Final Conference CS3

from Thursday 27 June 2013 (09:00) to Friday 28 June 2013 (16:30)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
27 Jun 2013
28 Jun 2013
AM
09:00
Project Overview & Background (until 13:00)
09:00 Introduction - Prof. Gérard Mourou (IZEST)  
09:10 Welcome to CERN - Sergio Bertolucci (CERN)  
09:25 Welcome to the ICAN Final Conference - Michel Spiro (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))  
09:40 Laser Accelerators in Particle Physics - Toshiki Tajima (IZEST)  
10:10 Future large scale accelerators - Dr Roy Aleksan (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))  
10:30 The European Network for Novel Accelerators (EuroNNAc) - Jens Osterhoff (University of Hamburg)  
Slides
10:45 Extreme Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP): Present status and perspectives - Prof. Nicolae Zamfir (ELI-NP)  
11:00 High Power Laser Science at the Extreme Light Infrastructure ELI - Florian Gliksohn (ELI-DC AISBL)  
11:10 --- Coffee ---
11:30 ICAN: A Fiber Laser-Based High Peak, High Average Power, High Efficiency Light Source - Present and Future - Prof. Gérard Mourou  
12:05 The E-ELT - parallels with ICAN - Prof. Vincent Michau (ONERA)  
12:20 Research Infrastructures: From FP7 TO Horizon 2020 - Maria Douka  
12:30 OSA's Support of the Photonics Community - Prof. Donna Strickland  
12:45 View from EPS - Prof. John Dudley  
09:00
ICAN - Technical Aspects (until 13:20)
09:00 Overview of diode pumped high energy solid state lasers - Dr Fabian Röser  
09:30 Optical amplifiers for ICAN: Challenges and opportunities - Johan Nilsson (University of Southampton)  
09:50 Femtosecond fibre laser beam combination - Jens Limpert (Friedrich-Schiller University Jena)  
10:15 Cavities for high-energy pulse applications - Tino Eidam (Friedrich-Schiller University Jena)  
10:35 --- Coffee ---
10:55 Review of coherent combining techniques - Dr Laurent Lombard (ONERA)  
11:05 Coherent combining of a large number of fibers with an interferometric technique - Dr Arnaud Brignon (THALES)  
11:15 Components for high peak & average power - Thomas Schreiber (Fraunhofer Society Germany)  
11:35 Design & manufacture of a multijoule, kW laser system - Dr Louise Walker (Lightwrks Ltd)  
12:05 --- Lunch ---
PM
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Laser Overview (until 15:15)
14:00 Introduction to optical fibre lasers - Prof. David Payne  
14:30 ICAN - Technical Overview - Thomas Schreiber (Fraunhofer Society Germany)  
15:15
ICAN Applications (until 18:00)
15:15 ICAN Applications Roadmap - Laura Corner (Oxford University)  
Slides
15:45 Required laser system toward laboratory search for low-mass Dark Matter and Dark Energy candidates - Mr Kensuke Homma (Hiroshima University)  
16:00 --- Coffee ---
16:20 iCAN for structured electron and ion acceleration - Alexander Pukhov (SINP, MSU)  
16:40 Relativistic Protons and their Applications - Olivier Napoly (CEA/Saclay)  
Slides
17:00 Higgs factories based on Photon Colliders - Mayda Velasco (Northwestern University (US))  
Slides
17:20 Laser-acceleration of energetic ions - Prof. Julien Fuchs (LULI/CNRS & Ecole Polytechnique)  
17:40 Radio-isotopes production with high average power intense lasers - Prof. Jean Claude KIEFFER (INRS)  
19:30 --- Conference Dinner ---
13:20
Industrial View & Future Plans (until 15:10)
13:20 Accelerator-Driven System Reactors - Dr Bernard Carluec (Areva)  
13:40 Industrial panel  
14:40 Future directions for ICAN - Prof. Gérard Mourou (IZEST)