The Concerted Action COST P14 brings together
a large number of European research groups
studying the
interaction of atoms, molecules, clusters, solids or plasmas
with high-intensity coherent light. Its main objective is to develop a
greater understanding of various
fundamental physical processes and their applications,
ranging from ultra-fast phenomena on the attosecond scale
to ultra-strong interactions of matter with petawatt pulses.
COST P14 aims at facilitating the co-ordination of European research
on high-intensity laser-matter interaction and at
developing a fruitful collaboration between the European Atomic Physics
and Plasma Physics communities. In particular, it aims at
building up further links between the participating teams
and creating larger scale collaborations, at broadening the training
of young scientists within these teams, and at facilitating the development
in East European countries of research centres working on the laser-matter
interaction in strong fields.
The action has started on the 14th of June 2004 and will close on the 13th
of June 2008.
Through the Action, COST can support the organisation of
scientific meetings in relevant
areas, the participation to these meetings of invited speakers,
and short visits to other laboratories
("short-term scientific missions").
COST does not fund research projects directly. Instead,
COST supports the co-operation
of nationally-funded research activities. In this framework, COST can support
short term exchanges between participating laboratories,
the organisation of meetings, summer schools, workshops and conferences,
and the publication of the results of the actions.
The Scientific Programme of the COST P14 is defined by the Technical
Annex of the
Memorandum of Understanding
signed by the participating countries.
It based on two mutually
interlocking Working Groups. Working Group 1 investigates
the interaction of ultra-short pulses, high-frequency pulses and
ultra-intense pulses with
atoms, molecules and clusters, i.e. the Physics of high-intensity
laser-matter interactions at the microscopic level.
Working Group 2 investigates the problem at the macroscopic level, i.e.
the interaction of ultra-short pulses, high-frequency pulses and ultra-intense
pulses with solids and plasmas.
The two working groups carry out a broad programme of research, both
theoretical and experimental. The programme is divided into four Projects:
Project 1: Study of the interaction of atoms, molecules and clusters
with super-intense laser pulses and few cycle laser pulses, infrared or visible,
and generation of attosecond pulses.
Project 2: Study of the interaction of atoms, molecules and clusters
with high-frequency radiation including attosecond pulses and pulses from
free-electron lasers and X-ray lasers.
Project 3: Study of the interaction of ultra-short pulses,
high-frequency pulses and ultra-intense pulses with plasmas.
Project 4: Applications of laser-plasma studies to
particle acceleration, laboratory astrophysics, laser-induced nuclear
reactions and the fast ignition approach to inertial confinement fusion.
The countries participating to the Action (the "signatory countries")
currently are: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany,
Greece,
Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal,
Romania, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.
The deadline has now passed for other countries to join P14 without prior
approval.
Countries from the following list may still join subject to approval:
Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Iceland, Ireland,
Israel,
Latvia, Luxembourg,
Malta, Norway, Slovakia, Slovenia,
the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
Individual
institutions from these and other countries may also join COST Actions, subject to
approval by the Action's Management Committee, COST's Technical Committee,
and COST's Committee of Senior Officials.
The following research institutes are approved
participants to the Action:
If your research group is located
in one of the signatory countries, please contact
the Chair of the Action (please see details below
under
Core Management Committee) and inform
your country's
representatives
to the Management Committee of the action. (It is preferable to discuss
this matter with one of your country's representatives before contacting
the Chair.)
If your research group is not in one of the signatory countries, please
see relevant information on the
web site of COST. Then
contact both the Chair and the Vice Chair of the Action.
The Action is managed by an
international Management Committee
formed by
representatives
of the signatory countries.
Each country has only one vote in the decisions taken by the
Management Committee but can nominate up to two representatives (who may
themselves have
substitutes). The representatives have the responsibility of supervising
and co-ordinating the implementation of the action and of ensuring
scientific co-ordination at a national level. The Management Committee meets
as often as required to dispatch its duties (typically a couple of times each year).
At their first meeting, the Management Committee decided that
the day to day management of the Action would be delegated to a smaller
Core Management Committee.
Please follow this link for
information for members of the Management Committee.
Professor Charles Joachain (Chair of COST P14)
Professor Dimitri Batani (Vice Chair of COST P14)
Professor Alfred Maquet (Project Leader for Project 1)
Professor Ken Taylor (Project Leader for Project 2)
Dr Pascal Monot (Project Leader for Project 3)
Professor Jürgen Meyer-ter-Vehn (Project Leader for Project 4)
Dr Robert Potvliege
Under this heading, COST can support short visits (from 1 week to 3 months)
from participating laboratory to participating laboratory. The visit should
aim
at fostering collaboration, at learning a new technique or at
making measurements using intruments of methods not available in the
applicant's
own institution. This programme is particularly intended for young scientists.
Grants
are normally limited to travel and subsistence and do not normally exceed
2,500 euros. (For the missions supported by the Action, the limit is normally
1,000 euros in 2006 and 1,500 euros in 2007.)
Payment is made after the visit and is subject to completion
of a scientific report within a month after the stay. An advance
payment may be made under exceptional circumstances.
The host laboratory and the applicant's laboratory
must be located in different countries. The applicant's laboratory
must be located in one of the signatory countries. Visits to
a laboratory not officially participating to the Action but
located in another signatory country are normally permissible if
justified. Visits to a participating laboratory located in
a non-signatory country are also permissible.
More information can be found in the attached
guide, which is correct as of
September 2006.
