International Conference on Photonic, Electronic, and Atomic Collisions (ICPEAC2017)

Abstract

The 30th International Conference on Photonic, Electronic and Atomic Collisions (XXX ICPEAC) was held at the Cairns Convention Centre, Queensland, Australia on 26 July - 1 August, 2017, organized by the Australian National University (ANU, Canberra), Curtin University (Perth, Western Australia) and Griffith University (Queensland). Held biannually, ICPEAC is one of the largest conferences on the atomic and molecular physics calendar, and covers the recent progress in photonic, electronic, and atomic collisions with matter. With a history dating back to 1958, the ICPEAC has its second coming to the Sunshine State of Queensland, the first of which being the 1991 Australian ICPEAC in Brisbane. With the selection of Cairns as the venue for the ICPEAC XXX the local organizers began their preparations six years ahead in anticipation of the event.The conference brought together 500 participants from 50 countries and attracted 680 contributed papers for presentation in poster sessions. Among the latter, 311 are presented in issues 2-12 of this volume of the Journal of Physics Conference Series. In addition, five plenary lectures by Linda Young, Clifford Surko, Henrik Cederquist, Tilman Pfau and Reinhard Kienberger have been presented along with 62 progress reports and 26 special reports. The latter “hot topics” were selected by the ICPEAC Program Committee from the contributed papers. Detailed write-ups of most of the invited lectures and reports are presented in issue 1 of this volume, constituting a comprehensive and tangible record of the meeting.Preceeding the conference, three distinguished scientists: Barry Schneider (NIST, USA), Chris Greene (Purdue University, USA) and Thomas Pfeifer (Max-Plank Institute, Germany) presented their tutorial lectures specifically designed for students and early career researchers.During the conference, the 2017 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize was awarded to Johannes Feist (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain). The Sheldon Datz Prize for an Outstanding Young Scientist Attending ICPEAC was awarded to Dermot Green (Queen's University Belfast, UK).The Local Organizing Committee would like to express its gratitude to Tourism and Events Queensland (TEQ), the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), all the conference sponsors for their financial support. With particular emphasis we thank the group of volunteers from the ANU and Curtin University for their efforts in orchestrating the event.Finally, the Local Organizing Committee would like to thank all the ICPEAC participants for their support and contributions to the conference.The Editors,Alexander Bray, Sean Hodgman, Joshua Machacek, Anatoli Kheifets(Australian National University, Canberra, Australia)