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.
26 March 2024
Alessandra Bellissimo, a solid-state physicist from the Vienna University of Technology, conducted measurements on the NanoESCA endstation of ELI ALPS for four weeks. In Vienna, she works in the same laboratory where the Nobel Prize winning physicist Ferenc Krausz did his research more than two decades ago.
25 March 2024
The Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) is pleased to announce the launch of the 4th ELI User Call.
14 March 2024
On the occasion of Hungary’s national holiday on 15 March, Tamás Sulyok, President of the Republic of Hungary, awarded the Széchenyi Prize to Prof. Gábor Szabó, laser physicist and managing director of ELI ALPS.
13 March 2024
Associate Professor Tzveta Apostolova from the New Bulgarian University and the Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy in Sofia and two MSc students conducted experiments at ELI ALPS for eight days. The Bulgarian physicist thinks that the Szeged based laser centre is indeed a world-class research facility.
8 March 2024
In response to our patent application for a gas cell suitable for high harmonic generation, the Hungarian Intellectual Property Office granted the patent rights in October 2023. The patent deed was delivered in February 2024.