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News - 2020

14 May 2020

In memoriam Győző Farkas

Győző Farkas, Széchenyi Prize laureate physicist, Doctor of physical sciences, Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, has passed away at the age of 86.


28 April 2020

Over 100 new intensive care beds have been set up for coronavirus patients in our Research Institute

Prof. Dr. Gábor Szabó, managing director of ELI-ALPS, offered two halls of the building complex to Albert Szent-Györgyi Health Center, in case the epidemiological situation would require the care of infected patients there.


25 February 2020

HAPPY 60th BIRTHDAY, LASER!

The first working laser was demonstrated by Theodore Harold Maiman on May 16, 1960, and now we are celebrating it as the International Day of Light.


News - 2019

15 May 2019

We inaugurated the SYLOS 2A laser system

On 15 May, we held a ceremonial event where we inaugurated the SYLOS 2A laser system. Designed by the Lithuanian companies EKSPLA and Light Conversion and developed in collaboration with ELI-ALPS personnel in two phases, the laser system will provide research opportunities in various fields of scientific and industrial applications.


11 April 2019

Statement of ELI-DC Director General

Statement of ELI-DC Director General Allen Weeks regarding ELI-ALPS research institute.


27 March 2019

Inauguratation of the Construction Industry Award for Excellence Prize in the research institute

On 27 March we ceremonially inaugurated the plaque comemorating the Construction Industry Award for Excellence Prize awarded for the building complex of our research institute.


5 February 2019

Visit of MOL Group CEO and Slovnaft CEO to ELI-ALPS

Accompanied by University of Szeged former Rector Gábor Szabó and Bishop of the Szeged-Csanád Diocese László Kiss-Rigó, MOL Group Chairman and CEO Zsolt Hernádi and Slovnaft Chairman and CEO Oszkár Világi visited our research institute to discuss future cooperation opportunities.


19 January 2019

Physics Works in ELI-ALPS

This year, our research institute also took part in the Physics Works event series organized by the University of Szeged. Besides many exciting programs, the participants had the opportunity to visit ELI-ALPS in the afternoon of 19 January and get to know the work of the researchers here.


9 January 2019

Attosecond Science and Technology Conference to take place in Szeged from 1 to 5 July 2019

The International Committee of the Attosecond Science and Technology Conference is pleased to announce that the 7th International Conference (ATTO2019) will take place in Szeged, Hungary from July 1 to 5 2019.


News - 2018

10 December 2018

Initiator of the ELI project Gérard Mourou recieved his Nobel Prize

Initiator of the ELI project Gérard Mourou, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physics received his Nobel Prize yesterday in Stockholm from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.


15 November 2018

Initiator of the ELI project, Nobel Prize winner physicist Gérard Mourou visits ELI-ALPS in Szeged

We ceremonially inaugurated the new timeline element on the promenade at the entrance of the building complex of the French physicist, Gérard Mourou, Professor at École Polytechnique, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics this year.


2 October 2018

Father of ELI Wins Nobel Prize for Laser Physics

The scientist who first proposed the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) has won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physics along with two other scientists.


27 July 2018

President of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office visits ELI-ALPS

This morning, newly appointed President of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office dr. Zoltán Birkner, Deputy State Secretary, Ministry of Innovation and Technology Ádám Szigeti and their colleagues visited the research institute.


18 July 2018

IT-ELLI Workshop in the Reserach Institute

Last week we hosted a training specifically designed for hands-on practice on optical coatings and associated metrology.


5 July 2018

The European Cluster of Advanced Laser Light Sources (EUCALL) Workshop in ELI-ALPS

EUCALL is a network between leading research institutes. Under EUCALL, they work together on their common methodologies and research opportunities, and develop tools to sustain this interaction in the future.


17 June 2018

The HEPTech Symposium opens the research to the business world

For a fifth consecutive year the High-Energy Physics Technology Transfer Network (HEPTech) fostered by CERN, brought together early-stage researchers in high-energy physics and related scientific domains to help them transform their research ideas into marketable innovations.


25 May 2018

Cooperation agreement with the National Laboratory on High Power Laser and Physics, Shanghai signed

A cooperation agreement was signed between ELI-ALPS and National Laboratory on High Power Laser and Physics, Shanghai
Parties will cooperate, among others, in the fields of high-average power and high peak power laser technology, generation and compression of ultrashort pulses and optical precision mechanics.


16 May 2018

ELI-ALPS cooperation agreement with the Hungarian Intellectual Property Office signed

ELI-ALPS Research Institute and the Hungarian Intellectual Property Office signed a cooperation agreement.


16 May 2018

Science Park MoU signed

This morning, on the Innovation Day of the University of Szeged, Managing Director Lóránt Lehrner gave a lecture on the research institute.


16 April 2018

Participation of ELI-ALPS delegation at HPLSE 2018 in Suzhou

Representatives of the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI) participated in the High Power Laser Science and Engineering (HPLSE) Forum on April 9-13, 2018. The event was organized by the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM) and is the largest event on laser research to be held in China and the Asian region.


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