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Ursula Keller wins “Swiss Nobel” Marcel Benoist Prize- for pioneering work in ultrafast lasers
MUST2022 Conference- a great success!
New scientific highlights- by MUST PIs Wörner, Chergui, and Richardson
FELs of Europe prize for Jeremy Rouxel- “Development or innovative use of advanced instrumentation in the field of FELs”
Ruth Signorell wins Doron prizefor pioneering contributions to the field of fundamental aerosol science
New FAST-Fellow Uwe Thumm at ETH- lectures on Topics in Femto- and Attosecond Science
International Day of Women and Girls in Science- SSPh asked female scientists about their experiences
New scientific highlight- by MUST PIs Milne, Standfuss and Schertler
EU XFEL Young Scientist Award for Camila Bacellar,beamline scientist and group leader of the Alvra endstation at SwissFEL
Prizes for Giulia Mancini and Rebeca Gomez CastilloICO/IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics & Ernst Haber 2021
Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to RESOLV Member Benjamin List- for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis
NCCR MUST at Scientifica 2021- Lightning, organic solar cells, and virtual molecules

Lausanne Center for Ultrafast Science - LACUS

The Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS) brings together the EPFL teams working in Ultrafast Science and Technology with experimental and theoretical methods as well as those using ultrafast technology in different applications. Research areas are very diverse, spanning from fundamental to applied research and they present a very high degree of complementarity. Several EPFL groups are pioneers in ultrafast science and technology and LACUS pools in the expertise in the development and the use of advanced ultrafast laser technology, X-ray and electron technology and associated methods, along with the EPFL theory groups. It also aims at complementing and strengthening existing Swiss scientific infrastructures, e.g. the Swiss Light Source and the SwissFEL. On October 20, 2016, LACUS was accepted as associate partner of Laserlab-Europe.

The inauguration of the Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS) took place at the Rolex centre on June 3, 2016. The programme is available here. We are honoured to have hosted distinguished external speakers on this occasion:
  • Prof. Theodor Hänsch, München, 2005 Physics Nobel Laureate
  • Prof. Shaul Mukamel, UC-Irvine
  • Prof. Villy Sundström, Lund University
  • Prof. U. Keller, ETH-Zürich and chairwoman of the NCCR:MUST
  • Prof. Gabriel Aeppli, PSI-Villigen
In addition, “young” EPFL scientists presented different facets of LACUS.

Another "LACUS day" has taken place on February 14, 2018 with 86 participants from all over Europe.
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