Name: Advanced Accelerator Concepts 2026
Start: 2026-07-26T16:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-07-31T16:00:00-07:00
Location: Luskin Conference Center, UCLA

Advanced Accelerator Concepts 2026

from Sunday, 26 July 2026 (16:00) to Friday, 31 July 2026 (16:00)

Monday, 20 July 2026
Tuesday, 21 July 2026
Wednesday, 22 July 2026
Thursday, 23 July 2026
Friday, 24 July 2026
Saturday, 25 July 2026
Sunday, 26 July 2026

17:30 Welcome Reception
Welcome Reception
17:30 - 19:30
Room: Terrace

Monday, 27 July 2026
08:45 Invited Talks: Plenary
Plenary
08:45 - 10:15
Room: Ballroom
Contributions

08:45 Very high energy electrons from multi-Petawatt LWFA in a transitional regime - Calin Hojbota (The University of Texas at Austin)

09:15 Plasma Injector for Synchrotron Lightsources - Andreas Maier (DESY)

09:45 Recent Advances in Plasma Wakefield Acceleration at FACET-II - Doug Storey (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
10:15 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:15 - 10:45
10:45 Invited Talks: Plenary
Plenary
10:45 - 12:15
Room: Ballroom
Contributions

10:45 Radiation generation and applications from laser-plasma accelerators - Jeroen van Tilborg

11:15 Towards dephasingless LWFA - Aaron Liberman (Weizmann Institute of Science)

11:45 Sub-GV/m gradient in Short-Pulse X-Band Photogun: From First Demonstration to Recent Results and Future Developments - Gongxiaohui Chen (ANL)
12:15 Lunch
Lunch
12:15 - 13:30
Room: Terrace
13:30 A1-Working Group # 1
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Ballroom A&B
Contributions

13:30 Next-Generation High-Repetition-Rate Lasers for Laser–Plasma Accelerators and Secondary Sources - Kaikai Zhang (Amplitude Laser)

13:50 Coherent Beam Stacking Enabled Compact, Energy Scalable, and Several Optical Cycle Capable Ultrashort Pulse Post-Compression for the Next-Generation LWFA Drivers - Tayari Coleman (University of Michigan)

14:10 Design and progress of a 150 mJ, 40 fs, 5 kHz fiber-laser accelerator driver - Tong Zhou (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

14:30 Ultrashort Pulse Generation and High Power Machine Protection in a Fiber Laser for Advanced Accelerator Applications - Mahek Logantha (UC Berkeley/Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

14:50 100mJ Spatially and Temporally Combined Femtosecond Fiber Laser System Enabling Next Generation Laser Plasma Accelerators - Christopher Pasquale (University of Michigan)

15:10 Update on the LWIR Laser Capability at ATF - Mikhail Polyanskiy (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
A2-Working group # 2
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Legacy A
Contributions

13:30 Efficient proton acceleration in near critical density targets - Ulrich Schramm

13:50 Enhanced acceleration of high-energy proton beams from laser-driven stochastic 3D printed microstructures - Sergei Tochitsky (UCLA)

14:10 Significant Increase in the Number of Energetic Protons with Two Hot Temperatures of 1 and 4 MeV During the Interaction of an Ultra-Intense Laser with a Foam Target Near the Critical Density and Coulomb piston signature. - gerard malka (UNIVERSITE DE BORDEAUX)

14:30 Generation of deuteron beams from laser-driven thin foils for neutron radiography - Chengkun Huang (Los Alamos National Lab)

14:50 Recent developments of a laser-driven ion acceleration beamline at SIOM - Jianhui Bin (Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

15:10 Proton Beam Focusing in Low Density Plasma from High-Repetition-Rate Liquid-Sheet Targets - Jimmy Weeks (Queen's University Belfast)
A3-Working group # 3
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Legacy B
Contributions

13:30 Multipole Expansion and Delta-Sheath Model in Flat-Beam PWFA: Comparison with PIC Simulations - Yunbo Kang (University of California, Los Angeles)

13:50 Progress of the E310 - Trojan Horse-II experiment at SLAC FACET-II - Natascha Thomas (Heinrich Heine University)

14:10 New light on wakefield longevity - Jason Brooks

14:30 Resonant Excitation of Plasma Wakefields with a Train of Relativistic Particle Bunches - mario galletti (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati - INFN)

14:50 Transverse control and optimization for plasma wakefield acceleration - Yiheng Ye (SLAC/Stanford)

