2–5 Oct 2023
Europe/Prague timezone

Monday - October 2, 2023

08:30 – 09:00 |               Registration on site

Opening Session (Chair. Lorenzo Giuffrida)

09:00 – 09:10 |               Lorenzo Giuffrida (ELI Beamlines Facility) 
& Kataryzna Batani (Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, Warsaw)

09:10 – 09:30 |                Andrew Harrison (ELI ERIC) & Daniele Margarone (ELI Beamlines Facility)

09:30 – 09:40 |                Maria Cristina Falvella (Italian Embassy)

09:40 – 09:50 |                Vito De Bellis (Instituto Italiano di Cultura)

Advanced fusion approaches (Chair. Lorenzo Giuffrida)

09:50 – 10:20 |                INVITED LECTURE | Fabio Belloni
Status, prospects and basic research needs of p-11B fusion

10:20 – 10:40 |               Katarzyna Batani
Challenges, perspectives and applications of the laser driven proton-boron fusion supported by COST Action PROton BOron Nuclear fusion: from energy production to medical applicatiOns (PROBONO)

10:40 – 11:00 |                Coffee Break

Advanced fusion approaches (Chair: Tom Mehlhorn)

11:00 – 11:30 |               INVITED LECTURE | Yongtao Zhao
A Much-higher-than-predicted Measurement of Proton-Boron Fusion at Extremes

11:30 – 11:50 |               Bing Liu
ENN’s proton-boron fusion research towards fusion energy

11:50 – 12:10 |               Jianqiang Zhu 
The picosecond petawatt program at the National Laboratory on High Power Laser and Physics in China

12:10 – 12:30 |               Yihang Zhang
Energetic alpha particles generated in resonant proton-Boron reactions in laser-modulated plasmas

12:30 – 13:50 |                Lunch Break

Advanced fusion approaches (Chair: Dimitri Batani)

13:50 – 14:20 |               INVITED LECTURE | Thomas Mehlhorn
Fusion Burn and Target Design Criteria for the Proton-Boron Fuel Cycle Driven by Short Pulse Lasers

14:20 – 14:50 |               INVITED LECTURE | Richard Magee
Measurements of p11B alphas in a magnetically confined plasma

14:50 – 15:10 |               Georg Korn
Overview of Marvel Fusion

15:10 – 15:30 |               Marius Schollmeier
Experiment activities towards the validation of a directly driven, nanostructured, mixed-fuel fusion reactor

15:30 – 15:50 |               GAP Cirrone
The FUSION project: p(11B, α)2α fusion reaction studies for energy production and other applications

15:50 – 16:10 |               Coffee Break

New experimental results (Chair: Daniele Margarone)

16:10 – 16:40 |               INVITED LECTURE | Eric Lerner
Preparations for and Early Results of pB11 Tests in FF-2B Dense Plasma Focus

16:40 – 17:00 |               Roch Kwiatkowski
Proton–Boron Nuclear Fusion Reactions in the Plasma-Focus Device

17:00 – 17:20 |               Daniel Molloy
Enhanced In-Target Alpha Particle Generation using the kJ LFEX Laser System

17:20 – 17:40 |               GAP Cirrone  CANCELLED
Investigation of p-11 B Nuclear Fusion Reaction with Optimized Targets and Diagnostics  at the PALS Facility in Prague

17:40 – 18:00 |               Jingxiang Shen 
Laser shock compression BN EOS measurement up to 1.6 Tpa

18:15 – 19:15 |               Welcome Drink