ELI BEAMLINES SCIENTIFIC CHALLENGES & PROSPECTIVE USER MEETINGS October 19 22, 2015 Štiřín Castle Czech Republic PROGRAMME
Tuesday October 20, 2015 Chair: Georg KORN 09:00 09:05 Welcome Georg KORN 09:05 09:45 Introduction of the ELI Beamlines Research Programmes Georg KORN & Bedřich RUS 09:45 10:25 Extreme Light from Atomic to Subatomic Physics and Applications Gerard MOUROU IZEST, Ecole Polytechnique, France 10:25 11:05 Attosecond Metrology 2.0 Ferenc KRAUSZ MPI Garching, Germany 11:05 11:20 COFFEE BREAK Chair: Christoph KEITEL 11:20 11:55 The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis Rienk van GRONDELLE VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands 11:55 12:30 In Silico Plasmas at the Extreme Luis SILVA Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal 12:30 14:00 LUNCH Salm Hall Chair: Daniele MARGARONE 14:00 14:35 Laboratory Astrophysics: From Collisionless Shocks to Quantum Effects Vladimir TIKHONCHUK CELIA, Bordeaux, France 14:35 15:10 Experiments at BELLA Center Towards Colliders and Light Sources Wim LEEMANS Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA 15:10 15:45 All-optical hard X-ray sources Stefan KARSCH LMU München, Germany 15:45 16:20 LFEX High Energy Multi Peta-Watt Laser and Its Applications for High Energy Density Science Hiroshi AZECHI Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University 16:20 16:35 COFFEE BREAK 2
Chair: Stefan WEBER 16:35 17:10 High-energy Quantum Physics with Extreme Lasers Christoph KEITEL MPIK Heidelberg, Germany 17:10 17:45 Experimental Tests of High Intensity QED Matt ZEPF Queen s University Belfast, UK 17:45 18:20 Development of the High Repetition Rate Advanced Petawatt Laser System for ELI-Beamlines: Technology and Commissioning Status Constantin HAEFNER Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA 19:00 Bus departure from Štiřín to Praha Wednesday October 21, 2015 07:30 Bus departure from Praha to Štiřín Salm Hall Chair: Jakob ANDREASSON 08:30 9:05 Probing Relativistic Laser Plasmas on the Nanometer Scale with Femtosecond Coherent X-rays Thomas COWAN HZDR Dresden, Germany 09:05 9:40 Nonlinear Multidimensional Stimulated X-ray Raman Spectroscopy of Molecules; Novel Ultrafast Probes of Electron and Nuclear Dynamics Shaul MUKAMEL University California, Irvine, USA 09:40 10:15 Chalcogenide-type Nanostructures: Topological Insulator Nature Versus Thermoelectric Performance. Kornelius NIELSCH Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden, Germany 10:15 10:50 Controlled Molecule Imaging Jochen KÜPPER CFEL, Hamburg, Germany 10:50 11:05 COFFEE BREAK Chair: Matt ZEPF 11:05 11:40 Light for Controlled Fusion: A Perspective on Laser Driven Inertial Fusion Stefano ATZENI University of Rome, Italy 11:40 12:15 Plasma-Driven Free Electron Lasers Andreas MAIER CFEL/University of Hamburg, Germany 12:15 12:50 High Order Harmonic Generation with Ultrashort, High Energy TW Laser Eric CONSTANT CNRS, CELIA, Université Bordeaux 1, France 3
