Welcome / Introduction

• Luis Roso (CLPU)

Admin / Logistics

• Enrique Conejero Jarque (Universidad de Salamanca)

LA³NET

• Rob Ashworth (University of Liverpool)

Introduction to lasers and Laserlab

• Luis Roso (CLPU)

History of accelerator development in Europe

• Vinod Chohan (CERN)

Applications of Particle Accelerators

• Carsten Welsch (Cockcroft Institute / University of Liverpool)

Laser ion sources

• Bruce Marsh (CERN)

Laser acceleration

• Arie irman (Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf)

Laser based diagnostics

• David Walsh (DL)

Laser ion sources at RILIS – main applications

• Klaus Wendt (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz (DE))

Application of RILIS in gas cell

• Iain Moore (University of Jyväskylä)

Photoinjectors

• Frank Stephan (DESY)

FEL I: Introduction to FELs including seeding schemes, cascading & facility design

• Atoosa Meseck (Helmholtz, Berlin)

FEL II: Advances in FELs. Very short pulses, high brightness & advanced diagnostics

• Allan Gillespie (Unversity of Dundee, Scotland, UK)

Outreach Seminar: The fascinating applications of attophysics (Lecture in Spanish with slides in English)

• Luis Plaja

Ion acceleration

• Andrea Macchi (CNR/INO Pisa)

Novel accelerator schemes including dielectric, meta materials, gradients, simulation

• Gil Travish (UCLA)

Overview of simulation codes at the interface (VORPAL, plasma generation and interaction with the beam, particle acceleration. Contacts. Strengths/weaknesses

• Jonathan Smith (Tech-X UK Ltd/Cockcroft Institute)

Advanced diagnostics (plasma characterisation, laser electron beams, synchronisation, challenges ahead)

• Jens Osterhoff (University of Hamburg)

Industry session I: Trends in laser technology

• Julie Siv (Amplitude Technologies)

Seminar: Scientific entrepeneurs

• Frank AMAND (Cosylab)

Compact x-ray sources

• Alessandro Variola (LAL Paris)

Extreme Light Infrastructure - ELI / School Conclusion

• Mauricio Rico (CLPU)