Sunday, June 20

Evening 6:00

Registration/Opening Reception – Lobby/Ballroom A

Monday, June 21

Morning I & II 8:30 – 12:00

Opening and Distinguished Plenary - Auditorium

Plenary Session Chair: Ilan Ben-Zvi

8:30 – 8:45

Welcome and Introduction to Meeting

 

Ilan Ben-Zvi

8:45 – 9:30

Review of Experimental Results in Electron-Driven Plasma-Wake Acceleration

 

 

Chan Joshi

9:30 – 10:00

Progress on Laser-Plasma Accelerators

Wim Leemans

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee – Ballroom A

Plenary Session Chair: Robert Palmer

10:30 – 11:15

Advanced Accelerator System Requirements Overview

 

Gerry Dugan

11:15 – 12:00

Review of Advanced Accelerator Concepts R&D in Japan

 

Yoneyoshi Kitagawa

12:00 – 1:00

Lunch – Ballroom A

Afternoon I 1:00 – 2:30

Plenary - Auditorium

Plenary Session Chair: David Cline

1:00 – 1:30

Tutorial: EM Structures and Laser Acceleration

 

Levi Schachter

1:30 – 2:00

Advances in Simulation  Capabilities

Warren Mori

2:00 – 2:30

Afterburner at SLAC - the Collider Point of View

 

Tor Raubeheimer

2:30 – 3:00

Coffee – Ballroom A

Afternoon II 3:00 – 4:45

Plenary & WG Organizing - Auditorium

Plenary Session Chair: Thomas Marshall

3:00 – 3:30

Recent Developments in Electron Bunch  Compression

 

James Rosenzweig

3:30 – 4:00

17GHz Electron Bunching in High Gain Relativistic Klystrons and Research Accelerators

 

 

Jake Haimson

4:00 – 4:45
Working Group Organization
4:45 – 6:00
Satellite Meetings
Tuesday, June 22

Morning I 8:30 – 10:00

Plenary - Auditorium

Plenary Session Chair: Micheal Downer

8:30 – 9:00

Tutorial: Solid-State Laser Technology

Craig Siders

9:00 – 9:30

PIC simulation and experimental research on high energy particle generation and their applications

 

 

Kunioki Mima

9:30 – 10:00

Modeling of Halos and Intense beams

Rami Kishek

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee – Ballroom A

Morning II 10:30 – 12:00

Working Groups

High Energy Density Physics and Exotic Acceleration Schemes – Room 311

10:30 – 10:55

Overview of Conventional Proton and Ion Sources and Preinjectors

 

Jim Alessi

10:55 – 11:05

Discussion

11:05 – 11:35

Characteristics of high intensity laser- produced proton beams

 

Teh Lin

11:35 – 11:45

Discussion

11:45 – 12:00

WG Discussion

12:00 – 1:00

Lunch – Ballroom A

Afternoon I 1:00 – 2:30

Working Groups

High Energy Density Physics and Exotic Acceleration Schemes – Room 311

1:00 – 1:20

Ion production via optical field ionization: Results from early work  

 

Paul Bolton

1:20 – 1:25

Discussion

1:25 – 1:50

Energy enhancement of produced protons by prepulses and back focusing in the interaction between T^3 lasers and thin foils

 

 

 

Atsushi Ogata

1:50 – 2:00

Discussion

2:00 – 2:25

Ultra-high brightness laser-accelerated proton source and novel acceleration schemes

 

 

J. Fuchs

2:25 – 2:30

Discussion

2:30 – 3:00

Coffee – Ballroom A

Afternoon II 3:00 – 4:30

Working Groups

High Energy Density Physics and Exotic Acceleration Schemes: Joint Session with Computational Accelerator Physics WG – Room 305

3:00 – 3:30

Ultrafast 2-D radiative transport in a micron-scale aluminum plasma excited at relativistic intensity

 

 

Benjamin Bowes

3:30 – 4:00

Luis de Silva:

4:00 – 4:30

Discussion - what are the computational needs of this area?

