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

Laser Plasma Acceleration - Plasma Acceleration and Plasma Guiding Sub-Group - Auditorium and 306, respectively

10:30 – 11:00

Recent results on high energy and high quality electron beams from relativistic laser-plasma interaction with ultra short laser pulse

 

 

 

V. Malka

11:00 – 11:30

Recent results from

laser-plasma acceleration experiments using the VULCAN Petawatt Laser and ASTRA

 

 

 

Christopher Murphy

11:30 – 12:00

NRL Laser Injection Laser Wakefield Accelerator

 

A. Ting

12:00 – 1:00

Lunch – Ballroom A

Afternoon I 1:00 – 2:30

Working Groups

Laser Plasma Acceleration - Plasma Acceleration and Plasma Guiding Sub-Group - Auditorium and 306, respectively

1:00 – 1:30

Plasma waveguides for laser accelerators: Simulations andexperiments

 

 

T. Mendonca

1:30 – 2:00

Guiding of intense pulses

in efficient end-pumped plasma channels generated by self-focusing in Ar and H_2 clusters

 

 

 

V. Kumarappan

2:00 – 2:30

Laser Guiding At Relativistic Intensities and Wake Field Particle Acceleration in Plasma Channels

 

 

C. Geddes

2:30 – 3:00

Coffee – Ballroom A

Afternoon II 3:00 – 4:30

Working Groups

Laser Plasma Acceleration - Plasma Acceleration and Plasma Guiding Sub-Group - Auditorium and 306, respectively

3:00 – 3:30

Status and Future Prospects

for Plasma Beatwave Acceleration of Electrons

 

 

S. Tochitsky

3:30 – 3:45

Generation of Quasi-monoenergetic High-energy Electron Beam by Plasma Wave

 

 

K. Koyama

3:45 – 4:00

Progress on the UK Advanced Laser Plasma High-energy Accelerator ALPHA-X project

 

 

D. Jaroszynski

4:00 – 4:15

Laser Wakefield Acceleration Driven by ATF CO2 Laser

 

W. Kimura

4:15 – 4:30

Experimental study of fs electron bunch generation by laser plasma cathode

 

T. Hosokai

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

Laser Plasma Acceleration - Plasma Acceleration and Plasma Guiding Sub-Group - Auditorium and 306, respectively

10:30 – 10:45

Application of the gas-filled capillary discharge waveguide to laser-plasma acceleration

 

 

S. Hooker

10:45 – 11:00

ATF experiments on laser and e-beam transport in a capillary discharge plasma

 

I. Pogorelsky

11:00 – 11:15

Guiding of Ultrahigh Laser Intensities in Ablative Capillary Discharge Plasma Channel with Laser Ignition

 

 

A. Zigler

11:15 – 11:30

Trapping and Acceleration of Nonideal Injected Electron Bunches in Channel-Guided LWFAs

 

 

R. Hubbard

11:30 – 11:45

Guiding of 10 micron laser pulses by use of hollow waveguides

 

C. Sung

11:45 – 12:00

Magneto-plasma waveguide

M. Hur

12:00 – 1:00

Lunch – Ballroom A

Afternoon I 1:00 – 2:30

Working Groups

Laser Plasma Acceleration - Plasma Acceleration and Plasma Guiding Sub-Group: Computational Accelerator Physics joint - Auditorium

1:00 – 1:15

Particle-in-cell simulations of intense laser pulses coupling into plasma channels

 

 

Dimitre Dimitrov

1:15 – 1:30

Broad-Energy Electron Beam Injection and Loading in Laser Wakefield Accelerators

 

 

James Cooley

1:30 – 1:45

Laser wakefield acceleration - a fully self-consistent analysis

 

Albert Reitsma

1:45 – 2:00

Hydrodynamical evolution of plasma channels

 

H. Milchberg

2:00 – 2:15

Plasma Beatwave Accelerator Based on a Nonlinear Bistability of Relativistic Plasma Waves

 

 

Gennady Shvets

2:15 – 2:30

Discussion

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

Laser Plasma Acceleration - Plasma Acceleration and Plasma Guiding Sub-Group - Auditorium and 306, respectively

10:30 – 10:45

Ultrahigh current electron acceleration in relativistic laser-plasma interactions

 

K. Nakajima

10:45 – 11:00

Generation of MeV-level high-energy electrons from the interaction of a 2 TW laser beam and a gas target

 

 

H. Suk

11:00 – 11:15

Experiment on the Thomson Backscattering from LWFA e-beams

 

N. Hafz

11:15 – 11:30

Application of detuned plasma beatwave for generation of few-cycle electromagnetic pulses

 

 

S. Kalmykov

11:30 – 11:45

Robust autoresonant excitation in the plasma beat-wave accelerator

 

J. Wurtele

11:45 – 12:00

LWFA with Low Energy Raman Seeded Pulses

 

M. Fomotskyi

12:00 – 1:00

         Lunch – Ballroom A

Afternoon I 1:00 – 2:30

Working Groups

Laser Plasma Acceleration - Plasma Acceleration and Plasma Guiding Sub-Group - Auditorium and 306, respectively

1:00 – 1:15

Absorption and Guiding of Intense Laser Pulses in Clustered Gases

 

T. Antonsen

1:15 – 1:30

Trapping, wavebreaking, and dark current in nonlinear plasma waves

 

C. Schroeder

1:30 – 1:45

Electron acceleration in the Bubble regime: analytical theory and numerical simulations

 

 

S. Gordienko

1:45 – 2:00

Experimental Demonstration of a Staged Optical Injection and Laser Wakefield Acceleration

 

 

D. Kaganovich

2:00 – 2:15

Nonlinear group velocity, pump depletion, and electron dephasing in laser wakefield accelerators

 

 

E. Esarey

2:15 – 2:30

Introduction to Laser-Plasma-Acceleration Working Group Task

 

E. Esarey

2:30 – 3:00

Coffee – Ballroom A

Afternoon II 3:00 – 4:45

Working Groups

Laser Plasma Acceleration - Plasma Acceleration Sub-group - Auditorium

Plasma Guiding Sub-Group: Laser-Plasma Guiding WG joint with Diagnostics WG – Room 306

3:00 – 3:30

Femtosecond pump-probe studies of preformed plasma channels and clustered plasmas

 

 

M. Downer

3:30 – 4:00

Ultrafast Optical Diagnostic of laser plasmas: Single-shot Supercontinuum Spectral Interferometry

 

 

Kiyong Kim

4:00 – 4:15

Transverse phase-space measurements at a magnetic bunch compressor at the BNL-ATF

 

 

F. Zhou

4:15 – 4:30

UCLA Neptune Ramped Electron Bunch Experiment

 

R. England

4:30 – 4:45

Evidence of Ionization Blue Shift Seeding of Forward Raman Scattering

 

S. Chen

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

Laser Plasma Acceleration - Plasma Acceleration and Plasma Guiding Sub-Group - Auditorium and 306, respectively

10:30 – 12:00

Discussion and 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