Preliminary scientific program
| Sunday, 19th April | |
| 18:30 - 19:30 | Registration in guest house no. 4 of the mpipks |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Welcome reception in the mpipks' main building |
| Monday, 20th April | |
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Opening by Frank Jülicher, the director of the mpipks & the scientific coordinators |
| X-ray and X-FEL sources from LPI | |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Wim Leemans (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) |
| Tutorial talk: Laser plasma accelerator development at Berkeley Lab for future light sources | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | coffee break |
| chair: Wim Leemans | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Sergey Rykovanov (Helmholtz Institute Jena) |
| Plasma undulator based on laser excitation of wakefields in a plasma channel | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Stéphane Sebban (CNRS Palaiseau) |
| Demonstration of fs plasma-based soft X-ray laser | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Kevin Cassou (Université Paris-Sud) |
| A laser beam circulator for high spectral brightness γ-beam source | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | lunch break |
| chair: Emmanuel d'Humières | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Alexander Debus (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf) |
| Radiation from laser-plasma interactions - From diagnostics to all-optical free-electron lasers | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Darragh Corvan (Queen's University Belfast) |
| Ultrahigh brilliance multi-MeV γ-ray beams from nonlinear relativistic Thomson scattering | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Igor Pogorelsky (Brookhaven National Laboratory) |
| New opportunities for strong-field LPI studies in mid-IR spectral domain | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Arie Irman (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf) |
| Correlation of electron and laser beam parameters to the spectral shape and bandwidth of laser-Thomson backscattering X-ray beams | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | nlight15 colloquium |
| chair: Ulf Saalmann (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme) | |
| Jürgen Meyer-ter-Vehn (Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik) | |
| Novel light from laser-driven relativistic plasma | |
| 17:30 - 19:00 | poster session (focus on posters with odd poster numbers) |
| 19:00 - 20:30 | supper |
| Tuesday, 21st April | |
| Parametric amplification of short pulses | |
| 08:30 - 10:00 | Nathaniel J. Fisch (Princeton University) |
| Tutorial talk: Compressing light in plasma | |
| chair: Nathaniel J. Fisch | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | John Farmer (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf) |
| Raman amplification in the strong wavebreaking regime | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Jorge Vieira (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa) |
| Raman generation and amplification of ultra-intense lasers with orbital angular momentum in plasmas | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Marco Chiaramello (Laboratoire d'Utilisation des Lasers Intenses) |
| Studies of stimulated Brillouin amplification of short laser pulse in the strong coupling regime | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Götz Lehmann (Henrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf) |
| Plasma-based laser-pulse amplification via strongly coupled Brillouin scattering | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | lunch break |
| γ-ray sources and QED processes | |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Luis Silva (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa) |
| Tutorial talk: In silico plasmas under extreme laser intensities | |
| chair: Luis Silva | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Daniel Seipt (Helmholtz Institute Jena) |
| Narrowband inverse Compton scattering X-ray sources at high laser intensities | |
| 16:00 - 16:05 | group photo (to be published on the workshop's web page) |
| 16:05 - 16:30 | coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Matteo Tamburini (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik) |
| Plasma-based generation and control of a single few-cycle high-energy ultrahigh-intensity laser pulse | |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Mathieu Lobet (CEA Arpajon) |
| A wire target designed for efficient collimated high-frequency radiation emission | |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Emmanuel d'Humières (Université Bordeaux) |
| Optimization of radiation generation in the interaction of high intensity short pulse lasers with "escargot" targets | |
| 18:30 - 20:00 | supper |
| 19:30 - | poster session (focus on posters with even poster numbers) |
| Wednesday, 22nd April | |
| venue: Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf | |
| 08:15 | departure from mpipks to HZDR (stopover at the FFF Cityhotel) |
| Pump-probe experiments and applications of LPI sources | |
| 09:30 - 11:00 | Henry Chapman (DESY Hamburg) |
| Tutorial talk: Imaging molecules with X-ray free-electron laser pulses | |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | coffee break |
| chair: Henry Chapman | |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Thomas Kluge (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf) |
| Femtosecond probing of fast transient plasma processes in high-power laser interaction with solids | |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | Jens Uhlig (Lund University) |
| Ultrafast x-ray spectroscopy with waterjet plasma and high efficient microcalorimetric array | |
| 12:15 - 12:45 | Alexander Sävert (Helmholtz Institute Jena) |
| Laser wake field acceleration under the microscope | |
| 12:45 - 14:15 | lunch break |
| 14:30 - 17:15 | tour of HZDR |
| 17:30 | departure from HZDR back to mpipks |
| 19:00 - 20:30 | supper |
| Thursday, 23rd April | |
| XUV & attosecond pulse sources from LPI | |
| 08:30 - 10:00 | Fabien Quéré (CEA Gif-sur-Yvette) |
| Tutorial talk: Plasma mirrors as attosecond light sources | |
| chair: Fabien Quéré | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Arnaud Debayle (CEA Arpajon) |
| Self-consistent model of high-order harmonic generation by plasma mirror | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Olivier Guilbaud (Université Paris-Sud) |
| Seeded operation of plasma based soft X-ray lasers | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Wenjun Ma (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) |
| Bright subcycle extreme ultraviolet bursts from a single dense relativistic electron sheet | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Zi-Yu Chen (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf) |
| Wavebreaking induced transmitted emission of attosecond extreme ultraviolet pulse from overdense plasmas | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | lunch break |
| chair: Olga Kosareva | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Igor Andriyash (École Polytechnique Palaiseau) |
| Kinetic theory and three-dimensional modeling of XUV amplification in the laser-induced optical lattice | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Alexander Popov (Moscow State University) |
| Interference stabilization and UV lasing in a plasma channel formed in gas by intense RF field | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Anna Bogatskaya (Moscow State University) |
| Guiding and amplification of radio-frequency radiation in a plasma channel created in different gases by the intense femtosecond laser pulse | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | coffee break |
| 16:00 | leaving the institute for the guided tour through Dresden's old city centre (including an organ play in the Hofkirche) |
| 20:00 - | conference dinner at the Gasthaus Am Neumarkt |
| Friday, 24th April | |
| Filamentation and THz generation | |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | See Leang Chin (Université Laval) |
| Tutorial talk: Filamentation science and applications | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | coffee break |
| chair: See Leang Chin | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Olga Kosareva (Moscow State University) |
| Long-wavelength radiation from femtosecond filaments in gases | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Tie-Jun Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai) |
| Plasma filament based intense THz generation and its application | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | C.H. Raymond Ooi (University of Malaya) |
| Photoionization and nonlinear propagation of intense laser pulses | |
| 12:30 - 12:45 | concluding remarks |
| 12:45 - 14:00 | lunch break |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | public evening lecture |
| Jürgen Meyer-ter-Vehn (Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik) | |
| Die auf der Lichtwelle reiten ... | |
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