CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Program

Instructions for Contributors:

Invited talks: 30 minutes (27 min presentation + 3 min questions)
Oral talks: 20 minutes (17 min presentation + 3 min questions)
Posters: the space available for each poster is a panel, 200 cm width (horizontal) x 100 cm height (vertical)

Monday, October 4^th - Friday, October 8^th

Monday, October 4th
1^ morning session 8.30-10.20	"Laser driven electron acceleration I" Chairman: Victor Malka
	INTRODUCTION (Joachain, Batani, Passoni)
	Chan Joshi [I] "Charged Particle Acceleration Using Intense Laser and Particle beams"
	Nikolay E. Andreev "Laser wakefield acceleration of supershort electron bunches in guiding structures."
	Tomonao Hosokai "Electron energy boosting in laser-wake-field acceleration with transient plasma micro-optics."
Coffee break 10.20-10.40
2^ morning session 10.40-12.30	Inertial fusion Chairman: Jurgen Meyer-ter-Vehn
	Riccardo Betti [I] "The Lawson criterion for inertial confinement fusion."
	Mayuko Koga [I] "Present status and future prospect of Fast Ignition realization Experiment (FIREX) with Gekko and LFEX at ILE."
	Jiri Limpouch "Simulation study of parametric instabilities at intensities relevant to shock ignition."
	Gerard Malka "Study of laser hole-boring using foam target."
Lunch
Afternoon session 14.45-16.35	"Laser driven ion acceleration I" Chairman: F. Pegoraro
	Thomas Cowan [I] "Maximizing the energy of laser-accelerated protons and ions within Target Normal Sheath Acceleration."
	Marco Borghesi [I] "Radiation pressure acceleration of ions from thin foils irradiated by ultraintense laser pulses."
	Karl Zeil "Laser proton acceleration from mass limited silicon foils."
	Arie Zigler "Generation of fast protons by interaction of modest laser intensities with H2O "snow" nano-wire targets."
Coffee break 16.35-17.00
17.00 -18.00	Poster session I
	Welcome reception

Tuesday, October 5th
1^ morning session 8.30-10.20	"Attosecond pulses/ultrafast molecular processes" Chairman: Olga Rosmej
	Alfred Maquet [I] "Harmonic phases and attosecond electron dynamics in small molecules: Challenges for theory."
	Mauro Nisoli [I] “Isolated attosecond pulses for the investigation of electron localization processes in molecules."
	Rodrigo Lopez-Martens "High-harmonic generation on plasma mirrors in the λ3 regime."
	Jens Biegert "Enhancement of HHG yield."
Coffee break 10.20-10.40
2^ morning session 10.40-12.30	"Fast ignition" Chairman: Riccardo Betti
	Benjamin Vauzour [I] "Fast ignition: propagation of fast electrons in compressed matter."
	Anthony J. Link [I] "The Role of Hot Electron Divergence in Determining the Efficacy of Fast Fusion."
	Luca Volpe "Proton Radiography of Cylindrical Laser-Driven Implosions."
	Olga Rosmej "Nanostructures irradiated by fs and ns laser pulses: latest advances on X-ray sources and high energy density plasmas."
Lunch
Afternoon session 14.45-16.35	"Laser driven electron acceleration II" Chairman: Chan Joshi
	James Rosenzweig [I] "Teravolt-per-meter plasma wakefields from low-charge, femtosecond electron beams."
	Mark Hogan [I] "Particle Driven Wakefields in Plasmas."
	Francois Sylla "Observation of ion spectral modulations from multi-TW Ti:Sa laser interaction with underdense plasma."
	Paolo Valente "Development of a Multi-GeV spectrometer for laser-plasma experiments at FLAME."
Coffee break 16.35-17.00
17.00 -18.00	Poster session II

