I attended the Octopus Developer Meeting 2016, held in Max Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics of Matter (Hamburg), and was proposed to give an oral presentation.
More details are available there.
2 weeks of training at the Benasque TD-DFT school
The “Benasque school of physics” hosts famous physics school all along the year. This year, I could attend to the “Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory: Prospects and Application” for a duration of 2 weeks. The school is composed of 1 week of lessons, including the week-end, and one week of workshop to get a view on the latest developments in the field of TD-DFT and beyond.
See the website for more information.
Invited talk at the PIERS 2016, Shanghai, China
Shanghai TV tower
I got invited oral presentation to present my latest results of continuum modeling in Si irradiated by femtosecond lasers at the Progress in Electromagnetic Research Symposium, held in Shanghai (China).
Link to the conference: http://www.piers.org/piers2016Shanghai/
Title: Transient Electron-hole Dynamics at the Surface of Silicon upon Femtosecond Laser Irradiation in Modification Regime
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First paper of the project is now accepted for publication.
Four months after the project started, first paper was submitted in collaboration with BAM Berlin on Surface Plasmon Polaritons in lossy materials.
- Title: Properties of Surface Plasmon Polaritons on lossy materials: Lifetimes, periods and excitation conditions
- Authors: T.J.-Y. Derrien, J. Krüger, J. Bonse
- Journal of Optics, Institute of Physics (USA)
- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2040-8978/18/11/115007
- Also available on green open access (arxiv.org)
Roger Kelly award obtained at “Lasers in Materials Science” school of Venice, Italy.
On July 10, 2016, Dr. Thibault J.-Y. Derrien and Dr. Yoann Levy travelled to Venice, Italy for the 5th International School “Lasers in Materials Science” on the Isola de San Servolo, home to Venice International University.
The school was directed by Maria Dinescu (National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Bucharest, Romania), David B. Geohegan (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA), Antonio Miotello (Trento University, Italy), and Paolo M. Ossi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy). The School provided undergraduate students, PhD students and young research scientists with a wide opportunity to learn on fundamental roots of the interactions of laser light with different materials that are usually missed in traditional programs. The attendees were offered with 18 lectures from world-leading scientists, ranging from fundamentals of laser-matter interaction to scientific and industrial applications in various fields including new material production and bio-medicine.
One of the lectures was given by the RP4 Leader Nadezhda Bulgakova. The school also provided excellent opportunities of interactions and establishing cooperation with other researchers and colleagues working in similar, yet diverging fields.
Yoann presented work on Temperature relaxation after modulated absorption of femtosecond laser pulse in gold and fused silica in the LIPSS formation regime and Thibault presented work on the Role of electron-hole pair dynamics in modification of silicon upon femtosecond laser irradiation.
For his excellent work and presentation, Thibault Derrien was awarded the 2nd place among “Rising Stars” (Third Year PhD and Post-doc researchers) in the schools poster competition in memory of Prof. Roger Kelly.
Invited at the French-Czech “Young Talented Scientists” forum, Prague
I was invited by the French Institute of Prague to attend and present my works at the “Young Talented Scientists” forum, which was held at the French Embassy of Czech Republic, on the 21st of June 2016, Prague.
A lunch with the French Ambassador in Czech Republic, Jean-Pierre Asvazadouria, and a debate on the mobility of researchers with the Nobel Laureate of Chemistry Jean-Marie Lehn was organized at the French Embassy.
The main outcome was to prepare advises to communicate with both French and Czech governments to improve the scientific mobility programs between the two countries.
Official report and pictures can be found on the website of the French Embassy.
HERAEUS Workshop – Les Houches
I was selected to attend the “Attosecond meets Plasmonics” HERAEUS Workshop, held in Ecole de Physique des Houches.
A poster detailing the current development of the “Flirt-1D” simulation code was presented.
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Invited talk at EMRS Spring Meeting, Lille (2016)
A part of my current modeling works for laser-irradiated silicon will be presented at the European Materials Research Society (EMRS), Spring Meeting 2016, held in Lille, France.
Title of the talk will be Role of the electron-hole pair dynamics in modification of silicon upon femtosecond laser irradiation.
… See you in Lille, on the 6th of May 2016, 8h30 ! 🙂
Secondment period, started in Hamburg!
Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL), Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg
I safely arrived to the Secondment Institution: Max Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics of Matter, in the Theory Group lead by Prof. Angel Rubio. I will work under supervision of Dr. Heiko Appel to train on advanced quantum simulations during the next 6 months, and generate new results during the next year, when I’m back to HiLASE, Prague.
Here is a picture of a nice part of the institute. Just click to enlarge.
First meeting at the secondment institution
Both Prof. Bulgakova and me presented our works to the MPSD group for the preparation of the 6 month secondment phase in Hamburg, Germany.
More details in the future publications with TD-DFT simulations ;o)