| Day | Venue | Morning | Afternoon | Evening |
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Monday |
ELI Dolní Břežany |
14:30 - 16:30 Festive Ceremony - Opening of the ELI Building | ||
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| Tuesday | Štiřín Castle | Plenary Lectures | Plenary Lectures | |
| Wednesday | Štiřín Castle | Plenary Lectures | Plenary Lectures | Poster Session |
| Thursday | Štiřín Castle | User Meetings | User Meetings |
The conference covers the main scientific directions contained in the research programs of ELI Beamline project application. The direct contact with scientists from different fields and potential users will enable a sharpening of the program and a tuning of the experimental capabilities towards excellent research foreseen with the advanced high intensity high repetition rate lasers and secondary sources. Detailed information about the experimental areas the anticipated equipment and technical and theoretical user support will be given.
Monday, October 19
| 13:15 | Express Registration at the Stirin Castle (distribution of name badges only) |
| 13:30 |
Bus Transport from the Stirin Castle to the ELI Beamlines in Dolni Brezany |
| 14:30-17:00 | Grand Opening Ceremony |
| 17:30 | Bus Transport back to the Stirin Castle |
Tuesday, October 20
The time of beginning of the session is subject to change and will be confirmed as soon as possible.| 07:45 | Bus departure from Praha | ||
| 08:15 | REGISTRATION | ||
| 09:00 | 09:05 | Georg KORN | Welcome |
| 09:05 | 09:45 |
Georg KORN & Bedřich RUS ELI Beamlines, Czech Republic |
Introduction of the ELI Beamlines Research Programmes |
| 09:45 | 10:25 |
Gerard MOUROU IZEST, Ecole Polytechnique, France |
Extreme Light from Atomic to Subatomic Physics and Applications |
| 10:25 | 11:05 |
Ferenc KRAUSZ MPI Garching, Germany |
Attosecond Metrology 2.0 |
| 11:05 | 11:20 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 11:20 | 11:55 |
Rienk van GRONDELLE VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis |
| 11:55 | 12:30 |
Luis SILVA Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal |
In Silico Plasmas at the Extreme |
| 12:30 | 14:00 | LUNCH BREAK | Restaurant ATIS |
| 14:00 | 14:35 |
Vladimir TIKHONCHUK CELIA, Bordeaux, France |
Laboratory Astrophysics: From Collisionless Shocks to Quantum Effects |
| 14:35 | 15:10 |
Wim LEEMANS Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA |
Experiments at BELLA Center Towards Colliders and Light Sources |
| 15:10 | 15:45 |
Stefan KARSCH LMU München, Germany |
All-optical Hard X-ray Sources |
| 15:45 | 16:20 |
Hiroshi AZECHI Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University |
LFEX High Energy Multi Peta-Watt Laser and Its Applications for High Energy Density Science |
| 16:20 | 16:35 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 16:35 | 17:10 |
Christoph KEITEL MPIK Heidelberg, Germany |
High-energy Quantum Physics with Extreme Lasers |
| 17:10 | 17:45 |
Matt ZEPF Queen´s University Belfast, United Kingdom |
Experimental Tests of High Intensity QED |
| 17:45 | 18:20 |
Contantin HAEFNER Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA |
Development of the High Repetition Rate Advanced Petawatt Laser System for ELI-Beamlines: Technology and Commissioning Status |
| 19:00 |
Bus deparure from Štirin to Praha |
Wednesday, October 21
| 7:30 | Bus depature from Prague | ||
| 8:15 | REGISTRATION | ||
| 08:30 | 09:05 |
Thomas COWAN HZDR Dresden, Germany |
Probing Relativistic Laser Plasmas on the Nanometer Scale with Femtosecond Coherent X-rays |
| 09:05 | 09:40 |
Shaul MUKAMEL University California, Irvine, USA |
