(42 Lectures + 14 Tutorial)

1. Introduction to plasmas, applications: in fusion, space and astrophysics, semi- conductor etching, micro- wave generation, characterisation of the plasma state, Debye shielding.
2. Plasma and cyclotron frequencies, collision rates and mean-free paths, atomic processes, adiabatic invariance, orbit theory, magnetic confinement of single charged particles.
3. Two-fluid description, magneto-hydrodynamic waves and instabilities, heat flow, diffusion, kinetic description, and Landau damping.
4. Ideal magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) equilibrium, MHD energy principle, ideal and resistive MHD stability, drift-kinetic equation, collisions, classical and neoclassical transport, drift waves and low-frequency instabilities, high frequency micro instabilities, and quasi-linear theory.