000001152 001__ 1152 000001152 005__ 20181001100912.0 000001152 037__ $$aBELLE2-TALK-CONF-2018-119 000001152 041__ $$aeng 000001152 088__ $$aBELLE2-TALK-DRAFT-2018-102 000001152 100__ $$aAbi Soffer 000001152 245__ $$aBelle II: status and prospects 000001152 260__ $$aHEPMAD 18$$c2018-09-11 000001152 300__ $$amult. p 000001152 500__ $$a30' including questions 000001152 520__ $$aThe Belle II experiment was constructed to address questions in the physics of the bottom and charm quarks, the tau lepton, CP violation, and searches for new physics. Data taking began in April 2018, and will resume in early 2019 after installation of the inner detector. Belle II will benefit from the high luminosity of the SuperKEKB collider, which is 40 times greater than that of any previous collider, and from technological upgrades with respect to the previous generation of e+e- experiments. I will review the physics of Belle II, presents early results from the 2018 run, and discuss future prospects. 000001152 8560_ $$fdoris.yangsoo.kim@desy.de 000001152 8564_ $$uhttps://docs.belle2.org/record/1152/files/BELLE2-TALK-CONF-2018-119.pdf