Issue 12 of the LASERLAB Newsletter published

Issue 12 of the Laserlab Newsletter is now available.
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In this issue:

A note on the crisis in Greece:

Professor Costas Fotakis gives his view on how the financial and economic crisis affects his country and research at IESL-FORTH

Science for Society:

Research conducted within LASERLAB-EUROPE for solving the 'grand challenges' of society in the future

ERC Starting Grants 2011 for researchers of LASERLAB-EUROPE partners:

Prof. Roberta Croce, Dr. Randolf Pohl, Prof. Hugues de Riedmatten, Prof. Morgan Mitchell, Prof. Stefan Kuhr

Workshops

• STELLA 2011: The Experimental Summer School in Linear, Nonlinear and Quantum Optics
• Nonlinear nanostructures for ultrafast laser applications
  

Research Highlights:

• Spectroscopy Plays with Quantum Physics
• Unique source of gamma rays

Research Collaboration:

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, MBI and IOQ Jena: Staged laser ion acceleration