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

基础等离子体科学用户设施的机遇、挑战和最佳实践研讨会

• 批准号: 1846223
• 负责人: Howard Milchberg
• 金额: $ 3.59万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1846223&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Opportunities; Challenges; Best; Practices

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.

该奖项支持将于2019年5月20日至21日在马里兰州大学公园的马里兰大学举行的基本等离子体科学用户设施的机遇，挑战和最佳实践研讨会。 该研讨会将召集等离子体物理和科学相关社区的代表，讨论与建立和基于大学的基础基础等离子体科学用户设施相关的机遇和挑战。 将考虑各种用户设施管理模型，包括在物理上连续的实验室环境中的设施，中央协调但地理分布的仪器网络，以及开放式用户设施和协作共享使用的设施管理模型。研讨会将蒸馏出被认为是Quilas Missications Mid Scale或Mardsscale的首发智力机会和挑战。这将是一个必要的，重要且及时的社区讨论。该研讨会的目的是解决以下问题：1）需要在较小的单个PI实验设施上解决等离子科学用户设施的科学问题哪些需要建立和运行？ 是否有令人信服的血浆科学问题对全球科学界的这种价值和兴趣有可能需要建立新的用户设施？如果是这样，它们是什么？2）在受约束的资源下，在每个相关子场中投资在用户设施运营中投资运营的方面和缺点是什么？3）3）可能有什么限制因素，例如，潜在用户社区的大小，柔韧性和操作的范围，在某些方面的运作方面的操作以及特定的用户设施的特定操作或有效的挑战是有效的？4）是否有效？4）它的子场？ 如果是这样，它们是什么，可以使用哪种操作方式来克服此类挑战？ 5）管理中级和主要用户设施的透明和有效操作的最佳实践是等离子体科学的？研讨会演示将是网络广播，有机会在线评论和Q＆A与异地参与者进行Q＆A。该研讨会将制作出公开的报告，以解决上述问题。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并认为使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，被认为值得通过评估来提供支持。