International Symposium on Ultrafast Intense Laser Science

October 1st (Sun.)

9:00 - 9:30: Opening Session
Tribute to the Honorary Chair
9:30 - 12:00: Session I: Molecules in intense laser fields
Discussion Leader: Erik Lötstedt (The University of Tokyo)
Invited Speakers:
Asier Longarte (Universidad del País Vasco)
Huailiang Xu (Jilin University)
Takeshi Sato (The University of Tokyo)
12:00 - 12:30: Coffee break
12:30 - 13:30: Short presentations of poster papers
List of poster presentations
13:30 - 14:30: Lunch
14:30 - 17:00: Session II: Quantum aspects of high field physics
Discussion Leader: Dimitris Charalambidis (Univ. of Crete/FORTH, IESL/ELI-ALPS)
Invited Speakers:
Paraskevas Tsallas (FORTH, IESL)
Marc Vrakking (MBI Berlin)
Maciej Lewenstein (ICFO)
17:00 - 17:30: Coffee break
17:30 - 19:30: Session III: QED in intense fields
Discussion Leader: Wendell T. Hill, III (University of Maryland)
Invited Speakers:
Matt Zepf (Helmholtz Institute Jena)
Martin Formánek (ELI Beamlines)
20:00 -: Dinner

9:00 - 11:00

Session IV: Applications of free-electron lasers

Discussion Leader: Catalin Miron (CEA Saclay)
Invited Speakers:
Saikat Nandi (Institut Lumière Matière, CNRS)
Yuya Kubota (RIKEN Spring-8 Center)

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee break

11:30 - 12:30

Sponsors’ Session

Amplitude Laser Group
“Towards table-top and high-flux OPCPA drivers at 2.1 µm for soft-x-ray generation”
Hervé Jousselin
Spectra-Physics
“Low-noise Carrier Envelope phase stabilization of a Ti:Sapphire regenerative amplifier”
Andreas Assion
Thales LAS France
“Latest achievements and improvements at ELI-NP facility”
Guillaume Thibault
Light Conversion
“Light Conversion OPCPA news: >15 TW and >25 TW systems installed”
Valdas Maslinskas
Japan Laser Corporation
“Latest developments on nonlinear compression using high power industrial Ytterbium lasers”
Jun Sasaki
EKSPLA (for Tokyo Instruments, Inc.)
“Ekspla – Latest developments in high intensity lasers”
Justas Varpučianskis

12:30 - 13:30

Poster Session I

13:30 - 14:30

Lunch

15:00 -

Free Discussion

9:00 - 11:00: Session V: Petawatt lasers
Discussion Leader: Chang Hee Nam (Institute for Basic Science/GIST)
Invited Speakers:
Luis Roso (University of Salamanca)
Károly Osvay (University of Szeged)
11:00 - 11:30: Coffee break
11:30 - 13:30: Session VI: Ultrafast dynamics in condensed matter systems
Discussion Leader: Parinda Vasa (IIT Bombay)
Invited Speakers:
Crina Cojocaru (Polytechnic University of Catalonia)
Kazutaka Nakamura (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
13:30 - 14:30: Lunch
14:30 - 15:30: Poster Session II
16:00 -: Free Discussion

9:00 - 11:30: Session VII: Applications of attosecond pulses
Discussion Leader: Alicia Palacios (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Invited Speakers:
Jens Biegert (ICFO)
Katsumi Midorikawa (RIKEN)
Kyung Taec Kim (Institute for Basic Science/GIST)
11:30 - 12:00: Coffee break
12:00 - 13:00: Poster session III
13:00 - 14:00: Lunch
14:00 - 16:30: Session VIII: Theoretical simulations of strong-field phenomena
Discussion Leader: Kenichi Ishikawa (The University of Tokyo)
Invited Speakers:
Takanori Nishi (The University of Tokyo)
Stefanie Gräfe (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Fernando Martín (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
16:30 - 17:00: Coffee break
17:00 - 19:00: Session IX: Laser-guided lightning/laser-plasma interaction
Discussion Leader: Philippe Martin (CEA)
Invited Speakers:
Jean-Pierre Wolf (University of Geneva)
Yuji Fukuda (QST)
19:00 -: Departure for banquet (Gala Dinner)
20:00 -: Banquet (Gala Dinner) at Codorniu Caves