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

This Friday, IST is welcoming the legends of giant wave surfing: Ramon Laureano, Joana Andrade and João Guedes. The event is a first in a series of GoLP out-of-the-box seminars and it will take place in Anfiteatro Abreu Faro, Complexo Interdisciplinar, Friday 27th at 16h30. Everyone is welcome to join us in this fantastic surfing adventure.

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.”

Marija explains on IST TV all about the recent PRACE 69 million cpu core hours award (in portuguese) and the relevance of high intensity OAM pulses for a wide range of fundamental physics processes and applications.

As part of the GoLP tradition, the GoLP summer celebration was held this year on July 30th at Viva Lisboa, followed by a stroll to the Mu ice cream shop in Campo dos Mártires da Pátria. Happy summer holidays to all GoLPers, alumni and friends!