On Monday, March 2, our university will hold a workshop under the European programme ELI - Extreme Light Infrastructure. One of the guests will be Professor Gérard Mourou - the Nobel Prize winner in physics from 2018.

Extreme Light Infrastructure is an international project aiming to build a very powerful, 200 petawatt laser. More than 300 scientists from 50 research facilities in 13 countries are participating in the project, conducting research into the interaction of light and matter at intensities 10 times higher than those currently available.

Ultra-short laser pulses that last fractions of a femtosecond and reach power levels of 10 PW (1PW = 10¹⁵W) can be used in fields including medical imaging and diagnostics, radiotherapy, new materials development, and optics. 

The ELI programme is conducted at three international research centres - in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Romania.

The meeting at Wrocław University of Science and Technology is intended to cater to students, doctoral candidates, and scientists who wish to start working together under the project.

The workshop, held in English, will take place on March 2, at the WUST Congress Centre, building D-20, Janiszewskiego St. 8. Admission is free of charge.

Event programme

• 9.10 a.m. - the opening of the ELI Day - Professor Krzysztof Abramski (Wrocław University of Science and Technology),
• 9.15 a.m. - ELI - Important European Research Project - Allen Weeks, PhD (ELI CEO),
• 9.45 am - ELI Beamlines Facility - Georg Korn, PhD (Science and Technology Manager of ELI Beamlines),
• 10.15 a.m. - ELI - ALPS Facility - dr Peter Dombi (Ultrafast Science Division),
• 10.45 a.m. - break,
• 11.15 a.m. - ELI - NP Facility - dr Ovidiu Tesileanu (Laser and Gamma Experiments),
• 11.45 a.m. - ELI Poland Consortium - Professor Henryk Fiedorowicz (Military Technical Academy),
• 12.15 p.m. - break.