Talks and seminars

(selected list; click here for a more extended list)

I - invited conference talk; C - contributed conference talk; S - seminar; L - lecture; O - other (e.g. informal workshop, collaboration meeting, ...).

S

16/05/2025: Surfin' Plasma Waves and Sailing with Light: the Sea of Laser-Plasma Accelerators, Lights of Tuscany 2025, Pisa, May 16, 2025.

O

07/04/2025: Latest trends in Laser Wakefield Acceleration, EuPRAXIA-DN Camp I: Technologies, CNR - area della Ricerca di Pisa, April 7-8, 2025.

L

14/05/2024: Principles of Laser-Plasma Acceleration, PhD Academy "Intense Lasers for Societal Applications", Venice International University, Isola di San Servolo, Venezia, May 13-17, 2024.

L

13/05/2024: Intense Laser-Matter Interaction, PhD Academy "Intense Lasers for Societal Applications", Venice International University, Isola di San Servolo, Venezia, May 13-17, 2024.

S

15/04/2024: Basics of Inertial Fusion, Enrico Fermi Department of Physics, University of Pisa.

I

29/12/2022: Surfin' the Surface Wave: a New Approach to Plasma-based Acceleration, International Conference on Plasma Science and Applications (ICPSA22) E-conference, December 28-30, 2022.

S

15/12/2022: Surface Plasmon Acceleration Without a Grating, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

I

11/10/2022: Coherent Laser-Plasma Acceleration: Examples and Recent Results, AAPPS-DPP2022 E-conference, October 11, 2022.

L

05/10/2022: Laser-Plasma Ion Acceleration, ELI-NP Autumn School 2022, Extreme Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics, Magurele, Romania, October 5, 2022.

S

11/08/2022: A Relativistic Microscopic Laboratory: Superintense Laser-Plasma Interactions, SPIE Student Chapter webinar series. Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India.

L

21/06/2022: Advanced Concepts of Laser-Driven Ion Acceleration, 47th International Nathiagali Summer College, Islamabad, Pakistan.

L

20/06/2022: Basic Phenomena of Superintense Laser-Plasma Optics, 47th International Nathiagali Summer College, Islamabad, Pakistan.

S

08/06/2022: Surface Plasmon-Driven Electron and Proton Acceleration, Centre for Plasma Physics, The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.

C

13/09/2021: Concept for producing "extreme" surface plasmon polaritons, CVII congresso SIF - Società Italiana di Fisica, September 13-17, 2021.
Online presentation available.

S

21/06/2021: Laser-Plasma Acceleration in a Skin Layer, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.
Talk given in the occasion of the 2020 Predhiman Kaw Legacy Award in plasma physics.

S

18/06/2021: Plasma Waves in a Different Frame: a Tutorial for Plasma-based Electron Accelerators, LPA online seminar.
Online presentation available.

C

28/10/2019: High Field, Short Pulse Plasmonics for Laser-Driven Sources, PPLA 19 - Plasma Physics by Lasers and Applications 2019, Enrico Fermi Department of Physics, University of Pisa, October 29-31, 2019.

I

01/08/2019: Extreme plasmonics for laser-driven sources, 1st LPSA - Symposium on Laser-created Plasmas Sources & Applications (LPSA), Campus Jussieu, Paris, August 1, 2019.

O

04/04/2019: Investigating Quantum Radiation Friction, INO symposium 2019, Area CNR Sesto Fiorentino, Italy, April 3-5, 2019.

I

05/11/2018: Extreme high field plasmonics: electron acceleration and XUV harmonic generation from ultrashort surface plasmons, 60th APS/DPP - Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, Portland, Oregon, USA, November 05-09, 2018

C

06/07/2018: Extreme strong field plasmonics: MeV electron and XUV harmonic pulses from grating targets, PLASMONICA 2018 workshop, Firenze, July 04-06 2018.

I

02/10/2017: High Field Femtosecond Plasmonics for Laser-Driven Sources, FISMAT17 - Italian National Conference on the Physics of Matter, Trieste, October 01-05 2017.

