Author archive for Luis O. Silva

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.

On July 4 Luis OS attended an ERC PI centric event hosted by the Agency managing the ERC programme at the Champalimaud Foundation. The event was also attended by Commissioner Carlos Moedas and the President of the European Research Council Jean-Pierre Bourguignon. 

The editorial board of JPP is holding a meeting in Lisbon to discuss the exciting recent developments in Plasma Physics and the future directions for the Journal of Plasma Physics (Peter Catto, Per Helander, Thierry Passot, Neil Hammond, Bill Dorland, Alex Schekochihin, Troy Carter, Dmitri Uzdensky, Jon Arons, Beth Woodhouse, Cary Forest, and Luis OS.

On May 23 2016, and on the celebration of the 105 years of IST, the President of the Portuguese Republic, Prof. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa (in the picture), announced that he will award Luis OS the title of “Grande Oficial” of the “Ordem da Instrução Pública”. This distinction is among the highest recognitions that can be bestowed to portuguese citizens or organizations by the President (IST News here in Portuguese only)