PEARL Conference 2009
12 May 2009

Conference speakers

This year's PEARL 2009 conference was hosted by DCU's School of Physical Sciences.  The conference comprised 30 talks which were given by leading figures from top tier research universities and institutes in the USA, the UK, Japan, China and Continental Europe. The overarching objective of this conference is vigorous debate on innovation with ion and photon beams, especially at their interface.

The topics of the workshop include:
1. Highly Charged Ion Sources
2. Short Wavelength Free Electron Lasers
3. Other Short Wavelength Sources and Optics
4. EUV Lithography
5. Small Quantum Systems in Ultrashort/Intense Laser Fields
6. Ion-Synchrotron Interactions

PEARL (Physics at EBITs and Advanced Research Light Sources) originated by groups at Lund University and the Modern Physics Institute at Fudan University in Shanghai. The 1st and 2nd PEARLs have both taken place in China - Sanya in 2005 and Shanghai in 2007. The workshop series embraces both the fundamental physics and applications of particle beams (especially of highly charged ions) and photon beams (especially ultrafast and ultrashort wavelength lasers). These sources are hugely topical and driving a swarm of innovations in nanotechnology and photonics.