4:30 -
Poster Session – Ballroom A
Wednesday, June 23

Morning I 8:30 – 10:00

Plenary - Auditorium

Plenary Session Chair: Eric Esarey

8:30 – 9:00

Tutorial: Gas lasers for Strong Field Applications

 

Igor Pogorelsky

9:00 – 9:30

Review of Laser Guiding Experiments

Simon Hooker

9:30 – 10:00

Diagnostics for Laser   Accelerators

Chris Clayton

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee – Ballroom A

Morning II 10:30 – 12:00

Working Groups

High Energy Density Physics and Exotic Acceleration Schemes – Room 311

10:30 – 10:55

Acceleration of an electron beam in vacuum by a high intensity laser pulse

 

Don Umstadter

10:55 – 11:00

Discussion

11:00 – 11:25

New experimental approaches for the LEAP experiment

 

Tomas Plettner

11:25 – 11:30

Discussion

11:30 – 12:00

WG tasks

12:00 – 1:00

Lunch – Ballroom A

Afternoon I 1:00 – 2:30

Working Groups

High Energy Density Physics and Exotic Acceleration Schemes – Room 311

1:00 – 1:25

Laser ponderomotive e+e- collider and

proton acceleration up to the range of ultra high energy cosmic rays

 

 

Kazuhisa Nakajima

1:25 – 1:30

Discussion

1:30 – 1:55

Active media accelerators

Levi Schachter

1:55 – 2:00

Discussion

2:00 – 2:30

WG tasks

2:30 – 3:00

Coffee – Ballroom A

Afternoon II & Evening 3:00 –

Social Event – Meet in SAC Lobby

Thursday June 24

Morning I 8:30 – 10:00

Plenary - Auditorium

Plenary Session Chair: Courtlandt Bohn

8:30 – 9:00

Tutorial: Exotic Acceleration Schemes

Gennady Shvets

9:00 – 9:30

Modeling Injectors

John Lewellen

9:30 – 10:00

Diagnostics for High Energy Accelerators

 

Marc Ross

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee – Ballroom A

Morning II 10:30 – 12:00

Working Groups

High Energy Density Physics and Exotic Acceleration Schemes – Room 311

10:30 – 10:50

New low-loss ferroelectric materials for accelerator applications

 

Alex Kanareykin

10:50 – 10:55

Discussion

10:55 – 11:15

Ion acceleration and THz wave generation by ultrashort laser-foil interaction

 

 

Peter Messmer

11:15 – 11:20

Discussion

11:20 – 12:00

WG tasks

12:00 – 1:00

         Lunch – Ballroom A

Afternoon I 1:00 – 2:30

Working Groups

High Energy Density Physics and Exotic Acceleration Schemes – Room 311

1:00 – 1:20

Beam conditioning for FEL's: Consequences and methods

 

Jonathan Wurtele

1:20 – 1:25

Discussion

1:25 – 1:45

Beam manipulation with laser-plasma wakefields: Beam conditioning, emittance selection, and beam chopping

 

 

Eric Esarey

1:45 – 1:50

Discussion

1:50 – 2:10

Electron beam conditioning by Thomson Scattering

 

Carl Schroeder

2:10 – 2:30

Discussion

2:30 – 3:00

Coffee – Ballroom A

Afternoon II 3:00 – 4:45

Working Groups

High Energy Density Physics and Exotic Acceleration Schemes – Room 311

3:00 – 4:45

WG tasks

Evening 6:00 -

Workshop Banquet – Meet in SAC Lobby

Friday June 25

Morning I 8:30 – 10:00

Plenary - Auditorium

Plenary Session Chair: Vitaly Yakimenko

8:30 – 9:00

Tutorial: Femtosecond Beam Sources and Applications

 

Mitsuru Uesaka

9:00 – 9:30

Very High Energy Gain in the Neptune IFEL Experiment

 