15:10 A Discharge Capillary Plasma Source for Wakefield Acceleration Research at FACET-II - Konstantin Kruchinin (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
A5-Working group # 5
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Ballroom C&D
Contributions

13:30 Monte-Carlo modeling and experimental investigation of photoemission from CsTe semiconductor photocathode under high fields - Chengkun Huang (Los Alamos National Lab)

13:50 Tunable photocathode double-bunch mode for advanced accelerator application - Yiheng Ye (SLAC/Stanford)

14:10 Towards Low-MTE Photocathodes in Accelerators - Oksana Chubenko (Northern Illinois University)

14:30 Cathode laser temporal shaping for LCLS-HE - Nicholas Sudar (SLAC)

14:50 Progress of the E31x program at SLAC FACET-II - Edgar Anton Hartmann (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 A1-Working Group # 1
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Ballroom A&B
Contributions

16:00 High-repetition-rate, all-reflective optical guiding and electron acceleration in helium using an off-axis axicon - Jiří Šišma (ELI Beamlines)

16:20 Revealing Laser and Electron Beam Evolution in 10-GeV-class Laser–Plasma Accelerators - Alex Picksley (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

16:40 Tunable, monoenergetic electron bunches with a π-step injector in optically guided laser wakefield acceleration - Jaron Shrock (University of Maryland, College Park)

17:00 Dephasing Mitigation of Multi-GeV Electron Beams in a Ramped Plasma Waveguide - Ela Rockafellow (University of Maryland)

17:20 Effects of laser-plasma waveguide coupling on accelerated electron bunch stability and spatial profiles - Ari Sloss (University of Maryland, College Park)

17:40 Kilohertz Guiding and Laser Wakefield Acceleration in Optically Generated Plasma Channels - Gabriel Brewster (University of Maryland)
A4-Working group # 4
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Legacy B
Contributions

16:00 Copper Coated Peek Based RF Cavity Power and Q Factor Testing - Benjamin Sims (LANL)

16:20 ASTERIX: Development of TIG-Welded Four-Quadrant X-Band RF Accelerating Structures at INFN. - Luigi Faillace (Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN))

16:40 Radiative damping in dielectric structures - Brian Naranjo (UCLA Dept. of Physics and Astronomy)

17:00 Towards Generation of Orbital Angular Momentum THz Radiation via Dielectric Wakefield Acceleration - JACKSON ROZELLS

17:20 Co-propagating dielectric laser accelerators for compact high-gradient particle acceleration - Giuseppe Torrisi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud (INFN-LNS))
A5-Working group # 5
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Ballroom C&D
Contributions

16:00 High temporal resolution THz streaking of high brightness relativistic electron beams - Maximilian Lenz (University of California, Los Angeles)

16:20 High-Efficiency Attosecond-Resolution Terahertz Streaking of Relativistic Electron Beams - Peng Lv (Tsinghua University)

16:40 THz-Driven Longitudinal Phase-Space Control and Diagnostics of Laser-Plasma-Accelerator Beams for Compact X-Ray Sources - Nicholas Matlis (Arizona State University)

17:00 Compact THz Streaking Framework for Robust Longitudinal Diagnostics in Advanced Accelerators - Gerard Lawler (Paul Scherrer Institute)

17:20 Electro-Optic Sampling Beam Positioning Monitor for Relativistic Electron Beams - Elena Ros (University of Colorado at Boulder)

17:40 Title: Phase-Diversity Electro-Optic Sampling for Shaped Electron Beam Profile Monitoring - Spencer Kelham (Northern Illinois University)
A6-Working group # 6
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Legacy A
Contributions

16:00 Experimental Design and First Results from the Plasma-Driven Attosecond X-Ray Experiment at FACET-II - Rafi Hessami (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

16:20 Experimental demonstration of high-repetition-rate isolated attosecond pulses from a X-ray free-electron laser - Veronica Guo (Stanford University)

16:40 Ultracompact Strong-gain XFELs from High-field Plasma Wakefield Accelerators - Bernhard Hidding (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf / University of Strathclyde / The Cockcroft Institute)

17:00 Over 8 hours of continuous operation of a free-electron laser driven by a laser-plasma accelerator - Finn Kohrell (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

17:20 Relativistic harmonics in the efficiency limit - Jonathan Kennedy (Queen's University Belfast)

17:40 Relativistic Plasma Mirrors for Generating Bright Harmonics with Tuneable Polarization - Vedin Dewan (Princeton University)
18:00 Poster Session Monday

