PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Monday | September 1, 2025
08:00 - 09:00 | Registration (the registration desk will be available within the whole conference)
09:00 - 09:20 | WELCOME & OPENING
09:20 - 10:30 | Session 1| Lasers
09:20 - 09:50 | Daniele Margarone | Extreme Light and Radiation at the ELI Beamlines Facility
09:50 - 10:20 | Gabrielle Grittani | Multi-PW laser collisions at ELI
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 - 12:30 | Session 2 | SF-QED
10:50 - 11:30 | Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan | TBD (Plenary Talk)
11:30 - 12:00 | Christoph Ridgers | Towards experimental observation of strong-field quantum electrodynamics using high-intensity lasers
12:00 - 12:30 | Gianluca Sarri | Current status and next steps of strong-field QED experiments at PW laser facilities
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:40 | Session 3 | Laboratory Astrophysics
13:30 - 14:10 | Remo Ruffini | TBD (Plenary Talk)
14:10 - 14:40 | Shuta Tanaka | Study of Intense Radiation Propagation in Astrophysical Environments with Extremely High-Intensity Lasers
14:40 - 15:10 | Gregory Vereshchagin | Electron-positron pair creation in electrosphere of compact astrophysical objects
15:10 - 15:40 | Jorge A. Rueda | Strong electromagnetic fields in neutron star binary mergers: inferences from the short gamma-ray burst 0905010
15:40 - 16:10 Coffee Break
16:10 - 17:40 | Session 4 | Gamma Ray Flash/Burst
16:10 - 16:40 | Tong Pu Yu | Ultra-Brilliant γ-ray Emission and Copious Positron Generation from Laser-Driven Plasmas” (invited talk)
16:40 - 17:10 | Prokopis Hadjsolomou | Gamma-Ray Flash for fundamental science and applications
17:10 - 17:40 | Alexander Pirozhkov | Laser-Driven Gamma Flash Demonstration
18:00 - 20:00 | Lab Tour (selected halls) & Welcome Party | ELI Beamlines Barn
Tuesday | September 2, 2025
09:00 - 10:40 | Session 5 | SF-QED
09:00 - 09:40 | Felix Karbstein | „Dark-field Concept for the Measurement of Weak Quantum Vacuum Signals“ (plenary talk)
09:40 - 10:10 | Chul Min Kim | „Nonlinear Compton scattering: an entry into the strongly nonlinear regime„ (invited talk)
10:10 - 10:40 | Francesco Pegoraro | „Light structures in an extended Heisenberg-Euler Lagrangian with higher order derivatives“ (invited talk)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 | Session 6
11:00 - 11:20 | Tatiana Smorodnikova | “Experiment 320 at SLAC: first quantitative measurements of quantum radiation reaction“
11:20 - 11:40 | Christian Kohlfürst | „Strong-Field Electron-Positron Pair Production“
11:40 - 12:00 | Christoffer Olofsson | „Probing Strong-Field QED via Angle-Discriminated Emissions from Electrons Traversing Colliding Laser Pulses”
12:00 - 12:30 | Matthew Wing | “LUXE: a new experiment to study non-perturbative QED and search for new particles in electron-laser and photon-laser collisions” (invited talk)
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 | Session 7
13:30 - 13:50 | Aimé Matheron | „Compton photons at the GeV scale from self-aligned
collisions with a plasma mirror : Overview of the ELI-NP and APOLLON campaings“
13:50 - 14:10 | Ali Aras | “The DeLLight Experiment: Reaching the Ultimate Sensitivity Toward Observing the Optical Nonlinearity of Vacuum”
14:10 - 14:30 | Mattey Pouyez | „Towards Laboratory Electron-Positron Plasma via Electromagnetic Showers“
14:30 - 15:00 | Noam Tal Hod / Roman Urmanov | “Towards detection of Breit-Wheeler tunneling positrons in E320 at the FACET-II accelerator”
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:30 | Session 8 | High energy electrons
15:30 - 16:00 | Petr Valenta | “Scaling in the optimal regime of the LWFA electron acceleration in the extreme field limit”
16:00 - 16:30 | Li-Xiang Hu | “The generation and application of ultra-intense laser-driven ultrashort electron pulses”
16:30 - 17:00 | Óscar Amaro | „Predictive tool for Nonlinear Compton and Radiation Reaction scattering experiments“
17:00 - 17:30 | TBD
17:00 - 19:00 | Poster Session | ELI Atrium
- Wen-Jun Liu
“Generation of Relativistic Polarization-tunable Mid-infrared Pulses in Transversely Magnetized Plasma” - Ingmar Kloss
“Geometrical reconstruction of Dirac solutions: gravitational interactions and comparison to electromagnetic case” - Deepak Sah
“Entanglement Dynamics in Vacuum Pair Production Under Multi-Pulse Laser Fields” - Nathan Smith
“Surrogate modeling of X-Ray emission and Positron production in Laser-Plasma interactions” - Timo Pohle
