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Preliminary Scientific Programme:

Monday 23-06
Tuesday 24-06
Wednesday 25-06
Thursday 26-06
Friday 27-06
08:30-08:55 Registration        
08:55-09:00

Opening

       
09:00-09:45 Bingham: Interrogating the quantum vacuum using photons and atom beams Dunne: Vacuum pair production in inhomogeneous fields and worldline instantons Kaluza: Direct measurement of laser-generated magnetic-field structures in underdense plasma Willi: Laser driven micro-lens for focusing and energy selection of MeV protons Ilderton: Charge-laser interactions
09:45-10:30 Marklund: QED nonlinearities in vacuum and plasmas Ringwald: Shedding light on hidden sectors of nature Cowan: Nuclear physics with Petawatt lasers Aleonard: Nuclear excitations with ultra high intensity lasers Schramm: Thomson scattering at the ELBE linac - status and perspectives
10:30-11:15 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break
11:15-12:00 Keitel: High-energy quantum dynamics  in extremely intense laser pulses Bonifacio:The quantum FEL: a table-top source of coherent X-ray radiation Romagnoni: Radiographic applications of laser-driven multi-MeV protons Mourou: tba Telnov: High energy photon colliders
12:00-14:00 Lunch Break Lunch Break Lunch Break Lunch Break Lunch Break
14:00-14:45 Malka: Laser plasma accelerators... Dainton: tba Wipf: Absorptive and dispersive effects in strong laser fields

Karsch: Generation and control of stable laser-accelerated electron beams

end of workshop
14:45-15:30 Meyer-ter-Vehn: Relativistic mirrors from nanometer foils and coherent X-rays Neely: HiPER - the potential to drive laser nuclear physics

Plenary Discussion

Chairman: Sauerbrey

Serbo: Strong-field effects in collisions of high-energy electrons or photons with laser photons   
15:30-16:15 Pukhov: High-quality acceleration and coherent  X-rays from relativistic laser-plasmas Spohr: Laser induced nuclear photo reactions, chances and challenges for future research Schützhold: Pair creation and the Unruh effect  
16:15-17:00 Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break Coffee Break  
17:00-17:45 di Piazza: Quantum vacuum effects in intense laser fields Wahlström: Proton acceleration - beam control and future prospects   Blaschke: Vacuum pair creation in high intensity optical laser colliders  
17:45-18:15 Hebenstreit: Pair production in time-dependent electric fields - beyond the Schwinger formula Ipp:Quark-gluon plasma diagnosis with polarized photons   Drska: Nuclear excitations in laser produced plasmas  

18:15-18:45

  Seipt: Electrons in strong laser fields      
18:45-19:30          
19:30 Welcome dinner Dinner Workshop dinner Dinner  

Legend:

possible seminar/discussion/backup slots
not scheduled

There will be an informal reception/dinner on Sunday evening (22-06) at city centre Ristorante-Pizzeria ALLA MOSTRA, Piazza Mostra, 13, starting about 8pm (see map)

Slides of the presentations given may be found at the ECT* web site.

 



 

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