Workshop on "Intense Laser and Beam Plasma Interactions"
in Honor of Professor Chan Joshi's 60th Birthday
The Plasma-Accelerator Group at UCLA continues to have a very strong program on the many possible roles that plasmas might play in future high-energy accelerators. These include:
The research program comprises of experiments, theory and supporting computer simulations.
Professor Chandrashekhar Joshi's Plasma Accelerator Group is world renowned for developing the multidisciplinary field of laser and electron beam-driven plasma accelerators over the past three decades. From fundamental research, Plasma Accelerators has now evolved into an engineering subfield. Joshi's UCLA group was the first to conclusively demonstrate the acceleration of electrons thousands of time more rapidly using relativistically propagating plasma waves than using conventional accelerators.