Topics

• Nuclear Structure and Superheavy Elements
• Astrophysics and Nuclear Astrophysics
• The Nuclear Equation-of-State and Phase Transitions
• Collective Flow and Fluctuations
• Hadrons in Dense Nuclear Matter
• The Quark Gluon Plasma
• Exotic Hadronic States with Strangeness and Charm
• Atomic Physics and Supercritical Fields
• Plasma Physics
• Accelerator Physics and Applications on Heavy Ion Beams

During the symposium the

Colloquium on the Occasion of the 100th Birthday of Christoph Schmelzer
by Theodor W. Hänsch

and the

Awarding of the Lise-Meitner-Prize of the European Physical Society
to Reinhard Stock and Walter Greiner

will take place.

The ISHIP2008 is organized and sponsored by the Helmholtz International Center for FAIR (HIC for FAIR), the Helmholtz Alliance "Cosmic Matter in the Laboratory" (EMMI), the Helmholtz Graduate School for Hadron and Ion Research (HGS-HIRe) and GSI.