LL2 Meetings and PALS 10 Workshop

September 22-24 2010

PALS Research Centre, Za Slovankou 3, Prague 8

PROGRAMME

LASERLAB MB & NWB Meetings

Wednesday, September 22

• 10:00 - 16:00
• LASERLAB Management Board and Networking Board Meeting
• 16:30 - 18:00
• PALS Internatinal Advisory Board Meeting
• I. Földes, L. Gizzi, Th. Kühl, P. Norreys, M. Vrbová, K.J. Witte, J. Wolowski, K. Jungwirth, K. Rohlena, J. Ullschmied
• Guest: N. Witzanyova, Ministry of Schools, Youth and Sports
• 19:00 - 22:00
• Working Dinner at Ctenice Castle (www.zamekctenice.cz)
• Invited speakers:
• Václav Havlíček – Rector of Czech Technical University in Prague
• Miroslav Tůma – Vice-president of ASCR
• Vlastimil Růžička – Ministry Plenipotentiary for ELI

PALS 10 WS

Thursday, September 23

• 10:00 - 11:00
• Opening Session S1
• Chairman: K. Jungwirth - opening speech
• Welcome addresses and introductory talks by
• Petr Křenek – Director of IPP ASCR
• Milada Glogarová – IP ASCR - introductory talk
• Wolfgang Sandner – LASERLAB
• Helena Illnerová – former President of ASCR - introductory talk
• Klaus Jürgen Witte – former Head of HPL Dpt. at MPQ - introductory talk
• 11:20 - 13:00
• Session S2 – PALS History, Present and Future
• Chairman: K.J. Witte
• K. Rohlena – Introductory Talk about PALS Prehistory
• G. Jamelot – A Brief History of the Czech-French Collaboration about X-UV Lasers at PALS
• J. Wolowski – Study of the Ion Generation and Acceleration in Plasma Produced by the PALS Laser Pulse
• D. Batani – Shock and Hydro Experiments at PALS
• H. Fiedorowicz – Laser Plasma X-ray and EUV Sources for Application in Micro- and Nanoprocessing Materials and Nanoimaging
• 13:45 - 15:40
• Session S3 – Laser Infrastructures 1 – Prospects
• Chairman: D. Batani
• P.A. Norreys – Present and Future of the European Laser Research and on the Role of Large Facilities
• C.B. Edwards – Current Status and Future Plans for the HiPER Project
• Th. Kühl – Developments at PHELIX and Prospects for Cooperations with PALS in the Frame of Laserlab
• P. Balcou – Progress Report on Bordeaux High-Energy Lasers
• B. Rus – ELI-Beamlines Status
• T. Mocek – HiLASE Status
• K. J. Witte – Centre for Advanced Laser Applications at the Research Campus Garching
• 16:00 - 17:45
• Session S4 – Laser Infrastructures 2 – Cooperation, PALS
• Chairman: O. Renner
• I. Földes – From ASTERIX to PALS
• L. Gizzi – Optics, Laser and Plasma Research at CNR-INO
• F. Rosmej – Atomic Physics Coupling and Mixing Plasma Phenomena
• J. Limpouch – Laser Interactions with Low-Density Foams at PALS

PALS 10 WS

Friday, September 24

• 9:30 - 10:50
• Session S5 – PALS Present and Future 1 (X-ray Lasers, HEDP)
• Chairman: J. Ullschmied
• Address by J. Řídký, Director of IP ASCR
• J.-P. Chieze – Some Pending Questions in Plasma Laser Astrophysics
• J. Nejdl – Review of X-ray Laser Activities at PALS
• J. Davies – Unexplained Structures in Laser Ablation of Solids
• L. Juha – PALS at the Frontiers of High-Energy Density Physics and High-Energy Chemistry
• 11:10 - 12:30
• Session S6 – PALS Present and Future 2 (Plasma Acceleration, Plasma Jets)
• Chairman: J. Krása
• J. Badziak – PALS Experiments on Acceleration and Collimation of Dense Plasma
• T. Pisarczyk – Plasma Streams Generation and Macroparticle Acceleration for ICF and Astrophysics
• Ch. Stehlé – Radiative Shocks at PALS and Links to Astrophysics
• Ph. Nicolai – Laboratory Modeling of Supersonic Jets Propagation in Plasmas and Their Scaling to Astrophysical Conditions
• 12:30 - 13:00
• Closing discussion