Pioneering IZEST international laser centre launched
The International Zetawatt-Exawatt Science Technology [IZEST] launching workshop was held at the Ecole Polytechnique, in Palaiseau, France on 28-29 November this year. The programme of the workshop involved a wide variety of lectures relating to the IZEST project – and the signature of the IZEST agreement by Xavier Michel, of the Ecole Polytechnique and the Commissariat à l’énergie atomique [CEA], and Daniel Verwaerde, also of the CEA.
IZEST is to be the first international laser centre, which is designed to explore fundamental physics at the highest-energy frontiers. The European Physical Society – which was represented at the meeting by John Dudley, chair of the International Council of Quantum Electronics and the EPS Quantum Electronics and Optics Division representative – would like to express its strong support for the IZEST initiative.
“Progress in physics requires constantly questioning and exploring the boundaries of knowledge with new technologies and new ideas,” said Dudley at the event. “The interdisciplinary and international nature of IZEST is to be commended as an example of the kind of leading-edge research effort that is increasingly needed in physics and in science in general for the future.”
For more information, please visit the IZEST website.
