SUSSP68 International Summer School in Laser-Plasma Interactions and Applications

该提案是为2011年8月15日至27日在斯特拉斯克莱德大学举办的“激光等离子体相互作用和应用”国际暑期学校提供部分资金。该学院是苏格兰大学物理暑期学校（SUSSP）系列中的第68所，也是激光等离子体相互作用主题的第7所。上一次关于这个话题的会议是在2005年举行的。该学院还将作为已建立的北约高级研究所（ASI）系列的一部分运行，针对的是博士学位最后几年或博士后研究初期的年轻研究人员。计划在12天内接待约80名国内外学生，并由16名讲师提供38场讲座。还将提供其他活动（数值模拟和知识转移讲习班、小组讨论和海报会议）。该学院将汇集来自欧洲、美国、俄罗斯和以色列的顶尖专家，就高功率激光等离子体物理的基础和应用方面进行讲座。它将从概述和强激光辐射与物质相互作用的理论开始。将详细介绍激光等离子体加速器的物理学，包括最近的进展和潜在的应用。还将讨论跨学科主题，包括在工业、医学和安全以及其他科学领域的应用，包括高场科学和核物理。惯性约束聚变的物理学及其作为能源的潜力将被涵盖，包括快速点火方法。该学院还将包括epsrc资助的等离子体物理研究的其他方面，例如，等离子体不稳定性和聚变反应堆材料。建议由学院提供的综合培训，个别院校无法有效提供。目前还没有类似的培训项目能够覆盖激光等离子体的相互作用和应用。这一领域的培训具有战略需求，epsrc资助的激光等离子体加速器研究联盟（Alpha-X和LIBRA）的建立，英国领导的HiPER激光聚变项目和目前正在建立的极端光基础设施（ELI）。

This proposal is for partial funding of an international Summer School on 'Laser-Plasma Interactions and Applications' to be held from 15 to 27 August 2011 at the University of Strathclyde. The School is the 68th in the Scottish Universities Summer Schools in Physics (SUSSP) series and the 7th on the topic of laser-plasma interactions. The last held on this topic took place in 2005. The School will also be run as part of the established NATO Advanced Studies Institute (ASI) series and is aimed at young researchers in the final years of their PhD or the early years of post-doctoral research. It is planned to host around 80 national and international students over a 12-day period and provide 38 lectures by 16 lecturers. Additional activities (numerical simulation and knowledge transfer workshops, panel discussions and a poster session) will also be provided. The school will bring together leading experts from Europe, the USA, Russia and Israel to lecture on the fundamental and applied aspects of high power laser-plasma physics. It will begin with an overview and the theory of the interactions of intense laser radiation with matter. The physics of laser-plasma accelerators will be covered in detail, including recent progress and potential applications. Cross disciplinary topics including applications to industry, medicine and security, and other areas of science including high field science and nuclear physics will also be addressed. The physics of inertial confinement fusion and its potential as an energy source will be covered, including the fast ignition approach. The school will also include other aspects of EPSRC-funded plasma physics research including, for example, plasma instabilities and materials for fusion reactors. The proposed comprehensive training that will be offered by the School could not be effectively provided by individual institutions. No comparable training programme exists with this level of coverage of laser-plasma interactions and applications. There is a strategic need for training in this area, with the establishment of EPSRC-funded research consortia on laser-plasma accelerators (Alpha-X and LIBRA), the UK-led HiPER laser-fusion project and the Extreme Light Infrastructure, ELI, which is currently being set up.