Appendix 1: Workshop program

Monday, March 9 Plenary session: Physics of laser-plasma interactions at relativistic intensities and the PETAL facility

9h00 – 9h15 P.Mora, Opening, welcome address

9h15 – 9h35 J.Neauport, Presentation of the PETAL installation, status and perspectives

9h40 – 10h05 N.Andreev, Extreme states of matter under the action of intense laser pulses

10h10- 10h35 M.Koenig and group PHARE, Program for the fast ignition studies on the PETAL facility

11h00-11h25 V.N.Derkach, Equation of stateexperiments on the Luch facility

11h30-11h50 M.Koenig and group MHEDOC, Program of experimental studies of the matter proprieties at high densities and pressures

11h55-12h20 S.A.Belkov, FEMTO laser facility and studies of charged particle acceleration with ultra-short laser pulses

14h00-14h25 J.P.Chieze and group ASTRO, Laboratory astrophysics with PETAL

14h30-14h55 I.V.Glazyrin, Computational challenge of the hybrid PIC-fluid-MCC code for laser-plasma interaction and particle propagation

15h00-15h25 V.Tikhonchuk, Laser acceleration of charged particles, perspectives for PETAL

15h30-15h55 E. A. Loboda, Ultra-shot laser pulse experiments in RFNC-VNIITF

16h20-16h40 A.Casner, Presentation of the diagnostic equipment in the LIL interaction chamber

16h45-17h10 I.Skobelev, Possible diagnostics for experiments on PETAL

17h15-17h35 S.Hulin, Planning of diagnostic design for PETAL

17h45-18h00 D.Raffestin, Vulnerability of diagnostics

18h00-18h30 Concluding discussions, moderators: V.Yu.Bychenkov, A.Casner

Tuesday, March 10 Visit of laser installations and round table discussions

8h45 - 12h30 Visit to the CESTA installations PETAL and LMJ

14h00-18h00 Two parallel round table discussions: short 10’ presentations and discussions with the objective to establish common projects and research programs.

Round table 1: Physics with the PETAL: challenges and limitations

Moderators: N.E.Andreev, I.V.Glazyrin, P.Mora, G.Schurtz

Round table 2: Diagnostic development for PETAL

Moderators: S.G.Garanin, A.Shikanov, A.Casner, S.Hulin

Wednesday, March 11 Roadmap for future collaborations, signature of documents

8h45-9h10 N.E.Andreev, Summary of the round table 1

9h20 – 9h45 S.Hulin, Summary of the round table 2

10h00-10h20 P.Mora, International collaboration around PETAL

10h50-11h30 General discussion, closing remarks

11h30-11h45 Signature of the conference documents

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