List of the invited speakers

• F. Amiranoff  (Ec. Polytechique, France)
  Electron transport and target heating in high-intensity laser-matter interaction experiments
• Ph. Balcou  (LOA-ENSTA, France)
  Neutron generation by laser irradiation of CD4 clusters
• R. Bartels  (JILA - University of Colorado, USA)
  Coherent control of atoms and molecules in the high field regime
• A. Borisov  (University of Ilinois at Chicago, USA)
  Ultra-bright multi-keV X-ray source for biological microholography
• S.V. Bulanov  (GPI-RAS, Moscow, Russia)
  Relativistic interaction of ultrashort laser pulses with plasmas
• J.P. Chambaret  (LOA-ENSTA, France)
  Superstrong pulses lasers delivering at 10 Hz intensities as high as 10²¹ W/cm²: present status and bottlenecks for the future
• P. Chen  (SLAC, USA)
  Laboratory astrophysics using high intensity particle and photon beams
• T. Ditmire  (University of Texas, USA)
  Fusion yield optimization in plasmas of exploding deuterium clusters
• N. Fisch  (PPPL, USA)
  Compression of intense laser pulses in plasma
• V. Gordienko  (Moscow State University, Russia)
  Nuclear processes in plasma produced by femtosecond laser pulses at subrelativistic intensities
• D. Habs  (Muenchen University, Germany)
  Laser acceleration obtaining monochromatic particle beams, new beam handling techniques and crystalline ion beams
• M. Hentschel  (Technical University of Vienna, Austria)
  Towards attosecond metrology
• Ch. Joachain  (Universite' Libre de Bruxelles)
  Non-dipole and relativistic effects in laser-atom interactions
• Ch. Keitel  (Freiburg University, Germany)
  Relativistic interaction of short laser pulses with multiply charged ions and crystals
• J. Koga  (JAERI, Japan)
  Relativsitic self-focusing of ultraintense laser pulses and ion acceleration
• K. Krushelnick  (Imperial College, UK)
  Nuclear diagnostics of ultra-intense laser interactions with matter
• E. Liang  (Rice University, USA)
  Generation and astrophysics applications of relativistic plasmas with ultra-intense lasers
• A. Macchi  (Pisa University, Italy)
  Surface effects in laser interaction with overdense plasmas
• V. Malka  (LULI, Ecole Polytechnique, France)
  Overview of laser-particle acceleration in an underdense plasma
• P. Mora  (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
  Interaction of ultra intense laser pulse with plasmas
• G. Mourou  (University of Michigan, USA)
  Relativistic nonlinear optics in the single cycle and single wavelength limits at kHz repetition rate
• K. Nakajima (KEK, Japan)
  Super-high energy super-intense particle physics by super-strong laser-matter interactions
• M. Nisoli  (Polytechnic of Milan, Italy)
  High order harmonic generation in the few optical cycle regime
• I. Pogorelsky (BNL, USA)
  Strong-field physics with mid-infrared lasers
• I. Ross  (CLF-RAL, UK)
  Current status and future prospects for OPCPA
• M. Roth  (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany)
  Intense ion beams accelerated by ultra-intense laser pulses
• H. Ruhl (Max-Born Institute, Berlin, Germany)
  3D PIC simulations of proton imaging of plasma perturbations
• A. Sergeev  (IAP-RAS, N. Novgorod, Russia)
  X-Ray pulse train generation by long-lived atoms and ions in superintense laser field
• G. Shvetz  (PPPL, USA)
  Excitation of accelerating plasma waves by counter-propagating laser beams
• T. Taguchi  (Setsunan University, Japan)
  Structure formation, tearing and merging of relativistic electron beam propagating through a laser produced plasma
• T. Tajima  (University of Texas/LLNL, USA)
  Superhigh field science: applications to high energy physics and extreme astrophysical conditions
• D. Umstadter  (University of Michigan, USA)
  Developments in relativistic nonlinear optics
• D. von der Linde (Essen University, Germany)
  Femtosecond time-resolution in X-ray spectroscopy
• C.-G. Wahlstrom  (Lund University of Technology, Sweden)
  Influence of laser pulse duration on relativistic channels
• J. Witte  (Max-Planck Institute, Garching, Germany)
  Hot, solid state aluminum plasmas, positrons and neutrons generated with the Garching laser facility ATLAS
• K. Yamakawa  (JAERI, Japan)
  Status and future developments of ultrahigh intensity lasers at JAERI
• K. Yamanouchi  (Department of Chemistry, Tokyo University, Japan)
  Dynamics of molecules in intense laser light fields: new research direction