Research Using Extreme Light: Entering New Frontiers with Petawatt-Class Lasers Conference

This conference will be dedicated to the new developments in intense laser-matter and laser vacuum interactions and Petawatt photonics, triggered and motivated by the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI), represented by its three pillars, ELI Beamlines, ELI ALPS and ELI NP thus opening a gateway to new regimes in physics. The opportunities and challenges associated with these regimes, from a technical, experimental, computational and theoretical point of view will be covered, with a focus on the enabling technologies for ELI and the science challenges associated with ultra-high laser intensities and with the unique secondary sources to be produced e.g. ultra-short pulses of high energy photons, electrons and ions.