12:50 14:00 LUNCH Chair: Stephane SEBBAN 14:00 14:35 High Rep-rate, High Power Lasers: an Indispensable Tool for Novel Medical Imaging Florian GRÜNER CFEL/University of Hamburg, Germany 14:35 15:10 Recent Experimental Advances in Laser Driven Ion Acceleration and Applications Marco BORGHESI The Queen's University of Belfast, United Kingdom 15:10 15:45 High Field Plasmonics and Laser-Plasma Acceleration Andrea MACCHI CNR/INO & Physics Dept., Pisa, Italy 15:45 16:00 COFFEE BREAK Chair: Bedřich RUS 16:00 16:35 Overview and Perspectives of the Apollon Multi-PW Laser Facility Francois AMIRANOFF CILEX, Paris, France 16:35 17:10 Construction Status of SG-II Multi-Petawatt Laser System Jianqiang ZHU SIOM Shanghai, China 17:10 17:45 The Orion Facility: Performance, Developments and Operations Colin DANSON AWE, Aldermaston, United Kingdom 17:45 18:10 Biomedical Center in Pilsen - Biological Models for the Potential Radiobiology Experiments at ELI-Beamlines Jiri POLIVKA Biomedical Center in Pilsen, Czech Republic 18:10 18:35 Proposed Collaboration ELI/BIOCEV: Adding Time Dimension to Biological Processes Bohdan SCHNEIDER Institute of Biotechnology, Czech Republic 18:35 18:45 SHORT BREAK 18:45 20:00 POSTER SESSION (Rural Hall) 20:00 Bus departure from Štiřín to Praha 4
Thursday October 22, 2015 Prospective User Workshop Ion and Electron Acceleration Suk Hall - Castle building Moderator: Daniele Margarone 08:30 08:55 The ELIMAIA Beamline: ELI Multidisciplinary Applications of Laser-Ion Acceleration Introductory Daniele MARGARONE 08:55 09:25 Advanced Acceleration Mechanisms for Medical Applications of Laser Driven Ions Stepan S.BULANOV University of California, Berkeley, USA 09:25 09:55 A Novel Scheme for Simultaneous Focussing, Energy Selection and Post-acceleration of Laser Driven Ions Satyabrata KAR The Queen s University Belfast, UK 09:55 10:25 ELIMED: a Transport Beamline for Medical and Multidisciplinary Applications at ELI-Beamlines Pablo CIRRONE INFN-LNS, Catania, Italy 10:25 10:40 COFFEE BREAK 10:40 11:10 Radiation Chemistry with Secondary Particle Sources at ELI Beamlines Martin PŘEČEK 11:10 11:40 Numerical Simulations for the Optimization of Ion Acceleration by Intense Femtosecond Pulses Jiří LIMPOUCH Czech Technical University, Czech Republic 11:40 12:00 Solid H Target through a Cryogenic System for Proton Acceleration Andriy VELYHAN 12:00 12:20 Advanced Targets for Enhanced Ion Acceleration at ELIMAIA Lorenzo GIUFFRIDA 12:20 13:30 LUNCH Moderator: Tadzio LEVATO 13:30 13:55 The H.E.L.L. Platform: High Energy Electron Acceleration and Counter-Propagation at ELI Beams. Introductory Tadzio LEVATO 5
13:55 14:25 Electron Acceleration with a PW-class Laser: Advanced Experiments at APRI-GIST H.T.KIM APRI-GIST, Gwangju, South Korea 14:25 14:55 Non-linear Inverse Compton Scattering: Signatures of Classical and Quantum-Dominated Regime for Multi-PW Laser Facilities Marija VRANIC GOLP-IPFN, IST, Lisboa, Portugal 14:55 15:25 PIConGPU: A fast & free Tool for Electron Plasma Acceleration and Radiation Emission Simulations, State of the Art and Future Vision Michael BUSSMANN HZDR, Dresden, Germany 15:25 15:55 The Star Facility: A Photon-electron Collider as a Source of Monochromatic X-Ray Oriented to Applications Raffaelle G. AGOSTINO University of Calabria, Italy 15:55 16:10 COFFEE BREAK 16:10 16:30 HELL User Station and Potential Applications Gabriele Maria GRITTANI 16:30 16:50 Multi-Lanex Emittance Diagnostic of Electron Bunch from LWFA Miroslav KRUS 16:50 17:10 Capillary Discharge Plasma Electron Density Measurement by Deflectometry - Usability and Limitations Michal NEVRKLA 17:10 17:20 SHORT BREAK 17:20 19:00 Round Table Discussion Ion Acceleration / Suk Hall Moderators: S.S.Bulanov / P.Cirrone / D.Margarone 17:20 19:00 Round Table Discussion Electron Acceleration / Ringhoffer Lounge Moderators: H.T.Kim / M.Vranic / T.Levato 19:15 Bus departure from Štiřín to Praha 6
