Laser and Plasma Accelerators Workshop 2009

Laser and beam-driven plasma based accelerators have made remarkable progress in the recent years. While many scientific issues remain to be explored, one can now contemplate the application of plasma-based accelerators to such fields as high-energy physics, advanced radiation sources, imaging and medical treatment, to name a few. The purpose of the 2009 Laser and Plasma Accelerator Workshop is to bring together many of the major contributors in the field to assess the status of the field, to imagine future directions of exploration.

The 2009 Laser and Plasma Accelerators Workshop is included in the successful series of workshops on plasma accelerators initiated in 1987 (Malibu, Kardamyli, Kyoto, Presqu’ile de Giens, Portovenere and Taipei), now also encompassing topics associated with ion acceleration. The most recent results on laser and plasma accelerators will be presented and discussed, along with the future developments and their impact on table-top accelerators and related applications, as well as the impact of particle acceleration using plasmas in the quest for the energy frontier.

The 2009 Laser and Plasma Accelerators Workshop also includes the 2nd Edition of the John Dawson Thesis Prize.

Proceedings: Call for papers

September 1 2009 - 20:00 GMT

The deadline for abstract submission is October 31st, 2009. Further information here.

LPAW09 Website Online

April 21 2009 - 20:00 GMT

The official website for the Laser Plasma Accelerators Workshop 2009 is now online. We encourage every participant to pre-register for this meeting. Online registration and detailed hotel information will be available soon.

Topics

• Plasma accelerators and the energy frontier
• One to ten GeV laser-plasma accelerator technology
• Computer modelling of laser and plasma accelerators
• Physics and applications of laser/beam - plasma interactions (e.g, generation of energetic particles, attosecond X-ray pulses, THz radiation, and high-energy Gamma rays)
• Ion beam generation

Deadlines

• May 1, 2009 - John Dawson Thesis Prize nominations
• May 24, 2009 - Early registration (later registration possible until conference date)
• May 24, 2009 - Abstract submission

Committees

International advisory committee:

N. Andreev (RAS, RU), C. Joshi (UCLA, USA), T. Katsouleas (Duke U., USA), C. S. Liu (U. Maryland, USA)

International program committee:

J. Cary (U. Colorado, USA), B. Cros (LPGP, Université Paris Sud, France), E. Esarey (LBNL, USA), W. Gai (ANL, USA), D. Giulietti (Univ. & INFN Pisa, Italy), M. J. Hogan (SLAC, USA) S. Hooker (Oxford, U.K.), D. Jaroszynski (Strathclyde, U.K.), K. Kruschelnik (U. Michigan, USA), W. Lu (UCLA, USA), V. Malka (LOA, Ecole Polytechnique, France), M. Marklund (Umea U., Sweeden), P. Mora (Ecole Polytechnique, FR), W. B. Mori (UCLA, USA), Z. Najmudin (IC, U.K.), K. Nakajima (KEK, Japan), A. Pukhov (ITP, UNI Düsseldorf), A. Robinson (RAL UK), L. Schachter (Technion, Israel), L. Serafini (INFN, Milano, Italy), P. Shukla (U. Bochum, Germany), L. O. Silva (IST, Portugal), P. Sprangle (NRL, USA), M. Uesaka (U. Tokyo, Japan), D. Umstadter (U. Nebraska, USA), M. Wiggins (U. Michigan, USA), V. Yakimenko (BNL, USA)

Local organizing committee:

P. Muggli (USC, USA), Co-chair, R. Bingham (RAL, UK), Co-chair, S. F. Martins (IST, Portugal), B. Allen (USC, USA), M. Tzoufras (University of Oxford, UK), S. Katsouleas, G. Giannakeas (Kardamili), K. Reid (USC, USA)

Conference Poster

You can download the conference poster here (PDF 0.9 Mb).