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Are you motivated to develop materials for the Circular Economy? As a hub for materials research, ReMade@ARI provides scientists, SME’s and industries exploring the properties and structures of recyclable materials with coordinated access to more than 50 European analytical research infrastructures. Remade@ARI has now opened three calls for proposals, including transnational access for scientists as well as two industry-specific programs.
From 16-20 October 2023, Laserlab-Europe and EURIZON jointly organise a “Training Course on Intense Lasers” at the ALPHANOV PYLA Training Center in Talence (Bordeaux), France.
The General Assembly of Laserlab-Europe AISBL, the international not-for-profit association representing 47 leading laser research infrastructures in 22 European countries, has elected John Collier, Director of the Central Laser Facility (CLF), an institution of the Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK, as its new Executive Director.
From 24-25 July 2023, the Laserlab-Europe community gathered in beautiful Riga, Latvia, for a Foresight Workshop to discuss promising technologies shaping the future of the laser cosmos. On the following day, the member representatives of the Laserlab-Europe association met for its General Assembly.
Valeria Istokskaia (ELI Beamlines) will report on a pioneering experiment exploiting proton-boron fusion in CH/BN targets to obtain high-energy alpha particle beams (up to 5 MeV) using a compact approach and a tabletop laser system with a peak power of ~10 GW, which can operate at high-repetition rate (up to 1 kHz).
With its innovative fast gated, ultra-high quantum efficiency single-photon sensor, the fastMOT project will enable deep body imaging with diffuse optics. Implemented in the new Multifunctional Optical Tomograph, the light sensor will achieve a 100x improvement of signal-to-noise ratio compared to using existing light sensors. The fastMOT project will receive a total of 3 million euro in funding: 2.49 million euro from the European Innovation Council programme and 525,000 Euro from the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee.
4-29 September 2023, Didcot, Oxford, UK
The THRILL (Technology for High-Repetition-rate Intense Laser Laboratories) project received more than ten million euro of funding in the framework of the European Union’s HORIZON EUROPE program. The project aims at providing new designs and high-performance components for high-energy high-repetition-rate lasers, enabling the technical readiness level required to specify and build the needed devices. This work improves the performance, the energy efficiency and reliability in operation of such lasers at the partnering research institutions. Nine companies and research institutes coordinated by GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt participate in THRILL’s efforts.
Are you an advanced Master's student, graduate student, or post-doc from the field of Mathematics and Science or Information Technology? Then now is your chance to apply for the 32nd Jyväskylä Summer School in Finland. From 7 August to 11 August, they offer courses in nanoscience for a maximum of 32 participants to study “Ultrafast Spectroscopy: Phenomena, Measurements and Data Analysis Methods”. Laserlab-Europe offers a limited number of travel grants for covering travel and accommodation costs. The deadline for applications is 30 April.
Within the Open Access programme, the HiLASE Centre offers its infrastructure to other researchers free of charge. The 6th call is now open until 15 May 2023.
Are you developing materials for a circular economy or are you facing a specific challenge in your circular materials research? From 1 March to 30 April, ReMade-at-@ARI is accepting proposals and pre-proposals that can be uploaded via its access portal.
Dr. Michael Ehret (CLPU), Dr. Jakub Cikhardt (CTU) and Dr. Philip Bradford (CELIA) took part in a Laserlab-Europe staff exchange at the Prague Asterix Laser System (PALS) in the Czech Republic in September 2022. In this article, P. Bradford recounts their time in Prague, where they have been working on developing a high-performance current and voltage probe for use on a range of high power laser facilities. The result of the fruitful collaboration: The construction of three new current probes, as well as the training received by CLPU and CELIA researchers, will enable the Laserlab Expert Groups to measure laser-driven currents easily at several major international laser facilities.
The EU project ReMade@ARI starts on 1 September with participation of Laserlab-Europe AISBL.
