Scientific program
Workshop "Ultrashort pulse laser-plasma interactions"
and INTAS-01-233 project meeting


Wednesday, September 24
9.30 - 10.00 Session Wm1
9.30 - 10.00 Workshop opening session (Musílek, Pegoraro, Limpouch)
10.00 - 10.30 Coffee break
10.30 - 12.30 Session Wm2 (chair person - F. Pegoraro)
10.30 - 11.00 Wm2-1
  S. Bulanov, General Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia - Relativistic Laser Engineering
11.00 - 11.30 Wm2-2
  P. Mora, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France - Expansion into a vacuum and ion acceleration pdf_icn.gif
11.30 - 12.00 Wm2-3
  V. Yu. Bychenkov, Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia - On some models of ion acceleration pdf_icn.gif
12.00 - 12.30 Wm2-4
  M. Basko, ITEP, Moscow, Russia - Energy straggling by Coulomb stopping of fast ions and the width of the Bragg peak
   
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch break
   
14.00 - 15.30 Session Wa1 (chair person - J. Limpouch)
14.00 - 14.30 Wa1-1
  F. Pegoraro, Univ. Pisa, Italy - Propagation of a short proton beam through a thin plasma slab
14.30 - 15.00 Wa1-2
  V. I. Karas', Kharkov Institute of Physics & Technology, Kharkov, Ukraine -
On the generation of strong magnetic fields in the interaction of ultraintense short laser pulse with a plasma target pdf_icn.gif
15.00 - 15.30 Wa1-3
  M. Borghesi, Queens Univ. Belfast, UK - Diagnostic use of proton beams in laser-plasma interaction experiments
   
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee break
   
16.00 - 17.30 Session Wa2 (chair person - V. Yu. Bychenkov)
16.00 - 16.30 Wa2-1
  N. N. Demchenko, Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia - Hydrodynamic model of picosecond laser pulse interaction with solid target
16.30 - 17.00 Wa2-2
  E. Echkina, Moscow State University, Russia - The explosion of the clusters under the action of the powerful laser radiation
17.00 - 17.30 Wa2-3
  J. Limpouch, CTU, Prague, Czech Republic - Electron acceleration in short-pulse laser-solid interactions and subpicosecond line x-ray sourcepdf_icn.gif


Thursday, September 25
9.00 - 10.30 Session Tm1 (chair person - P. Mora)
9.00 - 9.30 Tm1-1
  E. Gusakov, Ioffe Institute, St.Petersburg, Russia - Wave breaking in inhomogeneous plasma. Electron acceleration. pdf_icn.gif
9.30 - 10.00 Tm1-2
  A.I. Magunov, NI for Physical-Technical and Radiotechnical Measurements, Mendeleevo, Russia - Experimental investigations of X-ray spectra of plasma created by supershort laser pulses
   
10.00 - 10.45 Coffee break
   
10.45 - 12.25 Session Tm2 Capillary discharges (chair person - M. Vrbová)
10.45 - 11.10 Tm2-1
  N. Bobrova, ITEP, Moscow, Russia - MHD two-temperature equations for multi component plasma
11.10 - 11.35 Tm2-2
  K. Horioka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan - Importance of capillary plasmadynamics for lasing and guiding pdf_icn.gif
11.35 - 12.00 Tm2-3
  P. Sasorov, ITEP, Moscow, Russia - MHD Equation of Plasma of Complex Chemical Composition" or "Laser/e-Beam Interaction in a Plasma pdf_icn.gif
12.00 - 12.25 Tm2-4
  A. Stepanov, TRINITI, Troitsk, Russia - Numerical modeling of spectral characteristics of capillary discharge plasma
   
12.25 - 14.00 Lunch break
   
14.00 - 15.15 Session Ta1 Capillary discharges (chair person - C. Cachoncinlle)
14.00 - 14.25 Ta1-1
  G. Tomasetti, Dipartimento di Fisica Universitŕ degli studi dell'Aquila, Italy - Highly saturated operation of a discharge pumped soft x-ray laser
14.25 - 14.50 Ta1-2
  E. Hotta, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan - Ne-like Ar soft x-ray laser and its focusing pdf_icn.gif
14.50 - 15.15 Ta1-3
  J. Schmidt, Institute of Plasma Physics AS CR, Czech Republic - Influence of Pre-discharge on Soft X-ray Amplification in the Fast Gas-filled-capillary Discharge pdf_icn.gif
   
15.15 - 15.45 Coffee break
   
15.45 - 17.25 Session Ta2 Capillary discharges (chair person - G. Tomasetti)
15.45 - 16.10 Ta2-1
  L. Kocbach, University of Bergen, Norway - Comments on capture of electrons by ions pdf_icn.gif
16.10 - 16.35 Ta2-2
  O. Sarroukh, GREMI, Orleans, France - Spectroscopic study on ablation processes in capillary discharge produced plasmas for XUV radiation pdf_icn.gif
16.35 - 17.00 Ta2-3
  J. Kaiser, GREMI, Orleans, France - Investigation on ablation phenomena in capillary discharge produced plasmas for XUV radiation by timeresolved imaging pdf_icn.gif
17.00 - 17.25 Ta2-4
  M. Vrbová, CTU Prague, Czech Republic - X-ray Emission Spectra of Capillary Discharge in Polyacetal and Polyethylene Capilaries
   
17.40 - 18.30 Roundtable-capillary discharges - room 111


Friday, September 26
9.00 - 10.30 Session Fm1 (chair person - M. Borghesi)
9.00 - 9.30 Fm1-1
  K. Rohlena, Institute of Physics AS CR, Prague, Czech Republic - Review of PALS facility and experiments pdf_icn.gif
9.30 - 10.00 Fm1-2
  P. Straka, Institute of Physics AS CR, Prague, Czech Republic - Pilot experiment of PALS petawatt upgrade using hybrid iodine laser SOFIA pdf_icn.gif
10.00 - 10.30 Fm1-3
  D. Batani, Universita' degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy - Laser driven shock experiments at PALS pdf_icn.gif
   
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
   
11.00 - 12.30 Session Fm2 (chair person - V.I. Karas')
11.00 - 11.30 Fm2-1
  G.L. Dudnikova, Institute of Computational Technologies, Novosibirsk, Russia - Ion Acceleration in Postsoliton Plasmas
11.30 - 12.00 Fm2-2
  V. Kovalev, Institute for Mathematical Modelling RAS, Moscow, Russia - Renormalization group algorithm in problems of laser-plasma interactions pdf_icn.gif
12.00 - 12.30 Fm2-3
  L. Simonchik, Institute of Molecular and Atomic Physics, Minsk, Belarus - Wave breaking in inhomogeneous plasma. Plasma channel formation pdf_icn.gif
   
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch break
   
14.00 - 14.50 Panel discussion: Ultrashort-pulse interactions (chair person - S. Bulanov)
15.00 - 15.40 Coordination meeting of grant INTAS-01-0233, room 111 (chair person - F. Pegoraro)


List of posters



Milan Šiňor
2004-01-14