Wednesday, October 6th
1^ morning session 8.10-10.20	"Laser driven ion acceleration II" Chairman: Thomas Cowan
	Alan Michette "Coherent diffraction imaging using high harmonic generation sources."
	Francesco Pegoraro [I] "Ion acceleration in the RPDA regime."
	Andrey Brantov [I] "Ion acceleration from solid and low-dense targets"
	Alex Arefiev "Generation of energetic ions by laser-irradiated plasmas."
	Matteo Tamburini "Radiation reaction effects on electron nonlinear dynamics and ion acceleration in laser-solid interaction."
Coffee break 10.20-10.40
2^ morning session 10.40-12.30	"Ultraintense laser-matter interaction" Chairman: David Ros
	Juergen Meyer-ter-Vehn [I] "Uniform laser-driven relativistic electron layer for coherent Thomson scattering."
	Peter Mulser [I] "Collisionless absorption of sub-ps laser pulses, fast electron spectra and scaling with intensity."
	Piotr A. Raçzka "Evolution of positrons produced in a plasma target of solid density."
	Rachel Nuter "Field ionization in PIC codes and application to laser-accelerated ions."
Lunch
Afternoon session 14.45-16.35	"Projects" Chairman: Alfred Maquet
	Riccardo Betti [I] "The path to ignition within the US inertial confinement fusion program."
	Robert Bingham [I] " HiPER: the European path to inertial fusion energy."
	Luca Labate [I] "The FLAME Laser and the Test Experiment at LNF-FRASCATI."
	David Ros [I] "LASERIX : an open facility for developments of Soft X-ray and EUV lasers and Applications."
Coffee break 16.35-17.00
17.00 -18.00	Poster session III
	Concerto Chiesa S.Giorgio

Thursday, October 7th
1^ morning session 8.10-10.20	"X ray production" Chairman: Markus Roth
	Emily Sistrunk [I] "Strong field physics in the x-ray regime."
	Masaki Kando "Novel x-ray generation schemes based on electron cusps formed via intense laser plasma interaction."
	Sebastien Corde "Femtosecond X-rays from Laser-Plasma Accelerators."
	Liming Chen "High contrast laser driven intense x-ray source for imaging application."
	Edmond Turcu "Ultrafast Materials Science with the Artemis XUV beamline."
Coffee break 10.20-10.40
2^ morning session 10.40-12.30	"Astrophysics and nuclear phsyics using ultraintense lasers" Chairman: Peter Mulser
	Vyacheslav M. Gordienko [I] "Powerful picosecond 10-µm laser radiation in gaseous and cluster media: pulse duration control, particle acceleration and nuclear excitation."
	Franck Gobet [I] "Nuclear Physics experiments with high energy lasers."
	Daniel Symes "Studying radiative shocks using laser driven blast waves in clustered gases."
	Manoranjan Khan "Development of Rayleigh-Taylor Instability in presence of magnetic field."
Lunch
Afternoon	Tour

Friday, October 8th
1^ morning session 8.10-10.20	"Laser driven ion acceleration III" Chairman: Marco Borghesi
	Markus Roth [I] "Laser Driven Ion Beams -Status and Perspectives for Research and Fusion."
	Ulrich Schramm "Applications of 100 TW class ultrashort pulse lasers."
	Claes Göran Wahlström "Hollow Microspheres – A Novel Target for Staged Laser-Driven Proton Acceleration."
	Daniele Margarone "High current, high energy proton beams accelerated by a sub-nanosecond laser."
	Thomas Sokollik "Proton Acceleration from Mass-Limited Targets."
Coffee break 10.20-10.40
2^ morning session 10.40-12.30	"Developments in superintense laser technology" Chairman: Rodrigo Lopez-Martens
	Federico Canova (Amplitude) "Power amplifier for Ti:Sapphire multi 100 TW and PW lasers."
	Stephanie Grabielle (Fastlite) "Self-Referenced Spectral interferometry: a comparison with SPIDER."
	Tommaso Tessitore (Le Croy) "Inside an High Bandwidth, Real Time Oscilloscope."
	Nicola Lefaudeux (Imagineoptics) "Wavefront sensing and adaptive optics implementation on ultra-intense lasers."
Lunch
Afternoon session 14.45-16.35	"Laser driven electron acceleration III" Chairman: Claes Göran Wahlström
	Paul McKenna [I] "Investigations of fast electron generation and transport in dense plasma using the Vulcan PW laser."
	Arkady V. Kim "Electron Acceleration with Sub-Petawatt Laser PEARL: Current Studies and Prospects."
	Victor Malka [I] "High current electron beam produced with laser plasma accelerators"
	CONCLUSION
Coffee break 16.35-17.00
Departures

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