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The 15^th International Symposium on Electron Beam Ion Sources and Traps (EBIST 2024) will be held on August 27-30, 2024 at the Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland.

The EBIST symposium has been held every three to four years since 1977. The previous two symposia took place on October 23-27, 2018 in Shanghai, China and June 14-17, 2022 in Whistler BC, Canada (it was postponed from June 2020 due to Covid-19 restrictions). The goal of EBIST 2024 symposium is to discuss the design, development, applications of electron beam ion sources and traps, and the physics with highly charged ions.

EBIST 2024 will cover the following topics:

• Progress and status of EBIS/T facilities
• EBIS/T physics including electron and ion beam optics and related simulations
• EBIS charge state breeder developments and operational experience
• Charge breeding of stable and radioactive isotopes
• Atomic spectroscopy of highly charged ions
• Applications of highly charged ions from EBIS/T

International Advisory Board:

• Edward Beebe (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA)
• José Crespo (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Germany)
• Clayton Dickerson (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
• Oliver Kester (TRIUMF National Particle Accelerator Centre, Canada)
• Alain Lapierre (Michigan State University, USA)
• Nobuyuki Nakamura (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
• Yuri Ralchenko (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)
• Thomas Stöhlker (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Germany)
• Ke Yao (Fudan University, China)

EBIST 2024 symposium is co-financed by the Minister of Science (Poland) under the "Regional Excellence Initiative" program (project no.: RID/SP/0015/2024/01).