Events
ELI celebrates 50 Years of the Laser
Date: 2010/06/23 @ Paris | Edited: 2010.06.16
Invited by ELI's coordinator Gerard Mourou, six Nobel Prize winner and other 13 important figures in the field of Laser's gathered in Paris, the City of Light, on June 22 and 23 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first laser demonstration by Theodore Maiman on May 16, 1960. On the first day the event took place at the Louvre and was devoted to the 600 researchers in attendance for the occasion.
The wife of Theodor Maiman, inventor of the first Laser, came to present this first "pocket-sized" laser, "the Ruby Laser", which emits a laser through a ruby crystal. The 95 year old Charles H. Townes, Nobel Prize winner in 1964, spoke out about his discovery of the first Maser (M for "microwaves", as opposed to the L for "light" in Laser) in 1954 and the progress made since in this domain: "the laser has truly transformed science and technology". "You must be open-minded and take risks," Charles H. Townes advised the young researchers.
On the second day, June 23, the event took place at the prestigious École Polytechnique that for this occasion opened its doors to the general public and presented scientific conferences, as well as educational sessions and activities prepared for several hundred young high school students from France and abroad. More information can be found at http://www.laser50paris.com/
Endeavors of the Petawatt Workshop in Salamanca
Date: 2010/05/03 @ Salamanca | Edited: 2010.05.03
Endeavors of the Petawatt is a one-week workshop to analyze the best technological
solutions to reach PW and multi PW class lasers. The workshop will bring together scientists and industries involved in that technology.
Every day is devoted to a different topic such as
- - Grating / Mirrors
- - Pulse contrast
- - Pumping lasers
- - Radioprotection
- - Crystals / Cryo-tech
The Workshop takes place in Salamanca 7-11 June 2010, Edificio de Físicas (Trilingüe) Physics Building, Plaza de la Merced, 37008 Salamanca, Spain (see http://campus.usal.es/~ciencias/?q=en/node/60).
The Workshop is organized jointly with CLPU, Laserlab Europe and the University of Salamanca. More information can be found at www.eli-laser.eu/download/Meeting_endeavours.pdf.
ELI Beamlines Scientific Challenges Workshop
Date: 2010/04/26 | Edited: 2010.03.30
Please note the upcoming event about ELI Beamlines Scientific Callenges Workshop to be held on 26-27 of April in Prague.
The main topics are:
Repetition-rate X-ray sources with PW pulses
Plasma physics with high-intensity pulses
Biomolecular and medical applications with rep-rate X-ray sources and accelerated particle sources
Electron and proton acceleration, applications
Compact laser-generated-electron injected FEL
Laboratory astrophysics
Quantum dynamics in intense laser fields
For further information please contact Kroupova@fzu.cz.
Workshop on Laser Driven Nuclear Physics
Date: 2009/12/04 | Edited: 2009.12.04
On the 8th of December 2009 will be held in the ENSTA Conference Room a Workshop dedicated to Laser Driven Nuclear Physics.
The workshop will start 9h30 and last till 18h00.
The location is:
Conference Room
ENSTA-ILE
Chemin de la Huniere
91128 Palaiseau
Participants are welcome, free registration is done at arrival.
Science Festival 2009
Date: 2009/11/17 | Edited: 2009.11.17
In the framework of the French Science Festival (Fete de la Science) held on November 20-21 in Palaiseau, an Open House day is organized by ENSTA Paristech, in collaboration with the laboratories ILE/ELI, LOA, UME and UMA.
On the 20th of November the exhibition is dedicated to high school level students that can learn more about ENSTA Paristech and choose to participate in one of the three experiments in program. On the 21st of November the general public is invited to visit ENSTA Paristech and the exhibition and experimens.
Besides the experiments, there is the opportunity to participate in three workshops about optics dedicated to astronomy. A conference which title is “The private life of the galaxies” will be given by Jérôme Perez in the ENSTA amphitheatre on the 21st November, from 16:00 to 17:30.
