8^th International Conference
on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas

May 20–25, 2017, Prague, Czech Republic

Special Issue of Planetary and Space Science (vol. 156, Jul 2018) published!

Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science (vol. 46, no. 4, part 1, Apr 2018) published!

AIP Conference Proceedings (vol. 1925, Jan 2018) published!

	We once more congratulate to all awarded: Best STUDENT Poster Awards: Victoria E. Lofstad, Vladislav S. Nikolaev, Sandeep Kumar, Young Investigator Awards: Xeniya Koss, Lenaic Couedel, Stardust Award: Hubertus M. Thomas.
We are happy to announce that: — next, 9thICPDP venue is Space Research Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia, May/June 2020 (LOC chairman: V. Fortov; Vice-chairmen: L. Zelenyi and S. Popel), — new International Advisory Committee chairman is Hubertus M. Thomas.
We hope we will meet you again at one of the upcoming meetings:
5th International Conference “Dusty plasmas in applications” August 25–30, 2017 Odessa, Ukraine	15th Workshop on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas May 29–June 1, 2018 Baltimore, Maryland, USA

The list of confirmed speakers

Keynote lectures: A. Czechowski (Polish Academy of Sciences), E. Thomas Jr. (Auburn University), F. Greiner (University Kiel), F. Verheest (University of Gent), G. E. Morfill (MPI for Extraterresstrial Physics, Garching), H. Thomas (DLR)

Solicited talks: H. Löwen (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf), Cheng-Ran Du (College of Science, Donghua University, Shanghai), J. Williams (Wittenberg University), K.-B. Chai (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute), M. Himpel (University Greifswald), O. Petrov (Russian Academy of Sciences), P. Tolias (Roayl Institute of Technology, Stockholm), S. Barbosa (Aix-Marseille université, IUSTI), S. Popel (Russian Academy of Sciences), W. J. Miloch (Uni Oslo, The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences), Y. Saitou (Utsunomiya University), J. R. Szalay (Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas), J. Goree (University of Iowa)

About ICPDP

The history of ICPDP started in 1996 in Goa (India) as a response to growing interest in the topics of dusty plasmas, when the liquid and crystalline plasma was discovered. We continue a series of International Conferences on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas which take place every three years at different locations around the world (Goa, India 1996; Hakone, Japan 1999; Durban, South Africa 2002; Orleans, France 2005; Azores, Portugal 2008, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany 2011, New Delhi, India 2014). The conference provides a unique opportunity for disseminating the present status of dusty plasma physics worldwide and especially to young researchers.

Eight ICPDP conference is hosted by Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics. Being closely connected with the city development throughout the ages, the university and also the faculty is scattered all around the city. Physics research at the faculty is concentred in two places — one of them being located in the north part of the city, quite close to the event center. You will have the opportunity to see our labs there during excursions.

The meeting will be held in the conference center of Hotel DUO which is located in the Prague's northern suburbs. It's located close to the metro station Střížkov that can take you to the center of the city within 15 minutes.