xxviii unifying physics of accelerators, lasers and plasma
way to convey physics principles to the reader and is certainly
preferable when discussing such a broad area of physics.
I would like to express my gratitude to my many colleagues who directly or indirectly helped with this endeavor.
Particular thanks go to Professor Riccardo Bartolini, Professor Emmanuel Tsesmelis and Professor Ted Wilson for joint
work on the short-option course for Oxford undergraduates,
which was the first step toward the development of the USPAS course that gradually led to development of this book.
I am grateful to the students of my USPAS-2014 course for
inspiration and enthusiastic discussions and also to Professor Bill Barletta who supported the idea of the USPAS course,
discussed the very first time with Bill in early April 2013.
I am grateful to the Rector of Novosibirsk State University, Mikhail Fedoruk, for creating an inspiring opportunity
to present a lecture on Science and Inventiveness to a cohort
of 1,000 first-year students on September 1, 2014; the preparations for this lecture significantly stimulated the thought
process for writing the first chapter of this book.
I am grateful to Professor Zulfikar Najmudin for help
with the materials for ion plasma acceleration and thankful
to Professor Peter Norreys and Professor Bob Bingham for
discussions on the topics connecting chirped pulse amplification and radar inventions.
I am in immense debt to Professor Ted Wilson, who made
tremendous efforts to be the first reader of the manuscript
and who gave me a lot of valuable comments.
I am grateful to my John Adams Institute colleagues
— Professors Riccardo Bartolini, Stewart Boogert, Simon
Hooker, Ivan Konoplev, Zulfikar Najmudin and Mike
Partridge for reading the manuscript or its individual chapters and giving their valuable comments. I would like to
express gratitude to all of my colleagues and friends who
helped with the preparation of this book and whom I failed
to thank here directly.
I am also delighted to thank Francesca McGowan, CRC
Press editor, who on April 30, 2013 appeared out of the blue
in my office asking for directions to a meeting — this unexpected conversation helped to crystallize my thoughts toward
this book. I appreciate all the aid Francesca and her CRC
Press colleagues provided during the writing process.
I would like to express my deep thanks to my family, first
of all to my daughter Sasha, who designed the book cover,
made several illustrations and helped with grammar.
And most importantly, my eternal gratitude to my wife
Elena, who put a massive amount of effort into converting
lecture materials to LaTeX, created more than 200 illustrations for this book and gave me support and motivation,
without which this book would never have been finished.
way to convey physics principles to the reader and is certainly
preferable when discussing such a broad area of physics.
I would like to express my gratitude to my many colleagues who directly or indirectly helped with this endeavor.
Particular thanks go to Professor Riccardo Bartolini, Professor Emmanuel Tsesmelis and Professor Ted Wilson for joint
work on the short-option course for Oxford undergraduates,
which was the first step toward the development of the USPAS course that gradually led to development of this book.
I am grateful to the students of my USPAS-2014 course for
inspiration and enthusiastic discussions and also to Professor Bill Barletta who supported the idea of the USPAS course,
discussed the very first time with Bill in early April 2013.
I am grateful to the Rector of Novosibirsk State University, Mikhail Fedoruk, for creating an inspiring opportunity
to present a lecture on Science and Inventiveness to a cohort
of 1,000 first-year students on September 1, 2014; the preparations for this lecture significantly stimulated the thought
process for writing the first chapter of this book.
I am grateful to Professor Zulfikar Najmudin for help
with the materials for ion plasma acceleration and thankful
to Professor Peter Norreys and Professor Bob Bingham for
discussions on the topics connecting chirped pulse amplification and radar inventions.
I am in immense debt to Professor Ted Wilson, who made
tremendous efforts to be the first reader of the manuscript
and who gave me a lot of valuable comments.
I am grateful to my John Adams Institute colleagues
— Professors Riccardo Bartolini, Stewart Boogert, Simon
Hooker, Ivan Konoplev, Zulfikar Najmudin and Mike
Partridge for reading the manuscript or its individual chapters and giving their valuable comments. I would like to
express gratitude to all of my colleagues and friends who
helped with the preparation of this book and whom I failed
to thank here directly.
I am also delighted to thank Francesca McGowan, CRC
Press editor, who on April 30, 2013 appeared out of the blue
in my office asking for directions to a meeting — this unexpected conversation helped to crystallize my thoughts toward
this book. I appreciate all the aid Francesca and her CRC
Press colleagues provided during the writing process.
I would like to express my deep thanks to my family, first
of all to my daughter Sasha, who designed the book cover,
made several illustrations and helped with grammar.
And most importantly, my eternal gratitude to my wife
Elena, who put a massive amount of effort into converting
lecture materials to LaTeX, created more than 200 illustrations for this book and gave me support and motivation,
without which this book would never have been finished.