Plenary Speakers
Anne L´Huillier, Lund University
Anne L’Huillier is a Swedish/French researcher in attosecond science. She started her career at the Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique, in Saclay, France, as a PhD student until 1986, then as a permanent researcher until 1995. She moved to Lund University, Sweden, and became full professor there in 1997. Her research is focused on high-order harmonic generation in gases and its applications, particularly in attosecond science. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 with Pierre Agostini and Ferenc Krausz “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”.
Matthias Kling, SLAC, Stanford University
Matthias Kling is a leading expert in ultrafast science, serving as Professor of Photon Science and Applied Physics (by courtesy) at Stanford University and Director of the Science and R&D Division at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. With a background spanning physics, laser physics, and physical chemistry, he earned degrees from the Universities of Göttingen and Jena before completing postdoctoral research at UC Berkeley and AMOLF in Amsterdam. From 2007 to 2021, he led a research group within the Laboratory of Attosecond Physics at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and held faculty positions at Kansas State University and the University of Munich. Since joining SLAC and Stanford in 2021, he has been shaping the scientific program at LCLS, advancing cutting-edge research in ultrafast dynamics. Matthias also chaired the 2023 Basic Research Needs Workshop on Laser Technology, contributing to the strategic direction of the field.
Invited Speakers
Topical area 1 - Novel methods for generating and manipulating ultrashort pulses (Topical chair: Federico Furch)
Zsuzsanna Heiner, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
John Travers, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Great Britain
Topical area 2 - Ultrahigh peak-power laser systems and related technologies (Topical chair: Yuxin Leng)
Carmen Menoni, Colorado State University, USA
Jon Zuegel, University of Rochester, USA
Topical area 3 - High average power ultrafast lasers, Coherent beam combining (Topical chair: Thomas Metzger)
Regina Gumenyuk, Tampere University, Finland
Clara Saraceno, Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany
Topical area 4 - Attosecond science and pulse generation (Topical chair: Michael Chini)
Caterina Vozzi, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
Ming-Chan Chen, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Topical area 5 - Methods for shaping and measuring ultrashort pulses (Topical chair: Íñigo Sola)
Pieter Nethling, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Charles Durfee, Colorado School of Mines. USA
Topical area 6 - High repetition rate few cycle sources, envelope phase control and frequency combs (Topical chair: Derryck T. Reid)
Birgitta Bernhardt, Technische Universität Graz, Austria
Laura Sinclair, NIST, University of Colorado, USA
Topical area 7 - Ultrafast optics with x-rays and electrons (Topical chair: Liang Jie Wong)
Christopher Barty, Lumitron/University of California Irvine, USA
Jens Biegert, ICFO, Spain
Topical area 8 - Ultrafast Mid-infrared and Terahertz sources (Topical chair: Clara Saraceno)
Maria Chernysheva, Leibniz Institute of Photonics Technology, Jena, Germany
Guanshi Qin, Jilin University, China
Topical area 9 - Spectral broadening and pulse compression (Topical chair: Anne-Lise Viotti)
Marc Hanna, Institut d’Optique, Pallaisseau, France
Tamas Nagy, Max-Born Institute, Berlin, Germany
Topical area 10 - Ultrafast applications: novel methods and technology (Topical chair: Michelle Sander)
Adela Ben Yakar, University of Texas, USA
Jinping Yao, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Shanghai, China
Topical area 11 - Thin film and integrated Ultrafast technologies and quantum photonics (Topical chair: Marc Jankowsky)
Lucia Caspani, Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Italy
Chiara Trovatello, Columbia University, New York, USA
Topical area 12 - Machine learning and artificial intelligence for ultrafast optics (Topical chair: Geory Genty)
Darko Zibar, Danish Technical University, Copenhagen, Denmark
Benjamin Wetzel, XLIM Research Institute - Photonics Department, Limoges, France