14th Kudowa Summer School “Towards Fusion Energy”

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Preface14th Kudowa Summer School “Towards Fusion Energy”, Kudowa-Zdrój, Poland, 4th – 8th June 2018kudowaschool.ipplm.plThe Kudowa Summer School “Towards Fusion Energy” takes place every two years in summer, usually in June, in Kudowa-Zdrój: a small resort city at the Polish-Czech border and is organized by the Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, Warsaw, Poland. Multinational audience, mostly PhD students, as well as Master students and young scientists from all over the world, have an opportunity to gather in order to broaden their knowledge of plasma and fusion physics, participating in lectures presented by outstanding and world-renowned lecturers working in the field of nuclear fusion.Last edition of Kudowa Summer School was focused on following topics:plasma basics and fusion energyinertial confinement fusionmagnetic confinement fusionplasma-diagnostics and technology.Most of the participating students presented short presentations of their current work – the special jury awarded three best contributions with special prizes. Moreover, every student has been given a chance to publish a paper based on given talk.This issue of Journal of Physics: Conference Series is the selection of the most interesting works submitted by participants of the School.14th Kudowa Summer School in numbers:5 days24 hours of speeches in total17 lectures27 student talks46 participants.Director of the School: J. OngenaList of Scientific Committee and Local Organizing Committee members are available in this pdf.