Events
ELI Delivery Consortium - Top managers wanted!
Date: 2011/10/21 | Edited: 2011.10.21
We are pleased to announce that we are seeking candidates for the positions of Director General and Scientific and Technical Director of the ELI Delivery Consortium (ELI-DC). The ELI-DC is the new structure that will ensure the representation and promote the development of the Extreme-Light-Infrastructure at the European level. Among its missions, the ELI-DC will be in charge of organising the coordination of the local project teams in charge of the implementation of the first three ELI facilities, and of interacting with the institutions and authorities interested in the development of ELI and in the establishment of the future pan-European consortium that will operate the infrastructure.
The detailed description of the two positions can be found below:
Director General (description)
Scientific and Technical Director (description)
Some background information is available here.
Candidates should send a letter of interest, including a brief description of research and leadership experience, CV and bibliography to: application@eli-laser.eu no later than December 8th 2011.
For informal enquiries about any aspect of the post, please contact Mr Florian Gliksohn (florian.gliksohn@eli-laser.eu, +420 266 052 369 or +420 775 620 803). All enquiries/information from the candidates will be handled in the strictest confidentiality.
All applications will be assessed by a special selection board (so called Search Committee), consisting of international experts as well as representatives of the three founding members of the future ELI Delivery Consortium International Association. The Search Committee shall meet on the turn of November and December 2011.
Selected candidates will be invited for interviews that will take place in the Czech Republic in January 2012 (precise date and location to be communicated at a later stage).
2nd ELI-Beamlines Scientific Challenges Meeting
Date: 2011/08/16 | Edited: 2011.08.16
Recently, ELI-Beamlines was given the final funding signature of the European commission. This is an important step for the ELI-Beamlines pillar, but also puts pressure towards the realization of the project due to the tight timelines in the EC funding schemes.In order to start the realization of the project, the second ELI-Beamlines Scientific Challenges meeting will take place in Prague on October 5th and 6th 2011 jointly with the 2nd ISAC meeting.
The aim is to discuss the next steps of the development of ELI-Beamlines, ELI-DC efforts and the further sharpening and adjustments of the experimental and theoretical programs.
The following topics will be considered for discussions:
1. High power (TW-PW) lasers towards higher repetition rates
2. X-ray sources generated by reprated ultrafast high intensity lasers
3. Particle acceleration by high intensity lasers
4. Applications in molecular, biomedical, and material sciences
5. Laser plasma and high-energy-density physics
6. High-field physics and theory
7. Computation and numerical approaches for ultra-intense laser matter interactions
More information about how to register will be soon available at http://amca.cz/eli/.
The European Commission promotes synergies between Research Infrastructures in the field of physics with a 12 M€ grant
Date: 2011/05/13 | Edited: 2011.05.13
At the end of July 2010, the European Commission published a call under the 7th Framework programme related to the implementation of common solutions in infrastructures on the ESFRI roadmap in the fields of physics, astronomy and analytical sciences. The objective of this initiative is to generate synergies in the development of components of interest for several infrastructures and thus promote efficiency and optimisation in the use of resources. A proposal called "CRISP (Cluster of Research Infrastructures for Synergies in Physics)" was jointly submitted by a group involving almost all European large-scale infrastructures in the field (ELI, ESRF, ESS, FAIR, ILL, SKA, SLHC, SPIRAL-2, XFEL, EuroFEL, ILC-Higrade, which all together - only for construction - represent already an investment of ~7000 M€). The proposal received highest marks and is about to be financed by the EU with a contribution of 12 M€ over 3 years with proposed start date October 2011.
ELI is involved in all topics of the project: 1) Accelerators 2) Instrumentation 3) Diagnostics 4) Data management 5) Technology transfer. All these topics aim to contribute to activities related to ELI and to the implementation of the three pillars, ranging from laser-driven secondary sources to attosecond diagnostics, rapid data processing and radiation safety issues. This confirms once again the ambitious scope of ELI’s science and its ability to cross boundaries between disciplines.
ELI's participation is managed by Patrizio Antici.
More information can be found at http://www.crisp-fp7.eu/
ELI-Beamlines Pillar approved by the European Commission
Date: 2011/04/21 | Edited: 2011.04.29
On April 21, 2011, the European Commission has signed the approval for funding of the ELI-Beamlines Infrastructure, located in the Czech Republic, with a budget of nearly 7 BKr (ca. 290 M€).
The announcement of the plenipotentiary of ELI-Beamlines, Vlastimil Ruzicka:
Dear colleagues,
Dear friends of ELI,
It is my great pleasure to announce that the ELI Beamlines project was approved for funding by the European Commission yesterday morning. The decision, signed by Commissioner Hahn, was addressed to our Managing Authority with whom we will now be able to finalise the grant agreement.
This positive outcome comes as the result of more than two years of relentless efforts of the Czech team, but it is also without a doubt the success of the entire community involved in ELI. My deep thanks go therefore to all of you who have brought your individual contribution to this enterprise.
Yesterday's approval confirms what we announced in Paris in December 2010: ELI is getting real. We will do our very best within the coming months to build on this first success and secure similar decisions for the ELI-ALPS and ELI-Nuclear Physics facilities.
A great challenge now lies before us. In this endeavour, we will need unity and support. It will be therefore one of our main concerns to maintain and develop this connection with all of you that has been and will be so essential to our success. In the coming weeks and months, we will take initiatives, in particular within the ELI Delivery Consortium, to initiate this process.
"ELI-NP: The Way Ahead" Meeting
Date: 2011/02/01 | Edited: 2011.02.01
This meeting marks the beginning of a new and challenging phase for ELI-NP: the elaboration of the Technical Design Report (TDR). All participants to the workshop will be invited to contribute to shaping the TDR. The organizers will cover the accommodation costs for all the participants.
For more information please visit http://www.eli-np.ro/ .
Registrations and inquiries should be send to eli-np@nipne.ro .
ELI Getting Real event in the Czech Embassy in Paris
Date: 2010/12/25 | Edited: 2010.12.25
On 10 December 2010, in a dedicated event - ELI getting real: from inception to implementation - hosted by the Czech Embassy in Paris, the ELI Delivery Consortium officially took the lead of the project from ELI Preparatory Phase (ELI-PP), thereby announcing the imminent launch of ELI’s implementation. In an afternoon seminar, key players of ELI-PP highlighted the major achievements accomplished over the past three years. The three plenipotentiaries (Czech Republic, Romania and Hungary) presented the mission, organization and work plan of the newly formed ELI Delivery Consortium. Toshiki Tajima, chairman of the ELI Scientific Advisory Committee, concluded the seminar by giving a lecture with the title “Extreme Light Infrastructure: Icebreaker and integrator of 21st century science”. An evening reception held in the salons of the embassy was a festive complement to the afternoon conference and an occasion to wish good luck to ELI.
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.
