Name: 2nd INFN School and Workshop on “High Power Lasers for Fundamental Science and Applications” (HPLA2025)
Start: 2025-11-17T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-11-19T16:00:00+01:00
Location: Laboratori Nazionali del Sud - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare

2nd INFN School and Workshop on “High Power Lasers for Fundamental Science and Applications” (HPLA2025)

from Monday, 17 November 2025 (08:00) to Wednesday, 19 November 2025 (16:00)

Monday, 17 November 2025

08:00 Registration Open
Registration Open
08:00 - 09:30
Room: Aula "Migneco"
09:30 Opening
09:30 - 10:00
Room: Aula "Migneco"
Contributions

09:30 Opening Remark
10:00 Didactic Session
10:00 - 11:30
Room: Aula "Migneco"
Contributions

10:00 The technology of High Power lasers - Jose Juan Suarez Vargas (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania (IT))

10:30 Data Acquisition of Laser-Driven Radiation in Intense EMP Environments - Antonino Salvatore Amato (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania (IT))

11:00 Electromagnetic pulses from high power lasers: sources, risks and mitigation - Fabrizio Consoli (ENEA - Centro Ricerche Frascati (IT))
11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:00
Room: Aula "Migneco"
12:00 Facility session
12:00 - 13:20
Room: Aula "Migneco"
Contributions

12:00 I-LUCE facility layout - Giuseppe Antonio Pablo Cirrone (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania (IT))

12:20 Laser Beam Transport Solution at I-LUCE - Carmen Altana (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania (IT))

12:40 Laser Plasma Electron Acceleration and Its Applications at I-LUCE - Sahar Arjmand (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania (IT))

13:00 Design and implementation of a laser driven neutron source at LNS - Simone Amaducci (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania (IT))
13:20 Lunch Break

13:20 - 15:00
Room: Aula "Migneco"
15:00 Facility session
15:00 - 16:20
Room: Aula "Migneco"
Contributions

15:00 Laser Wakefield Acceleration Research with Multi-PW Laser Pulses - Hyung Taek Kim (Advanced Photonics Research Institute, GIST)

15:20 Perspectives on laser capabilities of the new and upgraded European user facilities - Federico Canova (ELI ERIC, Dolnì Brezanì (CZ))

15:40 The FIREX Program at the Institute of Laser Engineering and Future Upgrades - Alessio Morace (PALS Laboratory, Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ), Institute of Laser Engineering, The University of Osaka (Japan))

16:00 Research and applications at CNR-INO - Luca Labate (CNR-INO and INFN Section of Pisa, Pisa (IT))
16:20 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:20 - 16:50
16:50 Facility session
16:50 - 17:50
Room: Aula "Migneco"
Contributions

16:50 High power laser facilities in the United Kingdom - Marco Borghesi (Queen's University Belfast, Belfast (UK))

17:10 The Centre for Advanced Laser Applications - Andreas Döpp (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München (DE))

17:30 Research and Applications at CLPU: the Case of Ion Stopping Power in Plasma Measurements - Luca Volpe (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM))
17:50 Sponsors Session
17:50 - 18:20
Room: Aula "Migneco"
Contributions

17:50 High peak power laser system for I-LUCE and latest laser technology developments - Christophe SIMON-BOISSON (THALES OPTRONIQUE SAS, Elancourt (FR))

18:05 KAIO-Beamline – a modular high-repetition rate laser-plasma electron accelerator for a broad range of applications - F. Sylla (SourceLAB SAS, 7 rue de la Croix Martre, 91120 Palaiseau (FR))
Tuesday, 18 November 2025
09:30 Radiation Production
09:30 - 10:50
Room: Aula "Migneco"
Contributions

09:30 Radiobiology with laser-driven carbon ions and the medical project of ELI-NP - Domenico Doria (Horia Hulubei National Institute for R&D in Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH), The Extreme Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP), Strada Reactorului 30, 077125 Bucharest-Măgurele, Romania)

09:50 How to Tame Laser-Driven Ions: From Record Energies to Applications at HZDR - Florian Kroll (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden (DE))

10:10 Intense neutron sources driven by high-power lasers - Satyabrata Kar (Queen's University Belfast, Belfast (UK))

10:30 Laser Electron Acceleration at ELI-Beamlines - Michal Nevrkla (ELI Beamlines Facility, The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, Dolni Brezany (CZ))
10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 - 11:20
Room: Aula "Migneco"
11:20 Applications
11:20 - 12:40
Room: Aula "Migneco"
Contributions

