Name: Plasma Accelerators Coming of Age - Celebration of Dream Beams
Start: 2025-07-14T08:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-07-14T18:00:00+01:00
Location: RAL

Monday, 14 July 2025

08:30 Arrival and refreshments
Arrival and refreshments
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Pickavance Lecture Theatre
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Pickavance Lecture Theatre
Contributions

09:00 Welcome remarks - Bob Bingham (STFC) John Collier (Central Laser Facility)

09:10 Leading up to the Dream Beams - Zulfikar Najmudin (Imperial College)

09:30 Dream Beam Paper - 1 - Stuart Mangles (Imperial College London)

09:50 Dream Beam Paper - 2 - Victor Malka (ELI-NP)

10:10 Dream Beam Paper - 3 - Cameron Geddes (LBNL)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 10:45
Room: Pickavance Lecture Theatre
10:45
10:45 - 11:25
Room: Pickavance Lecture Theatre
Contributions

10:45 Radiation sources from plasma accelerators - Alec Thomas (University of Michigan)

11:05 Applications of Compton and Bremsstrahlung sources - Chris Murphy (York)
11:25
11:25 - 12:05
Room: Pickavance Lecture Theatre
Contributions

11:25 Electron acceleration at ELI Beamlines - Gabriele Maria Grittani

11:45 Electron acceleration at ZEUS - Louise Willingale
12:05 Lunch for registered attendees
Lunch for registered attendees
12:05 - 13:10
Room: Visitor Centre
13:10
13:10 - 14:30
Room: Pickavance Lecture Theatre
Contributions

13:10 The Extreme Photonics Applications Centre - Dan Symes (STFC)

13:30 Applications of Machine Learning - Matthew Streeter (QUB)

13:50 Hybrid Wakefield Acceleration and P-MOPA - Stefan Karsch (CALA)

14:10 Potential of CLARA at Daresbury Laboratory for novel acceleration schemes - Deepa Angal-Kalinin (STFC)
14:30
14:30 - 15:40
Room: Pickavance Lecture Theatre
Contributions

14:30 Plasma-based FELs - Ulrich Schramm (HZDR)

14:50 Kaldera and Petrą IV injection - Wim Leemans (DESY)

15:10 Plasma-based colliders - Chan Joshi (UCLA)
15:40 Coffee
Coffee
15:40 - 16:00
Room: Pickavance Lecture Theatre

16:00

16:00 - 17:00
Room: EPAC

17:00 Depart
Depart
17:00 - 17:20
Room: Pickavance Lecture Theatre