Workshop on Opportunities, Challenges, and Best Practices for Basic Plasma Science User Facilities

该奖项支持将于2019年5月20日至21日在马里兰大学帕克分校举行的“基础等离子科学用户设施的机遇、挑战和最佳实践”研讨会。研讨会将汇集等离子体物理学和科学相关团体的代表，讨论在等离子体科学子领域范围内建立和运营基于大学的基础等离子体科学用户设施所带来的机遇和挑战。将考虑各种用户设施管理模型，包括物理上连续的实验室环境中的设施和集中协调但地理上分布的仪器网络，以及开放用户设施和协作共享使用设施管理模型。讲习班将提炼出被认为是等离子体物理学中需要中等规模或主要用户设施的首要智力机会和挑战。这将是一个必要的、重要的、及时的社区讨论。研讨会将致力于解决以下问题：1)哪些科学问题需要建立和运行等离子体科学用户设施，而不能在较小规模的单pi实验设施上解决？是否存在对全球科学界具有如此价值和兴趣的令人信服的等离子体科学问题，可能需要建立新的用户设施？如果有，它们是什么？2)在资源受限的情况下，投资于每个相关子领域的用户设施运营的利与弊是什么？3)在建立实验设施作为用户设施时，可能存在哪些限制因素，例如，潜在用户社区的规模或操作的灵活性和易易性？4)等离子体科学或其任何子领域的用户设施的透明和有效操作是否存在特别的挑战？如果是这样，它们是什么，哪些操作模式可以用来克服这些挑战？5)管理等离子体科学中规模和主要用户设施的透明和有效运行的最佳实践是什么？研讨会的演讲将通过网络直播，并提供在线评论和与非现场参与者的问答机会。讲习班将就上述问题编写一份公开报告。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports a Workshop on Opportunities, Challenges, and Best Practices for Basic Plasma Science User Facilities to take place on May 20-21, 2019 at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD. The Workshop will bring together representatives of the plasma physics and scientifically related communities to discuss the opportunities and challenges associated with establishing and operating university-based basic plasma science user facilities across the spectrum of plasma science sub-fields. A variety of user facility management models will be considered, including facilities in a physically contiguous laboratory environment and centrally-coordinated but geographically distributed instrumentation networks, as well as both the open user facility and collaborative shared-use facility management models.The Workshop will distill what are considered to be the premiere intellectual opportunities and challenges in plasma physics that necessitate mid-scale or major user facilities. This will be a needed, important, and timely community discussion. The Workshop will aim to address the following questions:1) What are the science questions that require establishment and operation of plasma science user facilities and cannot be addressed on smaller scale single-PI experimental facilities? Are there compelling plasma science questions of such value and interest to the global scientific community that may warrant establishment of new user facilities? If so, what are they?2) Under constrained resources, what are the upsides and the downsides of investing in the operation of user facilities in each of the relevant sub-fields?3) What may be the limiting factors, e.g., the size of the community of potential users or the flexibility and ease of operation, in establishing an experimental facility as a user facility?4) Are there particular challenges to transparent and effective operation of user facilities specific to plasma science or any of its sub-fields? If so, what are they and what modes of operation may be used to overcome such challenges? 5) What are the best practices for managing transparent and effective operation of mid-scale and major user facilities for plasma science?The workshop presentations will be webcast with the opportunity for online commentary and Q&A with offsite participants. The Workshop will produce a publicly available report addressing the above questions.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.