Conference topics
1. Nuclear Fusion (NF)
- Magnetic confinement fusion
- Inertial confinement fusion
- Alternative/Novel Concepts
2. Fundamental Plasma (FP)
- Waves, Instabilities, Turbulence, Transport, Nonlinear Dynamics, Kinetic Theory
3. Space and Astrophysical Plasmas (SAP)
- Solar, Heliosphere, ionosphere, magnetosphere and astrophysical systems
4. Laser Plasma Interaction (LPI)
- Ultra Intense laser plasma interaction
- High energy Density Plasma (HEDP), warm dense matter
- Laboratory Astrophysics – scaled experiments
5. Plasma Based Particle Acceleration (PBPA)
- Laser wakefield and beam driven acceleration
- Radiation sources
6. Low temperature & Applied plasmas (LAP)
- Industrial plasmas, plasma Processing, Atmospheric plasmas.
- Plasma medicine, Agriculture, Environmental applications
7. Complex and Strongly Coupled Plasmas (CSCP)
- Dusty plasmas, Coulomb systems, Soft matter analogues
- Quantum plasma, Yang Mills and QCD plasmas.
8. Plasma Diagnostics and Devices (PDD)
- Plasma Diagnostics
- Space propulsion
- MHD power generation
- Plasma Photonics and metamaterials
Most themes above rely on advanced computational methods (PIC, fluid, hybrid, molecular dynamics) and increasingly on AI/ML techniques. Contributions employing or developing such approaches across these areas are highly encouraged.
Papers submitted to the conference may be published in a special edition of Plasma Physics & Control Fusion (PPCF), subject to the PPCF review process.
Scientific program
Nominations for Plenary and Invited Speakers
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Plenary speakers (To be Expanded)
| Paul M Bellan | Caltech Division of Engineering and Applied Science | Fundamental Plasma |
| Gianluca Gregori | University of Oxford | Laser Plasma Interaction |
| Anil Bhardwaj | Physical Research Laboratory | Space and Astrophysical Plasmas |
| Chandrashekhar Joshi | University of California | Plasma Based Particle Accelerators |
| Dustin Froula | University of Rochester | Nuclear Fusion |
| Jochen Schein | Bundeswehr University Munich | Plasma Diagnostics and Devices |
| Mahendra Verma | Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur | Complex and Strongly Coupled Plasmas |
| Abhijit Sen | Institute for Plasma Research | Fundamental Plasma |
| Victor Malka | Extreme Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) | Plasma Based Particle Acceleration |
| Dimitri Batani | University of Bordeaux | Laser Plasma Interaction |
| Edward Thomas Jr. | College of Science and Mathematics (COSAM) | Complex and Strongly Coupled Plasmas |
| Takeshi Matsumoto | Division of Physics and Astronomy, Kyoto University | Fundamental Plasma |
| Tomo-Hiko Watanabe | Department of Physics, Nagoya University | Nuclear Fusion |
| Wim Leemans | Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) | Plasma Based Particle Accelerators |
| Carolyn Kuranz | University of Michigan | Fundamental Plasma |
| Nam Chang Hee | Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology | Laser Plasma Interaction |
| Carter Troy A | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Nuclear Fusion |
| Dominique Escande | Aix-Marseille Université | Fundamental Plasma |
| Cary Forest | University of Wisconsin | Nuclear Fusion |
| Amitava Bhattacharjee | Princeton University | Fundamental Plasma |
Invited speakers (To be Expanded)
| Alexander Yashin | Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) | |
| Alika Khare | IIT GUWAHATI | |
| Allard Jan van Marle | Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | |
| Amar Misra | Visva-Bharati University | |
| Amit Seta | Australian National University | |
| Animesh Kuley | Indian Institute of Science Bangalore | |
| Arnab Choudhuri | Indian Institute of Science | |
| Bhooshan Paradkar | UM-DAE CEBS, Mumbai | |
