The 29th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion took place in Montreux, Switzerland, from June 17th to 21st 2002. It was organised by the Centre de Recherches en Physique des Plasmas (CRPP) of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, on behalf of the Plasma Physics Division of the European Physical Society (EPS). The local organising committee was almost entirely composed of staff from CRPP:Jo Lister, chairmanYves R Martin, vice-chairmanRoland Behn, scientific secretaryBasil P Duval, ELISE manager and conference proceedingsPaula Halter, administrative secretarySarka Horackova, administrative secretaryThe conference programme covered a wide range of topics in plasma physics in general and in controlled fusion research in particular: basic plasma physics, magnetic confinement experiments, inertial confinement, laser plasmas, short pulse phenomena, low-temperature plasmas, astrophysical and geophysical plasmas, plasma and magnetic confinement theory and modelling, plasma edge physics, plasma heating, plasma diagnostics, plasma applications, processing, radiation generation, and dusty plasmas. In addition three specialist sessions were held on the subjects of : `Laser Plasma Particle Acceleration', `Edge, SOL and Divertor Plasma Turbulence and Transport' and `Dusty and Complex Plasmas'. The scientific programme and paper selection were the responsibility of the International Programme Committee appointed by the Board of the EPS Plasma Physics Division. The committee was composed of:C Varandas, chairman EURATOM-IST, Lisbon, PortugalA Bécoulet EURATOM-CEA, Cadarache, France A Boozer, contact person to APS Columbia University, New York, USAD J Campbell EFDA-CSU, Garching, Germany S C Cowley Imperial College, London, UK J-C Gauthier Ecole Polytechnique Palaiseau, FranceD Habs Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany T C Hender UKAEA-Fusion, Abingdon, UK J B Lister CRPP-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland A G Litvak Institute of Applied Physics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia T Märk Universitt Innsbruck, Austria P A Norreys Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, UK P Pavlo Institute of Plasma Physics, Prague, Czech Republic J Sanchez EURATOM-CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain G van Oost Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium F Wagner MPI für Plasmaphysik, Greifswald, Germany V Zanza EURATOM-ENEA, Frascati, ItalyThis committee selected 30 invited talks, including review and tutorial lectures, and allocated 36 oral presentations. The majority of the contributed papers (450) were presented as posters in 4 sessions. The conference was attended by more than 620 participants from 37 countries, which made it a major forum for exchange of ideas and fruitful scientific discussion. A major event during the conference was the award of the Hannes Alfvén Prize to Professor Marshall Rosenbluth, University of California, San Diego, USA. The conference programme also included an evening session dedicated to a lecture by Professor I Fells, University of Newcastle, UK, on `Clean and Secure Energy for the 21st Century?'. A special exhibition presented the proposed ITER sites in France and Spain.Following the tradition of this conference series, four-page summaries of all contributed papers are published as the Europhysics Conference Abstracts series, volume 26B. The publication is in the form of a CD-ROM sent free of charge to all participants and is also accessible via the website: http://elise.epfl.ch.This special issue of Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion contains papers of the invited talks at the 29th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. These papers have been assessed according to the standards of the journal and examined by referees selected from amongst the members of the International Programme Committee.The guest editors would like to thank all authors for their efforts in providing a high quality paper in due time and Institute of Physics Publishing for the continuing support of this conference series. They express their gratitude to the members of the Programme Committee, who accepted the additional task of refereeing, with minimum delay, all the papers in this special issue.
第29届欧洲物理学会等离子体物理与受控聚变会议于2002年6月17日至21日在瑞士蒙特勒举行。会议由瑞士洛桑联邦理工学院等离子体物理研究中心（CRPP）代表欧洲物理学会等离子体物理分部组织。当地组织委员会几乎完全由CRPP的工作人员组成：Jo Lister（主席）、Yves Martin（副主席）、Roland Behn（科学秘书）、Basil P. Duval（ELISE经理兼会议论文集编辑）、Paula Halter（行政秘书）、Sarka Horackova（行政秘书）。会议议程涵盖了等离子体物理的广泛主题，特别是受控聚变研究：基础等离子体物理、磁约束聚变、惯性约束聚变、激光等离子体、短脉冲现象、低温等离子体、天体物理和地球物理等离子体、等离子体与磁约束理论及模拟、等离子体边缘物理、等离子体加热、等离子体诊断、等离子体应用、等离子体加工、辐射产生以及尘埃等离子体。此外，还举行了三个专题会议，主题为：“激光等离子体加速”、“边缘、刮削层和偏滤器等离子体湍流与输运”以及“尘埃与复杂等离子体”。科学议程和论文筛选由欧洲物理学会等离子体物理分部理事会任命的国际程序委员会负责。委员会成员如下：C. Varandas（主席，EURATOM-IST，葡萄牙里斯本）、A. Bécoulet（EURATOM-CEA，法国卡达拉舍）、A. Boozer（APS联络人，美国纽约哥伦比亚大学）、D. J. Campbell（EFDA-CSU，德国加尔兴）、S. C. Cowley（英国牛津郡卡拉姆科学中心，帝国理工学院）、J.-C. Gauthier（法国帕莱索综合理工学院）、D. Habs（德国慕尼黑路德维希-马克西米利安大学）、T. C. Hender（英国阿宾登UKAEA）、J. B. Lister（CRPP-EPFL，瑞士洛桑）、A. G. Litvak（俄罗斯下诺夫哥罗德应用物理研究所）、T. Märk（奥地利因斯布鲁克大学）、P. A. Norreys（英国奇尔顿卢瑟福阿普尔顿实验室）、P. Pavlov（捷克布拉格等离子体物理研究所）、J. Sanchez（EURATOM-CIEMAT，西班牙马德里）、G. van Oost（比利时根特大学）、F. Wagner（德国格赖夫斯瓦尔德马克斯·普朗克等离子体物理研究所）、V. Zanza（EURATOM-ENEA，意大利弗拉斯卡蒂）。该委员会选出了30篇特邀报告，包括综述和教程讲座，并安排了36篇口头报告。大部分投稿论文（450篇）以海报形式在4个会议环节中展示。会议吸引了来自37个国家的620多名参与者，使其成为思想交流和富有成效的科学讨论的重要论坛。会议期间的一项重要活动是向美国加利福尼亚大学圣迭戈分校的Marshall Rosenbluth教授颁发Hannes Alfvén奖。会议议程还包括一个晚间专场，由英国纽卡斯尔大学的I. Fells教授就“21世纪的清洁与安全能源？”进行演讲。一个特别展览展示了法国和西班牙的ITER候选场址。按照该系列会议的传统，所有投稿论文的四页摘要以《欧洲物理学会会议摘要》系列第26卷B册的形式出版，以CD-ROM形式免费分发给所有参会者，并可通过网站http://elise.epfl.ch访问。本期《等离子体物理与受控聚变》特刊收录了第29届欧洲物理学会等离子体物理与受控聚变会议的特邀报告论文。这些论文按照期刊标准进行了评估，并由从国际程序委员会成员中选出的审稿人进行了审查。客座编辑感谢所有作者及时提供高质量论文，并感谢英国物理学会出版社对本系列会议的持续支持。他们向程序委员会成员表示感谢，感谢他们承担了额外的工作，及时审阅了本期特刊的所有论文。