This issue of Laser and Particle Beams Journal contains
the papers submitted for publication by participants of the
26th European Conference on Laser Interaction with
Matter—this Conference (also known by its acronym ECLIM
2000) was organized jointly by the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences
and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in
Prague, the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences
of the Czech Republic, and supported by the International Society
for Optical Engineering, this conference was held in Prague
from June 12–16, 2000.