18:00 - 20:00
Tuesday, 28 July 2026
08:45 Invited Talks: Plenary
Plenary
08:45 - 10:15
Room: Ballroom
Contributions

08:45 Progress on Staging of LPAs - Anthony Gonsalves (Lawrence Berkeley national laboratory)

09:15 Measurement of the Saturation Length and Reproducibility of the Self-Modulation Instability - Arthur Clairembaud (Max Planck Society (DE))

09:45 Experimental Demonstration of Beam-Driven Wakefield Acceleration in Laser-Plasma Filament - mario galletti (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati - INFN)
10:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:15 - 10:45
10:45 Invited Talks: Plenary
Plenary
10:45 - 12:15
Room: Ballroom
Contributions

10:45 Recent progress on proton focusing using hemi-spherical targets at high repetition rate for proton fast ignition - Sophia Malko (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)

11:15 GeV-Scale Ion Acceleration in Underdense Plasma with a Transverse Flying-Focus Laser Pulse - Sida Cao (Stanford University)

11:45 Simulation methods for the plasma injector for Petra IV - Maxence Thevenet
12:15 Lunch
Lunch
12:15 - 13:30
Room: Terrace
13:30 A1-Working Group # 1
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Ballroom A&B
Contributions

13:30 EuPRAXIA@ELI: Hybrid plasma accelerator approach to XFEL - Bernhard Hidding (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf / University of Strathclyde / The Cockcroft Institute)

13:50 Effects of Controlled Laser Wavefront Aberrations on Charge Trapping, Electron Beams, and Betatron X-rays in Petawatt Laser Wakefield Acceleration - Tanner Nutting (Univerisity of Michigan)

14:10 Controlled Electron Injection in LWFA using a Segmented Capillary Gas-Cell - Inhyuk Nam (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST))

14:30 Self-loading LWFA using two-color ionization injection with flying-focus lasers - Evan Trommer (Stony Brook University)

14:50 High Quality Electron Beams for Staging at BELLA PW - Aodhan McIlvenny (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

15:10 Path to High-Quality, High-Charge LWFA Beams for Light-source and Collider Applications - Lance Labun (University of Texas, Austin)
A3-Working group # 3
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Legacy B
Contributions

13:30 Teraelectronvolt plasma acceleration through regenerative cascading - Chaojie Zhang (University of California Los Angeles)

13:50 Nonlinear Theory for Plasma Wakefield Produced by Elliptical Beams via Data-Driven Physical Modeling - Tony Griffin (Old Dominon University)

14:10 High-energy plasma wakefield acceleration with full charge capture in a laser-ionized all-optical plasma source - Valentina Lee (University of Colorado Boulder)

14:30 PROGRESS ON THE FLAT BEAM PLASMA WAKEFIELD EXPERIMENT AT AWA - Pratik Manwani (University of California, Los Angeles)

14:50 Optimization of plasma-based electron injectors for a linear collider or XFEL - Thamine Dalichaouch (UCLA)

15:10 Performance enhancement of electron beams from linacs, LWFA or PWFA - Bernhard Hidding (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf / University of Strathclyde / The Cockcroft Institute)
A5-Working group # 5
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Ballroom C&D
Contributions

13:30 Cavity-Based Beam Charge and Arrival Time Monitor - Atharva Kulkarni (UCLA Particle Beam Physics Lab)

13:50 The role of coherent Smith-Purcell radiation for LWFA e-beam diagnosis - Ross Rudzinsky (The University of Texas at Austin)

14:10 All-optical, quasi-real-time measurement of the 3- and higher-dimensional structure of microbunched electrons from a laser-driven wakefield accelerator - Ze Ouyang (The University of Texas at Austin)

14:30 Revealing critical electron beam parameters with advanced coherent transition radiation techniques - Maxwell LaBerge

14:50 Characterizing a Gas-Ionization Platform for Single-Shot Beam Diagnostics - Travis Nichols (UCLA)

15:10 Design of a Compact Photoconductive Antenna for Direct Femtosecond-Micron Measurement of 3D Space-Charge Fields - Sean OTool (Stanford)
A6-Working group # 6
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Legacy A
Contributions

13:30 Applications of a Compact Positron Source as a Source of Entangled Gamma Rays - Sophie Crisp (scrisp11@slac.stanford.edu)

13:50 A laser-based high average yield neutron source for medical applications - Karoly Osvay (Extreme Light Infrastructure ERIC)

