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The ICUIL 2018 Conference, the 8TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON ULTRAHIGH INTENSITY LASERS will again welcome high intensity laser enthusiasts from across the world, this time back in Europe. The conference will take place at Hotel Bad Schachen in Lindau, Germany, from September 9th to 14th 2018. The hotel is located right on the shore of Lake Constance boasting a wonderful view of the lake, but also the panoramic backdrop of the Austrian and Swiss Alps. It can be reached via the international airports in Munich (2 hours by car or 3.5 hours by train) and Zurich (2 hours by car or 2 hours by train). There is also a local airport at Friedrichshafen (30 minutes by taxi) with several connections per day from Frankfurt and London. The hotel offers park-like grounds with a spacious lakeside lido, a private boat jetty and a beautiful terrace. The conference will be held in the hotel’s congress center, with plenty of adjacent space for participants and vendors to interact

ICUIL 2018 is again expected to showcase the latest on multilateral projects like ELI, XCELS and IZEST as well as other efforts across the world in the direction of ultra-intense lasers. Following the spirit of the ICUIL conferences, in particular the last meeting at Montebello, Canada, technical and scientific themes concerning ultra-intense lasers will be addressed: (i) ultra-intense laser design and performance including Nd:glass-based, Ti:sapphire, DPSSL and OPCPA and novel architectures, (ii) novel technologies for ultra-intense lasers, e.g compression components and strategies, modelling and fabrication, high damage -threshold and ultra-broadband laser components, pulse control, and diagnostics , and (iii) applications of ultra-intense lasers for laser acceleration, short-wavelength sources, attosecond sources, exploration of warm-dense matter, high-field physics and more. This conference will emphasize the many contributions from students and young scientists in this dynamic field of ultra-high intensity lasers.

Preparation for the conference has started in November 2016. A Local Organization Board has been formed by members of the GSI Helmholtz Center Darmstadt and the Helmholtz Institute Jena: V. Bagnoud, A. Blazevic, Ch. Brabetz, T. Kuehl, S. Kunzer, D. Schumacher, T.Stoehlker, B. Zielbauer, and D. Lang.

We invite the interested community and industrial partners to mark down the date, and hope to meet you in Germany in September 2018!

A new milestone in laser plasma accelerator reached by three groups : en route to GeV energies!

Three groups, one in the US at Berkeley, lead by W. Leemans1, one in England, lead by K. Krushelnick2 and one in France, lead by V. Malka3, have experimentally produced a monoenergetic electron beam using a short and intense laser pulse. This “dream beam” as it is called in the scientific journal, Nature, open new perspectives in the domain of accelerators.

1st Asian workshop on Generation and Application of High-Order Harmonics

The 1st Asian workshop on Generation and Application of High-Order Harmonics was held during Feb. 23-25, 2005 at KAIST, Daejeon, Korea. The workshop was organized to provide a forum for graduate students, junior and senior scientists from Asian countries, as a part of activities of the Asian Intense Laser Network.

ICUIL Activity Overview

The International Committee on Ultra-High Intensity Lasers continues to be engaged with the growth and vitality of the whole international field of ultra-high intensity lasers. Our goals are to 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 ultra-high 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. As summarized in the highlights of this report, ICUIL has been very active in promoting collaborations required to design and build high-intensity laser infrastructures for the advancement of the international physics community.

ICUIL Activity Overview

ICUIL continues to be engaged with the advancement of the international field of ultra-high intensity lasers. Our goals are to 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 ultra-high 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. As summarized in this report, ICUIL continues to be active in promoting collaborations required to establish high-intensity laser infrastructures for the benefit of the international physics community. Thanks to the ICUIL leadership, the laser intensity continues to exponentiate over the years. See below what we call the Mourou Chart (after the first Chair of ICUIL, Professor Gerard Mourou). This activity overview highlights progress and events for 2014.

ICUIL Activity Overview

ICUIL continues to be engaged with the advancement of the international field of ultra-high intensity lasers. Our goals are to 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 ultra-high 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. As described in this report, ICUIL continues to be active in promoting collaborations required to establish high-intensity laser infrastructures for the benefit of the international physics community. This activity overview highlights international progress made by members of the ICUIL community in 2014 to 2015.

ICUIL Activity Overview

ICUIL continues to promote the advancement of the international field of ultra-high intensity lasers. Our goals are to provide a venue for discussions, among representatives of high-intensity laser facilities and members of user communities on a variety of subjects including; international collaborations to define and develop the next generation of ultra-high intensity laser capabilities, exploration of new areas of fundamental and applied research and formation of a global research network for access to facilities by users. This report to IUPAP highlights progress made by members of the ICUIL community over the last year.

ICUIL Activity Overview

ICUIL continues to promote the advancement of the international field of ultra-high intensity lasers. Our goals are to provide a venue for discussions, among representatives of high-intensity laser facilities and members of user communities on a variety of subjects including; international collaborations to define and develop the next generation of ultra-high intensity laser capabilities, exploration of new areas of fundamental and applied research and formation of a global research network for access to facilities by users. This report to IUPAP highlights progress made by members of the ICUIL community over the last year.