The Advanced Study Institute on Strongly Coupled Plasmas was held on the campus of the Universite d'Orleans, Orleans-la-Source, France, from July 6th through July 23rd, 1977. 15 invited lecturers and 50 other participants attended the Institute. The present Volume contains the texts of most of the lectures and of some of the numerous seminars presented at the Institute. The topic of strongly coupled coulomb-systems has been an area of vigorous activities over the last few years. Such systems occur in a great variety of physical situations: stellar and planetary interiors, solid and liquid metals, semiconductors, laser compressed plasmas and gas discharges are some of the most important examples. All these systems have the common feature that for one or more of their constituent charged particle liquids the potential energy to kinetic energy ratio is not small, and therefore the application of the traditional plasma perturbation techniques is not feasible. Many ingenious theoretical schemes have been worked out in order to attack both the related equilibrium and nonequilibrium problems, and also various methods have been borrowed from areas where problems not dissimilar to the ones arising in coulomb-systems had already been tackled. At the same time, computer simulations have led to a probably unparalleled accumulation of data on the behavior of an ensemble of classical charged particles. For the first time, the Institute assembled workers from various disciplines who had been involved with diverse aspects of the strongly coupled plasma problem. Front Matter....Pages i-xi Microscopic Kinetic Theory of Fluids....Pages 1-57 Perturbative and Non-Perturbative Methods for Quantum and Classical Plasmas....Pages 59-80 Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics of Strongly Coupled Plasmas by Numerical Simulation....Pages 81-115 Computer Simulation of Collective Modes and Transport Coefficients of Strongly Coupled Plasmas....Pages 117-140 Methods and Approximations for Strongly Coupled Plasmas....Pages 141-185 Theoretical Approaches to Strongly Coupled Plasmas....Pages 187-222 Generalized Response Function Approach to Strongly Coupled Plasmas....Pages 223-258 Dynamic Behavior of Electrons in Metals....Pages 259-278 Microscopic Theory of Time Dependent Fluctuations in Coulomb Systems....Pages 279-312 Nodal Expansion For Strongly Coupled Classical Plasmas....Pages 313-346 Selected Topics on the Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics of Coulomb Systems....Pages 347-406 Strongly Correlated Plasmas and Astrophysics....Pages 407-425 The Status of Laser Fusion....Pages 427-477 Electron Transport in a Spherically Symmetric Plasma....Pages 479-498 Computer Experiments in One-Dimensional Plasmas....Pages 499-529 Front Matter....Pages 531-531 Configuration Space Formulation and Implications for Approximation Schemes for Strongly Coupled Plasmas....Pages 533-545 Strong Laser Plasma Coupling....Pages 547-556 Asymptotic Behavior of the Correlation Function of Dense Plasmas....Pages 557-585 Some Equilibrium Properties of the 2D Strongly Coupled OCP....Pages 587-595 Group Transformation for Phase Space Fluids....Pages 597-641 Front Matter....Pages 531-531 Equation of State of Reacting Strongly Coupled Plasmas....Pages 643-652 Back Matter....Pages 653-656 Microscopic Kinetic Theory of Fluids Perturbative and Non-Perturbative Methods for Quantum and Classical Plasmas Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics of Strongly Coupled Plasmas by Numerical Simulation Computer Simulation of Collective Modes and Transport Coefficients of Strongly Coupled Plasmas Methods and Approximations for Strongly Coupled Plasmas Theoretical Approaches to Strongly Coupled Plasmas Generalized Response Function Approach to Strongly Coupled Plasmas Dynamic Behavior of Electrons in Metals Microscopic Theory of Time Dependent Fluctuations Nodal Expansion for Strongly Coupled Plasmas Selected Topics on the Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics of Coulomb Systems Strongly Correlated Plasmas and Astrophysics The Status of Laser Fusion Electron Transport in a Spherically Symmetric Plasma Computer Experiments in One-Dimensional Plasmas Seminars Configuration Space Formulation and Implications for Approximation Schemes for Strongly Coupled Plasmas Strong Laser Plasma Coupling Asymptotic Behavior of the Correlation Function of Dense Plasmas Some Equilibrium Properties of the 2D Strongly Coupled Plasma Group Transformation for Phase Space Fluids Equation of State of Reacting Strongly Coupled Plasmas.
