31 August 2026 to 4 September 2026
ELI ALPS Facility
Europe/Budapest timezone

Timetable

31 August

 

8:00-8:50

Registration

 

8:50-9:15

Chair: Gábor Szabó

Welcome

 
 

9:15-10:15

Fundamentals of attosecond science by high-order harmonic generation in gases
Anne L'Huillier 
(Keynote speaker)
(online)

 
 
 
 

10:15-10:45

Coffee break

 
 

10:45-11:30

Discovery Science and Missions 

with ELI unique lasers
Leonida A. Gizzi

 
 
 

11:30-12:30

Session I
Gas phase femto- & attosecond physics
Chair: Dimitris Charalambidis

Attosecond metrology and spectroscopy 

in gas-phase experiments 

Giuseppe Sansone

 
 
 

12:30-13:15

The physics of attosecond pulses
Balázs Major

 
 
 

13:15-14:15

Lunch break & HR Corner

 
 
 

14:15-15:00

Session II
Space applications

Experimental investigations into ion-induced reactions of atmospheric and interstellar relevance
Wolf Geppert
(online)

 
 
 

15:00-15:45

Laser-plasma based aerospace radiation hardness testing
Bernhard Hidding

 
 
 

15:45-16:15

Coffee break

 
 

16:15-18:00

Hands-on activities

 
 

 

1 September

 

9:00-9:15

Session III
Biomedical applications
Chair: Katalin Hideghéty

Daily announcements

 

9:15-10:15

Laser-driven particle and radiation sources 
for biomedical applications
Gianluca Sarri

 
 
 
 

10:15-10:45

Coffee break

 
 

10:45-11:30

Field-resolved infrared fingerprinting for blood-based disease detection
Alexander Weigel

 
 
 

11:30-12:30

Session IV
Quantum atto
Chair: Zsolt Lécz

Attosecond quantum technology for materials science
Jens Biegert

 
 
 
 

12:30-13:15

Strong-field quantum optics
Paraskevas Tzallas

 
 
 

13:15-14:15

Lunch break & HR Corner

 
 
 

14:15-16:00

Poster session & long coffee break
Chair: Lázár Tóth

Flash poster talks

 
 
 

16:00-18:00

Q&A poster exhibition

 
 
 

 

2 September

 

9:00-9:15

Session V
Condensed phase 
femto- & attosecond physics
Chair: László Óvári

Daily announcements

 

9:15-10:15

Single optical cycle photonics
Eleftherios Goulielmakis

 
 

10:15-10:45

 
 

Coffee break

 
 

10:45-11:30

How to study Rabi oscillations in graphene using time- and 
angle-resolved photoemission
Michael Bauer

 
 
 

11:30-12:30

Session VI
Plasma physics & related secondary sources, LFE
Chair: Christos Kamperidis

 Relativistically oscillating mirrors - a route to extreme intensities

Matt Zepf
(online) 

 
 
 
 

12:30-13:15

Introduction to laser wakefield acceleration
Petr Valenta
(online)

 
 
 

13:15-14:15

Lunch break & HR Corner

 
 
 

14:15-15:00

Session VII
Atto-, XUV, X-ray, hard X-ray sources
Chair: Zsolt Divéki

Quantum machines for new states of matter: the dipolar supersolid
Nicolò Antolini

 
 
 

15:00-15:45

Laser-plasma based in-operando sub-picosecond X-ray sources
Olivier Utéza

 
 
 

15:45-16:15

Coffee break

 
 

16:15-18:00

Laboratory visits

 
 
 
 
 

 

 

18:15

Shuttle departure to the dinner venue (for all participants)

 

 

 

 
 

19:00

ELISS dinner
Poster awards

 
 
 
 

 

3 September

 

9:00-9:15

Session VIII
Lasers
Chair: Ádám Börzsönyi

Daily announcements

 

9:15-10:15

Optical parametric 
chirped-pulse amplification
László Veisz

 
 
 
 

10:15-10:45

Coffee break

 
 

10:45-11:30

Introduction to laser physics
Roman Antipenkov

 
 
 

11:30-12:30

Session IX
THz science

Terahertz science across scales: 

From laser-driven plasmas to the nanoscale
Peter Uhd Jepsen

 
 
 
 

12:30-13:15

Measurement of strong-field THz-pulses
József Fülöp

 
 
 

13:15-14:15

Lunch break & HR Corner

 
 
 

14:15-15:00

Session X
Nuclear photonics

Nuclear physics applications of laser-driven sources
Vincent Lelasseux

 
 
 

15:00-15:45

Laser-driven neutron sources 
and applications
Károly Osvay

 
 
 

15:45-16:15

Coffee break

 
 

16:15-18:00

Hands-on activities

 
 
 
 

 

4 September

 

9:00-10:45

Hands-on activities

 
 
 
 
 

10:45-12:00

Coffee break and light lunch

 
 
 
 
 

Speakers:

Prof. Anne L'Huillier (Nobel Prize in Physics 2023) Keynote Speaker – Lund University, Sweden

Dr. Roman Antipenkov – ELI ERIC | Beamlines Facility, Czech Republic

Prof. Michael Bauer –  University of Kiel, Germany

Prof. Jens Biegert – IFCO, Spain

Prof. József Fülöp – ELI ERIC | ALPS Facility, Hungary

Dr. Leonida A. Gizzi – ELI ERIC, Czech Republic

Prof. Eleftherios Gulielmakis – University of Rostock, Germany

Prof. Geppert Wolf – Stockholm University, Sweeden

Prof. Bernhard Hidding – University of Strathclyde, UK; Heinrich Heine University, Germany

Prof. Peter Uhd Jepsen – Technical University of Denmark

Dr. Vincent Lelasseux – ELI-NP, Romania

Dr. Balázs Major – ELI ERIC | ALPS Facility, Hungary

Dr. Antolini Nicolò – LENS, Italy

Dr. Rosa Romero – Sphere Ultrafast Photonics

Dr. Károly Osvay – ELI ERIC

Prof. Giuseppe Sansone – University of Freiburg, Germany

Prof. Gianluca Sarri – Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom

Dr. Paraskevas Tzallas – FORTH, Greece

Dr. Olivier Utéza – Aix-Marseille University, France

Dr. Petr Valenta – ELI ERIC | Beamlines Facility, Czech Republic

Prof. László Veisz – Umeå University, Sweden

Dr. Alexander Weigel – Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Germany