6月16日至19日，强激光驱动的辐射源及其前沿应用国际研讨会在我校隆重召开。来自英国、保加利亚、罗马尼亚和中国大陆的30多名同行专家、学者参会。国际研讨会由南华大学核科学技术学院承办，并得到“核科学与技术”湖南省重点学科经费支持。南华大学党委书记王汉青教授、南华大学校长助理周剑良教授、核科学技术学院院长肖德涛教授、副院长赵修良教授、院党委书记谭建国老师、副书记刘和福老师以及核科学技术学院相关方向的教授、博士以及研究生出席会议。
王汉青书记代表南华大学致欢迎辞，向与会专家表示热烈欢迎，并向来宾们介绍了召开本次会议的背景及会议目的，衡阳的悠久历史、山川名胜和名家伟人，以及我校的办学历史和发展概况，最后对大会表达了良好的祝愿。王书记的致辞简洁精辟、深入浅出、妙语连珠，给与会教授专家留下了深刻的印象。
研讨会期间的学术活动丰富多采。安排学术报告14个、学术讲座1个，以及校内外参观和分组讨论活动3个。英国卢瑟福∙阿普尔顿实验室资深科学家、中组部“外专千人”Edmond Turcu教授，欧盟重大科学研究计划－“极端光基础设施-核物理(ELI-NP)”的核物理研究活动组组长Dimiter Balabanski教授，中国工程物理研究院流体物理研究所石金水总工程师，中国科学院上海应用物理研究所核物理室室主任方德清研究员，中组部“青年千人”、上海交通大学激光等离子体教育部重点实验室陈民研究员，北京大学物理学院卢海洋研究员，国防科技大学理学院马燕云教授、卓红斌研究员等海内外知名学者做了精彩的报告。我校“青年英才”罗文博士的研究生刘维缓用英语流利地介绍了课题组在强激光驱动的辐射源研究领域的最新研究成果，获得同行专家的好评。
通过举办此次会议，进一步加强强激光驱动的辐射源及其前沿应用研究领域内的国际科研合作、促进上述领域与相近学科领域的交叉与融合，以及有利于进一步提升南华大学在国际国内的综合影响力。会后，包括Edmond Turcu教授、Dimiter Balabanski教授，以及北京大学的卢海洋教授在内的多名同行专家对我校此次举办的强激光驱动的辐射源及其前沿应用国际研讨会给予了高度评价。附上Edmond Turcu教授的来信全文。
481June 20th, 2016
Dear Professor Luo Wen,
I would like to thank you and the organizing committee, the School of Nuclear Science and Technology and especially Professor President Xiao Detao, and the University of South China and especially Professor Chairman Wang Hanqing for organizing a very successful International Workshop dedicated to the exciting new area of research: “Laser-based Radiation Source and Its Frontier Application”. I would like to thank you for inviting me to present the work of ELI-NP on QED experiments with 10PW lasers and for your very warm welcome.
The scientific content of the presentations was outstanding. The presentations showed the great interest both in China and the World in developing new, very bright sources of Gamma Rays, Positrons, Electrons, Protons and Ions using the new technologies provided by extremely High Power Lasers of Petawatt and 10 Petawatt class. Developing these sources we will discover ground-breaking new science in Nuclear Physics and Quantum Electrodynamics other new areas which we may not even perceive at the moment. We will also develop new frontier applications based on these new Radiation Sources, for example radiation hardening of electronic-devices used on satellites, ultrafast imaging through thick containers or cancer radio-therapy with proton beams. The Friday sessions on June 17that the USC campus and group discussions on Saturday June 18thwere so well organized that they created an excellent scientific environment in which I had ample opportunity to discuss with many young Chinese scientists on their work and to brainstorm with them on new research ideas and potential collaborations to achieve them.
I enjoyed very much my visit at the University of South China campus, the warm welcoming addresses by Professor Chairman Wang Hanqing and Professor President Xiao Detao, the conference room and presentation facilities, the lovely lotus flowers which just opened their petals in the ponds on the campus ground, the exquisite Chinese cuisine and the majesty of the Hengshan mountain with its inspiration to harmony with nature. I want to congratulate you for the excellent organization of this three-day International Workshop. I believe the workshop has enhanced our understanding of the science and technology of the new intense radiation sources and their frontier applications and will help us achieve this very challenging and also exciting goal.
Best wishes,
Professor Turcu Edmond,
School of Electronics Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, PR China
Extreme Light Infrastructure – Nuclear Physics, IFIN-HH, Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
Central Laser Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus,Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.
