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 Arrival and refreshments

Session I: Plasma Accelerators and Dream Beams

1 Welcome remarks

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

2 Leading up to the Dream Beams

Speaker: Prof. Zulfikar Najmudin (Imperial College)

3 Dream Beam Paper - 1

Speaker: Stuart Mangles (Imperial College London)

4 Dream Beam Paper - 2

Speaker: Prof. Victor Malka (ELI-NP)

5 Dream Beam Paper - 3

Speaker: Dr Cameron Geddes (LBNL)

10:30 Coffee break

Session II: Applications of Plasma Accelerators

6 Radiation sources from plasma accelerators

Speaker: Prof. Alec Thomas (University of Michigan)

7 Applications of Compton and Bremsstrahlung sources

Speaker: Dr Chris Murphy (York)

Session III: Facilities exploiting plasma accelerators

8 Electron acceleration at ELI Beamlines

Speaker: Dr Gabriele Maria Grittani

9 Electron acceleration at ZEUS

Speaker: Dr Louise Willingale

12:05 Lunch for registered attendees

Session IV: Advanced Technologies

10 The Extreme Photonics Applications Centre

Speaker: Dan Symes (STFC)

11 Applications of Machine Learning

Speaker: Dr Matthew Streeter (QUB)

12 Hybrid Wakefield Acceleration and P-MOPA

Speaker: Prof. Stefan Karsch (CALA)

13 Potential of CLARA at Daresbury Laboratory for novel acceleration schemes

Speaker: Dr Deepa Angal-Kalinin (STFC)

Session V: Future: Light Sources and Colliders

14 Plasma-based FELs

Speaker: Prof. Ulrich Schramm (HZDR)

15 Kaldera and Petrą IV injection

Speaker: Prof. Wim Leemans (DESY)

16 Plasma-based colliders

Speaker: Prof. Chan Joshi (UCLA)

15:40 Coffee

EPAC tour

17:00 Depart