Frontiers in Intense Laser-Matter Interactions Theory

Monday, March 1 – Wednesday, March 3
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany

Workshop Program

Monday

 

 

 

9:00-9:30

Joachain
Meyer-ter-Vehn

Opening

Slide

9:30-10:00

Narozhny

New prospects for studying fundumental properties of vacuum with ELI

Slide

10:00-10:30

Sokolov

QED effects in realistic laser fields

Slide

10:30-11:00

COFFEE

 

 

11:00-11:30

Bell

Pair production at high laser intensities

Slide

11:30-12:00

Röpke

Sub-critical vacuum pair production with high power lasers

Slide

12:00-12:30

Fedotov

Fundamental QED processes in ultra-intense laser fields

Slide

12:30-14:30

LUNCH

 

 

14:30-15:00

DiPiazza

Testing strong-field CED and QED with intense laser fields

Slide

15:00-15:30

Naumova

Radiation back reaction on electrons and ion acceleration at super-high laser intensities

Slide

15:30-16:00

Rykovanov

Plasma dynamics and surface smoothing in the relativistic few cycle regime

Slide

16:00-16:30

COFFEE

 

 

16:30-17:00

Sheng

Generation of tens of GeV quasi-monoenergetic proton bunches

Slide

17:00-17:30

Silva

Novel simulation approaches for laser-plasma accelerators and fast ignition

 

17:30-17:50

Psikal

Enhanced ion acceleration in thin foils of reduced surface

Slide

17:50-18:20

Korn

Status report of the ELI project (preliminary title)

 

18:20-19:30

SNACKS & DRINKS

 

 

LAB TOUR

Tuesday

 

 

 

9:00-9:30

Ernstorfer

Attosecond electron dynamics in solids

 

9:30-10:00

Lemell

Attosecond streaking of photoelectrons emitted from surfaces

Slide

10:00-10:30

Garcia

Theoretical description of laser induced ultrafast structural changes in condensed matter

 

10:30-11:00

COFFEE

 

 

11:00-11:30

Kluener

Photoinduced dynamics at surfaces

Slide

11:30-12:00

Kazansky

Theoretical studies of ultrafast processes at metal surfaces

Slide

12:00-12:30

Gralla

A rigorous derivation of electromagnetic self-force

Slide

12:30-14:30

LUNCH

 

 

14:30-15:00

Quere

Intense laser-solid interactions : from ionization to plasma dynamics

 

15:00-15:30

Kabachnik

Time-dependent theory of laser-assisted Auger decay induced by ultra-short pulses

Slide

15:30-16:00

Berakdar

Functionalization of intense laser-matter interaction for condensed matter applications

Slide

16:00-16:30

COFFEE

 

 

16:30-17:00

Keitel

Laser-induced high energy processes

 

17:00-17:30

Zepf

Ultrabright laser driven attosecond sources

 

17:30-18:00

Wu

Coherent and bright x-ray source based on relativistic electron mirror

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday

 

 

 

9:00-9:30

Grüner

Overview of laser-driven X-ray sources

Slide

9:30-10:00

Reiche

Optimization and limitation of table-top free-electron lasers

Slide

10:00-10:30

Malka

On the control of e-beam parameters with laser plasma accelerators

Slide

10:30-11:00

COFFEE

 

 

11:00-11:30

Schroeder

Laser and plasma wave evolution in laser-plasma-based accelerators

 

11:30-11:50

Lefebvre

Cold optical injection producing monoenergetic, multi-GeV electron bunches

Slide

11:50-12:10

Lundh

Few-femtosecond laser-accelerated electron bunches

 

12:10-12:30

Kalmykov

Electron self-injection and trapping into an evolving plasma bubble

Slide

12:30-14:30

LUNCH

 

 

14:30-15:00

Hegelich

The little foil that can: ion-, electron- and photon beams from laser-nanofoil interactions

Slide

15:00-15:20

Geissler

Overview over Laser Plasma theory activities at QUB

 

15:20-15:40

Yan

GeV mono-energetic proton beam generation in laser foil-plasma interactions

 

15:40-16:10

Hofmann

The physics of collimation of laser accelerated ions and their application to ion therapy

Slide

16:10-17:00

COFFEE

 

 

17:00-17:40

Habs

High-power short-pulse lasers reach new frontier in nuclear physics

 

Closing Evening Event
Conclusions

 

POSTERS

 

 

Apostolova

Theoretical modeling of ultra-short pulse laser interaction with condensed matter

 

Bamberg

Fast algorithms based on tree like structures for Adaptive-Mesh-Refinement Particle-In-Cell Code (AMR-PIC)

 

Elkina

Radiative properties of electrons at ultra-high fields

 

Iqbal

Numerical solution of Caldirola, Landau Lifshitz and LAD equations for a single electron in a plane wave

 

Kirk

Pair production in counter-propagating laser pulses

 

Klier

Couloub explosions plus inelastic processes

 

Klimo

Ion acceleration efficiency in laser-thin-foils interactions and the impact of structured surface

 

Krüger

Processes of different nature in femtosecond-laser-induced electron emission from ultrasharp metal tips

 

Schlegel

Ion fast ignition in inertial fusion

 

Macchi

Issues in radiation pressure acceleration

Pdf

Tamburini

A study of radiation reaction effects in superintense laser-plasma interaction

 

Veisz

Relativistic electron acceleration with few-cycle laser pulses

 

Weng

Relativistic laser beam propagation and critical density increase