On September 21, 2015, the Italian Physical Society will award the Enrico Fermi Prize to

Professor Toshiki Tajima, Deputy Director of IZEST at École polytechnique and Professor at UC Irvine.    The 2015 “Enrico Fermi” Prize of the Italian Physical Society has been jointly awarded to Toshiki TAJIMA and Diederik S. WIERSMA for their innovative and high-impact contributions to the study of phenomena dealing with the interaction of light with matter and particles. (In particular to: Toshiki TAJIMA for the invention of the laser-wakefield-acceleration technique which led to a large number of fundamental and interdisciplinary applications ranging from accelerator science to plasma physics and astrophysics Diederik S. WIERSMA for the first observation of Anderson localisation and of anomalous transport phenomena described by Lévy statistics in the framework of his highly original research on light propagation in disordered media).

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Laser Acceleration Paper: November, 2016

 

 

 

http://www.physics.uci.edu/news/norman-rostoker-memorial-symposium

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Collaboration research between UCI and KEK on “green” accelerator for the future (ILC) accepted.

April 2 (at the heel of April 1, i.e. real)  a notice arraived that the Japanese Government accepted and would fund the collaborative project between UCI and KEK High Energy Accelerator Laboratory in Japan to investigate a research to use wakefields to much reduce radioactivity and the size of the beam dump of extreme high energy beams in the future ILC (International Linear Collider). The idea was invented by Professor T. Tajima (UCI) and Professor A. Chao of Stanford in 2007. This research will test their idea if and how this method reduces the above issue by adopting the novel accelerating method of wakefields (that Prof. Tajima invented in 1979) in the reverse process of deceleration, a “Pryus of acceleration”.

 

Articles

UCI Zotline, March 8, 2015
UCI Wins Seven CASE District VII Awards of Excellence

Extreme Light Infrastructure Newsletter Issue 01, December 2015
ELInes_Newsletter Dec 2015

Extreme Light Infrastructure Newsletter Issue 03, July 2016
ELInes_Newsletter July 2016

 

3rd Issue of ELInes – the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) online newsletter.

New York Times, October 25, 2015
Start-Ups Take on Challenge of Nuclear Fusion

Physis Today, Volume 68, Issue 11, November 2015
Keeping Fusion Plasmas Hot

ICUIL News, June, 2014
Greetings from the Chair

Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 223, 1037-1044 (2014)
Laser Acceleration in Novel Media

Astroparticle Physics 56 (2014) 9-15
Astrophysical ZeV acceleration in the relativistic jet from an accreting supermassive blackhole

CERN Courier, October 21, 2013
Can fibre be the future of high-energy physics?

Physics World, October 2013
Move over ILC?

Science Magazine, August, 2013
Europe Aims for a Cut-Rate Superlaser To Power Future Particle Accelerators

ICUIL News, May 2013
Greetings from the Chair