| Christian Hopf | Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics | |
| Chuang Ren | University of Rochester | |
| Daniele Margarone | Extreme Light Infrastructure | |
| Diego Del-Castillo-Negrete | University of Texas at Austin | |
| Elizabeth Kautz | North Carolina State University | |
| Emmanuel d'Humieres | Univ. Bordeaux | |
| Eric ROBERT | CNRS | |
| Evgeniy Gusakov | Ioffe Institute | |
| Fulvio Militello | UKAEA | |
| Gabriele Cristoforetti | Istituto Nazionale di Ottica - CNR | |
| Geert Verdoolaege | Ghent University | |
| Hideaki Habara | Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Osaka | |
| Hiroshi Sawada | University of Nevada Reno | |
| Hiroshi Tanabe | University of Tokyo | |
| Hyyong Suk | Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology | |
| Ishay Pomerantz | Tel-Aviv University | |
| John Goree | University of Iowa, USA | |
| Jonathan Graves | Swiss Plasma Centre, EPFL | |
| Julio J Martinell | Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico | |
| Kai Huang | National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology | |
| Kai Masur | INP Greifswald | |
| Keisuke Shigemori | Institute of Laser Engineering, The University of Osaka | |
| Ken McClements | UKAEA | |
| Khare Avinash | Department of Physics and Astrophysics University of Delhi | |
| Kieran Joseph McCarthy | Ciemat | |
| Marie-Christine Firpo | CNRS | |
| Mark Eric Dieckmann | Linkoping University | |
| Masahiro Hoshino | University of Tokyo | |
| Matthew Hole | Australian National University | |
| Maya Padivattathumana | IRFM, CEA | |
| MinSup Hur | UNIST | |
| Mohammad Tayyab | RRCAT | |
| Murthy Gudipati | California Institute of Technology | |
| Naveen Kumar | Heidelberg University | |
| Neeraj Jain | He3Lumina/TU Berlin | |
| Nicolas CLAIRE | Aix-Marseille University | |
| Nilakshi Das | Tezpur University | |
| Nishant Sirse | Centre for Scientific and Applied Research, IPS Academy | |
| Paul Terry | University of Wisconsin-Madison | |
| Peter Norreys | University of Oxford | |
| Peter Yoon | University of Maryland | |
| Prakriti Pal Choudhury | University of Oxford | |
| Prof. Ram Prasad Prajapati | JNU New Delhi | |
| R. Mohan Sankaran | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | |
| Rameswar Singh | UCSD | |
| Richard Sydora | University of Alberta, Canada | |
| Rodion Stepanov | Russian Academy of Sciences | |
| Sadayoshi Murakami | Kyoto University | |
| Saikat Chakraborty Thakur | Auburn University | |
| Santanu Banerjee | Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory | |
| Sarveshwar Sharma | Institute for Plasma Research | |
| Sharad Yadav | Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology Surat | |
| Srikumar Ghorui | Bhabha Atomic Research Centre | |
| Subir Sarkar | University of Oxford | |
| Subrata Pradhan | SPiZ NFusE Pvt Ltd | |
| Sudip Sengupta | Institute For Plasma Research | |
| Surabhi Jaiswal | University of Nevada Reno | |
| Suraj Kumar Sinha | Pondicherry University | |
| Sushil Kumar Singh | Institute of Plasma Physics, Prague, Czech Republic | |
| Swati Baruah | Rabindranath Thakur Vishwavidyalaya, Hojai-782436, Assam | |
| TAKAYUKI OHTA | Meijo university | |
| Tito Mendonca | Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa | |
| Tomohiro Morisaki | National Institute for Fusion Science | |
| Uddhab Chaulagain | Extreme Light Infrastructure | |
| Vijay Kumar Rangari | Tusekgee University | |
| Vikrant Saxena | IIT Delhi | |
| Vineet Singh Sikarwar | Institute of Plasma Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences | |
| Vipin Kumar Yadav | SPL/VSSC/ISRO | |
| Vladimir Kocharovsky | IAP RAS | |
| Vladimir Lipp | European XFEL | |
| Yakov Krasik | Physics Department | |
| Hogun Jhang | Korea Institute of Fusion Energy |
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