The scientific programme will include invited lectures, oral and poster presentations, and discussions on the following topics:

1. Electrical and optical discharges, near-electrode processes
(plasma accelerators; arc, spark, barrier, surface, and glow discharges; high-frequency, pulsed and laser sources of plasma)

2. Transporting, optical, and thermodynamic properties of plasma; plasma dynamics in electromagnetic fields of various configurations

3. Methods and instrumentation for plasma diagnostics (emission and absorption spectroscopy; intracavity laser spectroscopy; optical, interferometric, probe, and other methods)

4. Interaction of concentrated energy fluxes with a surface
(modification of surface properties of materials and coatings by electromagnetic radiation, cathode and ion beams; plasma treatment of materials; plasma deposition of coatings)

5. Plasma in nanotechnology (synthesis of nanoscale structures and fullerenes; formation of surface structures)

6. Plasma applications (in engineering industry, microelectronics, plasma chemistry, ecology, biomedicine, and in other areas)

7. Non-ideal and dusty plasma, clusters

The working languages of the Conference are English and Russian.

School for young scientists
Organized within the framework of the Conference programme will be the school for young scientists (under 30 years), offering a series of lectures on priority directions in plasma physics.