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, November 17, 2025 (8:00 AM) to Wednesday, November 19, 2025 (4:00 PM)

Monday, November 17, 2025

8:00 AM Registration Open
Registration Open
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: Aula "Migneco"
9:30 AM
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Aula "Migneco"
Contributions

9:30 AM Opening Remark
10:00 AM
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Aula "Migneco"
Contributions

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

10:30 AM 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 AM Electromagnetic pulses from high power lasers: sources, risks and mitigation - Fabrizio Consoli (ENEA - Centro Ricerche Frascati (IT))
11:30 AM

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Aula "Migneco"
12:00 PM
12:00 PM - 1:20 PM
Room: Aula "Migneco"
Contributions

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

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

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

1:00 PM Design and implementation of a laser driven neutron source at LNS - Simone Amaducci (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania (IT))
1:20 PM

1:20 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Aula "Migneco"
3:00 PM
3:00 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: Aula "Migneco"
Contributions

3:00 PM Laser Wakefield Acceleration Research with Multi-PW Laser Pulses - Hyung Taek Kim (Advanced Photonics Research Institute, GIST)

3:20 PM Perspectives on laser capabilities of the new and upgraded European user facilities - Federico Canova (ELI ERIC, Dolnì Brezanì (CZ))

3:40 PM 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))

4:00 PM Research and applications at CNR-INO - Luca Labate (CNR-INO and INFN Section of Pisa, Pisa (IT))
4:20 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:20 PM - 4:50 PM
4:50 PM
4:50 PM - 5:50 PM
Room: Aula "Migneco"
Contributions

4:50 PM High power laser facilities in the United Kingdom - Marco Borghesi (Queen's University Belfast, Belfast (UK))

5:10 PM The Centre for Advanced Laser Applications - Andreas Döpp (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München (DE))

5:30 PM Research and Applications at CLPU: the Case of Ion Stopping Power in Plasma Measurements - Luca Volpe (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM))
5:50 PM
5:50 PM - 6:20 PM
Room: Aula "Migneco"
Contributions

5:50 PM High peak power laser system for I-LUCE and latest laser technology developments - Christophe SIMON-BOISSON (THALES OPTRONIQUE SAS, Elancourt (FR))

6:05 PM 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, November 18, 2025
9:30 AM
9:30 AM - 10:50 AM
Room: Aula "Migneco"
Contributions

9:30 AM 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)

9:50 AM How to Tame Laser-Driven Ions: From Record Energies to Applications at HZDR - Florian Kroll (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden (DE))

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

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

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

11:20 AM 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 AM 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 PM Fire to Fusion: The Journey Toward Clean Energy - Farmesk Abubaker (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania (IT))

12:20 PM First compact plasma-based user facilities at LNF: EuAPS and EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB toward next-generation radiation sources - Gemma Costa (INFN-LNF)
12:40 PM
12:40 PM - 1:10 PM
Room: Aula "Migneco"
Contributions

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

12:55 PM CAEN: Advanced Electronics for Science and Innovation - Cristina Mattone (CAEN SpA)
1:10 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
1:10 PM - 3:00 PM
3:00 PM
3:00 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: Aula "Migneco"
Contributions

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

3:20 PM Radiobiology with laser-driven, high energy, electron beams - Alessandro Flacco (LOA/ENSTA)

3:40 PM 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))

4:00 PM Radiobiology at ELI Beamlines - Pavel Bláha (ELI Beamlines Facility, The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC, Dolni Brezany (CZ))
4:20 PM

4:20 PM - 4:40 PM
Room: Aula "Migneco"

4:40 PM

4:40 PM - 5:40 PM
Room: Aula "Migneco"

5:40 PM

5:40 PM - 8:30 PM

8:30 PM

8:30 PM - 11:20 PM
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
9:30 AM
9:30 AM - 10:50 AM
Room: Aula "Migneco"
Contributions

9:30 AM Fusion energy research with high power lasers in Europe: from ELI to HiPER+ - Leonida Gizzi (CNR-INO and INFN)

9:50 AM 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 AM Nuclear AstroPhysics via Coulomb Explosion Mechanism - Giovanni Luca Guardo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania (IT))

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

11:20 AM 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 AM 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 PM 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 PM
12:20 PM - 1:05 PM
Room: Aula "Migneco"
Contributions

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

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

12:50 PM LIOP-TEC GmbH: LIOP-TEC GmbH: Company Profile of LIOP-TEC GmbH - Patrick Incorvaia (LIOP-TEC GmbH)
1:05 PM

1:05 PM - 1:25 PM
Room: Aula "Migneco"

1:25 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:25 PM - 2:45 PM
Room: Aula "Migneco"

2:45 PM Laboratory Tour
Laboratory Tour
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM

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