3rd France-UK workshop on Inertial Fusion Energy & High Energy Density Science
Paris (France)
27-28 Apr 2026
Program
Monday 27 April 2026
| 9:20 - 9:30 | Welcome address - Sébastien Le Pape |
| 9:30 - 9:40 | 2025 IoP/SFP Fernand Holweck Prize ceremony - tbd |
| 9:40 - 10:20 | Prize lecture - Peter Norreys (Oxford U., UK) |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Coffee break |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | An overview of laser-plasma interaction and implosion experiments within UPLiFT - Emma Hume (York U., UK) |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Laser plasma interaction in multiple beams experiments at Omega and LMJ - Sylvie Depierreux (CEA/DIF, France) |
| 11:50 - 12:20 | The effects of laser bandwidth on the non-linearly saturated state of the two-plasmon decay instability - Rusko Ruskov (Oxford U., UK) |
| 12:20 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Experimental investigation of stimulated Raman side-scattering dependence on laser parameters in directly-driven interaction - Kevin Glize (STFC/CLF, UK) |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Foams as a key element for Inertial Confinement Fusion - Stavros Bakandreas (LULI, France) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Magnetized Inertial Confinement Fusion: Transport Physics and Performance Enhancement in Pre-Magnetized Implosions - Joao Santos (CELIA, France) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee break |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Observation and analysis of short-wavelength SRS structures at IFE relevant intensities in CH and CH-doped plastics ablation plasmas at 2w - Florian Condamine (GenF, France) |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Exploring the production and control of fast electrons for advanced inertial fusion schemes - Kate Lancaster (York U., UK) |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Broadband amplification of perpendicularly crossed pulses, and the startup that followed - Robin Wang (Oxford U., UK) |
Tuesday 28 April 2026
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Lightwave-controlled relativistic plasma-mirror at kHz repetition rate on a liquid sheet target - Stefan Haessler (LOA, France) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Extreme focusing and strong-field QED using petawatt electron and laser beams - Sébastien Corde (LOA, France) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Controlling the rising edge of relativistically intense laser pulses for transmitted coherent synchrotron emission - Mark Yeung (QUB, UK) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Ultrafast materials science for harmonic generation in the efficiency limit from relativistic laser plasmas - Brendan Drommey (QUB, UK) |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Towards experimental observation of strong-field QED effects in ultra-relativistic plasmas - Chris Ridgers (York U., UK) |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Efficiency-optimised relativistic plasma harmonics for extreme fields - Robin Timmis (Oxford U., UK) |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Lunch |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | LPI-studies using high power structured light - Ramy Aboushelbaya (Oxford U., UK) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Harnessing high power lasers wavefront and stability : from vortex pulses in the EUV range to deflection of light by light in vacuum - Olivier Guilbaud (IJCLab, France) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Magnetic field from helical plasma waves driven by spatio-temporal Light Springs - Jérémy La Porte (LULI, France) |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Laser generated gravity waves - Eduard Atonga (Oxford U., UK) |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Ultra-high frequency gravitational waves from (twisted) light beams: where do we stand? - Killian Martineau (Grenoble-Alps U., France) |
| 17:30 - 17:40 | Closing - Peter Norreys |
