ICUIL 2026

ICUIL conferences provide a venue for discussions among representatives of high-intensity laser facilities and members of user communities, on international collaborative activities such as the development of the next generation of ultrahigh intensity lasers, exploration of new areas of fundamental and applied research, and formation of a global research network for access to advanced facilities by users.

We are delighted to announce that the 11th International Conference on Ultrahigh Intensity Lasers - ICUIL 2026 - will be hosted by the UK’s Central Laser Facility and held in the historic town of St Andrews on the east coast of Scotland, UK. Please visit the website for more details of the event.

The call for abstracts has now CLOSED.

Contribution types

Keynote addresses
These will be arranged by invitation and timings will be agreed with the speakers.

Invited talk
invited talks will be 30 minutes long, including time for questions. Each invited talk should have a single speaker.

Oral presentation
We encourage abstracts for oral presentations that explore any of the conference topics. These presentations will include time for questions.

Posters
Two poster sessions will be available at ICUIL 2026.

Conference topics ICUIL 2026 are:

- Multi-petawatt facilities and beyond
- New enabling laser technologies, metrology and diagnostics
- Novel laser-based particle and radiation sources
- Combined sources (high power lasers with other drivers)
- Application of secondary sources
- Application of AI and Machine Learning in optimisation of lasers
   and secondary sources
- Advancements and laser development for fusion
- High harmonics, attosecond generation and few cycle lasers
- High field science
- Innovative optics, beam shaping, pulse engineering