Name: EuPRAXIA_PP Final Meeting 2026 and EuPRAXIA_DN Conference
Start: 2026-09-20T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-26T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Hotel Hermitage, La Biodola Bay, Isola d'Elba, Italy

EuPRAXIA_PP Final Meeting 2026 and EuPRAXIA_DN Conference

from Sunday, September 20, 2026 (9:00 AM) to Saturday, September 26, 2026 (8:00 PM)

Monday, September 14, 2026
Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Thursday, September 17, 2026
Friday, September 18, 2026
Saturday, September 19, 2026
Sunday, September 20, 2026

4:00 PM Arrival
Arrival
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

7:00 PM Welcome cocktail
Welcome cocktail
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

8:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
8:30 PM - 10:30 PM

Monday, September 21, 2026
9:00 AM Welcome Session
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Opening remarks - Massimo Ferrario (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

9:15 AM EuPRAXIA PP Status Update - Pierluigi Campana (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

9:35 AM EuPRAXIA DN Status update - Carsten Peter Welsch

9:55 AM PACRI Status Update - Gerardo D'Auria (Elettra) Gerardo D'Auria (Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste)

10:10 AM EuPRAXIA EIPP overview - Antonio Falone (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Invited Talk
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Contributions

11:00 AM Spectral phase control for optimized ionization injection in laser wakefield acceleration - Francesco Massimo (LPGP - CNRS)
11:30 AM EuPRAXIA DN: Theory and Simulation
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:30 AM Status of the LPA EuPRAXIA@Beamlines TDR simulations and next steps - Paolo Tomassini (ELI-BL, ELI-NP)

11:50 AM Orbital angular momentum of superradiant light in nonlinear Thomson scattering - Bhushan Thakur (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon)

12:10 PM Overcoming space-charge limitation to enable wakefield-driven free-electron lasers in the x-ray regime - Runfeng Luo (Imperial College London)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 4:00 PM

4:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
4:15 PM Invited Talk
4:15 PM - 4:45 PM
Contributions

4:15 PM Plasma Accelerator For Decaying Particles - Chiara Badiali
4:45 PM EuPRAXIA DN: Theory and Simulation
4:45 PM - 5:25 PM
Contributions

4:45 PM Study and optimization of EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB working point - Gianmarco Parise (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

5:05 PM Towards a Plasma Undulator Experiment at SPARC_LAB - Carlos Buitrago (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
5:25 PM EuPRAXIA PP: WP2
WP2
5:25 PM - 6:10 PM
Contributions

5:25 PM EuPRAXIA PP's dissemination and public relations - Carsten Welsch (University of Liverpool) Susanna Bertelli (LNF)
6:10 PM EuPRAXIA PP: WP3
WP3
6:10 PM - 6:35 PM
Contributions

6:10 PM WP3 - Rules and regulations - Andrea Ghigo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
6:35 PM Q&A
Q&A
6:35 PM - 6:50 PM

8:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
8:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
9:00 AM Invited Talk
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Single-laser scheme for reaching strong field QED regime via direct laser acceleration - Robert Babjak (GoLP/IPFN - Instituto Superior Técnico)
9:30 AM EUPRAXIA DN: Plasma-based Accelerators and New Concepts
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:30 AM FACET II research relevant to EuPRAXIA - Alexander Knetsch (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

9:50 AM Toward stable high-repetition-rate plasma-wakefield acceleration: source development, accelerator stabilization, and machine-learning jitter analysis - Romain Demitra (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

10:10 AM Ionization Injection in Laser Wakefield Acceleration driven by Few Cycle pulses - Flanish D'Souza (Department of Physics, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Invited Talk
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Contributions

11:00 AM Coherent Synchrotron Radiation by Excitation of Surface Plasmon Polariton on Near-Critical Solid Microtube Surface - Bifeng Lei (University of Liverpool)
11:30 AM EUPRAXIA DN: Plasma-based Accelerators and New Concepts
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:30 AM Plasma Injector for Synchrotron Light Sources - Andreas Maier (DESY)

11:50 AM EuPRAXIA laser development status and outlook - Tyler Green (ELI - Beamlines)

12:10 PM Start-to-End Simulation for a Laser-Plasma-Driven EUV Free-Electron Laser at ELI ERIC - Mihail MICESKI Mihail MICESKI
12:30 PM Group Photo
Group Photo
12:30 PM - 12:40 PM

12:40 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:40 PM - 4:00 PM

4:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
4:15 PM EuPRAXIA PP: WP4
WP4
4:15 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

4:15 PM WP4 - Legal Framework, Financial Model and Socio-Economic Impact Summary - Antonio Falone (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
5:00 PM EuPRAXIA PP: WP5
WP5
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM
Contributions

