Travel Support of U.S. Participants to the Seventeenth Nathiagali Summer College, Pakistan, June 25-July 9, 1992

项目描述：本项目支持美国物理学家代表团赴巴基斯坦参加“第十七届纳蒂亚加利暑期学院”。该会议是巴基斯坦政府组织的年度活动，目的是为与会者提供一个论坛，讨论物理学的进展及其与现代需求的关系。本学院的主要课题是：计算物理，特别强调多层次方法、高效迭代技术，以及在流体动力学、辐射输运和固体相变中的应用；等离子体物理学，包括高密度压缩，惯性约束，等离子体光谱和诊断，以及空间等离子体。该项目分为两个独立的为期一周的课程，参与者可以参加其中一个或两个周。在更密集的讲座之后，还计划了简短的讲习班。这种格式提供了密切的交互和协作。计划向参与者提供课堂讲稿，并尝试像过去几所学院所做的那样出版会议记录。范围：拟建的暑期学院每年在巴基斯坦的纳蒂亚加利举行，来自亚洲和非洲的科学家以及来自西方世界的讲师参加。它在过去得到了来自这些国家的参与者以及来自的里雅斯特国际理论物理中心等国际组织的高度赞扬。它得到了该中心以及北京的中国科学院的部分支持。这项活动完全符合发展中国家科学项目的目标。

Description: This project supports the travel of a delegation of U.S. physicists to Pakistan to participate in the "Seventeenth Nathiagali Summer College". The meeting is an annual activity organized by the Government of Pakistan to offer to the participants a forum to discuss advances in physics and their relationships to modern needs. The main topics for this college are: computational physics, with special emphasis on multilevel methods, efficient iterative techniques, and applications in fluid dynamics, radiation transport, and phase transitions in solids; plasma physics, including high density pinches, inertial confinement, plasma spectroscopy and diagnostics, and space plasmas. The program is divided into two separate week-long sessions, with participants attending either or both weeks. Short workshops following the more intense lecture sessions are planned. This format provides for close interaction and collaboration. It is planned to provide lecture notes to participants, and an attempt will be made to publish the proceedings as was done in several of the past colleges. Scope: The proposed summer college has been held annually in Nathiagali, Pakistan, with participation from scientists throughout Asia and Africa and with lecturers from the western world. It has received high praise in the past from participants from these countries as well as from international organizations such as the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste. It is receiving partial support from that Center as well as from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. This activity fits well within the objectives of the Science in Developing Countries Program.