Pietro Musumeci

9:30 – 10:00

Diamond amplifiers for photocathodes

Triveni Srinivasan-Rao

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee – Ballroom A

Morning II 10:30 – 12:00

Working Groups

High Energy Density Physics and Exotic Acceleration Schemes – Room 311

10:30 – 12:00

WG summary preparation

12:00 – 1:00

Lunch – Ballroom A

Afternoon I 1:00 – 3:10

BNL Tour – Meet in SAC Lobby

1:30 – 2:20

Tours: Group 1 NSLS, Group 2 RHIC, Group 3 ATF

2:20 – 3:10

Tours: Group 1 ATF, Group 2 NSLS, Group 3 RHIC

3:10 – 3:30

Refreshment Break – BNL, Berkner Hall Lobby

Afternoon II 3:30 – 6:30

User Facility Talks – BNL, Berkner Hall

Plenary Session Chair: Igor Pogorelsky

3:30 – 5:00

User Facility Talks I

1. Nicholas Samios 

“Welcome to BNL”

2. A. Ting

" Laser Wakefield Acceleration with Optically Injected Electrons at the Naval Research Laboratory"

3. M. Conde

"The Argonne Wakefield Accelerator Facility: Capabilities and Experiments"

4. A. Trimaine

“PLEIADES, an Ultra-fast Thomson X-ray Source at LLNL”

5. N. Barov

"The Fermilab/NICADD Photoinjector Laboratory: Capabilities, Status and Plans"

6. D. Umstadter

"Recent Results on Laser-driven Electron and Ion Acceleration from the University of Michigan."

5:00 – 5:15

Break – BNL, Berkner Hall Lobby

5:15 – 6:30

User Facility Talks II – BNL, Berkner Hall

7. S. Tochitsky

"UCLA Neptune Facility For Advanced Accelerator Studies"

8. S. Bernal

"The University of Maryland Electron Ring: a Model Recirculator for Intense Beam Physics Research."

9. W. Leemans

"The l'OASIS Facility at LBNL: Multi-terawatt, Multi-beam Ti:sapphire Laser System for Laser Driven Advanced Accelerator Research"

10. R. Noble

“The ORION Facility for Advanced Accelerator and Beam Physics Research”

11. V. Yakimenko

“ATF Capabilities and Experiments”

Evening 6:30 -

6:30 – 7:00

Closing Reception – BNL, Berkner Hall Lobby

7:00 – 8:30

Buffet Dinner – BNL, Berkner Hall Dining Area

Saturday June 26

Morning I & II 8:30 – 12:00

Plenary – WG Summary - Auditorium

Plenary Session Chair: Marcus Babzien

8:30 – 8:50

EM Structure-Based Accelerators Working Group

8:50 – 9:10

e-Beam Driven Accelerators

9:10 – 9:30

High Energy Density Physics and Exotic Acceleration Schemes Working Group

9:30 – 9:50

Laser Plasma Acceleration - Plasma Acceleration Subgroup

9:50 – 10:10

MM Wave Sources Working group

10:10 – 10:40

Coffee Break – Ballroom A

Plenary Session Chair: Wei Gai - Auditorium

10:40 – 11:00

Laser-Plasma Acceleration: Plasma Guiding Sub-Group

11:00 – 11:20

Working Group Topics: Diagnostics, Control and Synchronization

11:20 – 11:40

Computational Accelerator Physics

11:40 – 12:00

Closing Remarks

 

Room Assignment Summary – Check agenda for exceptions during joint sessions

Working Group Name

Room

Laser Plasma Acceleration - Plasma Acceleration Subgroup

Auditorium

EM Structure-Based Accelerators

302

Laser-Plasma Acceleration: Plasma Guiding Sub-Group

306

e-Beam Driven Accelerators

303

Diagnostics, Control and Synchronization

304

Computational Accelerator Physics

305

High Energy Density Physics and Exotic Acceleration Schemes

311

MM Wave Sources

308