The recent progresses in the fast ignition and high field physics with high power lasers will be focused in this workshop. The following topics will be discussed.

• Hydrodynamics of high energy density plasmas
• L a s e r -plasma and laser-matter interactions
• Heating of high energy density plasmas by high power laser
• Laser beam propagation and channeling in plasmas
• Relativistic electron beam generation by high power laser and its transport in high energy density plasmas
• Fast ion acceleration by high power laser and its transport in high energy den sity plasmas
• High field generat ion by high power laser and its applications
• Electron and ion based fastignition, shock ignition, and impact ignition
• Integrated exper iment, simulat ion, and target design
• Diagnostics for fast ignition study and high field physics
• Laser Technology for the fast ignition study and high field physics