Preliminary Program
Monday, September 21st
| 09:00 |
Registration and welcome |
| 10:00 |
Welcome address |
| 10:30
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Session 1: Guiding high-voltage discharges and lightning - 1 , Ludger Wöste, Chairman
- J. Moloney - Super High Power mid-infrared Femtosecond Light Bullet
- M. Clerici - Laser-guiding electrical discharges around obstacles
- A. Houard - Interferometric study of low density channels and guided electric discharges induced in air by laser femtosecond filaments
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| 12:00 |
Short poster presentations – 3 min each |
| 12:30 |
Lunch break |
| 14:00 |
Session 2: Guiding high-voltage discharges and lightning – 2
- A. Zigler - Long, high density plasma wire generated in air by femtosecond laser filamentation
- J.-C. Diels
- J. Kasparian - Remote Neutralization of High-Voltage by Laser Filamentation
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| 15:30 |
Coffee break & Session 3: Posters |
| 17:00 |
Free discussions |
Tuesday, September 22nd
| 09:00 |
Session 4: New filaments for the atmosphere – 1
- F. Légaré - Frequency domain Optical Parametric Amplification
- V. Shumakova - Far above the critical power of self-focusing: generation and filamentation of few-cycle mid-IR pulses
- T. Metzger - Picosecond Thin-Disk Amplifiers
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| 10:30 |
Coffee break |
| 11:00 |
Session 5: Aerosols and laser-induced condensation - 1
- S. L. Chin - Femtosecond laser filament induced snow fall
- J. Slowik - Investigation of ambient and laboratory-generated secondary organic aerosol using aerosol mass spectrometry
- D. Mongin - Non-linear photochemical pathways in laser induced atmospheric aerosol formation
- T. Leisner - Filament- Aerosol- Interaction in the Atmosphere
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| 12:30 |
Lunch break |
| 14:30 |
Session 6: Climate bifurcations
- M. Beniston - Thresholds in the climate system
- S. Bathiani - Simple tippings or complex transitions? On the potential for future abrupt climate change
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15:30 |
Coffee break |
16:00 |
Session 7: Laser and rogue waves
- M. Brunetti - Modulational instability in forced regimes
- G. Steinmeyer - On the origin of ocean rogue waves
- H. Branger - Modulational evolution of water-waves at the atmosphere-ocean interface: some similarities with non-linear optics
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| 17:00 |
Free discussions |
| 19:00 |
Conference Dinner |
Wednesday, September 23rd
| 09:00 |
Session 8: Aerosols and laser-induced condensation - 2
- Jiangsheng Liu - Laser-induced airflow, water condensation and snow formation in a cloud chamber
- M. Matthews - Combined effect of UV and NIR beams in laser-induced condensation
- T. J. Wang - Laser guided corona discharges
- M. Richardson - Fundamentals of laser interaction with water droplets
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| 11:00 |
Coffee break |
11:30 |
Session 9: New filaments for the atmosphere - 2
- P. Béjot - Subcycle engineering of laser filamentation in gas by harmonic seeding
- W. Ettoumi - Multiple filamentation as a grid of rigid rotators
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| 12:30 |
Concluding remarks |
| 13:00 |
Lunch break |
| 15:00 |
Laboratory visit and free discussions |
Program, including Poster abstracts (pdf)
