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Goals and Objectives

The goal of the project

The goal of the project is to create a world-class interdisciplinary laboratory for solving a wide range of fundamental, applied, and engineering problems using high performance computing technologies. The main attention will be paid to the development of software tools and the research with their help of the processes of radiation, propagation, detection, and transformation of electromagnetic waves in various media, taking into account ionization, collisional, and radiative effects. At the same time, the developed models may find spin-off applications in nearby fields of knowledge that deal with physics of many-body systems.

The main objectives of the project

The main objectives of the project are:
1. Development of computational software complexes, numerical models, and algorithms for solving fundamental, applied, and engineering problems using high performance computing technologies.
2. Numerical simulations of the most important problems in nonlinear optics, plasma physics, astrophysics, nuclear and atomic physics, etc.
3. During the project funding period, we plan to study:

3.1. Innovative communication systems;
3.2. Matter in extremely strong electromagnetic fields including radiative and quantum processes;
3.3. Properties of vacuum in extremely strong electromagnetic fields including vacuum breakdown with creation of matter-antimatter and nonlinear optics of vacuum;
3.4. Advanced Fast Ignition schemes for Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF);
3.5. Plasma based particle acceleration;
3.6. Laser-plasma sources of electromagnetic radiation in parts of spectra which are difficult to access, including bright sources of Terahertz (THz) radiation, x-rays and gamma-sources.
3.7. Nanostructured metamaterials for nonlinear optics and spectroscopy, relativistic nanoplasmonics;
3.8. Interaction of ultra-short ionizing laser pulses with different media with respect to a) ionization-induced conversion of laser spectra; b) molecular and atomic dynamics in strong laser fields;
3.9. Dynamics of plasma and radiation near neutron stars;
3.10. Radiation generation by particles at a shock wave front; particle acceleration in active galaxy nuclei, micro quasars and gamma-ray bursts.

4. Establish a powerful computing center consisting of a high performance computing (HPC) cluster based on a multi-core massively parallel universal CPU (central processing units), a computational system based on GPU (graphics processing units) and a few high-end workstations for data postprocessing.