Author archive for Luis O. Silva — epp, TL, PI

Following our tradition (see News for the “2014 Natas”), the prizes for the winners of the image and video of 2015, the “natas” of visualization, were awarded today to Nitin Shukla (left) and to Ujjwal Sinha (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 2015 winners!
 

The paper version of the 2016 Calendar of the American Physical Society, sent to all the APS members, features a picture from a paper recently published by our team. The picture had been previously selected for the Phys Rev E Kaleidoscope (see News here) and illustrates the kinetic scale of the mushroom instability first described in “Transverse electron-scale instability in relativistic shear flows” by E. P. Alves, T. Grismayer, R. A. Fonseca, and L. O. Silva published in Phys. Rev. E 92, 021101(R) (2015).

Happy holidays from everyone at GoLP to all our friends! Thank you all for your hardwork and friendship in 2015, another great year for GoLP.
Let’s keep on having fun, doing great science, and developing exciting ideas and technologies for an even more successful 2016!

epp team members and alumni attended the APS DPP 2015 with several contributed talks and invited talks by Thomas Grismayer and Kevin Schoeffler.

Timon Mehrling has joined our team to work with Ricardo on several projects connected with the future of Osiris. Timon joins our team with a prestigious DAAD P.R.I.M.E. Fellowship, jointly with the University of Hamburg, after obtaining his PhD degree from the University of Hamburg and DESY under the supervision of Dr. Jens Osterhoff and Prof. Brian Foster.

Many congratulations to Paulo Alves (IST PhD), now post doc at SLAC/Stanford, and Fabrizio Del Gaudio (Poli Torino MSc), André Lopes (IST MSc) and Fábio Cruz (IST MSc) (all will join the APPLAuSE PhD Program) for their recent graduation with excellent marks.

Marija V and Luis OS are in the Czech Republic for the Grand Opening of ELI Beamlines (Oct 19) and the ELI Beamlines Scientific Challenges 2015 (Oct 20 – Oct 23) where they will present some of our team’s recent work connected with ELI Beamlines.

After Jorge Cham‘s talk at the EAAC 2015, Diana A secured this, soon to be on our Wall of Fame, next to the covers of our papers in Nature journals. The author of PhD Comics gave an inspiring talk on “The Power of Procrastination” at grad school with a positive message.

Jorge V, Diana A, and Luis OS are attending the European Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop 2015 in the Island of Elba to deliver two plenary talks and one poster. This is the second workshop of this series, almost doubling the number of participants of the last edition. Great science combined with the unique setting of Biodola, excellent food, very nice beach, and great friends.

A cool picture from our recent paper “Transverse electron-scale instability in relativistic shear flows” by E. P. Alves, T. Grismayer, R. A. Fonseca, and L. O. Silva published in Phys. Rev. E 92, 021101(R) (2015) has been selected for the section Kaleidoscope of Physical Review E. According to the editors “All figures published in Physical Review E are eligible for selection by the editors for display on our web site; we choose figures on aesthetic merit.”