The television channel Castilla y León Television publishes on its website the news about the meeting of the expert council of the ATTOSTRUCTURA project.
You can read the press release and watch the video on their website.
Next August will be thirty months since the ATTOSTRUCTURA project began, which means that half of its duration has already elapsed.
For this reason, the first meeting of the project’s scientific advisory committee has been held. The committee, made up of external researchers who are experts in the different fields of the project, has the objective of evaluating the development of the project, the results obtained to date and, if necessary, proposing changes or modifications in the lines of research. In this way, it is intended to ensure that the project achieves the best possible results while maintaining the highest level of excellence.
The members of the scientific advisory committee are:
The meeting, which took place on Friday, July 22, in the Board Room of the Faculty of Sciences, began with an open-door session in which the status of the project and the main results obtained to date were presented. The videos of that session will be available on the project website.
On the occasion of the meeting, Carlos Hernández García (principal investigator of the project) speaks in this video recorded by the audiovisual services of the University of Salamanca, about the project, its objectives and the results obtained.
#InvestigadoresDeLaUSAL | Carlos Hernández, investigador del GIR Aplicaciones de los Láseres y Fotónica de la USAL (@OpticaExtrema), explica en qué consiste el proyecto europeo ATTOSTRUCTURA, financiado por el @ERC_Research. pic.twitter.com/pKgAX1kF6E
— Universidad de Salamanca (@usal) July 25, 2022
From July 11 to 15, the XXXVIII Biennial Meeting of the Royal Spanish Society of Physics was held. The Laser and Photonics Applications group (ALF – USAL) has participated in said biennial, presenting some of the most recent results of the research it is currently carrying out.
The works presented were:
In addition, Carlos Hernández García participated in the organization of the congress as part of the scientific committee.
Rodrigo Martínez, from the Instituto de Fisica Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos (IFISC), will give the seminar entitled “Reservoir Computing with Quantum Systems” on June 09 at 12:00 a.m.
The seminar will take place in Classroom IV of the Edificio Trilingüe, University of Salamanca.
The researcher Myriam Boduelle, a doctoral student at the Université Grenoble Alpes, carries out a two-week experimental campaign at the ALF group’s Laser Laboratory.
Myriam, directed by Professor Guillermo Martin, works on the development of optical devices applied to astrophotonics, to obtain detectors and miniaturized optical equipment that can be integrated into aerospace missions.
During her stay, she will use the microprocessing stations for materials with ultrashort pulse lasers, and the laboratory’s diagnostic and optical characterization equipment.
On the occasion of the celebration on May 16 of the International Day of Light, the list of winners of the IV “Day of Light” Photographic Contest organized by the Master’s Degree in Physics and Technology of Lasers (USAL – UVA) has been published. These entities and organizations also collaborate:
The complete verdict can be read on the website of the Master’s Degree in Physics and Technology of Lasers.
Below you can see the 4 award-winning photographs.
Many thanks to all the participants and congratulations to the winners.
The OSAL Student Chapter of the University of Salamanca has been awarded second place at the Foton 2022 Awards in the Foton Emitted category, for its informative video “The colors in soap bubbles”.
The jury has positively valued “his ability to disclose to the general public, explaining the operation of the phenomenon of interference of light with an accessible and attractive example” in addition to his creativity when showing the colors that are produced in the bubbles.
The video explains the thin film interference phenomenon, which is responsible for the appearance of colors in soap bubbles and which also appears in other situations such as puddles or butterfly wings.
You can see this video (and other very interesting ones too) on the page of the OSAL Student Chapter of Salamanca and read the complete review of the award on the CSIC website.
The Spanish Journal of Physics carries on the cover of its most recent issue (Vol 36, No (2022)) the illustration by Alba de las Heras in which it is represented the generation of ultraviolet light laser beams with a double structure: vectorial by its azimuthal polarization distribution, and vortex by its transverse phase distribution
A. de las Heras, A. K. Pandey, J. San Román, J. Serrano, E. Baynard, G. Dovillaire, M. Pittman, C. G. Durfee, L. Plaja, S. Kazamias, O. Guilbaud y C. Hernández-García, “Extreme-ultraviolet Vector-vortex Beams from High Harmonic Generation”, Optica 9, 71-79 (2022).
Andreas Döpp, from Ludwing-Maximilians Universität München, will give the seminar entitled “Laser-plasma X-ray sources… and how to improve them with machine learning methods” next May 19 at 09:30.
The seminar will be in English, and will take place in room 0-01 of the Merced Building at the University of Salamanca.
Wojciech Gawelda, member of IMDEA-Nanociencia (Faculty of Sciences of the Autonomous University of Madrid), will give the seminar entitled “Tracking ultrafast structural dynamics in condensed phase matter using X-ray free electron lasers” on May 16 at 12:00 p.m.
The seminar will be in English and will take place in Classroom E2 of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Salamanca.
Abstract:
With the advent of soft- and hard X-ray Free Electron Lasers (XFEL) sources, entirely new scientific opportunities and prospects have been become available in the field of structural studies. One of the most unprecedented features of XFELs is their ability to produce high intensity and fully coherent pulsed X-ray beams, with single pulse duration well below 100 femtoseconds (1 fs =10-15 s). This property allows dynamical studies of light-matter interactions virtually in any medium on the very fundamental timescales of interatomic motions, from gas-phase to complex strongly correlated solids, high-temperature superconductors, biomolecules and various nanomaterials.
In this seminar I will present a state-of-the-art overview of the abovementioned research venues, which highly benefit from the continuous progress in the field of XFEL technology. In particular, I will focus on those aspects, which profit most from the very high temporal resolution achievable in time-resolved XFEL experiments on combination with atomic spatial resolution.