L

10-11/07/2017: Basics of Laser-Plasma Interaction, Advanced Summer School on "Laser-Driven Sources of High Energy Particles and Radiation", CNR Conference Centre, Anacapri, Italy, July 9-16 2017. Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 3

S

01/12/2016: Laser-Plasma Physics at >10 PW, Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot (UK)

L

01/12/2016: Laser-Plasma Ion Acceleration, Laserlab EU training weeks, Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot (UK)

O

06/10/2016: Radiative losses and inverse Faraday effect in ultraintense laser-plasma interaction, 1st Chalmers Workshop on Laser Plasma Theory (LPT), Gothenburg, Sweden, 5-7 October 2016

I

07/09/2016: Radiation Pressure Acceleration: Perspectives and Limits, 3rd ELIMED Workshop - MEDical and multidisciplinary applications of laser-driven ion beams at ELI-Beamlines, INFN/LNS, Catania, September 07-09, 2016

O

17/12/2015: Superintense Light Interaction with Matter, Lights of Tuscany, Pisa, December 17, 2015

I

19/11/2015: Ion Acceleration, Applications of Laser-driven Particle Acceleration (ALPA 2015), Venezia, November 19-21, 2015

I

21/10/2015: High Field Plasmonics and Laser-Plasma Acceleration, ELI Beamlines Scientific Challenges 2015, Kamenice, Czech Prepublic, October 19-22, 2015

O

09/10/2015: Extreme Light-Matter Interactions: Ultra-Relativistic, Radiation-Dominated and QED plasmas , "ELI day" - Extreme Light Infrastructure workshop, Roma, October 9, 2015

I

02/09/2015: High Field Plasmonics and Laser-Plasma Acceleration, Photonics Ireland 2015, Cork, Ireland, September 2-4, 2015.

S

18/08/2015: Radiation Friction Effects on Ion Acceleration and Magnetic Field Generation in Superintense Laser-Plasma Interactions, Nuclear Engineering, Applied Physics Dept., Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

S

13/08/2015: Radiation Pressure Acceleration, Nuclear Engineering, Applied Physics Dept., Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

S

09/06/2015: Laser-Plasma Accelerators of Ions: Advanced Schemes and Perspectives, Gran Sasso Science Institute, INFN Center for Advanced Studies, L'Aquila, Italy, June 9, 2015.

I

12/05/2015: Plasmonic Effects in Laser-Driven Acceleration, LPAW 2015 - Laser Plasma Acceleration Workshop, Guadeloupe, May 10-15, 2015.

I

19/01/2015: Relativistic Plasmonics in Laser Ion Acceleration, Complex Plasma Phenomena in the Laboratory and in the Universe, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Roma, Italy, January 19-20, 2015.

S

20/11/2014: Advanced schemes for laser-plasma ion acceleration, Nuclear Engineering, Applied Physics Dept., Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

O

16/10/2014: Filamentation instability of counterstreaming pair plasmas: particle acceleration and radiation friction effects , Collisionless Shock Workshop, UPMC, Paris, October 16, 2014.

I

03/10/2014: Laser-Driven Ion Acceleration, High Field Plasmonics, and Classical Instabilities, INO Annual Symposium 2014, Brescia, Italy, October 1-3, 2014.

L

01/10/2014: Ion Acceleration, LA3NET Advanced School on Laser Applications at Accelerators, Salamanca, Spain, September 29-October 1, 2014.

C

23/09/2014: Effects of local field enhancement on the laser-driven Rayleigh-Taylor instability, C Congresso della Società Italiana di Fisica -- annual conference of the Italian Physical Society, Pisa, 22-26/09/2014.

O

09/06/2014: Plasmonics at ultra-high laser intensities?, workshop ``Science with High Power Lasers'' for Antonio Giulietti's 70th birthday, Pisa.

S

10/02/2014: High intensity laser-grating interactions: a step towards relativistic plasmonics?, Centre for Plasma Physics, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University of Belfast, UK.

O

17/01/2014: High intensity laser-grating interactions: a step towards relativistic plasmonics, Journèe scientifique du labex Plas@Par, Universitè Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.

S

30/10/2013: Light Sail Acceleration: Recent Results, Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation des Lasers Intenses (LULI), Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau Cedex, France.

I

12/09/2013: Superintense Laser-Plasma Interactions: Relativistic Condensed Matter Physics, FisMat 2013 - Italian National Conference on Condensed Matter Physics, Milano, 09-13/09/2013.

S

31/07/2013: Sailing Before the Light: Laser-Plasma Acceleration Driven by Radiation Pressure, Plasma Physics Colloquium, Dept. of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, USA.

