18^th International Symposium on Heavy Ion Inertial Fusion

August 30 – September 3, 2010
Darmstadt, Germany

First Announcement

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to participate in the 18th International Symposium on Heavy Ion Inertial Fusion to be held in Darmstadt, Germany, August 30 – September 3, 2010.

Previous symposia in this series have been held at intervals of about two years, starting in Berkeley, California, in 1976. The most recent ones were in Princeton, USA, in 2004, Saint-Malo, France, in 2006 and Tokyo, Japan, in 2008. Currently we are on the eve of seeing a fusion target ignited on a laboratory scale at the National Ignition Facility in Livermore. Therefore it is timely to discuss efficient drivers with high repetition capability. It is the traditional role of this series of symposia to provide a forum among experts in the fields of heavy ion drivers, beam physics, target design, fusion chambers, dense plasmas, lasers and their interactions with matter, and inertial fusion power systems. The goal is to stimulate further progress toward Inertial Fusion Energy production and basic understanding of associated science and technologies. Heavy-ion accelerators are promising candidate drivers for energy production due to their high repetition rate and efficiency. This applies both to the RF linac and storage ring scheme pursued in Europe and Japan and the induction linac explored by the US community. Also in this symposium we will discuss properties of Warm Dense Matter and High Energy Density Physics issues. Since TU Darmstadt and GSI-Darmstadt are co-hosts of the symposium some emphasis is given to production of strongly coupled and warm dense matter with ion and laser beams.

Topics:

• Summaries of Heavy-Ion Inertial Fusion and other ICF programs
• Accelerators, beam dynamics, beam transport and focusing
• Laser produced intense particle beams
• Atomic physics, beam-plasma interactions
• Target technology and reaction chamber studies
• Properties of dense, strongly coupled plasmas, Warm Dense Matter , High Energy Density physics: Theory, Experiment and advanced diagnostic techniques
• System studies

The website for electronic registration will be open during the next days. More detailed information on scientific topics and the conference organization of HIF 2010 will be available under the following webpage which will continuously be updated: HIF 2010

Important Deadlines:

• Early registration: June 30, 2010 (reduced fee 150,00 EUR)
  Regular registration fee: 200,00 EUR
• Abstract submission: June 30, 2010