8th May 2025: Maier-Leibnitz-Kolloquium
Prof. Willingale gave a Maier-Leibnitz-Kolloquium at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) titled “Unraveling the Direct Laser Acceleration of electron beams”. Visiting the Center for Advanced Laser Applications (CALA) and the ATLAS-3000 multi-petawatt laser was wonderful!
1st April 2025: Oxford Plasma Seminar
Prof. Willingale gave a seminar titled “Exploring extreme plasma physics with multi-petawatt laser pulses” to the Oxford Plasma Theory group.
20th March 2025: Physical Review Research publication
Dr. Brandon Russell’s is the first author for “Magnetic field generation in multipetawatt laser-solid interactions” in Physical Review Research. In this paper Brandon explores magnetic field generation for ultra-intense laser pulses and finds relativistic electrons may generate GigaGauss magnetic fields along the target surface.
4th March 2025: Omega EP shot day
Prof. Willingale and GSRAs Veronica Contreras and Nicolas Kalem travel to Rochester, NY for an Omega EP shot day at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics. The shots investigated the effect of different gas types on the electron acceleration and x-ray generation and channel formation by a low intensity pulse in preparation for future guiding experiments.
27th-28th February 2025: SCEECS 2025 annual meeting
Prof. Willingale attended the 2025 Simons Collaboration on Extreme Electrodynamics of Compact Sources Annual Meeting in New York, NY.
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