Annoucement

It is hereby announced that the 8th International Symposium on Explosion, Shock wave and High-energy reaction Phenomena (ESHP2026) will be held in Kumamoto, Japan, from Monday, October 26 to Wednesday, October 28, 2026.

The symposium will be hosted at the Kumamoto Prefectural Community Center “Parea”, which is located in the center of Kumamoto City.

Participants from around the world will be welcomed to join this significant scientific event.

Scope and aims

The eighth ESHP symposium in Kumamoto, Japan (2026) follows Maribor, Slovenia (2023) successfully finished as the seventh symposium. The symposium series have been organized in Kumamoto, Japan (2004, 2007), Seoul, Korea (2010), Okinawa, Japan (2013), Beijing, P.R. China (2016) and Pondicherry, India (2019) and return to Kumamoto again.
The aim of the triennial international ESHP symposium is to promote the dissemination of significant developments in theoretical, computational, and experimental research of explosion, shock wave and high-energy reaction phenomena and related research areas.

Typical topics of interest

Typical topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Chemistry of energetic and reactive materials
Shock waves in condensed and gaseous matter
Explosive cladding and other high-rate material processing technologies
Dynamic behavior of materials at high strain rates
Computational modelling and analysis of high velocity impact
Experimental measurement and observation of high-rate phenomena
Self-propagating high-temperature synthesis
Other fundamentals and applications of high-energy reaction phenomena