The Atto-FEL 2026 international conference on Attosecond and Free-Electron Laser Science will take place June 30-July 3 at University College London. The event will take place at the UCL campus located at central London. It will take place at the Roberts Building, in the Sir Ambrose Fleming, G06 Lecture Theatre. This is the fourth edition of the conference, with previous editions being Atto-FEL 2014, Atto-FEL 2018 and Atto-FEL 2022. Atto-FEL 2026 will be a 4-day event. Please note that there will be a poster session and a talk open to the public.
Registration deadline is 2pm February 28th, 2026. The registration fee is 300 pounds. The participation is limited to 120 participants. So, registration will be on a first come basis. The link for registration is :
Please submit your abstracts for poster presentation by 2pm February 28th, 2026 to Prof. Agapi Emmanouilidou @ : ucapaem@ucl.ac.uk.
Early Career Researchers are particularly encouraged to submit an abstract, since we will select a few abstracts for oral presentation, while the rest will be presented in the poster session.
The organizing committee for Atto-FEL 2026 is:
- Agapi Emmanouilidou & Eleftherios Goulielmakis
The preliminary list of invited speakers is as follows:
| Name: | University | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Paul Corkum to also deliver the open to the public talk as part of UCL's bicentennial celebration in 2026 | University of Ottawa and NRC, Ottawa | Canada |
| Agostino Marinelli | Stanford University, Palo Alto | USA |
| Taran Driver | Staford University, Palo Alto | USA |
| Linda Reichl | University of Texas at Austin, Austin | USA |
| Thomas Pfeifer | Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg | Germany |
| Andre Staudte | NRC, Ottawa | Canada |
| Simon Hooker | University of Oxford, Oxford | UK |
| Heide Ibrahim | INRS, Varennes | Canada |
| Francois Legare | INRS, Varennes | Canada |
| Pascal Salieres | Universite Paris-Saclay, Paris | France |
| Bernd Schutte | Max Born Institute, Berlin | Germany |
| Jan-Michael Rost | Max-Planck Institute, Dresden | Germany |
| Robin Santra | DESY and University of Hamburg, Hamburg | Germany |
| Emma Springate | STFC CFL, Harvell | UK |
| Jon Marangos | Imperial College London, London | UK |
| Paris Tzallas | IESL-FORTH, Heraklion | Greece |
| Eleftherios Goulielmakis | Rostock University, Rostock | Germany |
| Philip Bucksbaum | Stanford University, Palo Alto | USA |
| Robert Moshammer | Max-Planck Institute Heidelberg, Heidelberg | Germany |
| Peter Hommelhoff | LMU Munich and University of Erlangen-Nuremberg | Germany |
| Angana Modal | ETH Zurich, Zurich | Switzerland |
| Jochen Blumberger | UCL, London | UK |
| Igor Litvinyuk | Griffith University,Brisbane | Australia |
| Kenichi Ishikawa | University of Tokyo, Tokyo | Japan |
| Serguei Patchkovskii | Max Born Institute, Berlin | Germany |
| Jakub Prauzner Bechcicki | Jagiellonian University, Krakow | Polland |
| Shubhadeep Biswas | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore | India |
| Amelle Zair | King's College London | UK |
| Dajun Ding | Jilin University, ChangChun | China |
| Mohammed Hassan | University of Arizona, Tucson | USA |
| Spiridoula Matsika | Temple University, Philadelphia | USA |