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LLE recipients of the 2024 Nuclear Fusion Journal Award.

Awards, Honors, & Fellowships

2024 Nuclear Fusion Journal Award Recognizes Paper Co-authored by LLE Scientists

LLE scientists Patrick McKenty and Stephen Craxton and two former members of the LLE High School program, Emma Garcia and Yujia Yang, have been recognized as co-authors of a paper…

Attendees of the 2025 OLUG Workshop at LLE.

OLUG 2025 Recap: A Cornerstone of the High-Energy-Density Science Community

Photo of Annie Maloney.

Annie Maloney Wins 2025 Stoddard Prize for Best Senior Thesis

Annie Maloney, a recent University of Rochester graduate in the class of 2025 with a BS in physics and astronomy, has won the 2025 Stoddard Prize for Best Senior Thesis…

Victor Zhang and Will Trickey posing in front of the Laboratory for Laser Energetics branding wall.

Awards, Honors, & Fellowships

LLE Scientists Included in the 2024 Physics of Plasmas Early Career Collection

Congratulations to LLE Assistant Scientist Will Trickey and to doctoral student Victor (Yu) Zhang, whose work was recently selected for inclusion in the 2024 Physics of Plasmas Early Career Collection—the third collection…

Portrait of Petros Tzeferacos.

Awards, Honors, & Fellowships

University of Rochester and LLE Faculty and Collaborator Receive 2025 PECASE Award

January 21, 2025

LLE Launches IFE-STAR Ecosystem, Conference, and Workforce Development Initiatives

January 15, 2025

Group photo of the Cyro Fill Systems Group in lab attire next to computers and lab equipment.

LLE’s Cryogenic and Tritium Facility Sets New Record in 2024

December 16, 2024

The Laboratory for Laser Energetics’ (LLE) Cryogenic and Tritium Facility (C&TF) has achieved a remarkable milestone by successfully transferring 51 consecutive cryogenic deuterium–tritium (DT) targets since April 12, 2024. This…

SBIR Phase II with Sydor Technologies and LLE.

Awards, Honors, & Fellowships

LLE and Sydor Technologies Awarded $1.15M DOE Phase II SBIR Grant for Fusion Research

November 19, 2024

Photo portrait of Kaan Aytekin.

Kaan Aytekin Receives APS Outstanding Student Poster Award

October 30, 2024

Kaan Aytekin, a junior at the Hajim School of Engineering & Applied Sciences at the University of Rochester and a member of LLE’s Undergraduate Education Program, has just won an…

An artistic depiction of an accretion disk and an image of a simulation.

OMEGA 60-Beam Laser System Helps Shed Light onto Black Hole Accretion Disks

October 8, 2024

Awards, Honors, & Fellowships

LLE Research Team Wins 2024 John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research

September 16, 2024

Two figures from Review of Scientific Instruments by Joseph Katz.

Manuscript on Thomson-Scattering Diagnostics Chosen As Editor’s Pick

September 9, 2024