14:10 A platform for radiobiology research using very-high energy (VHEE) laser plasma accelerated electrons at BELLA - Lieselotte Obst-Huebl (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

14:30 Medical Applications of Ultrasound from Plasma-Accelerated Electrons - José Franco Altamirano (The University of Texas at Austin)

14:50 The Ultra-Compact FEL: High Imapact Application to - James Rosenzweig (UCLA Dept. of Physics and Astronomy)

15:10 Single-event effect microelectronics testing using a compact laser-plasma accelerator electron source - Sarah Schröder (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 A1-Working Group # 1
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Ballroom A&B
Contributions

16:00 Dephasingless laser wakefield acceleration in a plasma waveguide - John Palastro (Laboratory for Laser Energetics)

16:20 CHEQUP: an open-source hydrodynamics framework for plasma-channel formation - Christian McCombs (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

16:40 Hydrodynamic optical-field-ionized channel optimizations for beam brightness in a practical laser wakefield accelerator model - Christopher Doss (Inversion Semiconductor)

17:00 Scaling laws for guided and unguided laser–plasma accelerators at fixed laser energy and wavelength - Carlo Benedetti (LBNL)

17:20 Optimizing Laser Parameters For Blowout Regime: From Petawatt NIR to LWIR Wakefield Drivers - Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi (Stony Brook University)

17:40 PIConGPU - coupling HPC and AI for laser plasma simulations - Michael Bussmann (Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf)
A4-Working group # 4
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Legacy B
Contributions

16:00 High Power Test of Ultra-Short High Gradient Cavities via RF Pulse Compression - Ankur Dhar (SLAC National Accelerator Lab)

16:20 CUPID Photo-Injector Design and Beam Dynamics - Wei Hou Tan (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

16:40 High Gradient Testing of a Two-Cell C-band Accelerator Cavity with NiCr Higher-Order Mode Absorbers - Evgenya Simakov

16:55 High gradient testing of the C-band 1.6 cell all-copper photoinjector - Evgenya Simakov

17:10 Experimental Investigation of RF Breakdown in a Short-Pulse X-band Cavity - Gaurab Rijal (Northern Illinois University)

17:30 Breakdown analysis and wakefield simulation for the RF cavities in the muon collider ionization cooling channel - Dillon Merenich (Northern Illinois University)
A5-Working group # 5
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Ballroom C&D
Contributions

16:00 Magnetic Field Measurements and Reconstruction of very Broadband Electron Spectrometer for Plasma Experiments - Jack Phillips (University of California, Los Angeles)

16:20 Compact electron spectrometry for tens-of-GeV laser-plasma accelerators - Rafal Zgadzaj (University of Texas at Austin)

16:40 Calorimetry for Multi-GeV Wakefield Accelerators - José Franco Altamirano (The University of Texas at Austin)

17:00 Indirect Characterization of Photoinjector Parameters and their Correlations - David Garcia (UCLA)

17:20 Magnetic sextupoles for gamma and electron spectrometers - Brian Naranjo (UCLA Dept. of Physics and Astronomy)

17:40 Spectral deconvolution of compound x-ray distributions for use in a high-repetition facility. - Chris Armstrong (Central Laser Facility)
A7-Working group # 7
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Legacy A
Contributions

16:00 Optimizing photon collider through scattering laser wavelength selection. - Stepan Bulanov (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

16:20 Progress Updates from the 10 TeV Wakefield Collider Design Study - Jens Osterhoff (Berkeley Lab)

16:40 Laser-Based Collimation of Beam Halo Electrons via Compton Scattering - ChingEn Lin (Stanford University/ SLAC National Laboratory)

17:00 Synergies for Near-Term Colliders and Advanced Accelerator R&D - Spencer Gessner (SLAC)

17:20 Coherent Phase Biasing of the Muon–Neutrino Transfer Channel as a Possible Path Toward Effective Muon Lifetime Enhancement - peter cameron

17:40 Towards self-consistent simulations of colliders with BLAST - Arianna Formenti (LBNL)
18:00 Poster Session Tuesday

18:00 - 20:00
Wednesday, 29 July 2026
08:45 Invited Talks
08:45 - 10:15
Room: Ballroom
Contributions

08:45 The global effort towards a 10 TeV muon collider - Karie Badgley (Fermilab)

09:15 Strong field focusing of high energy particles in beam-multifoil collisions - Aimé Matheron (Helmholtz Institute Jena)

