This volume contains a broad spectrum of Plasma Physics areas: magnetic confinement (tokamaks), inertial confinement (hohlraums), pulse plasmas (z-pinch, plasma focus), plasma astrophysics, dusty plasmas,plasma processing, basic plasma physics, computational plasma physics, shock waves, spectroscopy in plasmas. Both invited and contributed papers of the seventh Latin American Workshop on Plasma Physics are included in the text. These papers are also an update of the new ideas in the field. The book will also be of interest to researchers and graduate students.