14–18 Sept 2026
Institute of Physics | Building SOLID
Europe/Prague timezone

Preliminary Programme

Preliminary schedule

  • Registration open – Monday morning 7:30
  • Opening ceremony – Monday 9:00
  • Welcome drink – Monday 18:30
  • Poster session – Tuesday or Thursday afternoon
  • Conference dinner – Thursday 19:00
  • Closing – Friday 13:00
  • Visit to ELI Beamlines – Friday 13:00
  • Satellite meeting – Saturday

Invited Speakers (preliminary titles)

  • Sahar Arjmand (INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud)    
    Development of a High-Charge VHEE laser-plasma electron source at I-LUCE facility: from tapered discharge capillary modeling to dosimetric evaluations
  • Dimitri Batani (Université de Bordeaux, CNRS, CEA, CELIA)   
    Contributions from the HiPER+ community to advancing knowledge of IFE physics
  • Erik Brambrink (European XFEL)   
    HAFEN: a fusion instrument at European XFEL
  • Tomasz Chodukowski (Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, Warsaw)   
    Efficiency of laser energy conversion with Cavity Pressure Acceleration scheme
  • Silvia Cippicia (University College London)   
    Dark field x-ray imaging at the femtosecond using a laser driven x-ray source
  • Sebastian Corde (École Polytechnique)   
    Progress towards strong-field QED studies at multi-PW laser and accelerator facilities
  • Manuel Cotelo (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)   
    Inertial Fusion Hybrid Targets for Advanced Lasers
  • Brendan Dromey (Queen's University Belfast)   
    Intense attosecond pulses via relativistic harmonic generation
  • Mickael Grech (LULI, CNRS, CEA, Sorbonne Universite, Ecole Polytechnique)   
    Kinetic Theory and Scaling Laws of QED Cascades: From Crossed Fields to Solid Targets
  • Wenyi Huo (Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing)   
    Nonlocal electron heat transport involving Langdon effect in laser plasmas
  • Olle Lundh (Lund University)   
    Sub-cycle effects in few-cycle-laser-driven Laser Wakefield Acceleration
  • Alessandro Maffini (Politecnico di Milano)   
    Tailoring laser-matter interaction using near-critical nanofoam targets
  • Carmen Menoni (Colorado State University)   
    Overview of activities within the US-IFE RISE Hub
  • Pierre Michel (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)   
    Gas optics for high-power lasers
  • Masakatsu Murakami (Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University)   
    Self-Similar Multi-Shock Implosions for Ultra-High Compression of Matter
  • Eduardo Oliva (Instituto de Fusion Nuclear "Guillermo Velarde")   
    Modelling the interaction of structured light with inhomogeneous plasmas: applications to plasma diagnosis, HOH amplification and air lasing
  • Rick Olson (Los Alamos National Laboratory)   
    Physics of laser direct-drive liquid deuterium-tritium wetted foam capsules for inertial confinement fusion
  • Ishay Pomerantz (Tel-Aviv University)   
    Advances in Direct Laser Acceleration: High-Brightness X-ray and Neutron Sources via Plasma Guiding, High-Z Targets, and Flying Focus Pulses
  • Bedrich Rus (ELI ERIC)   
    High-peak, high-average power lasers to enable novel secondary sources at ELI-Beamlines
  • Ulrich Schramm (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)   
    Boosting laser plasma proton acceleration in near critical density targets
  • Samuel Schumacher (University of Rostock)   
    Measurement of the Opacity of Hydrogen at Red Dwarf Star Interior Conditions
  • Luís O. Silva (Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon)   
    From laser wakefield acceleration to strong field QED
  • Sławomir Skruszewicz (University of Hamburg)   
    Imaging and Probing Matter on Extreme Time and Length Scales Enabled by High-Harmonic Generation
  • Li Song (Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics)   
    Research Advances in High-Brightness Betatron Radiation and Its Applications Driven by Ultrafast Intense Lasers at SIOM
  • Ioannis Tazes (Hellenic Mediteranean University)   
    High-Repetition-Rate Laser-Driven Ion Acceleration via Optically Shaped Near-Critical Density Gaseous Targets
  • Paolo Tomassini (ELI-ERIC)   
    Design of 100's attoseconds long and high-brightness multi-GeV electron beams LWFA accelerator and Free Electron Laser optimization for water-window single/few-spikes X ray sources