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
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.
Japanese participants
are partially
supported by JSPS.
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) and Matt Zepf (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Germany).
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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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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.
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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