Joint US/USSR Workshop on Fundamental Processes in Next Generation Dense Plasmas (November 1990: Itkol, USSR)

美国和苏联都在计划大规模的致密等离子体研究设施，每个设施的成本都超过10亿美元。这些设施将极大地扩大可产生等离子体的范围，并将为基础研究提出许多重要问题。随着可用等离子体能量的增加，对于理论学家来说，考虑可以在相应的更大的时间和长度尺度上以及在更高的可实现能量密度上发生和测量的基本过程变得有趣和重要。作为目前仅有的两个正在规划这种下一代设施的国家，美国和苏联在这一领域有着重大的共同利益。这次联合研讨会由亚利桑那大学的理查德·莫尔斯博士和苏联科学院朗道理论物理研究所的谢尔盖·阿尼西莫夫博士组织，将研究这种下一代致密等离子体的理论。将考虑现有理论的状态，以及理解这些等离子体的新理论要求。研讨会的一个中心目的是确定美苏在这一领域有前途的研究伙伴关系，并开始准备竞争性提案，以支持长期合作项目。由于美国和苏联等离子体理论社区之前的接触和强大的方法和能力的互补性模式，预计在这一领域的联合研究将是互利的。该项目通过使美国和苏联的主要研究人员在平等、互惠和互利的基础上，在共同感兴趣和有能力的基础科学研究领域结合互补的努力和能力，实现了推进科学知识的计划目标。

Both the United States and the Soviet Union are planning large-scale dense plasma research facilities at a cost of over $1 billion each. These facilities will greatly expand the range of plasmas that can be produced and will pose a number of important questions for fundamental research. As available plasma energies increase, it becomes interesting and important for theorists to consider fundamental processes that can occur and be measured on the correspondingly greater time and length scales and at the higher achievable energy densities. As the only countries now planning such next- generation facilities, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. have a major joint interest in this field. This joint workshop, which is being organized by Dr. Richard Morse of the University of Arizona and Dr. Sergey Anisimov of the Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, will be concerned with the theory of such next-generation dense plasmas. The state of the existing theory, and the new theory requirements for understanding these plasmas, will be considered. A central purpose of the workshop is to identify promising U.S.-Soviet research partnerships in this field and to begin preparation of competitive proposals for support of long-term collaborative projects. Because of prior contacts and strong patterns of complementarity of approaches and capabilities in the U.S. and Soviet plasma theory communities, it is expected that joint research in this area would be mutually beneficial. This project fulfills the program objective of advancing scientific knowledge by enabling leading researchers in the United States and the U.S.S.R. to combine complementary efforts and capabilities in areas of strong mutual interest and competence in the field of basic scientific research on the basis of equality, reciprocity, and mutuality of benefit.