09:45 Exploring the possibility of emitting axions by intense lasers, FELs and electrons oscillating in LWFA. - Robert Bingham (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
10:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:15 - 10:45
10:45 Invited Talks
10:45 - 12:15
Room: Ballroom
Contributions

10:45 AAC within the Evolving HEP Landscape: Perspectives from OHEP - Derun Li (LBNL)

11:15 The EuPRAXIA project: a plasma-based accelerator user facility for the next decade - Livio Verra (INFN - LNF)

11:45 UCLA & the Birth of Plasma Accelerators: From Dawson's Idea to a Worldwide Field - Mark Hogan
13:00 Santa Monica Beach Excursion

13:00 - 17:00
Thursday, 30 July 2026
08:45 Invited Talks
08:45 - 10:15
Room: Ballroom
Contributions

08:45 Single-shot reconstruction of electron beam longitudinal phase space - Yong Ma (University of Michigan)

09:15 Experimental demonstration of Flying-Focus enhanced Thomson scattering - Elias Gerstmayr (Queen's University Belfast)

09:45 Recent R&D on RF systems for muon collider ionization cooling complex - Alexej Grudiev (CERN)
10:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:15 - 10:45
10:45 Invited Talks
10:45 - 12:15
Room: Ballroom
Contributions

10:45 Plasma-based compression of electron beams - Kelly Swanson (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

11:15 High repetition rate LWFA with all-optical guiding for user experiments at ELI Beamlines - Gabriele Maria Grittani

11:45 Spectrotemporal shaping of attosecond X-ray free-electron laser pulses - River Robles (Stanford University)
12:15 Lunch
Lunch
12:15 - 13:30
Room: Terrace
13:30 A1-Working Group # 1
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Optimist A
Contributions

13:30 Experimental Demonstration of Laser Wakefield Acceleration Driven by Laser Pulse Carrying Orbital Angular Momentum - Qian Qian (University of Michigan)

13:50 Nonlinear propagation of spatiotemporal optical vortex pulses - Abram Konzel (University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics)

14:10 Ultrafast Angular Momentum Transfer in Tunnel-Ionized Plasmas - Chen-Kang Huang (National Central University)

14:30 Plasma-based Powerful, Radially-polarized, Narrowband THz for Compact Electron Accelerators - MinSup Hur (UNIST)

14:50 Investigation of transverse instability in efficient plasma-based accelerators - Arohi Jain (Stony Brook University)

15:10 Gas-phase diffractive optics for high-power beam control - Ke Ou (Stanford University)
A3-Working group # 3
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Legacy B
Contributions

13:30 Feasibility and Stability of PWFA Injection Schemes in Hybrid Plasma Accelerators - Edgar Anton Hartmann (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf)

13:50 Multi-GeV Electron Combs from a Plasma Wakefield Accelerator - Chaojie Zhang (University of California Los Angeles)

14:10 Passive Plasma Lens Experiments at FACET-II - Shutang Meng (Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder)

14:30 Proposal for FACET-III - Bernhard Hidding (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf / University of Strathclyde / The Cockcroft Institute)

14:50 Dark-field shadowgraphy for ultrasensitive probing of plasma accelerators, wakeless regime and filamentation instabilities - Haiping Zhang (University of Colorado Boulder)

15:10 Effective-Action based approach to modelling plasma wakefields for use in rapid parameter scans and Optimization - Elias Hansen (University of California, Los Angeles)
A5-Working group # 5
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Optimist B
Contributions

13:30 Emittance Growth and Sensitivity Analysis of a Transverse Deflecting Cavity-Based Dechirper - Alex DeSimone (Northern Illinois University)

13:50 The EEX-enabled microbunching experiment at the Argonne Wakefield Accelerator - James Rosenzweig (UCLA Dept. of Physics and Astronomy)

14:10 1-D plasma lens by laser-driven elongated wakefield. - Apurva Gaikwad (Stony Brook University)

14:30 A Multi-Mode RFQ for Dual-Species and Short-Pulse Beam Production - Haoran Xu (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

14:50 Chirp control of plasma-accelerated electron bunches via wake depletion - YUXUAN CAO (University of Texas at Austin)

15:10 Laser Heater as a Beam Shaping Tool at FACET-II: From Microbunching Instability Suppression to Multi-Spike Current Profiles - Anna Kinderman
A6-Working group # 6
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Legacy A
Contributions