For more information :
http://www.fetedelascience.fr/delia-CMS/zoom/article_id-449/la-fete-de-la-science-2009.html
The Researcher’s Night 2009
Date: 2009/09/30 | Edited: 2009.09.24
The Researcher’s Night is an invitation to meet people, to discover science, to exchange information, to share passion and to be surprised, all this by innovative events: researcher present the results of their ideas in a sometimes very creative way.
This event, boosted by the European Commission in 2005 is a priviledged opportunity for scientists to speak about their interesting work. During this evening, general public of all ages mixes with researchers to better understand their so peculiar culture: the scientific culture.
In Europe, more than 150 events will be held next September, Friday, 25th, 2009.
In France, this festival will take place in 20 towns. ELI will be part of this European event in the Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France. For more information, see www.nuitdeschercheurs-idf.fr
Ultrafast and Nonlinear Optics (UFNO'2009)
Date: 2009/09/14 @ Burgas, Bulgaria | Edited: 2009.02.06
UFNO 2009 is an international conference that covers the latest developments and advances in the fields of ultrafast lasers and spectroscopy, nonlinear phenomena and applications, extreme nonlinear optics and attosecond science. The deadline for abstract submission is May 15, 2009. Applicants will be notified on abstract acceptance by email no later than June 15, 2009. To receive further announcements please send us your e-mail and name by replying to Contact link. Conference flyer.
Optical Society of America rewards Gérard Mourou
Date: 2009/06/02 | Edited: 2009.06.02
Gérard Mourou, coordinator of the Extreme Light Infrastructure and director of the Institut de la Lumière extrème (ILE), has received the 2009 Charles Hard Townes Award of the Optical Society of America (OSA). This Prize rewards his contribution to the field of Quantum Electronics.
Professor Mourou is honoured for his innovative applications of high intensity lasers, from accurate micro-machining and ophthalmological surgery to the relativistic radiation-matter interactions. He received this Prize on June, 3rd in Baltimore, USA.
Professor Solomon Saltiel passed away unexpectedly on Thursday, May 7, 2009
Date: 2009/05/08 | Edited: 2009.05.26
Professor Solomon Saltiel, was one of the most important scientists in the field of Nonlinear Optics being taught at the Moscow State University under one of the founders of Nonlinear Optics. Professor S. A. Akhmanov.
His work was vast and dealt with laser nonlinear interaction with bulk, surface and gases. It resulted in important practical applications like a method for temporal pulse cleaning of ultrahigh intensity pulses. The method is known in our jargon as XPW. This device is being installed on all the high intensity lasers in the world.
Professor Saltiel for us was one of the pillars of the Extreme Light Infrastructure project. He was the head of the Bulgarian team. Because of his human quality and very stable personality it has been the chair of the ELI Site choice committee in charge of selecting the country and the location for the Extreme Light Infrastructure. With Sandro De Silvestri they spent a lot of their energy dealing with this delicate task.
To all of us Solomon was an outstanding scientist and the friend of all of us. I don’t know one person in the all ELI consortium who had not a profound admiration for his gentle manners and human qualities and respect for his scientific accomplishments.
His contribution towards ELI will be commemorated during the LEI International conference at Brashaw Romania this October. A special session will be devoted to his work. The LEI conference and proceedings will be dedicated to our outstanding friend physicist and human being, that we all are going to miss: Solomon Saltiel.
Gérard Mourou
ELI Coordinator
ELI Grand Challenges Event in Paris
Date: 2009/04/03 | Edited: 2009.04.03
In the course of the next decade, the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) should be built by the European Community in one of their countries. ELI will house an exawatt class laser, the most powerful laser ever built, providing the highest intensities. Members of the participating countries and associated colleagues will meet for two days and ponder over the Grand Scientific Challenges that this exceptional infrastructure can undertake in research in fundamental physics, attosecond physics, photonuclear physics, and particle acceleration. Some societal applications will also be studied.
Key topics:
- Laser acceleration: Towards 100 GeV
- Investigation of Vacuum Structure: Towards Schwinger Fields
- Attosecond Science: Coherent x-rays going beyond 1-10 keV
- Photonuclear Physics: Explore nuclei with photons
