chapter 1 Laser-Driven Plasmas: a Gateway to High Energy Density Physics and a Test- Bed for Nonlinear Science / chapter 2 An Experimentalist’s Perspective on Plasma Accelerators / chapter 3 Waveguides for High-Intensity Laser Pulses / chapter 4 Harnessing Plasma Waves as Radiation Sources and Amplifiers / chapter 5 High Intensity Laser-Plasma Interaction Experiments Karl Krushelnick -- chapter 6 Computational Challenges in Laser-Plasma Interactions / chapter 7 Particle Acceleration in Plasmas / chapter 8 Laboratory Astrophysics Using High Energy Density Photon and Electron Beams / chapter 9 Acceleration of Photons and Quasi-Particles / chapter 10 Relativistic Phenomena in Plasma Solitons / chapter 11 Interference Stabilization of Atoms in a Strong Laser Field / chapter 12 Entanglement and Wave Packet Structures in Photoionization and Other De- cay Processes of Bipartite Systems / chapter 13 Intense Field Quantum Electrodynamics / chapter 14 Fundamentals of ICF Hohlraums / chapter 15 Dense Plasma Physics – the Micro Physics of Laser-Produced Plasmas / chapter 16 Progress in Fast Ignition / chapter 17 Fusion Targets / chapter 18 Direct-Drive Inertial Fusion: Basic Concepts and Ignition Target Designing / chapter 19 Ablative Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability: Theory and Experimental Results