I

16/07/2013: Ion acceleration in the "extreme light" regime, 22nd International Laser Physics Workshop (LPHYS'13) Symposium: Extreme Light Technologies, Science, and Applications, Prague, Czech Republic, July 15-18, 2013.

I

04/07/2013: Advanced strategies for ion acceleration using high power lasers, plenary talk, 40th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics), Espoo, Finland, July 1-5, 2013.

S

18/06/2013: An overview of recent results in laser-driven ion acceleration, LET seminar, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (MPQ), Munich, Germany.

C

07/05/2013: Recent results in laser-driven ion acceleration, 11th Workshop on Direct-Drive and Fast Ignition Physics, Rome, Italy, May 6-8, 2013.

S

26-27/03/2013: A Review of Superintense Laser-Driven Ion Acceleration, Department of Physics and Photon Science, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea. PART 1, PART 2.

O

28/11/2012: From Intense Fields to Radiation Dominated Regime, Gamma-resist kick-off meeting, CNR/INO, Pisa, Italy, November 28, 2012.

I

22/10/2012: Status and Trends in Laser-Plasma Acceleration of Ions, International Symposium on Ultrafast Intense Laser Science (ISUILS11), Jeju, Korea, October 21-25, 2012.

I

19/10/2012: Routes to Advanced Laser-Plasma Ion Acceleration, International Conference on High Energy Density Physics (ICHEDP12), Beijing, China, October 18-21, 2012.

L

04/09/2012: Introduction to Particle-In-Cell (PIC) Simulations (for absolute beginners), International School of Space Science, Course on Astrophysical and Space Plasmas, L'Aquila, Italy, September 3-9, 2012.

I

14/05/2012: Radiation Reaction and Laser Polarization Effects on Ultraintense Laser Acceleration of Thin Foils, nQED Workshop, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA, May 14-16, 2012.

C

19/04/2012: Solitary- Versus Shock-Wave Acceleration in Laser-Plasma Interactions, International Workshop on Laser-Plasma Interaction at Ultra-High Intensity - 2nd Dresden Exchange on Laser-Plasma Interaction Theory (ENLITE12), Dresden, Germany, April 17-20, 2012.

O

11/04/2011: Plasmas: the Next Decade, "Congressino" del Dipartimento di Fisica, Pisa, 11/04/2011.

S

**/**/2011: Radiation Friction Modeling and Effects in Laser-Plasma Interaction at Extreme Intensities, Institute of Physics, University of Rostock, Germany (20/01/2001) and Centro de Laseres Pulsados Ultraintensos (CLPU), Universidad de Salamanca, Spain (23/03/2011).

S

20/01/2011: Introduzione ai metodi per la simulazione di plasmi non collisionali, Ciclo di seminari su ``Plasmi caldi: ricerca di base e applicazioni'' (Politecnico di Milano, Italy).

I

19/11/2010: La "sempre discussa" teoria delle sheaths. Scariche di plasma per applicazioni tecnologiche, Simposio "Le tecnologie del vuoto a supporto di uno stile di vita sostenibile" (Fiera di Milano, Rho, 19 Novembre 2010).

I

21/09/2010: Ion Acceleration in Superintense Laser Interaction with Ultrathin Targets, XCVI Congresso della Società Italiana di Fisica -- annual conference of the Italian Physical Society (Bologna, Italy, 20--23/09/2010).

I

26/08/2010: Radiation Pressure and Radiation Friction Effects in Laser-Solid Interactions, ICONO/LAT 2010 conference, Symposium on ``Extreme Light Technologies'' (Kazan, Russia, 23--26/08/2010).

S

12/01/2010: A Review of Laser-Plasma Acceleration of Ions, Centro de Laseres Pulsados Ultraintensos (CLPU), Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. [Full video available.]

I

16/06/2009: Ion acceleration by radiation pressure in thin and thick targets, COULOMB09 workshop - Ions Acceleration with high Power Lasers: Physics and Applications (Senigallia, Italy, 15--18/06/2009).

I

29/05/2009: Dynamics of Radiation Pressure Acceleration, 2nd international conference on Ultra-Intense Laser Interaction Science -- ULIS 2009 (Laboratori Nazionali INFN, Frascati, Italy, 25--29/05/2009).

