U.S.-Australia Joint Seminar: Electron and Ion Swarms and Low-Energy Electron Scattering; Gold Coast, Australia; July 18-20, 1991

这份旅行服务工作单（CTS-91-AUS-05）支持运送11名美国科学家参加将于1991年7月18日至20日在澳大利亚黄金海岸举行的电子和离子群及低能电子散射联合研讨会。这次会议是在美国-澳大利亚合作科学计划（us - australia Cooperative Science Program）的主持下举行的，并汇集了两个相关的专题讨论会，一个侧重于基本碰撞过程，另一个侧重于将这种过程应用于其他科学领域，如航空和工作技术设备。美国的联合组织者是加州理工学院的文森特·麦科伊教授和桑德尔·特拉杰马博士。澳大利亚协办方是堪培拉澳大利亚国立大学的S. J.巴克曼博士。澳大利亚的参与得到了澳大利亚工业、技术和商业部的支持。第三国将会有更多的参与。将在研讨会上讨论的跨学科研究与等离子体物理学的几个领域有关。会议的目的之一是更好地了解等离子体在放电装置（如灯和激光器）、等离子体处理材料、烟气净化和磁流体动力发电等应用中发生的基本过程。迄今为止，由于缺乏对所涉及过程的基本理解，许多等离子体的成功应用都是经验性的。通过加强该领域的纯科学和应用科学之间的相互作用，可以预期该技术的进一步发展，这是研讨会的一个重要目标。

This travel services work order (CTS-91-AUS-05) supports the transportation of eleven U.S. scientists to participate in the Joint Symposium on Electron and Ion Swarms and Low-Energy Electron Scattering, to be held in Gold Coast, Australia, July 18-20, 1991. The meeting takes place under the auspices of the U.S.-Australia Cooperative Science Program, and brings together two related symposia, one focusing on basic collisional processes and the other emphasizing applications of such processes to other fields of science, such as aeronomy, and to working technological devices. The U.S. co-organizers are Professor Vincent McKoy and Dr. Sandor Trajmar, of the California Institute of Technology. The Australian co-organizer is Dr. S. J. Buckman, Australian National University, Canberra. Australian participation is being supported by the Australian Department of Industry, Technology, and Commerce. There will be additional participation from third countries. The interdisciplinary research to be discussed at the symposium is relevant to several areas of plasma physics. One aim of the meeting is to achieve a better understanding of the fundamental processes occurring in such applications of plasmas as electrical discharge devices (e.g. lamps and lasers), plasma processing of materials, flue gas clean-up, and magnetohydrodynamic power generation, among others. To date, many successful applications of plasmas have been developed empirically, because of the lack of such a basic understanding of the processes involved. Further advances in the technology may be expected from enhancing the interaction between pure and applied science in this field, an important goal of the symposium.