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 was on February 28th, 2026. The registration fee is 300 pounds.
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.
Organizing committee for Atto-FEL 2026:
- Agapi Emmanouilidou & Eleftherios Goulielmakis
Sponsors Atto-FEL 2026:
Invited speakers:
| 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 |
| Michael Mayer | European XFEL | Germany |
| Thomas Pfeifer | Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg | Germany |
| Andre Staudte | NRC, Ottawa | Canada |
| Simon Hooker | University of Oxford, Oxford | UK |
| Arvinder Sandhu | Arizona State University | USA |
| 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 |
| Mary Matthews | Imperial College London | UK |
| Peter Hommelhoff | LMU Munich and University of Erlangen-Nuremberg | Germany |
| Angana Modal | Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography and the University of Amsterdam | Netherlands |
| 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 |
| David Ayuso | Imperial College London | UK |
| Balazs Major | ELI ALPS Facility | Hungary |
| Marcelo Ciappina | Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology | China |
| Mohammed Hassan | University of Arizona, Tucson | USA |
| Spiridoula Matsika | Temple University, Philadelphia | USA |