25–29 Aug 2025
Europe/Prague timezone

Programme

Monday - August 25, 2025

Keynote talk, ELI ERIC overview, laser technology

10:00 - 10:30
Welcome word and ELI ERIC overview

Allen Weeks (ELI ERIC Director General)

10:30-10:40
Welcome to ELI Beamlines Facility

Roman Hvězda (ELI Beamlines Facility Director)

 10:40-11:00

 ELISS2025 Programme Overview (Anna Zymaková)

 Intro to Social Media activity (Alexandra Schmidli)

11:00 - 12:30
Tutorial: Ultrafast high power laser technology

Clara Saraceno (Ruhr-Universität Bochum-Germany)

12:30-14:00 / Lunch break

14:00-15:00 

Tutorial: Spatio-temporal couplings in ultrashort pulses

Daniel Ursescu (ELI NP-Romania)

15:00-15:15 / Break

15:15-16:00

ELI ERIC lasers

Tyler Green (ELI ERIC, Beamlines facility-Czech Republic)

16:00-16:45 

Career Panel session

Moderator: Alexandra Schmidli

16:45-18:15

Laboratory tours part 1

16:45/18:00-20:00

Ice breaking event (location: ELI-barn)

Tuesday - August 26, 2025

High Harmonic Generation

09:00 - 10:00

KEYNOTE TALK

Donna Strickland, Nobel Prize laureate (University of Waterloo-Canada)

10:00 - 11:00
Science of high harmonic generation and attosecond pulses

Katalin Varju (ELI ERIC, ALPS facility-Hungary)

11:00 - 11:30 / Coffee break

Plasma Physics, High Energy Physics Division, Inertial Confinement Fusion

11:30 - 12:30 

The physics of laser plasma interaction in inertial fusion and high energy density phenomena

Ondrej Klimo (Czech Technical University-Czech Republic)

12:30 - 13:00 

ELISS2025 Group photo (meeting point - ELI main entrance)

13:00 - 14:00 / Lunch break

14:00 - 15:00

Dynamic Compression Experiments: Replicating Planetary Interior States in the Laboratory

Jon Eggert (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory-USA)

15:00 - 16:00

Magnetized plasmas in the context of inertial confinement fusion

Chikang Li (MIT-USA)

16:00 - 16:30 / Coffee Break

16:30 - 17:30

Basics and challenges of Inertial Confinement Fusion

Laurent Masse (CEA-France)

17:30 - 18:00

ELI instrumentation for HEDP

Michael Ehret (ELI ERIC, Beamlines facility-Czech Republic)

19:00 

Speakers dinner (by invitation only)

Wednesday - August 27, 2025

Nuclear Physics, Particle acceleration, Biological and Medical applications

9:00 - 9:45
Progressing nuclear physics by facilitating the unique beam features of
high-power laser systems - the dawn of a new Era

Klaus Spohr (ELI NP-Romania)

9:45 - 10:30
GeV Compton photons generated with multi-PW lasers

Petru Ghenuche (ELI NP-Romania)

10:30-11:00/ Coffee break

11:00 - 11:45 

Laser-driven ion acceleration

Alessandro Maffini (Politecnico di Milano-Italy)

11:45 - 12:35

Laser Plasma based Nuclear Reactions and Plasma Diagnostics

Daniele Margarone (ELI ERIC, Beamlines facility-Czech Republic)

12:35 - 14:00 / Lunch break

14:00 - 14:45

Medical applications and capabilities at ELI 

Katalin Hideghéty (University of Szeged and ELI ERIC, ALPS Facility, Hungary)

14:45 - 15:35

An ultra short story of laser wakefield accelerator

Victor Malka (Weizmann Institute of Science-Israel & ELI NP- Romania)

15:35 - 16:15

ELI electron acceleration technology

Gabriele Grittani (ELI ERIC, Beamlines facility-Czech Republic)

16:15 - 17:45

Laboratory tours part 2 / coffee break

17:45 - 20:00

Poster session (ELI-barn)

Thursday - August 28, 2025

Space applications

9:00 - 10:00

FEATURED TALK
JUICE: The challenges of missions to inhospitable places

Alessandro Atzei (European Space Agency-Netherlands)

10:00 - 10:45
Space Related Chemistry and Technology at Enceladus and Europa

Bernd Abel (Leipzig University-Germany)

10:45 - 11:30
TBA

Dominik Kraus (University of Rostock-Germany)

11:30 - 13:00 / Lunch break


Hard X-ray science

13:00 - 13:50 

Hard X-ray sources [educational] 

Jens Uhlig (Lund University-Sweden)

13:50 - 14:30

ELI technologies - hard X-ray sources 

Jaroslav Nejdl (ELI ERIC, Beamlines facility-Czech Republic)

14:30-15:00 / Distribution into different hands-on activities

15:00 - 18:30

Hands-On activities

Bus transfer to the Gala Dinner (meeting point - ELI Beamlines main entrance)

19:30 

Gala dinner

Friday - August 29, 2025

Gas phase science

9:30 - 10:15
Quantum aspects of high harmonic generation

Hamed Merdji (Ecole Polytechnique-France)

10:15 - 11:00
What can we learn from looking inside of nanoparticles with intense XUV-light?

Maria Krikunova (Technische Hochschule Wildau-Germany)

11:00 - 11:30/ Coffee break

Molecular dynamics in liquids

11:30 - 12:15

Attosecond and soft-X-ray spectroscopy of  liquids 

Hans Jakob Wörner (ETH Zürich-Switzerland)

12:15 - 13:00

Vibrational dynamics of electronically excited metal complexes: relaxation, coherence, and ultrafast Raman spectroscopy

Antonin Vlcek (Queen Mary University of London-UK/Czech Academy of Sciences-Czech Republic)

13:00 - 14:00 / Lunch break

Material and surface science

14:00 - 14:45

Spectroscopic Mueller Matrix Ellipsometry for control of plasmonic, and dielectric metasurfaces

Morten Kildemo (Norwegian University of Science and Technology-Norway)

14:45 - 15:30

Ultrafast Momentum Microscopy – A Novel Tool for Imaging Charge and Spin Carriers in Solids on Ultrafast timescales

Benjamin Stadtmueller (University of Augsburg-Germany)

15:30 - 15:45

ELISS2025 Final remarks and Closure

Roman Hvězda (ELI Beamlines Facility Director)