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’.

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.

As part of the celebrations for the holidays, GoLP gathered at MAAT in Belém for another GoLP Day on Dec 16.

One of the 2016 Gulbenkian Prizes for Stimulus to Scientific Research in the area of “Earth and Space Sciences” was awarded Fábio C for his project “Multiscale modeling of pulsar magnetospheres”.In this project, Fábio will model pulsar magnetospheres – one the most extreme and exotic environments in the Universe – using advanced numerical tools, capable of solving the self-­consistent collective dynamics of the electron­-positron (e-e+) plasmas surrounding these compact astronomical objects. Moreover, by resorting to ab initio massively parallel simulations, it will be possible to model, for the first time, the formation process of the e-e+ cascades in the vacuum gaps of pulsar magnetospheres due to quantum electrodynamical (QED) processes in a realistic geometry. Understanding the self-consistent dynamics of these e-e+ cascades that supply the pulsar magnetospheric plasma, and bridging this microscopic scale physics with a global, macroscopic model, will allow an identification of the key signatures in the electromagnetic (incoherent and coherent, from the radio to…

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.