Nonlinear Multidimensional Stimulated X-ray Raman Spectroscopy of Molecules; Novel Ultrafast Probes of Electron and Nuclear Dynamics |
| 09:40 | 10:15 |
Kornelius NIELSCH Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden, Germany |
Chalcogenide-type Nanostructures: Topological Insulator Nature Versus Thermoelectric Performance. |
| 10:15 | 10:50 |
Jochen KÜPPER CFEL, Hamburg, Germany |
Controlled Molecule Imaging |
| 10:50 | 11:05 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 11:05 | 11:40 |
Stefano ATZENI University of Rome, Italy |
Light for Controlled Fusion: A Perspective on Laser Driven Inertial Fusion |
| 11:40 | 12:15 |
Andreas MAIER CFEL/University of Hamburg, Germany |
Plasma-Driven Free Electron Lasers |
| 12:15 | 12:50 |
Eric CONSTANT CNRS, CELIA, Université Bordeaux 1, France |
High Order Harmonic Generation with Ultrashort, High Energy TW Laser |
| 12:50 | 14:00 | LUNCH BREAK | |
| 14:00 | 14:35 |
Florian GRÜNER CFEL/University of Hamburg, Germany |
High Rep-rate, High Power Lasers: an Indispensable Tool for Novel Medical Imaging |
| 14:35 | 15:10 |
Marco BORGHESI The Queen's University of Belfast, United Kingdom |
Recent Experimental Advances in Laser Driven Ion Acceleration and Applications |
| 15:10 | 15:45 |
Andrea MACCHI CNR/INO & Physics Dept., Pisa, Italy |
High Field Plasmonics and Laser-Plasma Acceleration |
| 15:45 | 16:00 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 16:00 | 16:35 |
Francois AMIRANOFF CILEX, Paris, France |
Overview and Perspectives of the Apollon Multi-PW Laser Facility |
| 16:35 | 17:10 |
Jianqiang ZHU SIOM Shanghai, China |
Construction Status of SG-II Multi-Petawatt Laser System |
| 17:10 | 17:45 |
Colin DANSON AWE, Aldermaston, United Kingdom |
The Orion Facility: Performance, Developments and Operations |
| 17:45 | 18:10 |
Jiri POLIVKA Biomedical Center in Pilsen, Czech Republic |
Biomedical Center in Pilsen - Biological Models for the Potential Radiobiology Experiments at ELI-Beamlines |
| 18:10 | 18:35 |
Bohdan SCHNEIDER Institute of Biotechnology, Czech Republic |
Proposed Collaboration ELI/BIOCEV: Adding Time Dimension to Biological Processes |
| 18:35 | 18:45 | BREAK | |
| 18:45 | 20:00 | POSTER SESSION | The poster session is open for all registered participants. Feel free to register your poster for the presentation. |
Thursday, October 22
Prospective User Meetings
Prospective User Meetings will be held in 3 parallel sessions and their topics will cover all ELI Beamlines research programmes.
The detailed time schedule is available HERE on the home page.
Speakers:
* IS=invited speaker
WORKSHOP 1 - Salm Hall
Applications in Molecular, Biomedical, Material Sciences
Jakob ANDREASSON (ELI Beamlines, Czech Republic)
Applications in Molecular, Bio and Materials sciences
John BOZEK (Soleil Synchrotron, France) *IS
Experience with First Experiments on the AMO Instrument at LCLS
Christian BRESSLER (European XFEL Hamburg, Germany) *IS
Femtochemistry with X-rays: Using New Observables Towards an Ultimate High-speed Molecular Camera
Petr BRUZA (ELI Beamlines, Czech Republic)
Plasma X-ray source and experimental station for X-ray scattering, diffraction, spectroscopy and imaging
Jaroslav NEJDL (ELI Beamlines, Czech Republic)
Higher Harmonic Beamline and Betatron a Compton scattering at ELI Beamlines
Miroslav KLOZ (ELI Beamlines, Czech Republic)
Optical probes and pump beams
Tomas LASTOVICKA (ElI Beamlines, Czech Republic)
Beamlines integration support team
Tomas POLIVKA (University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic)
Ultrafast Processes in Photosynthetic Pigments and Proteins
Lukas PRIBYL (ELI Beamlines, Czech Republic)
Laser driven Undulator X-ray source (LUX) Beamline
Michael RÜBHAUSEN (CFEL, Hamburg, Germany) *IS
