Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée ~ LOA, Palaiseau, France

Kickoff EU action on X-ray metrologyThe Scientific kick-off meeting of the COST Action MP1203 on Advanced Spatial and Temporal X-ray Metrology will be held in Paris on April 2013, 4th and 5th. It aims to bring together PhD students, post- docs, technicians, engineers and researchers, from early stage to senior, from all academic and industrial fields involved with X-rays and their applications. New synergies between groups from (currently) 18 European and 3 non-EU countries will promote strong and rapid progress in the metrology of X-ray sources and optics. Similar challenges in neutron optics, which have analogies with X-ray optics, will also be represented. It will gather persons interested by the topics developed in Action MP1203 for launching collaborations, short-term scientific missions, training schools, and future meetings. see the announcementHDR Davide Boschetto- January 31st, 2013 - Davide Boschetto, researcher at ENSTA-LOA has passed with success his HDR award at ENSTA, Palaiseau Center. He has presented his research conducted over the past ten years on the subject of optical phonons in the study of the ultrafast dynamics of the matter and their role in phase transitions. LOA general assembly meeting - year 2012The LOA general assembly meeting was held Friday, january 11th, 2013 at ENSTA-ParisTech Palaiseau campus. This event was an opportunity to highlight the main achievements of the year 2012 and to review the laboratory projects.2012 ParisTech PhD award at LOA - November 16th, 2012 - François Sylla, a former LOA PhD student of Victor Malka's group graduated in 2011, has been awarded the 2012 ParisTech PhD Thesis prize for his work on the generation of laser-produced plasma ions. Among the 632 theses defended in 2011 within the ParisTech cluster of excellence, 48 candidates were first selected, and then ten finalists were invited to defend the results and the contribution of their thesis in a public session in front of the jury chaired by Gérard ROUCAIROL, Vice-President of the French Academy of Technology. 3 candidates have been awarded. More information here

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Le Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée (LOA) is an UMR (Unité Mixte de Recherches) ENSTA-Paris Tech - CNRS - École Polytechnique. Its research activity covers a broad spectrum of science in the field of ultrafast lasers and their applications: development of intense laser sources, laser-matter interaction and plasma physics, production of compact sources of energetic radiations and particles, multidisciplinary applications of these sources. Read more

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