During the last few years a group of plasma physicists from countries all over the world has been meeting to analyse the scientific basis and prepare the programme of an International Centre for Dense Magnetised Plasmas (ICDMP).
On the 6th and 7th of September 2013 the Annual Meeting of the International Scientific Committee of ICDMP took place in Warsaw, at the IPPLM premises. The participants included Alexander Blagoev (Bulgaria), Alain Bernard (France), Igor Garkusha (Ukraina), Karel Kolacek (Czech Republic), Vyacheslav Krauz (Russia), Pavel Kubes (Czech Republic), Maurizio Samuelli (Italy), Hellmut Schmidt (Germany), Ülo Ugaste (Estonia), Eric Lerner (USA), Marek Scholz (INP PAS), Alireza Talebitaher, and IPPLM group: Marek Sadowski, Andrzej Galkowski (director of IPPLM), Pawel Nadrowski, Marian Paduch, Ryszard Miklaszewski, and Włodzimierz Stepniewski.
The Foundation Council presented its report and the International Scientific Committee elected a new ICDMP director. Dr. Marek Scholz was replaced by Dr. Marian Paduch, and Dr. Ryszard Miklaszewski became the deputy director of ICDMP. Pavel Kubes sent to absent Marek Scholz thanks for his long and demanding work in the leading position in ICDMP.
The workshop participants discussed the accomplished goals within the activities at PF-1000 and laboratories in frame of ICDMP and defined the scope of works for the future. The presentations were delivered by turns by Richard Miklaszewski, Sasha Blagoev, Igor Garkusha, Pavel Kubes, Slawa Krauz, Eric Lerner, Marek Sadowski, Ali Talebitaher and Üllo Ugaste. Moreover, P. Kubes announced that the grant of Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic, supporting activities of ICDMP, would continue up to the year 2015.
The next ISC-meeting together with Workshop will take place at IPPLM in Warsaw on October 10-11, 2014.
