PLASMAScience Summer School

Laser-plasma interactions

Video credit: F. Massimo*, A. Beck**, M. Lobet***, I. Zemzemi**, Smilei dev team 
*LPGP, CNRS, Université Paris Saclay
**Laboratoire Leprince Ringuet, CNRS, École polytechnique
***Maison de la Simulation, CEA

June 21-27, 2026

On Porquerolles Island, France

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Why join the PLASMAScience Summer School

We are excited to announce the 3rd edition of the PLASMAScience Summer School, dedicated to laser-plasma interactions.

It will be held on Porquerolles Island, France, from June 21 to 27, 2026. The Summer School is a one-week, free-of-charge training program for highly motivated PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, and early-career scientists interested in laser-plasma interactions.

Scientific Organizing Committee

– Stefan Haessler, Mickael Grech & Fouad Sahraoui (Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France).
– Vincent Bagnoud (GSI Helmoltz Center for Heavy Ion Research, Germany).
– Gianluca Gregori (University of Oxford, UK).
– Yasuhiro Kuramitsu (Osaka University, Japan).
– Pierre Michel (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA).
– Julia Mikhailova (Princeton University, USA).
– Charlotte Palmer (Queen University Belfast, UK).
– Marija Vranic (Instituto Superior Técnico Lisbon, Portugal).
– Louise Willingale (University of Michigan, USA).
– Matthew Zepf (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Germany).

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Venue

The Summer School will be held on Porquerolles Island, a small paradise off the coast of Hyères and Toulon on the French Riviera. Participants will enjoy the Mediterranean climate and the region’s well-preserved landscapes.

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Topics

The Summer School will cover inertial fusion for energy, laboratory astrophysics, laser-plasma accelerators, hadron & electron sources and their applications (from nuclear physics to SFQED), photon sources & plasma optics, numerical simulations, data & machine-learning and related topics.

Invited lecturers

The School will bring together some of the world’s leading scientists in laser-plasma interactions to deliver lectures on a broad range of topics and methodologies, including theory, numerical simulations, laboratory experiments, observations, and modern data-analysis techniques such as AI/ML.

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Scientific Organizing Committee

Local Organizing Committee

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Lucie Pierau
PLASMAScience Graduate School

Project Manager

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Sylvie Pottier
PLASMAScience Graduate School

Administrative and Financial Manager

Japanese participants are partially supported by JSPS.

Japanese participants are partially supported by JSPS.