SPECIAL ISSUE OF INVITED PAPERS OF 2005 WORKSHOP ON NONLOCAL, COLLISIONLESS ELECTRON TRANSPORT IN PLASMAS

Dear workshop participants:

You are cordially invited to submit a paper for special issue of IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science on “Nonlocal, collisionless electron transport in plasmas”.

A special issue will consist primarily of invited papers of 2005 workshop on “Nonlocal, collisionless electron transport in plasmas” at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (https://w3.pppl.gov/~ikaganov/PPPL2005/). However, appropriate papers can be also submitted by authors non-participating in the workshop.

A special issue of IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science is scheduled for June of 2006. Papers for this issue can be submitted at any time, until the beginning of the conference on August 2^nd. However, authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers at least two weeks prior to the workshop, so that potential referees can become familiar with authors’ presentations at the workshop.

Potential authors should go to the TPS' web site (http://www.ieeetps.org/) and look along the right hand side of the page for "Manuscript Submission". Authors will be taken to the IEEE's submission and review website (http://tps-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/) where instructions on paper preparation and submission are provided. A “Special Issue - Nonlocal, Collisionless Electron Transport in Plasmas - 6/2006” should be selected as the "manuscript type" by all authors when they enter their manuscripts. Authors are asked to provide email confirmation to Steve G. Gitomer [mailto:sgitomer@lanl.gov] and Igor Kaganovich [mailto: ikaganov@pppl.gov] that they have made a submission. Be wary, oftentimes an author will neglect to finish the 12 step process and then the paper will be in an unsubmitted state which is hard to detect.

Invited speakers are asked to deliver review papers suitable for students and non-experts. A Special Issue, a collection of these review papers, will serve as an advanced textbook on electron kinetics in plasmas. Most previous attention has been given to collisional plasmas. In the last decade there have been major developments in studies of collisionless dynamics in plasmas, particularly in glow discharge and thruster devices. These advances have been reported in separate papers published in many different journals. The workshop and Special Issue aim at updating and coordinating the research advances in this field. Another important goal of the workshop is to form a bridge between high- and low-temperature plasma communities. Both communities have developed many useful tools little known outside their own communities. Therefore, it is important to summarize the current state-of-the-art for both communities in one volume. We believe a Special Issue is the best way to achieve a broad dissemination of exciting recent developments in the theory, diagnostic and modeling of non-equilibrium electron kinetics in plasmas.

The Special Issue editors will be Igor Kaganovich, Sam Cohen, and Yevgeny Raitses, PPPL.

Sincerely,

March 31, 2005

Igor Kaganovich, Sam Cohen, and Yevgeny Raitses

Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University