Laser Symposium on the Occasion of the Farewell of Prof. Roland Sauerbrey and the Visit of Prof. Donna Strickland
February 6 and 7, 2023
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)
Bautzner Landstraße 400, 01328 Dresden, Building 106, Lecture Hall
| February 6 | Day 1 |
| 1 p.m. |
Welcome notes Prof. Sebastian M. Schmidt Scientific Director | Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf |
| 1.15 p.m. |
History of laser CPA (chirped pulse amplification) Prof. Donna Strickland Nobel Laureate in Physics 2018 |
| 2.00 p.m. |
Overview of laser particle acceleration Dr. Scott Wilks Northwind Services |
| 2.35 p.m. |
Laboratory astrophysics with CPA lasers Prof. Julien Fuchs Ecole Polytechnique, LULI |
| 3.10 p.m. | Coffee Break |
| 4 p.m. |
Opening farewell session Prof. Sebastian M. Schmidt |
| 4.05 p.m. |
Grußworte Michael Kretschmer | Minister President of the Free State of Saxony |
| 4.15 p.m. |
Oda Keppler Chair HZDR Supervisory Board | Federal Ministry of Education and Research |
| 4.25 p.m. |
How the laser happened Prof. Andreas Tünnermann Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering |
| 4.45 p.m. |
Laser Proton Acceleration at HZDR Prof. Ulrich Schramm Institute of Radiation Physics at HZDR |
| 5.05 p.m. |
Greetings Prof. Otmar D. Wiestler President of the Helmholtz Association |
| 5.15 p.m. |
Prof. Joachim Wosnitza Chair HZDR Scientific Technical Council |
| 5.25 p.m. |
Farewell to Prof. Roland Sauerbrey Prof. Sebastian M. Schmidt |
| 5.35 p.m. |
Reception at HZDR |
| February 7 |
Day 2 |
| 9 a.m. |
Helmholtz International Beamline for Extreme Fields (HIBEF) Prof. Thomas Cowan Institute of Radiation Physics at HZDR |
| 9.25 a.m. |
Probing the quantum vacuum at the high-intensity frontier Prof. Holger Gies Friedrich Schiller University Jena |
| 9.50 a.m. |
Perspectives of laser-driven electron acceleration Prof. Stefan Karsch Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics |
| 10.15 a.m. |
Laser plasma accelerator driven free electron laser Prof. Marie-Emmanuelle Couprie SOLEIL Synchrotron |
| 10.40 a.m. |
Coffee Break |
| 11 a.m. |
Medical applications with laser accelerated electrons Prof. Victor Malka Department of Physics of Complex Systems | Weizmann Institute of Science |
| 11.25 a.m. |
Biomedical research with laser-driven ion sources Dr. Josephine Metzkes-Ng Institute of Radiation Physics at HZDR |
| 11.50 a.m. |
Modeling of Matter unter Extreme Conditions combining High Performance Computing with Artificial Intelligence Dr. Michael Bussmann Center for Advanced Systems Understanding – CASUS |
| 12.15 p.m. |
Perspectives for Warm Dense Matter research using CPA lasers and XFELs Prof. Dominik Kraus University of Rostock and Institute of Radiation Physics at HZDR |
| 12.45 p.m. |
Reception |