Thursday October 22, 2015 Prospective User Workshop Plasma and High Energy Density Physics Exotic Physics and Theory Hunting Hall - Castle building Moderator: Stefan Weber 08:30 08:55 Plasma Physics at ELI-Beamlines: Infrastructure and Research Introductory Stefan WEBER 08:55 09:25 Progress on Laser-Plasma Based Radiation Sources and Amplifiers Dino JAROSZYNSKI SUPA Glasgow, United Kingdom 09:25 09:55 Studies on High Energy Density Physics at ILE, Osaka Masakatsu MURAKAMI ILE, Osaka, Japan 09:55 10:25 Recent Progress on the Ultra-intense and Ultra-short Laser at SIOM Yuxin LENG SIOM Shanghai, China 10:25 10:40 COFFEE BREAK 10:40 11:10 Collective Electron and Ion Dynamics in the Relativistic Transparency Regime Paul McKENNA SCAPA Glasgow, United Kingdom 11:10 11:40 HED Future Challenges: SPRINT-LULI Take and Pathways for Collaboration with ELI Sophia CHEN LULI Paris, France 11:40 12:10 Near-Transform-limit Pulse Compression in a Femtosecond Multi-Petawatt Laser Zhaoyang LI SIOM Shanghai, China 12:10 13:30 LUNCH 13:30 14:00 Prospective X-ray Spectroscopic Experiments at ELI-Beamlines Oldřich RENNER Institute of Physics AS CR, Czech Republic 14:00 15:00 Fundamental Physics with ELI: Exotic Matter Research Ladislav DRSKA Czech Technical University, Czech Republic 15:00 15:30 Warm Dense Matter Research at ELI Beamlines Kateřina FALK 15:30 16:00 COFFEE BREAK 16:00 18:30 Round Table Discussion / Moderator: Stefan Weber 19:15 Bus departure from Štiřín to Praha 7
Thursday October 22, 2015 Prospective User Workshop Applications in Molecular, Biomedical, Material Sciences Salm Hall - Chval House Moderator: Jakob Andreasson 08:30 09:00 Introduction to Laser Driven X-ray Sources, Progress on Fully Coherent XUV Plasma Sources Introductory Stephane SEBBAN 09:00 09:20 Higher Harmonic Beamline and Betatron a Compton Scattering at ELI Beamlines Jaroslav NEJDL 09:20 09:30 Laser Driven Undulator X-ray Source (LUX) Beamline Lukáš PŘIBYL 09:30 10:00 Plasma X-ray Source and Experimental Station for X-ray Scattering, Diffraction, Spectroscopy and Imaging Petr BRUZA 10:00 10:15 COFFEE BREAK 10:15 10:45 Applications in Molecular, Bio and Materials Sciences Jakob ANDREASSON 10:45 11:15 Optical Probes and Pump Beams Miroslav KLOZ 11:15 11:45 Beamlines Integration Support Team Tomas LASTOVICKA 12:00 13:30 LUNCH 13:30 14:00 Design Suggestions for a Successful AMO End Station John BOZEK Soleil Synchrotron, France 14:00 14:30 Time Resolved VUV Magneto Optical Ellipsometry at ELI Beamlines Michael RÜBHAUSEN CFEL, Hamburg, Germany 14:30 15:00 Femtochemistry with X-rays: Using New Observables Towards an Ultimate High-speed Molecular Camera Christian BRESSLER European XFEL Hamburg, Germany 15:00 15:30 Femtosecond Structural Dynamic of Carotenoids Tomas POLIVKA University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic 15:30 16:00 COFFEE BREAK 16:00 18:30 Round Table Discussion /Moderator: Jakob Andreasson 19:15 Bus departure from Štiřín to Praha 8
Friday October 23, 2015 09:15 Bus departure from the Štiřín Castle to the airport With a stop at the metro station Zličín, yellow line B if you want to visit Prague city centre www.eli-beams.eu 9