5:00 PM User strategy and experiments for the EuPRAXIA x-ray FEL facilities - Emiliano Principi

5:35 PM Q&A
5:45 PM EuPRAXIA PP: WP6
WP6
5:45 PM - 6:30 PM
Contributions

5:45 PM Summary of the activity of WP06 – Membership Extension Strategy - Andrea Mostacci (Sapienza, University of Rome) Andrea Mostacci (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

6:00 PM Perspective of Plasma accelerators for high energy physics - Patric Muggli
6:30 PM Q&A
Q&A
6:30 PM - 6:45 PM

8:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
8:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Wednesday, September 23, 2026
9:00 AM EuPRAXIA PP: WP7
WP7
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Work Package 7: e-needs and data policy - Ricardo Fonseca (Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa)
9:45 AM EuPRAXIA PP: WP8
WP8
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:45 AM Overview of WP8 activities. - Jorge Vieira (Instituto Superior Técnico)

10:05 AM Start-to-end modelling for realistic design of plasma accelerator systems - Maxence Thévenet (DESY)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM EuPRAXIA PP: WP9
WP9
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Contributions

11:00 AM WP9 Summary - Federico Nguyen (ENEA)

11:10 AM Towards a Compact LWFA-Driven Soft X-Ray FEL at ELI ERIC: Current Status and Activities in Beamline Design and Start-to-End Simulations - Mihail MICESKI

11:27 AM The ARIA seeded Free-Electron Laser beamline at EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB - Michele Opromolla (ENEA)
11:45 AM EuPRAXIA PP: WP10
WP10
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:45 AM Summary of WP10 - Kevin Cassou (IJClab - CNRS/IN2P3) Rob Shalloo (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY))

11:55 AM Design of the Plasma Source for EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB - Lucio Crincoli (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

12:10 PM Development of Plasma Target Systems Supported by Hydrodynamic Simulations - Sebastian Lorenz (The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 4:00 PM

4:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
4:15 PM EuPRAXIA DN: Diagnostics and Instrumentation (incl machine learning)
4:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Contributions

4:15 PM From Prototype Validation to Industrialization of X-Band LLRF Systems for Future High-Gradient Linacs - Phani Deep Meruga

4:35 PM Study on an S-band Fast Feedback Loop Design for Femtosecond Synchronization - Xianghe Fang (LNF-INFN)

4:55 PM Optimization of high-power laser wavefront in the focal region through fast Shack-Hartmann pattern analysis - David Gregocki (Intense Laser Irradiation Laboratory, CNR-INO)

5:15 PM Optical Synchrotron Radiation as a Non-Invasive Diagnostic Tool for Future Plasma Accelerator Facilities - Debdeep Ghosal (University of Liverpool)

5:35 PM Femtosecond resolution longitudinal profile reconstructions from coherent transition radiation spatial images with ensemble deep learning - Ana Maria Guisao Betancur (University of Liverpool)
6:30 PM Poster Session: Poster Session with wine & cheese
Poster Session with wine & cheese
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Contributions

6:30 PM Laser Wakefield Acceleration in Discharge-Generated Plasma Channels - Alex Johannes Whitehead

6:30 PM Synchronized twin electron beams from bubble-centroid oscillation injection - Flanish D'Souza (Department of Physics, Lund University, P.O. Box 118, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden)

6:30 PM Plasma photocathodes: a pathway to high-brightness electron beams at ELI Beamlines - Fahim Habib (ELI Beamlines | The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC)

6:30 PM Performance Evaluation of the Extraction System of Supersonic Gas Curtain Ionization Profile Monitor for FLASH Protons - Farhana Thesni Mada Parambil (University of Liverpool/ Cockcroft Institute) Carsten Welsch (University of Liverpool)

6:30 PM Multi-cycle THz pulse generation and start-to-end simulations on dielectric THz-driven accelerators - Andrés Leiva Genre

6:30 PM Towards a Plasma Undulator Experiment at SPARC_LAB - Carlos Buitrago (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
8:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
8:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Thursday, September 24, 2026
9:00 AM Invited Talk
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM What plasma accelerators can do for ERMES, the new technique for earthquake forecast (Earthquake Reconnaissance via Muon beam Evolution in Silicon dioxide) - Luca Serafini (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
9:30 AM EuPRAXIA DN: Plasma Accelerator Applications (incl Medical)
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:30 AM Science-driven design of the EuPRAXIA FEL at ELI Beamlines - Jakob Andreasson (ELI Beamlines)

