• Luis OS elected Fellow of the EPS

    Luis OS has been elected fellow of the European Physical Society at the last meeting of the EPS Council. His citation reads “For his outstanding theoretical and numerical contributions in laser plasma interaction in the relativistic regime”. In 2017, the EPS elected three new fellows, increasing the total number of fellows to 85. Luis OS is the first Portuguese physicist elected to fellow status. The EPS was founded in 1968, with 42 national “EPS Member Societies” and 2500 individual members, representing more than 120,000 members all over Europe.

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  • epp team @ Futurália

    Our team was invited to present some of our ongoing projects at Futurália March 30 2017 as part of the FCT presence in the event. Besides lots of visitors it was an opportunity to showcase GoLP’s new merchandise.

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  • New GoLP merchandise

    New collectibles and merchandise from GoLP are now available!

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  • zpic@edu: a new educational initiative

    We have started a new initiative to foster training in plasma physics using computer simulations taking advantage of a new set of self-contained PIC codes developed by Ricardo F taking advantage of all the know-how built around Osiris. The initiative is led by Jorge V and will soon be deployed in classes at IST, and opened to all the community. More information here.

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  • ERC is 10 years old

    The 10 years of the European Research Council are celebrated this week all over Europe #ERC10yrs. Thank you very much for the support to our group through Accelerates (AdG2010) and InPairs (AdG2015).
     

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  • epp team research featured in radio show

    The radio show 90 segundos de ciência, featuring science made in Portugal, has highlighted the work of the epp team on pair production with ultra intense lasers and in astrophysics (episode 73). More information here.

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  • The “Natas” of Visualization 2016 are in!

    Following our tradition (see News for the “2014 Natas” and News for the “2015 Natas”), the prizes for the winners of the image and video of 2016, the “natas” of visualization, were awarded to Fabio Cruz (left, and double winner after the 2014 award) and to Giannandrea Inchingolo (right), with the corresponding iPad Mini. As one of the previous winners Paulo Alves nicely described ““Nata” is a tasty Portuguese pastry that everybody likes. It’s as enjoyable as having our simulations running nicely on a big supercomputer. It can also mean being at the top, at a high level, important.” Many congratulations to the 2016 winners!

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  • Marija Vranic awarded prestigious FCT Post Doctoral Fellowship

    Marija Vranic has been awarded a FCT Post Doctoral Fellowship to work in our team. Many congratulations to Marija on this prestigious recognition!

     

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  • GoLP at the APPLAuSE Workshop 2017

     
    The first edition of the APPLAuSE Workshop was held on January 18th at Centro de Congressos, IST. In this event, the epp PhD students enrolled in the APPLAuSE doctoral program – Giannandrea I, Anton H, Fábio C, Fabrizio DG and Mario G – presented the recent developments of their work in oral and poster presentations. This workshop also hosted an IPFN colloquium by Luis OS, with the title ‘Extreme Plasmas: from surfing at the speed of light to boiling the vacuum’.

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  • Recent paper on OAMs on the cover of PRL

    The recent paper by Jorge V in Physical Review Letters is featured on the cover of the Physical Review Letters issue of December 23 2016. The paper is published here.

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