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
11.30 - 12.00	Wm2-3
	V. Yu. Bychenkov, Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia - On some models of ion acceleration
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
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 source.

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.
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
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
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
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
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
16.10 - 16.35	Ta2-2
	O. Sarroukh, GREMI, Orleans, France - Spectroscopic study on ablation processes in capillary discharge produced plasmas for XUV radiation
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
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
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
10.00 - 10.30	Fm1-3
	D. Batani, Universita' degli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy - Laser driven shock experiments at PALS
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
12.00 - 12.30	Fm2-3
	L. Simonchik, Institute of Molecular and Atomic Physics, Minsk, Belarus - Wave breaking in inhomogeneous plasma. Plasma channel formation
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

• P. Vrba et al.: Pinching Discharge in Nitrogen Filled Capillary for Soft X-ray Laser Recombination Pumping
• D.Batani, H.Stabile, A.Ravasio, T.Desai, G.Lucchini, F.Strati, T.Desai, J.Ullschmied, E.Krousky, L.Juha, J.Skala, B.Kralikova, M.Pfeifer, C.Kadlec, T.Mocek, A.Präg, H.Nishimura, Y.Ochi: Laser driven shock experiments at PALS
• G. Poletti, F. Orsini, J. Ullschmied, J. Skala, B. Kralikova, M. Pfeifer, C. Kadlec, T. Mocek, A. Präg, F. Cotelli, C. Lora Lamia, D. Batani, A. Bernardinello, T. Desai, A. Zullini: X-ray microscopy and imaging of Caenorhabditis elegans nematode with PALS
• D. Batani, M. Manclossi, A. Antonicci, S. Baton, F. Amiranoff, J. Santos, E. Martinolli, M. Koenig, C. Rousseaux, M. Rabec le Gloahec, V. Malka, T. Hall: Fast electron propagation in gas jets
• P. Tomassini, S. Bulanov, M. Galimberti, A. Giulietti, D. Giulietti, L.A. Gizzi, L. Labate, F. Pegoraro: Production of high quality laser-plasma accelerated electron bunches: numerical studies on controlled injection by a sharp electron density gradient.
• O, Klimo, J. Limpouch, Laser Energy Transformation into Ultrashort K-alpha Pulses in Layered Targets.