Plasma Accelerators Coming of Age - Celebration of Dream Beams

Monday 14 Jul 2025, 08:30 → 18:00 Europe/London

Pickavance Lecture Theatre (RAL)

08:30 → 09:00 Arrival and refreshments

09:00 → 10:30 Session I: Plasma Accelerators and Dream Beams

09:00 Welcome remarks

Speakers: Bob Bingham (STFC), Prof. John Collier (Central Laser Facility)

09:10 Leading up to the Dream Beams

Speaker: Prof. Zulfikar Najmudin (Imperial College)

09:30 Dream Beam Paper - 1

Speaker: Stuart Mangles (Imperial College London)

09:50 Dream Beam Paper - 2

Speaker: Prof. Victor Malka (ELI-NP)

10:10 Dream Beam Paper - 3

Speaker: Dr Cameron Geddes (LBNL)

10:30 → 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 → 11:25 Session II: Applications of Plasma Accelerators

10:45 Radiation sources from plasma accelerators

Speaker: Prof. Alec Thomas (University of Michigan)

11:05 Applications of Compton and Bremsstrahlung sources

Speaker: Dr Chris Murphy (York)

11:25 → 12:05 Session III: Facilities exploiting plasma accelerators

11:25 Electron acceleration at ELI Beamlines

Speaker: Dr Gabriele Maria Grittani

11:45 Electron acceleration at ZEUS

Speaker: Dr Louise Willingale

12:05 → 13:10 Lunch for registered attendees

13:10 → 14:30 Session IV: Advanced Technologies

13:10 The Extreme Photonics Applications Centre

Speaker: Dan Symes (STFC)

13:30 Applications of Machine Learning

Speaker: Dr Matthew Streeter (QUB)

13:50 Hybrid Wakefield Acceleration and P-MOPA

Speaker: Prof. Stefan Karsch (CALA)

14:10 Potential of CLARA at Daresbury Laboratory for novel acceleration schemes

Speaker: Dr Deepa Angal-Kalinin (STFC)

14:30 → 15:40 Session V: Future: Light Sources and Colliders

14:30 Plasma-based FELs

Speaker: Prof. Ulrich Schramm (HZDR)

14:50 Kaldera and Petrą IV injection

Speaker: Prof. Wim Leemans (DESY)

15:10 Plasma-based colliders

Speaker: Prof. Chan Joshi (UCLA)

15:40 → 16:00 Coffee

16:00 → 17:00 EPAC tour

17:00 → 17:20 Depart