9:50 AM Updated Review on the VHEE Beam for FLASH Radiation Therapy Development - Evangelos Gazis Gazis (National Technical University of Athens)

10:10 AM Enhanced Betatron X-ray beams from Dual Stage Plasma Targets - Vidmantas Tomkus (Center for Physical Sciences and Technology FTMC)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Invited Talk
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Contributions

11:00 AM A Compton source of Gamma ray based on the EuPRAXIA electron beam - Vittoria Petrillo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
11:30 AM EuPRAXIA DN: Diagnostics and Instrumentation (incl machine learning)
11:30 AM - 11:50 AM
Contributions

11:30 AM High-Sensitivity Shack-Hartmann Wavefront Sensing for High-Repetition-Rate Laser-Plasma Acceleration - Luisa Kristin Niggemeier
11:50 AM EuPRAXIA PP: WP11
WP11
11:50 AM - 12:35 PM
Contributions

11:50 AM Light sources driven by PWFA - Enrica Chiadroni (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

12:05 PM Update on applications of primary electron beams and secondary sources within EuPRAXIA - Gianluca Sarri

12:20 PM Plasma Discharge Undulator: concept and first experimental characterization at PSI - Andrea Frazzitta (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
12:35 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:35 PM - 4:05 PM

4:05 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:05 PM - 4:15 PM
4:15 PM EuPRAXIA PP: WP12
WP12
4:15 PM - 5:07 PM
Contributions

4:15 PM LASER TECHNOLOGY AND LIAISON TO INDUSTRY: Outcomes and Roadmap towards the EuPRAXIA Laser Driver - Leonida Antonio Gizzi (CNR - INO, and INFN - Sez. di Pisa)

4:21 PM Simulations of thermal load and induced wavefront aberrations on diffraction gratings for high average power laser compressors - Luca Labate (CNR-INO)

4:34 PM Development of diode laser pumps for high energy laser infrastructures - Paul Crump

4:47 PM High average power laser technology for Eupraxia laser-driven machine - Christophe SIMON-BOISSON (THALES OPTRONIQUE SAS)

5:00 PM Progress on high power diode-pumped technology for future laser-driven sources - Antoine Courjaud
5:07 PM Q&A
Q&A
5:07 PM - 5:15 PM
5:15 PM EuPRAXIA PP: Collaboration Board Meeting
Collaboration Board Meeting
5:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Contributions

5:15 PM Status of the Project - Pierluigi Campana (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

5:20 PM EuPRAXIA MoU - Antonio Falone (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

5:30 PM MoU Updates - Pierluigi Campana (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

5:40 PM Adoption of the MoU draft, as of deliverable D 4.4 Report on final EuPRAXIA financial and legal model incl. RI govern. and management

7:10 PM A.O.B.
8:30 PM Social Dinner
Social Dinner
8:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Friday, September 25, 2026
9:00 AM EuPRAXIA PP: WP13
WP13
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Beam driven diagnostics, EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB TDR - Alessandro Cianchi (Tor Vergata University and INFN)

9:10 AM Diagnostics Beamline for the Laser-Driven Pillar of EuPRAXIA - Rasmus Ischebeck

9:20 AM Beam diagnostics at Plasma Entrance for EuPRAXIA@Sparc_Lab - Francesco Demurtas (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
9:45 AM EuPRAXIA PP: WP14
WP14
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:45 AM Review of WP14 progress - Bernhard Hidding Stefan Karsch (LMU München)

10:00 AM Towards Compact Plasma-Based XFELs - Fahim Habib (ELI Beamlines | The Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM EuPRAXIA PP: WP15
WP15
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Contributions

11:00 AM EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB: Beam Dynamics and Performances of a Stable and Reliable Plasma-Based Acceleration Facility - Gilles Jacopo Silvi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

11:15 AM The EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB RF System - Luca Piersanti (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

11:30 AM The AQUA Free-Electron Laser beamline at EuPRAXIA@SPARC_LAB - Michele Opromolla (ENEA)
11:45 AM EuPRAXIA PP: WP16
WP16
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:45 AM Site Selection and TDR Preparation for the LPA-Based EuPRAXIA Pillar - Alexander Molodozhentsev (ELI-Beamlines)

12:10 PM Site Selection and TDR Preparation for the LPA-Based EuPRAXIA Pillar - Rajeev Pattathil (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
12:30 PM Conclusion

12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

4:30 PM DN Steering Committee EIPP Launch other satellite meetings
DN Steering Committee EIPP Launch other satellite meetings
4:30 PM - 6:45 PM

8:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
8:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Saturday, September 26, 2026

8:00 AM Departure
Departure
8:00 AM - 8:00 PM

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