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

该奖项支持研讨会上的机遇，挑战和最佳实践的基础等离子体科学用户设施将于2019年5月20日至21日在马里兰州，学院公园，马里兰大学举行。 该研讨会将汇集等离子体物理和科学相关社区的代表，讨论与建立和运行跨等离子体科学子领域的大学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散的仪器网络，以及开放式用户设施和协作式共享设施管理模式。研讨会将提炼出被认为是等离子体物理学中最重要的知识机遇和挑战，这些机遇和挑战需要中期的规模或主要用户设施。这将是一个必要的，重要的，及时的社区讨论。1）哪些科学问题需要等离子体科学用户设施的建立和运行，而不能在较小规模的单一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引人注目的等离子体科学问题，可能需要建立新的用户设施？如果是，它们是什么？2)在资源有限的情况下，投资于每个相关分领域的用户设施的运营有哪些好处和坏处？3)可能的限制因素是什么，例如，在建立一个实验设施作为用户设施方面，潜在用户群体的规模或操作的灵活性和便利性？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运行是否存在特殊挑战？ 如果有，它们是什么，可以采用什么样的运作模式来克服这些挑战？5)管理中等规模和主要用户等离子体科学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，并有机会与场外参与者进行在线评论和问答。该奖项反映了NSF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.