The 30th EPS Conference on Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics took place in St Petersburg, Russian Federation, on 7th--11th July2003. It was jointly organized by the Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, the St Petersburg State Polytechnical University and Technical University Applied Physics Ltd, on behalf of the Plasma Physics Division of the European Physical Society (EPS). The members of the local organizing committee were drawn from these institutions:B Kuteev, Chair, Polytechnical UniversityS Lebedev, Vice-Chair, Ioffe InstituteA Lebedev, Scientific Secretary, Ioffe InstituteV Bakharev, TUAP LtdV Grigor'yants, Ioffe InstituteV Sergeev, Polytechnical UniversityN Zhubr, Ioffe InstituteOver the years, the annual conference of the Plasma Physics Division of the European Physical Society has widened its scope. Contributions to the present conference covered widely diversified fields of plasma physics, ranging from magnetic and inertial fusion to low temperature plasmas. Plasma sizes under investigation ranged from tiny to astronomical. The topics covered during the conference were distributed over the following categories: tokamaks, stellarators, high intensity laser produced plasmas and inertial confinement, alternative magnetic confinement, plasma edge physics, plasma heating and current drive, diagnostics, basic plasma physics, astrophysical and geophysical plasmas and low temperature plasmas.The scientific programme and paper selection were the responsibility of the Programme Committee appointed by the Board of the EPS Plasma Physics Division. The committee was composed of:R Koch, Chairman, ERM/KMS Brussels, BelgiumE Ascasibar, CIEMAT Madrid, SpainS Atzeni, Università di Roma, ItalyG Bonhomme, LPMI Nancy, FranceC Chiuderi, Università di Firenze, ItalyB Kuteev, St Petersburg State Polytechnical,University, Russian FederationM Mauel, Contact person APS-DPP, Columbia University New York, USAR A Pitts, EPFL/CRPP Lausanne, SwitzerlandR Salomaa, Helsinki University, FinlandB Sharkov, ITEP Moscow, Russian FederationV Smirnov, Kurchatov Institute Moscow, Russian FederationW Suttrop, IPP Garching, GermanyC Varandas, IST Lisbon, PortugalF Wagner, Chair EPS-PPD, IPP Greifswald, GermanyH R Wilson, UKAEA Abingdon, UKThis committee selected 30 invited talks, in which the speakers were asked to address the general audience of plasma physicists and to exert their didactic skills. Out of the contributed papers, in total, 92 oral presentations were selected and distributed over parallel topical sessions. The other contributed papers (743) were presented as posters. The conference was attended by more than 700 participants from 41 countries. A major event during the conference was the award of the Hannes Alfv\'en Prize to Professor V E Fortov who gave a spectacular lecture on non-ideal plasmas. The associated paper is included in this special issue.Following the tradition of this conference series, four-page summaries of the contributed papers are published as the Europhysics Conference Abstracts series, volume 27A. 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://www.ioffe.ru/EPS2003/.This special issue of Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion contains papers of the invited talks at this conference. These papers have been assessed according to the standards of the journal and examined by referees selected from or by the members of the International Programme Committee.We are proud to provide, in this special issue, an overview of the forefront research in all major fields of plasma physics, through a set of papers accessible to the general audience of plasma physicists. The selection of this set of papers has been the work of the Programme Committee, and we would like to express our gratitude to all of its members for this successful selection. We are grateful to all authors for their efforts in providing high quality papers combining didactic introductions and accurate reports on recent developments in their field, a combination not always easy to realize. We would also like to thank all authors and referees for doing their work in due time, despite occasional short notice. Finally, we would also like to thank Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion for the continuing support of this conference series.
第30届欧洲物理学会受控聚变与等离子体物理会议于2003年7月7日至11日在俄罗斯联邦圣彼得堡举行。本次会议由约费物理技术研究所、圣彼得堡国立理工大学及应用物理技术大学联合主办，代表欧洲物理学会等离子体物理分部。地方组织委员会成员来自以下机构：B·库捷耶夫（主席，理工大学）、S·列别杰夫（副主席，约费研究所）、A·列别杰夫（科学秘书，约费研究所）、V·巴哈列夫（TUAP有限公司）、V·格里戈良茨（约费研究所）、V·谢尔盖耶夫（理工大学）、N·朱布尔（约费研究所）。多年来，欧洲物理学会等离子体物理分部的年度会议不断拓宽其范围。本届会议的投稿涵盖了等离子体物理的广泛领域，从磁约束聚变和惯性约束聚变到低温等离子体。所研究的等离子体尺度从微小到天文尺度不等。会议议题按以下类别分布：托卡马克、仿星器、高功率激光产生等离子体与惯性约束聚变、交替磁约束、等离子体边界物理、等离子体加热与电流驱动、诊断、基础等离子体物理、天体物理与地球物理等离子体以及低温等离子体。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项目委员会负责。委员会成员如下：R·科赫（主席，布鲁塞尔ERM/KMS，比利时）、E·阿斯卡西瓦尔（马德里CIEMAT，西班牙）、S·阿采尼（罗马大学，意大利）、G·邦帕（南锡LPMI，法国）、C·基乌代里（佛罗伦萨大学，意大利）、B·库捷耶夫（圣彼得堡国立理工大学，俄罗斯联邦）、M·莫埃尔（纽约哥伦比亚大学APS-DPS，美国）、R·A·皮茨（洛桑EPFL/CRPP，瑞士）、R·萨洛马（赫尔辛基大学，芬兰）、B·沙尔科夫（莫斯科ITEP，俄罗斯联邦）、V·斯米尔诺夫（莫斯科库尔恰托夫研究所，俄罗斯联邦）、W·祖特罗普（加兴IPP，德国）、C·瓦兰达斯（里斯本IST，葡萄牙）、F·瓦格纳（加兴IPP，德国）、H·R·威尔逊（阿宾登UKAEA，英国）。该委员会选出了30篇特邀报告，要求报告人面向等离子体物理学家的一般听众，并发挥其教学才能。在投稿的 contributed papers 中，共选出92篇口头报告，分布在并行专题会议上。其余743篇 contributed papers 以海报形式展示。会议吸引了来自41个国家的700多名参与者。会议期间的一项重要活动是向V·E·福尔托夫教授颁发汉内斯·阿尔文奖，他随后就非理想等离子体作了精彩报告。相关论文收录于本特刊。遵循本会议系列的传统，contributed papers 的四页摘要以《欧洲物理学会会议摘要》系列第27卷的形式出版。该出版物以CD-ROM形式免费发放给所有参与者，也可通过网站 http://www.ioffe.ru/EPS2003/ 访问。本特刊《等离子体物理与受控聚变》收录了本次会议特邀报告的文章。这些文章按照期刊标准进行了评估，并由国际项目委员会选定或提名的审稿人审阅。我们很自豪能在本特刊中为等离子体物理所有主要领域的广大读者提供前沿研究的概览。这些论文的遴选是项目委员会的工作成果，我们感谢全体委员为这次成功的遴选所作出的贡献。我们感谢所有作者为提供高质量论文所作的努力，这些论文兼具教学性导论和对该领域最新进展的准确报道，这种结合并不总是容易实现。我们还要感谢所有作者和审稿人在有时通知时间紧迫的情况下仍按时完成了工作。最后，我们感谢《等离子体物理与受控聚变》对本会议系列的持续支持。