Welcome to HIF2018

22^nd International Symposium on Heavy Ion Fusion and Beam-Driven High Energy Density Science

Aug 20-24, 2018, Yousung Hotel, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

We are pleased to invite you to participate in the 22nd International Symposium on Heavy Ion Inertial Fusion and Beam-Driven High Energy Density Science (HIF2018), to be held in Daejeon from 19 th to 24 th of August in 2018, organized by a team of 3 institutes (KAIST, IBS/CAPP, and UNIST). This symposium continues the series of workshops and symposia that began in Berkeley in 1976. The most recent symposia occurred in Astana, Kazakhstan (2016), Lanzhou, China (2014), Berkeley, USA (2012), Darmstadt, Germany (2010), Tokyo, Japan (2008), Saint-Malo, France (2006), and Princeton, New Jersey, USA (2004).

The purpose of the symposium is to review the status accelerator driven High Energy Density Physics with emphasis on heavy ion fusion (HIF) research. This symposium is intended to stimulate further progress in understanding inertial fusion energy production and the science and technology needed for its implementation.

Heavy-ion accelerators are promising candidate drivers for energy production due to their high repetition rate and high efficiency. An emphasis will be also given to the ongoing accelerator and laser projects worldwide.

Topics of HIF2018 will cover:

• Heavy-Ion Inertial Fusion, Inertial Fusion Energy, Laser Fusion and related topics
• Properties of Warm Dense Matter: Theory, experiments, and advanced diagnostic techniques
• Ion sources and high power accelerators, Pulsed Power (pulsed energy)
• Fusion target physics, Hydrodynamic instabilities
• Beam-plasma interactions, Atomic processes in plasma, laser plasma interactions
• Applications of ICF
• Nuclear Science
• Dark Energy and Dark Matter research
• Heavy ion stopping
• Others

Official Email: hif2018@kaist.ac.kr

Organization Committee

• Chair: Dieter Hoffmann, GSI
• Co-chair: Hong Jin Kong, KAIST
• Co-chair: Yannis Semertzidis, KAIST, IBS/CAPP
• Secretariat General: Moses Chung, UNIST

Local Organization Committee

• Ky Kim, KAERI/KOMAC
• Eun-San Kim, Korea University (Sejong)
• Mi-Sook Won, KBSI
• Byung-Joon Lee, PAL
• Hae-June Lee, Pusan National University
• Dong-O Jeon, IBS/RISP
• Byoung-Ick Cho, GIST
• Hyun-Kyung Chung, GIST

International Advisory Committee

D. Hoffmann (GSI, Chairman),

Y. Zhao (Jiaotong University), P. Spiller (GSI), P. Seidl (LBNL),

T. Schenkel (LBNL), J. Barnard (LLNL), A. Hassanein (Purdue University), B. Cauble (LLNL),

I. Kaganovich (PPPL), J. Hasegawa, (TIT), S. Kawata (Utsunomiya University),

G. Remnev (Tomsk Polytechnic University), B. Sharkov, A. Golubev (Kurchatov Institute),

K. Baigarin (Nazarbayev University), J. Kwan (LBNL), A. Tikhonov (Nazarbayev University)