The winner of the 2020 TPS Best Paper Award has been selected (please refer to our TPS home page for details about the award at https://ieee-npss.org/publications/transactions-on-plasma-science/ ). This year is the second year that the award is being given, and I am pleased to announce that Prof. Chandrashekhar Joshi, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA, is the winner for his article “Laser-driven plasma accelerators operating in the self- guided, blowout regime.” This article appeared in IEEE TPS, vol. 45, pp. 3134–3146, in December 2017. The award plaque, certificate, and cheque will be presented to Prof. Joshi at an upcoming International Conference on Plasma Science in South Lake Tahoe, CA, USA, in June 2021. This is an open-access article and is freely available to our readers. Congratulations to Prof. Chan Joshi on this accomplishment.

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社论—宣布 2020 年 TPS 最佳论文奖

2020 年 TPS 最佳论文奖的获奖者已经选出（有关该奖项的详细信息，请参阅我们的 TPS 主页 https://ieee-npss.org/publications/transactions-on-plasma-science/）。今年是该奖项颁发的第二年，我很高兴地宣布，美国加利福尼亚州洛杉矶市加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校电气与计算机工程系的 Chandrashekhar Joshi 教授获得了以下奖项：他的文章“激光驱动的等离子体加速器在自导、井喷状态下运行”。这篇文章出现在 IEEE TPS, vol. 45，pp. 3134–3146，2017 年 12 月。奖牌、证书和支票将于 2021 年 6 月在美国加利福尼亚州南太浩湖即将举行的国际等离子体科学会议上颁发给 Joshi 教授。这是一篇开放获取的文章，我们的读者可以免费获得。祝贺 Chan Joshi 教授取得这一成就。