This 3-day workshop will be attended by advanced light source scientists from North American and European laboratories : ALLS, CELIA, CLS, DESY, ELI, IZEST, LOA, LULI, SOLEIL.  The sessions will address the latest in : Laser based particle acceleration, laser-matter interaction, light sources, and free-electron laser (FEL).

Speakers:

Patrizio Antici, INRS, Canada

Philippe Balcou, Centre Lasers Intenses et Applications (CELIA), CNRS, France

André Bandrauk, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada

Henry Chapman, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Germany

Paul Corkum, National Research Council (NRC), Canada

Marie-Emmanuelle Couprie, Synchrotron SOLEIL, France

Jean-Claude Diels, University of New Mexico, USA

Paul Dumas, Synchrotron SOLEIL, France

Robert Fedosejevs, University of of Alberta, Canada

Sylvain Fourmaux, INRS, Canada

Julien Fuchs,  Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation des Lasers Intenses (LULI), France

Florian Gliksohn, Extreme Light Infrastructure Delivery Consortium (ELI-DC), Czech Republic

Emil Hallin, Canadian Light Source (CLS), Canada

Josef Hormes, Canadian Light Source, Canada

Jean-Claude Kieffer, INRS, Canada

Georg Korn, (ELI-Beam Lines), Germany

Wim Leemans, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), USA

François Légaré, INRS, Canada

Victor Malka, Laboratoire d’optique appliquée (LOA), CNRC, France

Gérard  Mourou, International Center for Zetta- Exawatt Science and Technology (IZEST), France

Michel Piché, Université Laval, Canada

Wolfgang Sandners, Extreme Light Infrastructure Delivery Consortium (ELI-DC), Germany