11:20 Applications of multi-GeV Laser Wakefield Accelerated Electrons for Strong-Field QED Research at CoReLS multi-PW Laser Facility - Mohammad Mirzaie (Center for Relativistic Laser Science, IBS, Gwangju, Korea)

11:40 Laser-Driven Particle Acceleration Research at Politecnico di Milano and its Applications to Cultural Heritage Studies - Francesco Mirani (Politecnico di Milano, Department of Energy)

12:00 Fire to Fusion: The Journey Toward Clean Energy - Farmesk Abubaker (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania (IT))

12:20 First compact plasma-based user facilities at LNF: EuAPS and EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB toward next-generation radiation sources - Gemma Costa (INFN-LNF)
12:40 Sponsors Session
12:40 - 13:10
Room: Aula "Migneco"
Contributions

12:40 ST Microelectronics: Innovation Landscape in Power, Photonic, and Sensing Technologies at STMicroelectronics - Fabrizio La Rosa (STMicroelectronics, Catania (IT))

12:55 CAEN: Advanced Electronics for Science and Innovation - Cristina Mattone (CAEN SpA)
13:10 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:10 - 15:00
15:00 Diagnostic, Dosimetry and Radiobiology
15:00 - 16:20
Room: Aula "Migneco"
Contributions

15:00 Advancing Radiobiology Research at Laser-Driven Radiation Sources - Katalin Hideghéty (ELI-ALPS, Wolfgang Sandner utca 3, Szeged, (HU))

15:20 Radiobiology with laser-driven, high energy, electron beams - Alessandro Flacco (LOA/ENSTA)

15:40 Zebrafish (Danio rerio): a small preclinical model with great potential for radiobiological studies on FLASH effect understanding - Giusi Irma Forte (IBSBC-CNR, Cefalù (IT) and INFN-LNS, Catania (IT))

16:00 Radiobiology at ELI Beamlines - Pavel Bláha (ELI Beamlines Facility, The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, Dolni Brezany (CZ))
16:20 Coffee Break

16:20 - 16:40
Room: Aula "Migneco"

16:40 Poster Session

16:40 - 17:40
Room: Aula "Migneco"

17:40 Social Tour

17:40 - 20:30

20:30 Gala Dinner

20:30 - 23:20
Wednesday, 19 November 2025
09:30 Nuclear Physics
09:30 - 10:50
Room: Aula "Migneco"
Contributions

09:30 Fusion energy research with high power lasers in Europe: from ELI to HiPER+ - Leonida Gizzi (CNR-INO and INFN)

09:50 Perspectives for the physics of nuclear decays in laser-generated vs ECR plasmas - David Mascali (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania (IT))

10:10 Nuclear AstroPhysics via Coulomb Explosion Mechanism - Giovanni Luca Guardo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania (IT))

10:30 Possible Nuclear Physics applications of Laser-driven srouces - Vincent Lelasseux (ELI-NP, IFIN-HH)
10:50 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:20
Room: Aula "Migneco"
11:20 Diagnostic, Dosimetry and Radiobiology
11:20 - 12:20
Room: Aula "Migneco"
Contributions

11:20 The ELIMAIA/ELIMED ion station at ELI-Beamlines for multidisciplinary applications - Lorenzo Giuffrida (ELI Beamlines Facility, The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, Dolni Brezany (CZ))

11:40 Dosimetric measurements of proton beams at ELIMAIA-ELIMED facility and the new beamline @ I-LUCE - Giada Petringa (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania (IT))

12:00 Spectroscopic ion diagnostics in experiments of high intensity laser matter interaction - M. Alonzo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata)
12:20 Sponsors Session
12:20 - 13:05
Room: Aula "Migneco"
Contributions

12:20 FANTIN: Mechanical Solutions for Big Science - Francesco Fantini (FANTINI SUD SPA)

12:35 ELEXIND: integrated expertise and solutions for contamination control in high‑critical environments - Alessandro Gramegna (Elexind)

12:50 LIOP-TEC GmbH: LIOP-TEC GmbH: Company Profile of LIOP-TEC GmbH - Patrick Incorvaia (LIOP-TEC GmbH)
13:05 Award Session: Best Poster

13:05 - 13:25
Room: Aula "Migneco"

13:25 Lunch
Lunch
13:25 - 14:45
Room: Aula "Migneco"

14:45 Laboratory Tour
Laboratory Tour
14:45 - 15:45

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