Over the years, the scope of ISDEIV has been adjusted to drive innovation on the most important topics in vacuum discharges and insulation science, with current topics of interest including, but not limited to:
- A: Breakdown and Flashover
- A1: Vacuum breakdown and pre-breakdown phenomena
- A2: Surface discharges and flashover phenomena
- B: Vacuum Arcs
- B1: Switching in vacuum and related phenomena
- B2: Interaction of vacuum arcs with magnetic fields
- B3: Vacuum arc physics
- B4: Modeling and simulation
- B5: Pulsed power physics and technology
- C: Applications
- C1: Vacuum interrupters and their applications
- C2: Surface science and modification and related technologies
- C3: Electron, ion, neutron, X-ray and other beam and light sources
- C4: Accelerator and fusion reactor related issues
- C5: Space related technologies
- C6: Vacuum microelectronics and their applications
- D: Others