Invited speakers

List of confirmed invited speakers (December 2025)

Name	Institute	Provisional title of presentation
Pierre Agostini	the Ohio State University, USA	Birth of attosecond pulses at LOA
Ihar Babushkin	Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany	TBA
Luc Bergé	Centre des Lasers Intenses and Applications (CELIA), University of Bordeaux, France	Frequency-dependent polarization states of terahertz waveforms produced by two-color laser filaments
Maxime Chambonneau	Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany	Double-pulse filamentation in the bulk of silicon
Ya Cheng	SIOM, Shanghai, China	Futuristic industrial applications enabled by the extreme optical nonlinearity
See Leang Chin	Laval University, Canada	History of filamentation
Arnaud Couairon	CPHT, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, France	TBA
Francois Courvoisier	FEMTO-ST Institute, CNRS and Univ. Bourgogne Franche-Comte, France	Microphysics of Bessel pulse generated nanoplasmas
Arthur Dogariu	Texas A&M University, Princeton University, USA	TBA
Matthew R. Edwards	Stanford University, USA	Plasma Optics from Crossed Femtosecond Lasers
Zuoqiang Hao	Shandong Normal University, China	Measurement techniques for the self-focusing critical power of femtosecond pulses.
Miroslav Kolesik	University of Arizona, USA	From first principles to accurate, computationally efficient material models for optical filamentation in solid-state media
Olga Kosareva	Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia	Simulation of the filamentation process with high time and space resolution
Natalia Litchinitser	Duke University, USA	Structuring spatiotemporal states of polarization
Weiwei Liu	Nankai University, China	Recent advance in filamentation based remote-sensing technique
Yi Liu	University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China	Filament-induced air lasing
Howard M. Milchberg	University of Maryland, USA	The role of spatio-temporal optical vortices in classic and relativistic filamentation
Jerome V. Moloney	University of Arizona, USA	Mid-IR filamentation an overview
John Palastro	University of Rochester, USA	The role of the flying focus in relativistic filamentation
Igor Pogorelky	Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA	Status and prospects of high-peak power LWIR laser technology
Pavel Polynkin	University of Arizona, USA	TBA
Martin C. Richardson	University of Central Florida, USA	GHz bursts of filaments, their properties and applications
Clara Saraceno	Bochum university, Germany	Femtosecond laser-driven plasma at high repetition rates > 10 kHz
Andrei Savelev	Lomonosov Moscow State University	IR shifting light bullet in femtosecond air filament
Vladimir T. Tikhonchuk	CELIA, University of Bordeaux，France	Modeling the gain in N2+
Sergei Tochitsky	University of California, Los Angeles, USA	LWIR nonlinear propagation in air
Albina Tropina	Texas A&M University	Dynamics of laser plasmas: energy coupling, theory and applications
Stelios Tzortzakis	University of Crete, FORTH, Greece	TBA
Tie-Jun Wang	Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China	Recent progress on high repetition rate femtosecond laser filamentation in air
Jean-Pierre Wolf	University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland	Applications of near-IR and visible filamentation
Chengyin Wu	Peking University, China	Measurement and Control of Electron Dynamics Driven by Strong Femtosecond Laser Pulses
Liang Xu	University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China	Population of ionic levels in N2+
Jinping Yao	SIOM, China	Cascaded amplification and backward radiation of air lasing
Heping Zeng	East China Normal University, China	Filamentary Plasma Gratings Induced Molecular Bond Rupture
Zengxiu Zhao	NUT, China	Multidimensional quantum coherence in N2+ lasing