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.
24 July 2024
Since the foundation of our institute, several colleagues of ours have successfully defended their doctoral theses and obtained PhD degrees. However, Saibabu Madas, a researcher in the Theory and Simulation Group, was the first to defend his thesis on the premises of ELI ALPS. We asked our Indian colleague about his career and plans.
11 July 2024
Judit Budai, Balázs Major and Zsuzsanna Pápa are among the recipients of this year’s Bolyai János Research Scholarships awarded by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS).
3 July 2024
ELI ALPS to host the ELI Summer School (ELISS) on 2-6 September 2024.
1 July 2024
Our physics camp, organized for the third time in a row, attracted 21 secondary school students during the first week of the summer holiday. In addition to local residents, students from Budapest, Dunakeszi, Mátészalka, Nyíregyháza and Subotica came to immerse in physics at our institute “from dawn to dusk” from 24 through 28 June.
25 June 2024
The medals and awards established by the Roland Eötvös Physical Society (ELFT) were presented at the annual delegates meeting of the Society. Balázs Major, senior research fellow at our institute and leader of the HR Attosources Group in the Secondary Sources Division, was awarded the Schmid Rezső Prize. We interviewed him on this occasion.
13 June 2024
On 13 June, Katalin Karikó, winner of last year’s Nobel Prize in Life Sciences, attended the annual summit of the European University Alliance for Global Health (EUGLOH), which took place in Szeged. At the invitation of our institute, she then signed her memoir “Breaking Through – My Life in Science” at the ELI ALPS Facility.
14 June 2024
In the morning of 14 June 2024, ELI ALPS held an attosecond symposium with Nobel Prize winner Anne L’Huillier. In the afternoon, she was joined by co-laureate Ferenc Krausz in the inauguration ceremony of a new milestone in front of our institute to commemorate the accomplishments of the three awardees of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics.
4 June 2024
On 14 June 2024, Anne L'Huillier 2023 Nobel Prize laureate in physics will give a public presentation at ELI ALPS under the title “The Route to Attosecond Pulses”. In case you are unable to attend the symposium in person, you may join online.
18 May 2024
ELI ALPS hosted its most successful open-door event yet on 16 May. We had received an unprecedented number of registrations for our Day of Light activities.
14 May 2024
Nobel Prize laureate physicist Ferenc Krausz received the “John von Neumann” Professor title of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) from the Rector of the university on 11 May. The audience at his award lecture consisted of more than 600 people filling two lecture halls.
10 May 2024
Nobel Prize in Physics winner Donna Strickland, made her first visit to the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) in Prague, highlighting the critical role her pioneering work in laser physics plays in supporting ELI's advanced research.
8 May 2024
The primary goal of the Ultrafast Nanoscience Group at ELI ALPS is to study the course of laser-matter interactions on the nanometre scale and in the femtosecond regime. Within the framework of the experiments, physicists produce unique nanostructures in a process dubbed “nanosculpting”.
25 April 2024
Gérard Mourou, co-winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, joined the University of Szeged as a research professor at the National Laser-Initiated Transmutation Laboratory (NLTL) on 1 May. The French physicist, who played a key role in the establishment of our research institute, is a frequent guest of ours.
19 April 2024
Photographer Zsolt Dobóczky’s second photo album featuring pictures with lasers in the focus has come out with the title Pulses of the Future. Similar to the first volume (Invisible Flashes), which was published in 2017, the collection presents life at ELI ALPS.
9 April 2024
Conventional computers can deliver amazing performance, but people want even faster devices. Quantum computing is a promising direction of development, but it seems to be an area where a major breakthrough is still to come.
8 April 2024
Dr. Katalin Varjú, our Science Director, has been interviewed by innoteka.hu.