Invited Speakers

Invited speakers

Confirmed as of May 12. This list is updated continually.

Category

Speaker

Affiliation

Title

Nobel lecture

Gérard Mourou,

Nobel laureate in physics (2018)

École Polytechnique, France

TBA

Ultrahigh intensity lasers and related technologies

Dimitris Charalambidis

ELI-ALPS, Hungary

The ELI project: Status, perspectives, opportunities

Jake Bromage

LLE, USA

Commissioning and performance of MTW-OPAL, an all-OPCPA laser system

Yuxin Leng

SIOM, China

Current status of SEL-100 PW laser facility

Jin Woo Yoon

IBS-GIST, Korea

Achieving the highest Intensity over 1023 W/cm2

Christina Hernandez

CLF-RAL, UK

Current status of the Extreme Photonics Applications Centre

Arno Klenke

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Germany

High power multicore fibers – current status and future perspectives

Zenghu Chang

University of Central Florida

Chirped Pulse Amplification lasers at 2.5 micron based on Cr:ZnSe

Jorge J. Rocca

Colorado State Univ., USA

Advances in kW average power ultrafast lasers based on cryogenically cooled Yb:YAG lasers and applications

Takashi Sekine

Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Japan

High energy high repetition rate LD-pumped Yb:YAG ceramic laser

Karl Krushelnick

CUOS, USA

The ZEUS laser facility at the University of Michigan

Patrick Audebert

LULI, France

The Apollon laser facility: commissioning and first experiments on the PW level

Catherine Teisset

Trumpf Scientific lasers, Germany

High Power Ultrafast Industrial Thin-Disk Amplifiers

Applications of ultrahigh intensity lasers

Jerome Faure

(keynote)

LOA, France

Recent progress in high-repetition rate laser wakefield acceleration driven by single-cycle pulses

Matt Zepf

(keynote)

Helmholtz-Institute-Jena, Germany

Testing strong Field QED-Precision Photon/Photon Scattering Experiments

Antonino Di Piazza

MPI, Germany

Strong-field QED in the presence of tightly focused intense laser fields

Mamiko Nishiuchi

QST, Japan

Highly ionized heavy ion acceleration with ultrarelativistic high field with PW laser

Daniele Margarone

ELI-beamlines, Czech

Recent experimental results on high intensity, high repetitive laser-matter interaction with HAPLS laser

Antony Gonsalves

LBNL, USA

BELLA Center upgrades and laser wakefield acceleration experiments

Markus

Roth

Institute of Nuclear Physics, Germany

Next-generation Neutron sources and applications from high-intensity lasers