S

03/02/2009: Investigating Basic Plasma Physics Issues in Laser-Produced Plasmas from the Relativistic to the Ultracold Regime, European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS), Firenze, Italy.

I

29/05/2008: Highlights from PIC simulations of ultraintense laser-plasma interactions, Conferenza sul Calcolo Scientifico in Italia (CSFI 2008), Rimini, Italy.

S

08/01/2008: Ion Acceleration by Laser: Theory and Simulations, Seminario Rettorale su ``La Luce Estrema: Presente e Futuro'', Università di Bologna, Italy.

I

15/10/2007: Radiation Pressure Acceleration of Ions and the Role of Hydrodynamical Breaking, Laserlab Europe Workshop on Theory of Short Pulse Petawatt Laser Plasma Interaction, Darmstadt, Germany, 14-17/10/2007.

I

02/07/2007: Ion Acceleration and Coherent Structure Generation after Laser Pulse Self-Channeling, EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, Warsaw, July 02-06, 2007.

S

18/04/2007: Proton Imaging in Laser-Plasma Interactions, Bothe Kolloquium, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany. [PDF file, OpenOffice impress file.]

S

30/01/2007: Superintense Laser Ion Acceleration and its Applications, Colloquium, INFN Pisa, Italy. [PDF file, OpenOffice impress file.]

C

14/11/2006: A femtosecond source of fusion neutrons, Workshop on High-field physics and nuclear physics with ELI (Extreme Light Infractructure), Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany.

C

06/06/2006: Ponderomotive Ion Acceleration in Laser-Plasma Interactions: Physics and Applications, 33rd IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS 2006), Traverse City, Michigan, USA.

S

26/05/2006: Using superintense radiation pressure to accelerate ions, International Research Centre in Experimental Physics (IRCEP), Queen's University of Belfast, UK.

I

12/12/2005: Ion acceleration by circularly polarized pulses: physics and possible applications, 2005 ICFA Joint Workshop on Laser Beam Interactions and Laser & Plasma Accelerators, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. [PDF animated file for viewing and reduced PDF for printing.]

S

10/11/2005: Plasma Processing of Materials, polyLAB, Dipartimento di Fisica "E. Fermi", Pisa.

I

21/09/2005: Laser Acceleration of Ultrashort Ion Bunches and Femtosecond Neutron Sources 3rd International Conference on Superstrong Field in Plasmas (Varenna, Italy, 19-24/09/2005). [PDF animated file for viewing and reduced PDF for printing.]

L

24/03/2004: The physics of instabilities in high intensity laser-solid interaction, 1st Lake Tahoe School of Plasma Physics (Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA, 21-26/03/2004).

S

26/01/2004: The Two-Surface Wave Decay process in ultrashort, high intensity laser-plasma interactions Centre de Laser Intenses et Applications (CELIA), Universitè Bordeaux I, France.

C

17/10/2002: Fundamental Issues in Fast Ignition Physics: from Relativistic Electron Generation to Proton Driven Ignition, 19th International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Fusion Conference (Lyon, France, 14-19/10/2002).

C

21/05/2002: Approcci PIC - Vlasov e modelli ibridi nelle simulazioni per laser plasmi , (con Tatiana V. Liseikina) 3o incontro sulla Fisica del Plasma in Italia (L'Aquila, 20-22/05/2002). Parte I, Parte II.

I

31/08/2001: Surface effects in Laser Interaction with Overdense Plasmas, 2nd International Conference on Superstrong Field in Plasmas (Varenna, Italy, 27/08-01/09/2001).

I

27/03/2000: Dinamica nonlineare dell'interazione laser-plasma, Convegno di Fisica Teorica e Struttura della Materia (Fai della Paganella, Trento, Italy, 26-30/03/2000).

S

07/03/2000: Superintense Laser-Solid Interaction: interaction with deformed targets and ultrafast ionization effects Seminar Theoretische Physik, Insitut fuer Physik, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universitaet, Greifswald, Germany.

I

13/09/1999: Present Understanding of Laser-Solid Interaction at Ultrahigh Intensities, VI ICEAA-International Conference of Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (Torino, Italy, 13-17/09/1999). (Presented in substitution of Prof. P. Mulser)

S

22/02/1996: A study of X-ray generation and transport in laser-irradiated solid targets, Seminario de Optica, Departimento de Fisica Aplicada, Universidad de Salamanca (Espana - Spain).