8^th International Conference
on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas

May 20–25, 2017, Prague, Czech Republic

Scientific Advisory Committee

• Khare Avinash — chairman (Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi, India)
• Ramesh Bharuthram (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)
• Robert Bingham (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK)
• Laifa Boufendi (Plasma Poudreux (GREMI), CNRS/Université Orléans, France)
• Luis Conde (Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Aeronáutica y del Espacio, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
• Vladimir Fortov (Joint Institute for High Temperatures of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)
• John Goree (Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Iowa, USA)
• Mihály Horányi (Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics & Department of Physics, University of Colorado, USA)
• Lin I (Department of Physics, National Central University, Taiwan)
• Osamu Ishihara (Chubu University, Kasugai, Japan)
• Sergei Krasheninnikov (University of California San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering, San Diego, USA)
• Giovanni Lapenta (Departement Wiskunde, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
• Jinxiu Ma (Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China)
• Asoka Mendis (University of California San Diego, USA)
• Tito Mendonca (IPFN, Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal)
• Gregor Morfill (terraplasma GmbH, Garching, Germany)
• Asta Pellinen Wannberg (Department of Physics, Umeå University & Swedish Institute of Space Physics , Sweden)
• David Resendes (Department of Physics, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal)
• Marlene Rosenberg (University of California San Diego, USA)
• Jana Šafránková (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
• Abhijit Sen (Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar, India)
• Lennart Stenflo (Department of Physics, Linkoping University, Sweden)
• Edward Thomas Jr. (Physics Department, Auburn University, USA)
• Hubertus Thomas (Research Group on Complex Plasmas, DLR German Aerospace Center, Weßling, Germany)
• Frank Verheest (Sterrenkundig Observatorium, Universiteit Gent, Belgium)
• Anatoly Zagorodny (Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev, Ukraine)

Scientific Program Committee

• Cecile Arnas (CNRS (National Center of Scientific Research), Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France)
• Yasuaki Hayashi (Department of Electronics, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan)
• Gerrit Kroesen (Department of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
• Ingrid Mann (Faculty of Science and Technology, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway)
• Lorin Mathews (Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics, and Engineering Research, Baylor University, Waco, USA)
• André Melzer (Institute of Physics, University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany)
• Robert L. Merlino (University of Iowa, USA)
• Jan Mlynar (Institute of Plasma Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)
• Zdeněk Němeček — chairman (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
• Vladimir Nosenko (Research Group on Complex Plasmas, German Aerospace Center DLR, Weßling, Germany/USA)
• Oleg F. Petrov (Joint Institute for High Temperatures of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)
• Svetlana Ratynskaia (Space & Plasma Physics, School of Electrical Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden)
• Zoltan Sternovsky (Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics & Aerospace Engineering Department, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
• Sergey Vladimirov (The University of Sydney, Australia & ITMO University, St Petersburg, Russia & Institute of High Temperatures, RAS, Moscow, Australia)

Local Organizing Committee

• Jan Mlynář (Institute of Plasma Physics of the Czech Academy of Science, Prague, Czech Republic)
• Zdeněk Němeček (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
• Jiří Pavlů — chairman (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
• Jan Stöckel (Institute of Plasma Physics of the Czech Academy of Science, Prague, Czech Republic)
• Jana Šafránková (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)

Young Scientist Award Committee

• Khare Avinash (Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, Delhi, India)
• Mihály Horányi (Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics & Department of Physics, University of Colorado, USA)
• Ingrid Mann (Faculty of Science and Technology, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway)
• Asoka Mendis — honorary chairman (University of California San Diego, USA)
• Robert L. Merlino — chairman (University of Iowa, USA)
• Jiří Pavlů (Charles University, Prague, Czech Replublic)