Time Resolved VUV-Ellipsometry at ELI - Instrument and Scientific perspectives
Stephane SEBBAN (ELI Beamlines / RP2: Secondary light sources, Czech Republic)
Introduction to laser driven X-ray sources, Progress on fully coherent XUV plasma sources
WORKSHOP 2 - Suk Hall (Castle Building)
Ion and Electron Acceleration
Raffaele G. AGOSTINO (University of Calabria, Italy) *IS
The Star Facility: A Photon-electron Collider as a Source of Monochromatic X-Ray Oriented to Applications
Stepan S. BULANOV (LBNL, USA) *IS
Advanced Acceleration Mechanisms for Medical Applications of Laser Driven Ions
Michael BUSSMANN (HZDR, Dresden, Germany) *IS
PIConGPU: A fast & free Tool for Eelectron Plasma Acceleration and Radiation Emission Simulations, State of the Art and Future Vision
G.A.Pablo CIRRONE (INFN, LNS, Italy) *IS
ELIMED: a Transport Beamline for Medical and Multidisciplinary Applications at ELI-Beamlines
Satyabrata KAR (Queen´s University Belfast, UK) *IS
A Novel Scheme for Simultaneous Focussing, Energy Selection and Post-acceleration of Laser Driven Ions
HT KIM (APRI-GIST, South Korea) *IS
Electron Acceleration with a PW-class Laser: Advanced Experiments at APRI-GIST
Tadzio LEVATO (ELI Beamlines, Czech Republic)
The HELL Platform: High-energy Electron-acceleration by Laser
Jiri LIMPOUCH (Czech Technical University, Prague) *IS
Numerical Simulations for the Optimization of Ion Acceleration by Intense Femtosecond Pulses
Daniele MARGARONE (ELI Beamlines, Czech Republic)
The ELIMAIA Beamline: ELI Multidisciplinary Applications of laser-Ion Acceleration
Martin PRECEK (ELI beamlines, Czech Republic) *IS
Radioation Chemistry with Secondary Particle Sources at ELI Beamlines
Marija VRANIC (GOLP-IPFN, IST, Lisbon, Portugal) *IS
TBA - Realistic Scenarios for Non-linear inverse Compton Scattering Experiments
WORKSHOP 3- Chval Hall (Chval House)
Plasma and High Energy Density Physics
Exotic Physics and Theory
Katerina FALK (ELI Beamlines, Czech Republic)
Warm Dense Matter Research at ELI Beamlines
Dino JAROSZYNSKI (SUPA Glasgow, United Kingdom) *IS
TBA
Sophia CHEN (LULI Paris, France) *IS
HED Future Challenges: SPRINT-LULI Take and Pathways for Collaboration with ELI
Yuxin LENG (SIOM Shanghai, China) *IS
Recent Progress on the Ultra-intense and Ultra-short Laser at SIOM
Zhaoyang LI (SIOM Shanghai, China) *IS
Near-transform-limit Pulse Compression in a Femtosecond Multi-petawatt Laser
Paul McKENNA (SCAPA Glasgow, United Kingdom) *IS
Collective Electron and Ion Dynamics in the Relativistic Transparency Regime
Masakatsu MURAKAMI (ILE Osaka, Japan) *IS
Studies on High Energy Density Physics at ILE, Osaka
Oldřich RENNER (Institute of Physics AS CR, Czech Republic)
Prospective X-ray Spectroscopic Experiments at ELI-Beamlines
Stefan WEBER (ELI Beamlines, Czech Republic)
Plasma Physics at ELI-Beamlines: Infrastructure and Research
Ladislav DRSKA (Czech Technical University, Czech Republic)
Fundamental Physics with ELI: Exotic Matter Research
Research Programme 1
Lasers
The objective of this Research Activity is to deliver the laser systems, the principal instruments and the backbone of the whole ELI facility. Tasks to be carried out will include scientific and engineering design of the laser system and of its individual components and subsystems, development of selected components, assembling, testing and optimization of individual sections of the laser. Essential element underpinning all of these efforts will be the international cooperation. Upon completion of the laser system and its commissioning for users, this Activity will continue the development of particular subsystems, especially the repetition rate Beamlines and the high-intensity multi-10-PW section.
