Tito's Fest - Celebrating the 65th birthday of Prof. Tito Mendonça
Throughout a 40 year long career, Prof. Tito Mendonça has pioneered the development of plasma physics and many other scientific fields, contributing to a number of theoretical and experimental advances in science.
Last Friday Jan. 14th we revisited his scientific career and achievements, in an afternoon of celebration with talks by special guests and friends.
Tito's Fest - Programme
Auditorium, Complexo Interdisciplinar, IST
14h00 - Opening Ceremony - António Cruz Serra (President of IST, to be confirmed); Carlos Varandas (President of IPFN)
14h30 - Padma Shukla - Pioneering contributions of Professor Mendonça in frontiers of physics
14h55 - Bob Bingham - The fundamental TITO particle
15h20 - Alan Cairns - Ray tracing, photon acceleration and the evolution of short pulses
15h45 - Mattias Marklund - High intensity lasers for QED experiments
16h10 - Coffee Break
16h50 - Gert Brodin - Nonlinear phenomena in plasmas, astrophysics and quantum electrodynamics
17h15 - José Carmelo - Extended global symmetry of the Hubbard model on bipartite lattices
17h40 - Dino Jaroszynski - Incoherent and coherent x-ray sources based on laser-plasma wakefield accelerators
18h05 - Peter Norreys - The role of beam-plasma instabilities in energy deposition in cone-guided fast ignition
18h30 - Closing Ceremony - Luís Silva