“Detection and Evaluation Routine for Low SNR Signals as Expected from the Photon-Photon Scattering Experiment at CALA” - Fabian Schütze
“A dark-field setup for the measurement of light-by-light scattering with high-intensity lasers” - Leonard Doyle
“Sources of Background Signals in a Potential Photon-Photon Scattering Experiment at CALA” - Zixin Zhang
“Computational modelling of the semi-classical quantum vacuum in 3D” - Lars Maiwald
“Phase transition analogs in laser collisions with a dark-field setup” - Elena Mosman
“Analytic study of vacuum birefrigence and diffraction” - Soïg Turban
„Ionization dynamics beyond 10^22 W.cm−2: fundamental physics and in-situ intensity characterization “
Wednesday | September 3, 2025
09:00 - 10:30 | Session 9
09:00 - 09:30 | Arseny Mironov | Loop effects and non-perturbativity in interaction of high-energy particles with extreme electromagnetic fields
09:30 - 10:00 | Di Liu | “Investigating the locally monochromatic approximation to a two-vertex process”
10:00 - 10:30 | Ralf Schützhold | „Dynamically Assisted Tunnelling “
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 | Session 10 | Flying Focus
11:00 - 11:30 | Martin Stack Formanek | „Generating high-brilliance gamma rays with flying focus pulses“ (invited talk)
11:30 - 11:50 | Tim Adamo | „Flying focus, self-duality and scattering“
12:00 - 12:30 | John Palastro | „High-intensity laser-matter interactions driven by flying-focus pulses“
12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch
13:30 - 14:30 | Transport by bus from ELI to Prague center
14:30 - 18:30 | Prague tour
18:30 | Conference Dinner
Thursday | September 4, 2025
09:00 - 10:30 | Session 11 | Rel. Catoptrics
09:00 - 09:40 | Alec Thomas | „Plasma wakefield acceleration of light to reach the limits of SF-QED“ (plenary talk)
09:40 - 10:10 | Subhendu Kahaly „TBD“
10:10 - 10:40 | Henry Vincenti „TBD“
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 | Session 12
11:00 - 11:30 | Tae Moon Jeong | „Spontaneous electron-positron pair creation using the relativistic mirror”
11:30 - 12:00 | Adam Noble | „Towards gamma-ray free-electron lasers“
12:00 - 12:30 | Emanuele Sobacchi | „Fast Radio Bursts as strong electromagnetic waves”
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 | Session 13
13:30 - 14:00 | Thomas Grismayer | „Linear and non-linear phase of an SF-QED cascade from exponential growth to background field screening“
14:00 - 14:30 | Sven Ahrens | “Non-perturbative, relativistic numeric modeling of Kapitza-Dirac electron spin dynamics in a focused laser beam”
14:30 - 15:00 | Mateusz Majczak | „Spin effects in the dynamical Schwinger process: Relevance of vortex structures“
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:30 | Session 14
15:30 - 16:00 | Mickael Grech | „Avalanche-type Cascades: Modeling the Threshold for Pair Plasma Generation“
16:00 - 16:30 | Evgeni Gelfer | „Coherent radiaton and radiaton fricton in collisions of a charged partcle bunch with a laser“,
16:30 - 17:00 | Martin Jirka | TBD
16:30 - 17:00 | Marcel Lamac | „TBD“
17:00 - 17:30 | TBD
Friday | September 5, 2025
09:00 - 10:30 | Session 15
09:00 - 09:30 | Greger Torgrimsson |„Worldline instantons for the momentum spectrum of strong-field-QED processes in space-time dependent fields“
09:30 - 10:00 | Ben King | „Vacuum muon decay and interaction with laser pulses“
10:00 - 10:30 | Anton Ilderton | „The Schwinger effect and Hawking radiation from worldline QFT“
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 | Session 16
11:00 - 11:30 | Igor Pogorelsky | “Current and Emerging Long-Wave Infrared Lasers for Strong-Field Physics Research”
11:30 - 12:00 | Vidmantas Tomkus | „Laser Driven Hard X-ray/Gamma Ray Source from Multistage Gas Targets
12:00 - 12:30 | Michael Quin | „Electron-positron beams: an ideal source of coherent light“
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 | Session 17
13:30 - 14:00 | Maksim Valialshchikov | “Quantum Reflection as an Observable Quantum Vacuum Signature”
14:00 - 14:30 | Nikita Larin | “Extended Locally Monochromatic Approximation of SFQED Processes”
14:30 - 15:00 | Eva Los | TBC
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:30 | Session 18
15:30 - 16:00 | Martin Matys | „Collimated γ-flash emission along planar surfaces and enhanced yield in channel-like targets at oblique incidence“
16:00 - 16:30 | TBC
16:30 - 17:00 | TBC
17:00 - 17:30 |
