Invited speakers confirmed

 
  • Teodora Baeva, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK:
    Coherent X-rays and fast electrons in relativistic overdense laser-plasmas
     
  • Ken Barat, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. USA:
    Laser Safety at High Profile Laser Facilities
     
  • Alain Bourdier, CEA, France:
    Stochastic heating in high intensity laser-plasma interaction. Application to the Wake Field Acceleration Process
     

  • Dimitrios Charalambidis, Univ. Crete, Greece:
    News and views from the attosecond     generation, characterization and applications frontier
     

  • See Leang Chin, Univ. Laval, Canada:
    Intense femtosecond laser filamentation science
     
  • Dirk Gericke, Univ. Warwick, UK:
    Interaction of energetic ions with high density plasmas
     

  • Leonida A. Gizzi, CNR and INFN - Pisa, Italy:
    High Gradient Acceleration with     the FLAME Laser at LNF-FRASCATI
     

  • Alexander Golubev, Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), Russia:
         Intense ions for high energy density in matter research
     
  • Hong Jin Kong, KAIST, Korea:
    Coherent beam combination of wave-front divided 4 beams by phase controlled stimulated Brillouin scattering phase conjugation mirrors toward the realization of the practical laser fusion diver
     
  • Elena Koresheva, Lebedev Institute, Russia:
    An overview of IFE-related technologies developed in Russia
     
  • Matthias Friedrich Kling, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Germany:
     Near-field enhanced electron acceleration from dielectric nanospheres in intense few-cycle laser fields
     
  • George Kyrala, Los Alamos National Lab. USA:
    Measuring implosion symmetry on the NIF laser
  • Tammy Ma, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA:
    Effects of Preplasma on Hot Electron Coupling and Propagation in Cone Attached Wire Targets
     
  • Mattias Marklund, Umeĺ universitet, Sweden
    QED studies using high-power lasers
     
  • Gérard Mourou, Institut de la Lumière Extrême, ENSTA Palaiseau 91761, France
    The Extreme Light Infrastructure: Missions and Challenges
     
  • David Neely, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK:
    Ion beams - advances in spectral and efficiency control
     
  • Andrew Ng, University of British Columbia, Canada
    Anomalous behavior of femtosecond-laser excited solid
     
  • Gerhard G. Paulus, Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics, Jena, Germany:
    POLARIS: a petawatt-class all-diode pumped solid-state laser
     

  • Charles Kirkham Rhodes, Univ. Illinois, USA:
    Giant X-Ray Nonlinearities in the Kiloelectronvolt Regime
     

  • David Ros, LASERIX, France:
    LASERIX : an open facility for developments of Soft X-ray and     EUV lasers and Applications
     

  • Youichi Sakawa, ILE Osaka Univ. Japan:
    Laboratory experiments to study collisionless shock generation in high-power laser produced counter-streaming plasmas
     

  • Guy Schurtz, CELIA, Bordeaux, France:
    Shock Ignition: a New Perspective for Inertial Fusion Energy
     

  • John Sethian, Naval Research Laboratory, USA:
    Inertial Fusion Energy with Krypton Fluoride lasers
     
  • Erik Storm, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA:
    The National Ignition Facility: The Path to Ignition and Inertial Fusion Energy
     
  • Toshiki Tajima, Ludwig Maximilian Univ. Germany:
    Laser acceleration and high field science
     
  • Hideaki Takabe, ILE Osaka Univ., Japan:
    High-Energy Laser Astrophysics with Anti-matters Produced with Ultra-intense Lasers -- Theory, Computation, Scaling, Experimental data and High-Energy Astrophysics Model experiment.
     
  • Csaba Tóth, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. USA:
    Radiation sources based on laser plasma accelerators
     
  • Vladimir Zvorykin, Lebedev Institute, Russia:
    Radiation resistance of transmissive optics for IFE reactor chamber and KrF laser drive