6 January 2025
With fellow physicist Győző Farkas, he predicted the generation of attosecond laser pulses in 1992. He contributed to building the dinosaur of laser physics dubbed T-Rex in the US and was consulted on the technical concepts of all three ELI institutes. Physicist Csaba Tóth spent a month at ELI ALPS.
16 December 2024
Ultrashort laser pulses consisting of up to two optical cycles can also be characterized with their so-called carrier-envelope phase (CEP). To determine this value, our physicists deployed artificial intelligence. We interviewed group leader Zsolt Divéki about their paper published in Optics Express.
6 December 2024
The Cockroft Institute has agreed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI ERIC), to collaborate on research in high power laser and far-infrared (“Terahertz”) techniques for electron beam acceleration.
2 December 2024
The ELI User Meeting brings together researchers, scientists, and engineers from across the world to share knowledge, discuss technological and scientific advancements, and explore the cutting-edge research enabled by ELI.
20 November 2024
On November 18-19 2024, the ELI ERIC International Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (ISTAC) convened for the 9th time at the ELI ALPS Facility in Szeged, Hungary. This was the first meeting led by newly elected Chair Roger Falcone of the University of California, Berkeley, and Vice-chair Thomas Tschentscher of the European XFEL.
28 October 2024
For the third time, ELI ALPS is launching the “Art in Science” competition aimed at encouraging the production of artworks by combining science and art, i.e. by adding new colours and graphics to images of research results achieved at our institute.
25 October 2024
Bulgaria will transition to be a full Member of the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI ERIC). Following a three-year term as a Founding Observer, Bulgaria is the first country to transition from Observer to full Member. The ELI ERIC General Assembly unanimously approved the decision during their meeting in October.
11 October 2024
The European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI Forum) held its 89th meeting at the University of Szeged on 16-17 September 2024. Participants paid a visit to our facility as well.
1 October 2024
One of this year’s recipients of the L’Oréal-UNESCO Scholarship for Women in Science is physicist Zsuzsanna Pápa, who is also the first researcher at ELI ALPS to receive this award. Our interview with her reveals how she found her path to physics through mathematics, and what it means in practice that our institute is a Family Friendly Workplace.
30 September 2024
Preliminary registrations suggested we should expect a record number of visitors to ELI ALPS on the last Friday of September. Eventually, our Researchers’ Night event attracted nearly 500 people. Grandparents with grandchildren, secondary school and university students, and groups of friends were eager to get to know our institute from inside.
25 September 2024
The Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) is pleased to announce the launch of the 5th ELI User Call with submissions open until 31th October. Researchers and scientists worldwide are invited to submit their proposals which will be evaluated based on scientific excellence by an international peer-review panel.
19 September 2024
The 89th meeting of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI Forum), co-organized by Hungary’s National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NRDIO), was hosted by the University of Szeged on 16–17 September 2024.
13 September 2024
The Researchers’ Night event series is traditionally held across Europe on the last weekend of September. ELI ALPS will be open to the general public from 5 pm on 27 September. On this occasion, anyone can take a look at the laser equipment available at our research institute.
9 September 2024
The ninth edition of the Extreme Light Infrastructure Summer School (ELISS 2024) brought together undergraduates, PhD students and early-stage researchers at ELI ALPS in the first week of September. A total of 150 people embarked on this five-day scientific adventure in the world of laser physics.
2 September 2024
The September issue of Fizikai Szemle features a thematic section titled Lasers in the focus guest-edited by Péter Dombi, Head of the Ultrafast Science and Applications Division at our institute. The review article pays special attention to research conducted at the Institute of Physics of the University of Szeged and at ELI ALPS.
29 August 2024
This past year has been a period of significant milestones and transformative achievements for ELI. Since 1 January 2024, ELI ERIC is operating the ELI ALPS and ELI Beamlines Facilities together with a single governance and management structure, realising the vision for ELI.
7 August 2024
The recent, fourth joint ELI user call has attracted eight proposals for our SYLOS 3 laser system. Applicants with research concepts found worthy of support will be able to start their experiments in autumn 2024. We have interviewed János Csontos, our physicist overseeing the operation of SYLOS 3, about his experience with the system so far.
2 August 2024
Vanderbilt University (US) is one of the top 100 higher education institutions in the world. Kálmán Varga, professor of theoretical physics, has a close professional relationship with ELI ALPS. Two members of Varga’s team, Liam Barron and Samuel Taylor, spent two months working at the institute.