International Committee on Ultra Intense Lasers Conference

26 September–1 October, 2010 | Watkins Glen, New York

Welcome to the 2010 ICUIL Conference Web Site.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:

We are no longer accepting registrations for this conference. We have met the limit on participants for the conference room.

As sponsors for the 2010 ICUIL Conference, The University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics welcomes your participation at this biennial event. The technical program will include approximately 60 oral presentations and 45 poster presentations for attendees from all around the world. Session topics will include the following aspects of ultra-high intensity lasers:

  • Ultra-high intensity laser design and performance
  • Emerging applications of ultra-intense lasers
  • Grating compressor developments
  • Temporal and spatial pulse control and characterization
  • Lasers for accelerator physics
  • High-average power, ultra-intense lasers

We are happy to announce our invited speakers include:

  • George Korn, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, "Extreme Light Infrastructure: A European Approach to Ultra-Intense Lasers and Laser Matter Interaction"
  • Junji Kawanaka, U. Osaka, Inst. of Laser Engineering, "Current Status of the LFEX Laser and an Exawatt-Laser Concept at ILE/Osaka"
  • Brian Kruschwitz, U. Rochester, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, "Current Performance of the OMEGA EP High-Energy Short-Pulse Laser System"
  • John Crane, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "Progress Toward Converting Four Beamlines into Eight, PW-Class Drivers on the National Ignition Facility"
  • Christophe Dorrer, U. Rochester, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, "Temporal Characterization Diagnostics for Ultra-High-Intensity Laser Systems"
  • Csaba Toth, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, "Laser Plasma Acceleration Experiments with a 100-TW Class Laser and Lessons Learned"
  • Manuel Hegelich, Los Alamos National Laboratory, "Volumetric Interaction of Ultra-Intense Laser Pulses with Over-Dense Targets"
  • John Collier, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, "Progress on the Vulcan 10 PW Upgrade"
  • Jens Limpert, Friedrich-Schiller Univ./Inst. of Applied Physics, "High Performance, High-Repetition-Rate, Ultrafast Fiber Lasers"
  • Mamiko Nishiuchi, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, "Laser-Driven Proton Acceleration for Medical Applications"
  • Chul Min Kim, Advanced Photonics Research Inst./Gwangju Inst. of Science and Technology, "Coherent Amplification of Ultrashort Pulses in a High-Gain Medium: X-ray Laser Seeded with High-Harmonic Pulses"
  • Joachim Hein, Inst. Optics and Quantum Electronics, "Multi-kJ Diode-Pumped Solid-State Laser Concepts for HiPER Facility"
  • Brendan Dromey, Queens University Belfast, "Relativistically Oscillating Plasma Surfaces--High Harmonic Generation and Ultrafast Plasma Surface Dynamics"

Lead presentations (30 minute) will be used to introduce the session topics. The remaining presentations (20 minute) will highlight specific areas within the session topic. Poster presentations will allow extended discussion of the same topics. Contributed abstracts are requested by April 16, 2010, and the final agenda will be posted on the Conference web site by June 11, 2010.

Presentations will be available to attendees through the ICUIL web site following the conference. The working language of this conference will be English.

Please contact Jean Steve (585-275-5286) or e-mail if you have questions.