Research Programme 2
X-ray Sources Driven by Ultrashort Laser Pulses
One of the main goals within the ELI scientific community is to produce ultrashort X-ray beamlines, both coherent as well as incoherent, paving the way towards imaging nature with atomic resolution both in space and time with university-lab sized devices. The laser-based sources of X-rays developed in the ELI Beamlines facilty have, in contrast to large-scale facilities such as third-generation synchrotrons or X-ray Free-Electron-Lasers (XFELs), the great perspective of offering much broader accessibility and the intrinsic synchronization between the optical driver laser and the generated X-ray pulses as well as the spectrum of different X-ray sources each delivering specific properties.
For transforming optical driver laser pulses into brilliant bursts of X-rays four paths are developed within this research activity:
- High-order harmonic generation
- Incoherent plasma X-ray sources
- Radiation from relativistic electron beams (Betatron radiation / Compton source, XFEL)
- Plasma-based X-ray lasers
Particle Acceleration by Lasers
ELI-Beamlines will offer the prospect of producing and studying versatile and stable particle (ions and electrons) sources, at high repetition rate, while enhancing simultaneously the high energy tail of the spectrum, the beam monochromaticity and the laser-to-particle conversion efficiency, all of which (especially the beam stability) being crucial points for the production of additional secondary sources. The Research Program 3 (RP3) will also focus on the demonstration of proof-of-principle experiments aimed to envision future societal applications in various areas (with a special attention to biomedical ones). Thus the optimization of particle beam quality and reproducibility (spatial profile, pointing, divergence and energy stability) will be a crucial issue.
The topics covered in the scientific programme through invited talks, as well as oral and poster contributions are:
- Laser driven ion acceleration with PW and 10 PW class lasers
- Laser driven electron acceleration with PW and 10 PW class lasers
- Secondary sources generated by laser accelerated particle beams
- Applications of laser driven particle beams to biology, medicine, chemistry, material science and nuclear physics
- Applications of laser driven particle beams in time-resolved pump-probe experiments
- Applications of laser driven particle beams in high field physics
- New facilities based on laser driven particle acceleration
Research Programme 4
Applications in Molecular, Biomedical, Material Sciences
Research Program 4 (RP4) at ELI Beamlines develops applications in Molecular, Bio-Medical and Materials Sciences. We are in the process of realizing a unique set of capabilities for time resolved experiments based on high power lasers and secondary light sources. Early experimental capabilities in the VUV and soft X-ray range include time-resolved Magneto-Optical Ellipsometry in the VUV range, Coherent Diffractive Imaging and Atomic Molecular and Optical (AMO) science. In the X-ray range we are developing instruments for time resolved Scattering, Diffraction, Absorption Spectroscopy and Phase Contrast Imaging as well as Pulse Radiolysis. The high intensity L1 laser will also be used directly to further develop applications in optical spectroscopy such as Stimulated Raman Scattering. These application are all interesting by themselves but the potentially greatest advantage of ELI Beamlines will be the possibility to combine these methods with perfect synchronization for complete investigations of complex phenomena. Enabling experiments will begin already in 2016 with the arrival of the L1 alignment lasers, user based commissioning with the 1 kHz L1 laser will proceed during 2017 and user operations will start in 2018.
Main topics:
- Materials science for sustainable development
- The quest for molecular movies
- Mesoscopic science, the transition between the quantum world and classical physics
Research Programmes 5 & 6
Plasma and High Energy Density Physics
Exotic Physics and Theory
The research programs R5 and R6 are dedicated to plasma physics and laser-plasma interaction in the widest sense. Particular attention is given to ultra-intense laser-matter interaction, warm dense matter studies and laboratory astrophysics. Also addressed are plasma optics and inertial confinement fusion studies. An integral part of the research efforts is the tight focusing program in order to obtain the highest possible intensities in the focal spot. Theoretical and simulation efforts aim at preparing first experiments for UHI interaction physics.
The aforementioned activities are supported by a strong simulation program, which is possible due to an in-house high-performance computing cluster and an associated specialized group.
The plasma physics research group is designing and constructing a unique plasma physics platform (P3), which will be a multi-functional experimental infrastructure for any kind of research in the field of lasers interacting with plasmas based on the availability of multiple, synchronized laser beams operating at high repetition rate.
Topics:
- Warm Dense Matter
- Astrophysics
- Ultraintense Laser-Matter Interaction
- Advanced Plasma Physics Experiments
- Physics of Inertial Confinement on Medium-Size Facilities
- Medium-Scale Laser-Plasma Infrastructures
