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Close to 100 attendees of Plasma research scientists attended the Workshop on Opportunities in Plasma Astrophysics (which started this thread).
The workshop was hosted by:
- the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory,
supported by:
- The US Department of Energy (Fusion Energy Sciences Program), NASA, the National Science Foundation directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences,
endorsed by:
- the American Physical Society (APS) Topical Group in Plasma Astrophysics,
- the APS Division of Plasma Physics,
- the Centre for Magnetic Self-Organisation in Laboratory and AstroPhysical Plasmas, (an NSF Physics frontier Centre established in coordination with the US Department of Energy).
And the main point of it was to organise themselves, and their research priorities prior to the US Government's major allocation of science research funding, which was announced about 3 months, (?), ago.
I'd say it was a very reputable gathering of the US's top-notch Plasma scientists. Its a bit of a stretch to think they didn't understand plasma magnetic reconnection principles/theory.
Cheers
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