The Fifth International Conference on Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications (IFSA2007) will be held at the , International Conference Center Kobe (ICCK)Kobe Japan, September 9-14, 2007. The goal of IFSA2007 is to bring together scientists in the fields of inertial fusion sciences, high energy density physics, and applications. Submitted papers will be peer reviewed and the proceeding of the conference will be published.

The IFSA 2007 will be chaired by Kunioki Mima (ILE), Christine Labaune, (ILP), and John Lindl (LLNL). Organizing Chairs are Kazuo A. Tanaka (GSE/ILE), and Robert Kauffman (LLNL), and Sylvie Jacquemot (LULI). The Technical Program Committee is co-chaired by Hiroshi Azechi (ILE), Bruce Hammel, (LLNL), and Jean-Claude Gauthier (CELIA).

In recent years, significant advances have been made in high energy density science with the dramatic technical achievements in laser, Z and particle beam systems such as in fast ignition, central hot spot ignition, equation of states, warm dense matter, particle acceleration and laser plasma interactions. Ignition and subsequent high gain target experiments will be within our scope since the construction of large scale national projects are on schedule such as the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in U.S.A. and Laser Megajoule in France projects as soon as 2010. In order to secure the ignition parameter window, intensive studies have been continued on laser plasma interactions, shock wave control, target fabrication, and laser pulse shaping.

Second generation PW laser systems have been constructed in Japan, Europe and U.S.A. to study the heating of compressed cores based on the “fast ignition” concept such as LFEX (FIREX) in Japan, OMEGA-EP in U.S.A. and Vulcan PW in UK. These scientific proofs will yield important physics understanding t in order to achieve IFE as a commercial energy source.

The scheme of fast ignition and development of high intensity lasers have opened a new field of relativistic laser-plasma interactions. The extreme states achieved in these laser-plasma interactions will continue contributing to science and industrial applications such as high-intensity x-ray applications, material processing, novel accelerators and laboratory astrophysics.

The first IFSA was held at University Bordeaux, France in 1999 supported by outstanding participation of more than 350 scientists and engineers from 19 countries. In 2001 second IFSA Conference was held by ILE, Osaka University. The program included both inertial fusion science (theory, experiments and computer simulations) and technological applications such as IFE. The survey indicated that the participants liked the mixture of science and technology as well as the high quality and technical content of the presentations.
IFSA2007 will emphasize high energy and high-intensity laser, pulsed power, particle beam interactions with matter, and high energy density physics. The following is the category, which will include theory, modeling and experimental results from high intensity experimental facilities such as NIF, Z, Omega, Titan, Hercules, LULI lasers, heavy ion facilities and other university laboratories.