Tajima, Toshiki, Prof. Dr.

Prof. Toshiki Tajima is well known as the inventor of laser electron acceleration. He is a brilliant theoretician covering a very broad range from fundamental physics to plasma physics and even medicine. Furthermore he has a good feeling for real experiments and thus has very productive collaborations with many physicists from many areas of MAP and even helps in the strategic decisions of synergies between medicine and physics within MAP. In collaboration with other theoreticians, who run large scale PIC simulations, he helps to obtain a much better understanding of MAP experiments.

 

Research Focus

Research expertise and fields: high field science, laser acceleration, ultrafast science, crossfield of laser and accelerator

Current interests and projects: laser electron and ion acceleration, attosecond coherent X-rays, photo-medical research, photo-nuclear physics

 

 

Recent publications

Laser Acceleration toward PeV Feeling the Texture of Vacuum
T. Tajima, M. Kando, and M. Teshima
arXiv:1005.3442v1 or pdf

Toshiki Tajima, Dietrich Habs and Xueqing Yan: Laser Acceleration of Ions for Radiation Therapy, Reviews of Accelerator Science and Technology, 2 (2009) 201-228

"Laser acceleration and its future" in Proc. Jpn. Acad., Ser. B 86 (2010) 1
Review article based on his contribution to the ULIS 2009

Article together with G. Mourou and J. Rafelski in CERN Courier (March 2009)

 

Lectures

see some lectures as videos 

"A Practical View toward Laser Accelerator/Collider": 8^th Blaise Pascal lecture (July 7, 2010)

"High Field Science: A Second Wave of Laser": special lecture on the occasion of the 50^th laser anniversary (June 23, 2010)

"Medical Applications of Laser Ion Acceleration": 7^th Blaise Pascal lecture in Paris (May 19, 2010)

"Highfield Science": 6^th Blaise Pascal lecture in Paris (April 14, 2010)

"Photonuclear Physics": 5^th Blaise Pascal lecture in Paris (March 10, 2010)

"Relativistic Engineering": 4^th Blaise Pascal lecture in Paris (Jan. 20, 2010)

"Laser Ion Acceleration": 3^rd Blaise Pascal lecture in Paris (Dec. 9, 2009)

"Laser Acceleration and its future": 2^nd Blaise Pascal lecture in Paris (Nov. 18, 2009)

"Laser acceleration and High Field Science 1979-2009": 1^st Blaise Pascal lecture in Paris (Okt. 22. 2009)

"Laser Acceleration and its Scope and Impact: 1979-2009" (summoned lecture) at the Summer School in Plasma Physics at Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ASICTP) in August 2009. This lecture was to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Tajima-Dawson paper in 1979 by ICTP.  

Magistral Lecture at the Ultraintense Laser Interaction Science (ULIS) 2009, Frascati May 25, 2009

Galileo Galilei Colloquium, Pisa University on January 15, 2009

 

Membership in international laser organizations

Chair in the international committee on ultra-high intensity lasers (ICUIL) since Nov. 2008

Chair, Scientific Advisory Committee of the EU-Project "Extreme Light Infrastructure" (ELI) since September 2008

International Linear Collider Global Design Effort Accelerator Advisory Panel, since Feb. 2009

Max Born Institute, Scientific Advisory Board, since 2008

Gwanju Institute of Science Technology Advanced Photonics Research Institute, Board of Advisors, since 2008
 

 

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