SUSSP68 International Summer School in Laser-Plasma Interactions and Applications

这项提议是为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”国际暑期班提供部分资金。该学院是苏格兰大学物理暑期学校(SuSSP)系列中的第68个，也是关于激光-等离子体相互作用主题的第7个。关于这一主题的上一次会议是在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，面向博士最后几年或博士后研究早期的年轻研究人员。它计划在12天内接待约80名国内和国际学生，并由16名讲师提供38场讲座。还将提供其他活动(数值模拟和知识传授讲习班、小组讨论和招贴会)。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学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、医学和安全方面的应用，以及其他科学领域，包括高场科学和核物理。本课程将介绍惯性约束聚变的物理原理及其作为能源的潜力，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，包括等离子体不稳定性和聚变反应堆材料。学校将提供的拟议综合培训不能有效地由个别机构提供。在激光-等离子体相互作用和应用的覆盖面如此之广的情况下，没有类似的培训方案。在这一领域存在培训的战略需要，建立了由EPSRC资助的激光等离子体加速器研究联盟(Alpha-X和Libra)、英国领导的HiPER激光聚变项目和目前正在建立的极光基础设施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.