3rd Workshop on Swarm Physics and Gaseous Dielectrics (SPGD)
The third workshop on Swarm Physics and Gaseous Dielectrics (3rd SPGD) will take place on Tuesday, August 25th, as part of the SPIG 2026 conference in Belgrade, Serbia. The workshop will bring together leading experts from universities, research institutes, and international organisations to discuss recent advances in swarm-based approaches and their role in understanding and utilising gaseous dielectrics in modern high-voltage and plasma technologies.
This edition of the workshop will highlight new experimental and theoretical developments in the study of charged-particle interactions with atoms and molecules, including scattering, transport, and reaction processes in both gaseous and condensed phases. Special emphasis will be placed on state-of-the-art modelling techniques for charged-particle kinetics in low-temperature plasmas, featuring progress in Boltzmann solvers, Monte Carlo simulations, and fluid-based models, as well as their integration with emerging diagnostic and computational tools.
The program will consist of invited progress reports, followed by an open discussion on current challenges, cross-disciplinary opportunities, and future directions of the field. The workshop aims to strengthen collaboration within the swarm-physics community and to support the development of next-generation gaseous dielectric technologies.
LIST OF LECTURES Armando-Francesco Borghesani, Università degli Studi di Padovà, Padua, Italy Multiple scattering effects in the electron drift mobility in dense noble gases Greg Boyle, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia Beyond Simplified Drift–Diffusion: Skewness and Boundary Effects in Pulsed Townsend Experiments Tiago Cunha Dias, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Role of Coulomb collisions on electron kinetics Jan van Dijk and Daan Boer, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Reliable Data Dissemination with LXCat and ChemCat: a status update Aleksandar Jovanović, Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP), Greifswald, Germany Understanding striation formation in atmospheric-pressure discharges in argon through modelling Satoru Kawaguchi, Muroran Institute of Technology, Muroran, Japan</br> Bayesian inference for determining electron swarm parameters from steady-state Townsend experiments Christoph Köhn, Technical University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany A GPU approach to streamer modelling Robert Marskar, SINTEF Energy Research, Trondheim, Norway Simulating streamer discharges from low to high pressures with high-performance computing Ron White, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia TBA