Plenary and invited speakers
COLA 2026
Plenary speaker
Prof. Anne L'Huillier, Lund University, Sweden, Nobel Prize winner in Physics 2023, The World of Atoms at the Attosecond Time Scale
Sergei V. Bulanov, ELI Beamlines, Czech Republic, Nonlinear Electromagnetic Waves in Strong-Field QED limit
Confirmed invited speakers
Aleksandr Ovsianikov, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
Scaling fs Laser-Based 3D Printing and Bioprinting
Alfred Vogel, University of Luebeck, Germany
Nanosecond Optical Breakdown - from Nanoeffects to Extreme States of Matter
Anastasios D. Koulouklidis, Marvel Fusion GmbH, Germany
Advancing Laser Drivers and Beam Delivery for Scalable Laser-Driven Inertial Fusion
Baerbel Rethfeld, RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany
Ultrashort Laser Excitation of Metals: Nonequilibrium Dynamics and Transient Optical Properties
François Courvoisier, FEMTO-ST Institute, CNRS, France
Ultrafast Laser-Induced Generation of High-Aspect Ratio Nano-Pillars
Holger von Wenckstern, Leipzig University, Germany
Fabrication of Spatially-Addressable Material Libraries of Semiconducting Oxides by Combinatorial Pulsed Laser Deposition
Jean-Philippe Colombier, Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne, Laboratoire Hubert Curien, France
Nonlinear Dynamics, Memory, and Feedback in Ultrafast Laser-Driven Surface Nanopatterning
Klaus Sokolowski-Tinten, Duisburg-Essen University, Germany
Atomic to Nano-Scale Structural Dynamics in Laser-Irradiated Materials Studied by Time-Resolved X-ray Scattering
Martin E. Garcia, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
Multiscale Simulations from ab initio to Machine Learning for Controlling Time Scales in Femtosecond Laser-Induced Melting and Recrystallization
Masaaki Sakakura, SPhotonix Inc., Switzerland
Multi-Dimensional Optical Storage in Glass for the Storage Crisis
Mindaugas Gedvilas, FTMC – Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Vilnius, Lithuania
Efficiency Aspects in Ultrashort Pulse Laser Ablation of Metals
Mitsuhiro Terakawa, Keio University, Japan
Laser Direct Writing of Functional Conductive Structures
Myong Yong Choi, Gyeongsang National University, South Korea
Laser-Driven Nonequilibrium Chemistry in Liquids for Catalytic Interface Engineering
Sumner B. Hariss, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Autonomous Synthesis and Human-AI Collaboration with Pulsed Laser Deposition
Tetsuo Sakka, Kyoto University, Japan
Full-Time-Range Multi-Wavelength Monitoring for Improving Underwater LIBS Performance
Yosuke Minowa, Kyoto University, Japan
Visualization and Manipulation of Quantum Vortex Enabled by Laser Ablation in Superfluid Helium