Colloquium 117: Chasing the light: On Laser Plasma Accelerators (Wei Lu, May.22, 2013)

Title: Chasing the light: On Laser Plasma Accelerators

Speaker: Wei Lu,Tsinghua University

Location: Room 111, Physics Building

Time: 15：00-16：00p, May 22th, 2013

Abstract:

The field of plasma accelerators based on laser or charged particle beam driven wakefields has experienced significant progress worldwide in the past decade, with promises to downsize the large scale accelerators and light sources by factor of hundreds to thousands. The so called Blowout Regime for wakefield acceleration has played a very important role for these development. In this talk, I will focus on the important physics of this special regime and show why it is the best choice for accelerating high quality electron beams. The recent progress made in my research group (L2PA) at Tsinghua University will also be presented and discussed.

Biography:

Professor Wei Lu received his Bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University in 1998 and his Ph.D. from University of California at Los Angeles in 2006. Since 2011 he joined Tsinghua University as a full professor in the Department of Engineering Physics. Professor Lu is a plasma physicist with major research interests on theoretical, computational and experimental aspects of laser plasma interaction and plasma based advanced accelerators. He has been recognized worldwide as one of the youngest leaders in the fast growing field of plasma accelerators for his important contributions. In 2007, he was awarded the first John Dawson Thesis Prize in the plasma accelerator community. By 2013, he has coauthored more than 80 publications, with 16 PRL, 1 Nature, 1 Nature Physics and 5 Physics of Plasma invited papers, with a total citation more than 1600, a H-index 20. Currently he is building up a laboratory for laser plasma physics and advanced accelerator technology (L2PA) at Tsinghua university of Beijing.