We are pleased to announce the 21st Direct Drive and Fast Ignition Workshop (DDFIW) which will be held at ENEA Frascati Research Center, in Italy.

The 21st Direct Drive and Fast Ignition Workshop (DDFIW) continues a series of meetings dedicated to inertial confinement fusion research in Europe. DDFIW provides a unique opportunity for European and overseas scientists working on theory, simulations, and experiments to present and discuss their latest results and future plans in an informal atmosphere. The meeting also addresses new schemes for inertial confinement fusion and related science at the cutting edge of high energy density physics research.

Representatives of leading laser user facilities will illustrate the opportunities for new experiments, and the development of simulation codes and their validation with experiments will be discussed. The workshop will also give students and young scientists the chance to delve deeper into the science of Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) and explore collaborations and opportunities offered by groups around the world working on experiments, simulations and theory.

The Workshop will be concluded, on June 12th, by a satellite meeting dedicated to the Laserlab-Europe AISBL expert group "Micro- and nano-structured materials for experiments with high-power lasers".

The event has no participation fee. Participation in the social dinner will cost a maximum of 50 euros, to be paid directly by the attendee at the restaurant.

Committees

Chairs

Stefano Atzeni, Focused Energy, Germany

Fabrizio Consoli, ENEA, Italy

Scientific Committee

Stefano Atzeni, Focused Energy, Germany

Dimitri Batani, Centre Lasers Intenses et Applications (CELIA), France

Benoit Canaud, CEA DAM-Île de France (DIF), France

Valery Goncharov, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE), USA

Javier Honrubia, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain

Ondrej Klimo, Czech Technical University in Prague (ČVUT), Czech Republic

Paul Neumayer, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany

Alex Robinson, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), England

Keisuke Shigemori, Institute of Laser Engineering (ILE), Japan

Vladimir Tikhonchuk, ELI Beamlines, Czech Republic

Local Organizing Committee

Mattia Cipriani, ENEA, Italy

Massimiliano Scisciò, ENEA, Italy

Massimo Alonzo, ENEA, Italy

Giuseppe Cristofari, ENEA, Italy

Enzo Di Ferdinando, ENEA, Italy

Francesco Filippi, ENEA, Italy

Valerio Piergotti, ENEA, Italy

Petra Koester, CNR-INO, Italy

Giuseppe Antonio Pablo Cirrone, INFN-LNS, Italy

Alessandro Maffini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Leonardo Manzoni, Università La Sapienza - ENEA, Italy

Mauro Migliorati, Università La Sapienza, Italy

Benoist Grau, Università di Roma Tor Vergata - ENEA, Italy

Claudio Verona, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy

Important Dates

Abstract submission starts

02 March 2026

Abstract submission ends

10 April 2026

Abstract acceptance notification

28 April 2026

Registration closes

15 May 2026

News from: https://agenda.enea.it/event/1142/overview