These proceedings represent a brief overview of the exciting physics coming out from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The experimental results from BRAHMS, PHOBOS, PHENIX and STAR indicate a strongly-coupled state of matter that can only be described on the partonic level. We review some of the latest experimental results as we presented at the meeti...

We discuss a detailed weak scaling analysis of GEM, a 3D MPI-parallelised gyrofluid code used in theoretical plasma physics at the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics, IPP at Garching near Munich, Germany. Within a PRACE Preparatory Access Project various versions of the code have been analysed on the HPC systems SuperMUC at LRZ and JUQUEEN at Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) to improve th...

An analysis of measurements supporting the presence of anomalous cross-field electron mobility in Hall plasma accelerators is presented. Non-intrusive laser-induced fluorescence measurements of neutral and ionized xenon velocities, and various electrostatic probe diagnostic measurements are used to locally determine the effective electron Hall parameter inside the accelerator channel. These val...

o;oNLINEAR TOROIDAL PLASMA DYNAMICS BY REDUCED FLUID MODELS. . Fluid models are presented which generalize reduced MHD by allowing for compressibility, Finite Larmor Radius, and long mean free path in toroidal geometry. The Hamiltonian structure of the models leads to a generalized energy principle for determining linear and nonlinear MHD stability of uilibria with flows and Finite Larmor Radiu...