The VI. International Workshop on Physics of Nonideal Plasmas (PNP VI)
took place from November 18th to 21th, 1991, in Gosen (Germany) at the
Science communication & Conference Centre of the Humboldt University of
Berlin. The workshop was organized by the Institute for Theoretical
Physics of the Humboldt University and by the Central Institute of
Electron Physics, Berlin, with financial support given by the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn, and the Robert-Bosch-Stiftung, Stuttgart.
The workshop was attended by more than 100 scientists from 14 countries
who presented about 120 papers, including 18 invited lectures. The
series of PNP workshops, which started in 1980, provides a biennial
forum for both experimental and theoretical research in the field of
nonideal plasmas. These meetings are organized alternately by the
Central Institute of Electron Physics, Berlin, and/or by one of the
universities of Berlin, Greifswald, and Rostock. They took place in
Matzlow-Garwitz (1980), Wustrow (1982 and 1988), Biesenthal (1984), and
Greifswald (1986). Since the beginning, the workshop has been concerned
mainly with fundamental studies of the thermodynamic, transport, and
radiative properties of nonideal plasmas. These fields were also covered
at PNP VI in Gosen, but new topics such as high-pressure laser plasmas,
dense astrophysical plasmas, molecular dynamics and Monte-Carlo results,
and the kinetics of transitions have completed the programme. In
particular, several papers addressed the role of nonideal plasmas for
radiation sources, for inertial confinement fusion, for
helio-seismology, and for the determination of the structure of the
giant planets.
