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For participants who indicated transportation in the registration form, daily transfers from Prague to ELI are provided.
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Programme
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Poster guidelines are available here.
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 for Strong-Field Science. Chair: S. Bulanov
09:20 - 09:50 | Daniele Margarone | Extreme Light and Radiation at the ELI Beamlines Facility
09:50 - 10:20 | Gabrielle Grittani | ELBA All-optical laser electron collider approaching X~1 at ELI Beamlines
10:20 - 10:50 | Coffee Break
10:50 - 12:30 | Session 2 | SF-QED, I. Chair: A. Macleod
10:50 - 11:30 | Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan | Electron and photon polariyation as a tool for exploration and diagnostics of extreme plasmas (Plenary Talk)
11:30 - 12:00 | Anton Ilderton | The Schwinger effect and Hawking radiation from worldline QFT
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 | Relativistic astrophysics in the Dark matter era (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 | Eva Los | Extreme Astrophysics with Laboratory electron-positron jets
15:10 - 15:40 | Emanuele Sobacchi | Fast Radio Bursts as strong electromagnetic waves
15:40 - 16:10 | Coffee Break
16:10 - 17:40 | Session 4 | Gamma Ray Flash/Burst. Chair: G. Grittani
16:10 - 16:40 | Alexander Pirozhkov | Laser-Driven Gamma Flash Demonstration
16:40 - 17:10 | Petr Valenta | Towards optimal scaling of laser wakefield accelerators in extreme field limit
17:10 - 17:40 | Li-Xiang Hu | The generation and application of ultraintense laser-driven ultrashort electron pulses
18:00 - 20:00 | Lab Tour (selected halls) & Welcome Party | ELI Beamlines Barn
Tuesday | September 2, 2025
08:30 | Registration desk opens
09:00 - 10:40 | Session 5 | SF-QED, II. Chair: A. Ilderton
09:00 - 09:40 | Felix Karbstein | QED in intense background fields with an emphasis on quantum vacuum effects (plenary talk)
09:40 - 10:10 | Chul Min Kim | Nonlinear Compton scattering: an entry into the strongly nonlinear regime
10:10 - 10:40 | Francesco Pegoraro | Light structures in an extended Heisenberg-Euler Lagrangian with higher order derivatives
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 | Session 6 | Strong Field Experiment, I. Chair: G. Sarri
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
12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 | Session 7 | Strong Field Experiment, II. Chair: A. Thomas
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 | Roman Urmanov | Towards detection of Breit-Wheeler tunneling positrons in E320 at the FACET-II accelerator
15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:20 | Session 8 | High energy electrons. Chair: C. Ridgers
15:30 - 16:00 | Prokopis Hadjsolomou | Gamma-Ray Flash for fundamental science and applications
16:00 - 16:30 | Tong Pu Yu | Ultra-Brilliant γ-ray Emission and Copious Positron Generation from Laser-Driven Plasmas
16:30 - 17:00 | Óscar Amaro | Predictive tool for Nonlinear Compton and Radiation Reaction scattering experiments
17:00 - 17:20 | Martin Matys | Collimated y-flash emission along planar surfaces and enhanced yield in channel-like targets at oblique incidence
17:30 - 19:00 | Poster Session | ELI Atrium. Chair: M. Matys
- Ivan Ahumada
Low-energy multi-photon scattering at tree-level and one-loop order in a homogeneous electromagnetic field - Frida Brogren
π-PIC: a toolbox for particle-in-cell simulations in Python - Leonard Doyle
Sources of Background Signals in a Potential Photon-Photon Scattering Experiment at CALA - Cagri Erciyes
Broadband coherent XUV light from e-/e+ microbunching in an intense laser pulse - Tales Augusto Oliveira Gomes | Cherenkov radiation from quantum vacuum around Pulsars
- Kyle Fleck | Constraining Two-Photon Processes with Enhanced Experimental Parameters
- Matej Jech
TBD - Ingmar Kloss
Geometrical reconstruction of Dirac solutions: gravitational interactions and comparison to electromagnetic case - Wen-Jun Liu
Generation of Relativistic Polarization-tunable Mid-infrared Pulses in Transversely Magnetized Plasma - Lars Maiwald
Phase transition analogs in laser collisions with a dark-field setup - Timo Pohle
Detection and Evaluation Routine for Low SNR Signals as Expected from the Photon-Photon Scattering Experiment at CALA - Felipe Salgado
