna, Russia visited our Institute and presented lecture:"ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION OF TRACE ELEMENTS IN SOME SELECTED COUNTRIES OF EUROPE AND ASIA - ESTIMATIONS BASED ON MOSS ANALYSIS"

13.11.2006.
B. Sc. Mira Anicic defended Master of science thesis: " MOSS BIOMONITORING OF AIR QUALITY IN URBAN ENVIRONMENT ", at Faculty of Chemistry, University of Belgrade

23.10.2006.
M. Sc. Velibor Novakovic defended PhD: "PHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS AND MODELING OF ELECTRICAL DISCHARGES IN GASEOUS MIXTURES WHICH CONTAIN NO, N2O AND DUST PARTICLES" at Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade

28.8.- 1.9.2006.
Kopaonik, Serbia, 23rd SPIG Workshop: Nonequilibrium processes in Plasma Physics and studies of Environment. Workshop program can be viewed here. The proceedings of the Workshop are published in the Journal of Physics: Conference Series.