13:30 Nonlinear Inverse Compton Scattering experiments enabled by Long-Wave Infrared Laser in BNL ATF - Yusuke Sakai (Brookhaven National Lab)

13:50 The STAR Project: Status of the Commissioning of the Compton Light-Source Infrastructure in Southern Italy. - Luigi Faillace (Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN))

14:10 Inverse Compton X-ray Source Commissioning at RadiaBeam - Maksim Kravchenko (RadiaBeam Technologies)

14:30 Energy-resolved measurement of individual GeV muons from the BELLA PW Laser-Plasma Accelerator - Davide Terzani (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

14:50 Muon scattering tomography with laser-plasma-accelerator-driven muon source - Kristjan Põder (MuRayTech GmbH)

15:10 Development of laser-plasma accelerators at HZDR for FEL applications - Susanne Schöbel (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 A2-Working group # 2
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Optimist A
Contributions

16:00 Electric and magnetic fields on the surface of a dense plasma with relativistic electron flows - Alexander Thomas (university of michigan)

16:20 On-line optimization of a high average power laser-driven ion source using Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm - Tibor Gilinger (University of Szeged)

16:40 Scintillator-Based High Repetition Rate Diagnostic for Multi-Energy Proton Beam Imaging & Probing - Veronica Contreras (University of Michigan)

17:00 Picosecond Radiation Dynamics in Materials Using Laser Driven Sources - Jonathan Kennedy (Queen's University Belfast)

17:20 Diagnosing near-critical-density laser plasma interaction and ion acceleration using dynamic optical probing - Nicholas Dover

17:40 Contrast enhancement results of a novel spatially-combined, pulse-stacked ultrafast fiber laser system - David Feng (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
A4-Working group # 4
16:00 - 17:00
Room: Legacy B
Contributions

16:00 A-STRA: a wakefield accelerator for high-repetition rate XFELs - Alexander Zholents (Argonne National Laboratory)

16:20 Progress on a High-Gradient Booster Linac for Multi-GeV Proton Radiography at LANSCE - Haoran Xu (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

16:40 LWFA-fed Compton Source Based on Dual-Energy Accumulator Ring with Cryocooled Nb3Sn Twin-Axis Cavities - Andrei Seryi (ODU)
A5-Working group # 5
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Optimist B
Contributions

16:00 Analysis and mitigation of second-order effects in an asymmetric emittance exchange beamline - Buse Naz Temizel Ozdemir (Northern Illinois University)

16:20 3D Simulation and Analysis of Coherent Synchrotron Radiation with Shielding - Omkar Ramachandran (Argonne National Laboratory)

16:40 Interactive Simulated Beam Loss Diagnostics Enabled by a Location-of-Loss Surrogate Model - Christopher Pierce (xLight Inc)

17:00 Status and Development of tailored phase space correlation generation using transverse wigglers - Gwanghui Ha

17:20 Virtual diagnostic for phase space prediction and customization at FACET-II - Jinseo Park (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
A6-Working group # 6
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Legacy A
Contributions

16:00 An MeV X-ray source from Laser Wakefield Acceleration based betatron radiation - Isabella Pagano (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

16:20 Direct laser acceleration and betatron radiation in arbitrary-velocity wakefields - Lavonne Mack

16:40 Shallow-angle and superradiant inverse Compton scattering - Brian Schaap (UCLA)

17:00 Wavefront shaping of terahertz radiation using two-color flying-focus pulses - Amanda Elliott (Laboratory for Laser Energetics)

17:20 Coherent Smith-Purcell radiation from plasma-accelerated electrons: a synchronized strong-field terahertz radiation source - Mike Downer (The University of Texas at Austin)

17:40 Results from the FACET-II E320 Strong-field QED program - Alexander Knetsch (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
19:00 Banq

19:00 - 23:00
Room: Ballroom
Friday, 31 July 2026

08:15 Breakfast
Breakfast
08:15 - 08:45
Room: Lobby
08:45 Invited Talks
08:45 - 10:15
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

08:45 Progress in THz acceleration - Franz Kaertner (DESY)

09:15 Dephasingless laser wakefield acceleration of electrons using a flying focus - Charles Arrowsmith (University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics)

09:45 High-dimensional phase space reconstruction using generative modeling of beam distributions - Juan Pablo Gonzalez-Aguilera (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
10:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:15 - 10:45
Room: lobby

10:45 Student Prizes

10:45 - 12:15
Room: Auditorium

13:30 UCLA lab tours (optional)

13:30 - 15:30