Accelerating Electron Beams using D- and Ring-Shaped Near-Field Laser Beams for the Pair-Production Experiment at CALA - Deepak Sah
Entanglement Dynamics in Vacuum Pair Production Under Multi-Pulse Laser Fields - Fabian Schütze
A dark-field setup for the measurement of light-by-light scattering with high-intensity lasers - Jiri Shisma | TBD
- Nathan Smith
Surrogate modeling of X-Ray emission and Positron production in Laser-Plasma interactions - Alsbeta Spadova
TBD - Soïg Turban
Ionization dynamics beyond 10^22 W.cm−2: fundamental physics and in-situ intensity characterization
Wednesday | September 3, 2025
08:30 | Registration desk opens
09:00 - 10:30 | Session 9 | Nonlinear Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics, I
09:00 - 09:30 | Alec Thomas | Plasma wakefield acceleration of light to reach the limits of SF-QED (plenary talk)
09:30 - 10:00 | Nikita Larin | Extended locally monochromatic approximation of SFQED processes
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 | John Palastro | High-intensity laser-matter interactions driven by flying-focus pulses
11:30 - 12:00 | Tim Adamo | Flying focus, self-duality and scattering
12:00 - 12:30 | Martin Stack Formanek | Generating high-brilliance gamma rays with flying focus pulses
12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch
13:30 - 15:30 | Session 11 | SF-QED, III. Chair: F. Karbstein
13:30 - 14:00 | Wenchao Yan | Structured Extreme Field Driven Compton Scattering and QED Exploration
14:00 - 14:30 | Gregory Vereshchagin | Electron-positron pair creation in electrosphere of compact astrophysical objects
14:30 - 15:00 | Naser Ahmadiniaz | From Light-by-Light Scattering to N-Photon Amplitudes
15:00 - 15:20 | Maksim Valialshchikov | Quantum reflection as an observable quantum vacuum signature
15:20 - 15:40 | Di Liu | Investigating the locally monochromatic approximation to a two-vertex process
16:00- 16:45 | Transport by bus from ELI to Prague center
17:00 - 19:00 | Prague tour
19:30 | Conference Dinner
Thursday | September 4, 2025
08:30 | Registration desk opens
09:00 - 10:30 | Session 12 | Relativistic Catoptrics. Chair: A. Pirozhkov
09:00 - 09:30 | Subhendu Kahaly | TBD
09:30 - 10:00 | Henry Vincenti | Plasma mirrors: a promising path to extreme light
10:00 - 10:30 | Jorge A. Rueda | Strong electromagnetic fields in neutron star binary mergers: inferences from the short gamma-ray burst 0905010
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 | Session 13 | Nonlinear Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics, II. Chair: F. Karbstein
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 | Arseny Mironov | Loop effects and non-perturbativity in interaction of high-energy particles with extreme electromagnetic fields
12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 | Session 14 | SF-QED, IV. Chair: W. Yan
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 - 18:00 | Session 15 | SF-QED, V. Chair: T. Grismayer
15:30 - 16:00 | Mickael Grech | Avalanche-type Cascades: Modeling the Threshold for Pair Plasma Generation
16:00 - 16:30 | Ben King | Vacuum muon decay and interaction with laser pulses
16:30 - 17:00 | Evgeni Gelfer | Coherent radiaton and radiaton fricton in collisions of a charged partcle bunch with a laser
17:00 - 17:30 | Martin Jirka | Effect of radially polarized laser beam on laser-electron collision
17:30 - 18:00 | Marcel Lamac | Relativistic mirrors for strong-field QED applications
Friday | September 5, 2025
09:00 - 10:30 | Session 16 | SF-QED, VII. Chair: C. M. Kim
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 | Christoph Ridgers | Towards experimental observation of strong-field quantum electrodynamics using high-intensity lasers
10:00 - 10:30 | Michael Quin | Electron-positron beams: an ideal source of coherent light
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 | Session 17 | Perspective Applications
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 - 13:00 | Lunch
13:00 - 14:30 | Session 18 | Strong Field Science. Chair: E. Gelfer
13:00 - 13:30 | Zixin Zhang | Computational modelling of the semi-classical quantum vacuum in 3D
13:30 - 14:00 | François Fillion-Gourdeau | Challenges in observing Light-Induced Gravitational Effects with high-intensity lasers
14:00 - 14:30 | Closing of the Conference & Next ExHILP Announcement