It is recommended that applicants and hosts obtain up-to-date versions
of the guidelines and of the forms from the
web site of
the COST Office.
All applications for a short-term scientific mission should be sent
by e-mail
to the Chair of the Action and to ALL the other members of the
Core Management Committee (see details above), with copies
to the COST Scientific Officer (pswiatek@cost.esf.org)
and the COST Secretary (sbeauloye@cost.esf.org)
in charge of the Action.
The attention of the applicants is attracted to the following points:
The
details of the STSM funded by COST P14
can be found
here.
In view of severe
budgetary constraints on the number of STSMs that the Action
can support,
groups interested in proposing a new mission should contact
the Chair of the Action or another member
of the Core Management Committee before investing time in preparing
a proposal.
It is not the policy of COST to reimburse the travel expenses of all
participants in a COST-sponsored conference of workshop. The reimbursement
of participants from non-COST countries is normally limited to four invited
keynote speakers and session chairs. Participants to COST-sponsored activities
interested in obtaining financial support from COST P14 should contact
the organisers for further information.
Under the
COST "Near Neighbours" scheme
support may be given to participants from
the following countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan,
Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russian Federation, Ukraine,
Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Lebanon, Tunisia,
Syria, Morocco and the Palestinian Authority. Support is limited to one
participant per country, and is available on a first come first serve basis.
Please contact the Chair or Vice Chair of the Action for further information.
This Action has grown out of a number of separate threads.
Fruitful collaborations between several of the research teams have been
developed during the last decade in the course of successive EC Framework
programmes. There is also an important link with the COST Action P2
(1997 - 2001). The Project 9 of that Action, entitled "High harmonics and
XUV generation on atoms and solids through the interaction with intense
laser radiation" provided a basis for establishing the "ATTO" Network
within th Fifth EC Framework Programme, and paved the way for the research
on attophysics to be carried out in Project 2 of the present Action.
The majority of the research teams participating to it have been
collaborated since 1999 within the ESF-PESC "FEMTO" programme,
which came to an end in 2003. The
proposal
for COST P14
was put together by a small team led by Charles Joachain and was approved
by the Committee of COST Senior Officials on the 4th of December 2003.
The Action entered into force on the 20th of February 2004.
The first meeting of the Management Committee, which marked
its effective start, took place in Brussels on the 14th of June 2004.
The new
Journal
of the European Optical Society: Rapid Publications
might be of interest to the participants to the Action. This is a fully
open access, peer-reviewed electronic journal, which
publishes articles in a wide range of subjects in Optics and Photonics.
This page is maintained by Dr Robert Potvliege
(R.M.Potvliege@durham.ac.uk) and
is hosted by the University of Durham (UK).
It was last updated on the 5th of December 2007.
Short cuts:
What is COST P14?
What is COST?
COST is an intergovernmental framework for European Co-operation
in the field of Scientific and Technical Research. Much information
about COST can be found on their
web site.
Scientific Programme
Participating Countries
Participating Research Groups from
Non-COST countries
How to join COST P14?
Management Committee
Core Management Committee
The Core Management Committee of COST P14 is currently formed by the Chair
of the Action, the Vice Chair, four Project Leaders appointed by the
Management Committee, and another member of the Management Committee.
The main responsibility of the
Core Committee is to approve the proposals for short scientific missions
put forward by the participants to the Action.
The Core Committee also prepares the
grounds for workshops and conferences. The Project Leaders report to the
Management Committee on the progress of their project. They may also lead
in the organisation of workshops. The members of the Core Management Committee
currently are:
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Physique Théorique
Campus Plaine, C.P. 227
Boulevard du Triomphe
B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
Tel: +32-2-650 55 78
Fax: +32-2-650 50 98
E-mail : cjoacha@ulb.ac.be
Dipartemento di Fisica dell'Università di Milano Bicocca
Piazza della Scienza 3
IT-20126 Milano, Italy
Tel: +39 02 6448 2313
Fax: +39 02 6448 2585
E-mail: batani@mib.infn.it
Laboratoire de Chimie Physique-Matière et Rayonnement
Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI)
11, rue Pierre et Marie Curie
FR-75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
Tel: +33 01 44 27 62 77
Fax: +33 01 44 27 62 26
E-mail : alfred.maquet@upmc.fr
Queen's University of Belfast
DAMTP
David Bates Building
BT7 1NN Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Tel: +44 (0)28 90 975049
Fax: +44 (0)28 90 239182
E-mail: k.taylor@qub.ac.uk
CEA- Saclay
DSM/DRECAM/SPAM
Bâtiment 522 - pièce 141
Groupe de Physique à Haute Intensité (PHI)
FR- 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Tel: +33 01 69 08 10 35 (21 13)
Fax: +33 01 69 08 12 13
E-mail: monot@drecam.cea.fr
Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik
Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1
D-85748 Garching, Germany
Tel: +49 89 32905 139
Fax: +49 89 32905 200
E-mail: meyer-ter-vehn@mpq.mpg.de
Durham University
South Road
Durham DH1 3LE, UK
Tel: +44 191 334 3698
Fax: +44 191 334 5823
E-mail: R.M.Potvliege@durham.ac.uk
Short-Term Scientific Missions
COST Meetings
Past meetings sponsored by COST P14:
Forthcoming meetings sponsored by COST P14: To be announced shortly.
Conference organisers interested in obtaining financial support
from COST P14 should contact the Chair of the Action. History of COST P14
Journal of the European Optical Society:
Rapid Publications