Preface: Contrib. Plasma Phys. 10/2009

The XIII International Conference on Physics of Non‐Ideal Plasmas was held in Chernogolovka, Russia, from September 13–18, 2009. The Conference continues a traditional series of meetings devoted to new theoretical and experimental results on the physics of dense non‐plasmas: Martzlow‐Garwitz, 1980; Wustrow, 1982; Biesenthal, 1984; Greifswald, 1986; Wustrow, 1988; Gosen, 1991; Markgrafenheide, 1993; Binz, 1995; Rostock, 1998; Greifswald, 2000; Valencia, 2003; Darmstadt, 2006. The results of these Conferences have been published in the journal “Contributions to Plasma Physics”. We thank the Editors to give also for the present Conference the possibility for publication of new results in the physics of non‐ideal plasmas. The following questions are covered: statistical physics and mathematical modeling (including simulation) of strongly coupled Coulomb systems, equilibrium properties and equation of state of dense plasmas, kinetics, transport and optical properties of dense Coulomb systems, dense hydrogen, laser and heavy‐ion‐produced plasmas, dense astrophysical plasmas, phase transitions in plasmas and fluids, dusty plasmas. More than 150 contributions were submitted and the program committee chose 5 papers to be presented as invited topical lectures and 43 papers to be presented as oral lectures. In additions, 10 oral presentations were presented on a young scientists special session and 61 posters were presented in two poster sessions. We were pleased to welcome 110 participants from 47 scientific organizations representing 16 countries in Chernogolovka at the conference. The articles in this issue are based on the talks at the PNP13 conference providing original research results. All articles have undergone a strict anonymous scientific review by experts in the field assuring a high quality of this issue. We thank to all colleagues who contributed to this issue as an author, but also as a referee. Finally, we would like to thank the sponsors for the generous support of the conference. The Editors Chernogolovka, Rostock, November 2009