Basics of Plasma Physics -- Nuclear Fusion -- Magnetic Confinement -- Plasma Diagnostics -- The Universe - A World of Plasma -- Waves in Plasmas -- Collisional and Turbulent Transport -- Fluctuations in Plasma -- Physics of Ion Traps -- Non-Neutral Plasmas -- High-Accuracy Experiments with Ion Traps -- Laboratory Class -- Energy for the 21st Century -- Research on Modern Gas Discharge Light Sources -- Low-Temperature Physics -- Computational Plasma Physics -- Plasmas in Planetary Interiors -- An Introduction to Strongly Coupled Plasmas -- Collective Effects in Dusty Plasmas.

"Plasma Physics: Confinement, Transport and Collective Effects" provides an overview of modern plasma research with special focus on confinement and related issues. Beginning with a broad introduction, the book leads graduate students and researchers – also those from related fields - to an understanding of the state-of-the-art in modern plasma physics. Furthermore, it presents a methodological cross section ranging from plasma applications and plasma diagnostics to numerical simulations, the latter providing an increasingly important link between theory and experiment. Effective references guide the reader from introductory texts through to contemporary research. Some related exercises in computational plasma physics are supplied on a special web site.