Deadlines

Abstract submission 15 April 2012

Final programme 20 June 2012

Early registration 1 July 2012

Important dates

Welcome reception in Steigenberger Hotel Sonne:
9 September 2012, 6 pm

Conference starts 10 September 2012, 9 am

Conference ends 14 September 2012, 1 pm

Topics

Statistical physics and ab-initio simulations

Producing non-ideal plasmas (optical lasers, free electron lasers, heavy-ion beams,
Z machine, high explosives etc.)

Diagnostics of non-ideal plasmas (e.g. x-ray scattering, line shapes, stopping power, emission and absorption)

Equilibrium properties, EOS, and phase transitions

Kinetics, transport and optical properties

Dense astrophysical and ICF plasmas

Ultra-intense laser-matter interaction

Dusty plasmas

Invited keynote speakers

D.M. Ceperley (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

R. Falcone (UC Berkeley)

J.J. Fortney (UC Santa Cruz)

V.E. Fortov (RAS, Moscow)

D.O. Gericke (U Warwick)

S.H. Glenzer (LLNL, Livermore)

J. Goree (U Iowa, Iowa City)

C.H. Keitel (MPI Kernphysik, Heidelberg)

T. Killian (Rice University, Houston)

M.D. Knudson (SNL, Albuquerque)

M. Koenig (LULI-CNRS, Paris)

A. Ng (U British Columbia, Vancouver)

T. Sano (U Osaka)

Ping Zhang (Beijing)