Welcome / Admin & Logistics

• Rob Ashworth (University of Liverpool)

Lasers and Accelerators as Drivers for Innovation

• Carsten Welsch (Cockcroft Institute / University of Liverpool)

Session 1. Particle Beam Generation: Laser Ion Sources

• Rafael Ferrer (KU Leuven)

Optimal ionization schemes for the dual dye - Ti:Sa laser system of RILIS at ISOLDE

• Thomas Day Goodacre (CERN)

An ultra-cold electron source from an alternating current Magneto-Optical Trap (AC-MOT)

• Michael Jones (THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER)

Integration of RILIS @ SPIRAL2 TISS

• Jose Luis Henares (GANIL)

Development of the Ti:Sa laser system for REGLIS

• Lara Hijazi (GANIL)

Photo Injectors

• Lee Jones (ASTeC - STFC)

Photo cathodes sensitive to visible laser beams for photoinjector applications

• Irene Martini (CERN)

Study of laser shaping using Digital Micro-mirror-array device

• Hao Zhang (University of Liverpool)

High brightness SRF photo injector at ELBE

• Pengnan Lu (HZDR)

Laser control and distributed data acquisition for ‘in-source’ laser spectroscopy at CERN-ISOLDE

• Ralf Rossel (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz (DE))

Photocathodes for high-brightness photoinjectors

• Rong Xiang (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
• Jochen Teichert (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

First results on Ge resonant laser photoionization in hollow cathode lamp

• Emilio Mariotti (Università di Siena – DSFTA)

Developments towards Doppler-free in-source laser spectroscopy at ISOLDE RILIS

• Matthieu Veinhard (CERN)

Session 2. Laser-based ion acceleration

• Jörg Schreiber (LMU)

Investigations into laser-driven ion acceleration with ultrathin targets

• Luca Christopher Stockhausen (C)

Dielectric Laser Acceleration

• Peter Hommelhoff (U)

Numerical optimization on dielectric laser-driven acceleration of electrons in a grating-based microstructure

• Yelong Wei (University of Liverpool)

Session 3. Electron acceleration

• Alexander Pukhov (University of Dusseldorf)

State of the art in electron beam laser acceleration

Targetry for Laser Wakefield Acceleration

• Jurjen Couperus

The Status of the Southern Europe Thomson Source for Applied Research

• Dennis Palmer (INFN-Milano)

Diagnostic Tools for Plasma-Electron Accelerators

• Malte Kaluza (University of Jena)

Femtosecond X-ray sources from laser-driven electron accelerators

• Andreas Döpp (Centro de Laseres Pulsados)

Session 4. Industry applications: Applications at the Interface between Lasers and Accelerators

• François Sylla (SourceLAB)

Developing the current experimental research into laser acceleration to a pre-commercial level

• Jakob Matthias Krämer (Danfysik)

Novel laser-engineered surface structures (LESS) for electron cloud mitigation in accelerators

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

Computer-based modelling and experimental optimization of power supplies

• Kamil Nowacki (FOTON)

Neutron production from 2 stage nuclear reactions driven by TW laser-target interactions

• Stanimir Kisyov (IFIN-HH)

Seminar: The Extreme Light Infrastructure

• Sydney Gales (ELI)

Diagnostics at Free Electron Lasers

• Gero Kube (DESY)

Measurement of the longitudinal bunch shape with electro-optical techniques in an electron accelerator

• Andrii Borysenko (KIT)

EO bunch time profile monitor for CLIC

• Mateusz A. Tyrk (University of Dundee)

Summary of SiPM studies and overview of applicability for Beam Loss Monitoring systems

• Eduardo Nebot Del Busto (University of Liverpool (GB))

Accelerator Timing Monitor with Femtosecond Precision

• Rui Pan (STFC Daresbury Laboratory (GB))

Development of a laserwire emittance scanner for CERN‘s LINAC4

• Thomas Hofmann (CERN)

The new design of the THz streak camera at PSI

• Ishkhan Gorgisyan (PSI)

Velocity measurements usuing self-mixing technique in laser diodes

• Alexandra Alexandrova (University of Liverpool/Cockroft Institute)

Precision determination of electron beam energy with Compton backscattered laser photons at ANKA

• Cheng Chang (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

Summary & Conclusion

• Carsten Welsch (Cockcroft Institute / University of Liverpool)