A new paper by Jorge V et al just accepted in Physical Review Letters demonstrates how to generate high orbital angular momentum harmonics in close analogy with high harmonic generation of the laser frequency. The paper is already available on arXiv here.

The Osiris consortium (UCLA/IST) has signed MoUs with several institutions in the world to provide access to our software infrastructure. Find those institutions in the map (also here).

GoLP and epp team alumni Samuel Martins and Luis Gargaté have been featured in the news due to the rise of MEFT to the top position in the ranking of grades in Portugal to enter the University (here and here).

Luis OS visited Prof. Tünde Fülop and Prof. Mattias Marklund at the Department of Physics at Chalmers University on 12th and 13th of September 2016 for discussions and collaboration on plasma-based accelerators, QED and relativistic astrophysics. He also delivered a seminar to the Department. On the photo, Luis OS with the hosts and with Prof. Chan Joshi, also visiting at the time.

Ricardo F has just been promoted to Full Professor of Physics, after winning a recent call for this position at ISCTE-IUL. Many congratulations to Ricardo on this very well deserved promotion!

Jorge V was awarded a prestigious Honorable Mention in the ULisboa Science Prizes 2016. The University of Lisbon Science Prizes are open to professors, researchers and post-doctoral scholarship holders that have been with the University of Lisbon for at least two years and aims to promote publications in high impact journals.
The prizes were awarded during the celebration of the third anniversary of the ULisboa, on the 25th of July at 17pm.

Diana A was awarded the best student poster prize at the Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop 2016 in National Harbor, Maryland for her work on “Transverse evolution of e+ beams accelerating in hollow plasma channel non-linear wakefield”. Many congratulations to Diana!
 

Another meeting (Advanced Accelerators Concept Workshop 2016) with a strong presence of GoLP members with Timon M, Diana A, Joana M, Ujjwal S, Ricardo F, and Nelson L, presenting several talks and posters, and with Ricardo delivering one of the plenary talks.

On July 29 2016, Luis OS was distinguished as Grande Oficial of the Ordem da Instrução Pública by the President of the Portuguese Republic. Video of the ceremony is here.

GoLP was heavily represented at the EPS Plasma Physics Conference 2016 in Leuven, for several talks and posters delivered by Ricardo F, Marta F, Thomas G, Garreth W, Joana M, Marija V, Ujjwal S, Nitin S, and Anton H with an invited talk by Marija Vranic.