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Six photos of students along the top and an image of the student expo beneath with students displaying their posters.

LLE Undergraduate Program Attends Research Expo

On Friday, April 14, six undergraduate students conducting research at LLE [Charbel El Haddad (Roman Sobolewski), Aliza Panjwani (Shuai Zhang), Nhuja Maharjan (Ken Marshall), Max Neiderbach (Christian Stoeckl), Joanna Rosenbluth…

Portraits of Jay Eastman on left and Barukh Yaakobi on right.

In Memoriam

Photo of Dillon Ramsey.

LLE Graduate Student Dillon Ramsey Awarded the Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student

The Edward Peck Curtis Awards for graduate student teaching are given to a small number of full-time graduate students who have a role in undergraduate education. LLE graduate student in…

Render of LLE's Office and Lab Expansion

The Current Status of the LLE Office and Laboratory Building Expansion

“LLE’s work in high-energy-density science continues to grow with each new year, and now their physical footprint is catching up. The addition of these state-of-the-art facilities helps strengthen LLE’s designation…

Full Portrait of Rick Spielman.

Awards, Honors, & Fellowships

Rick Spielman was Awarded the 2023 Erwin Marx Award

Dr. Rick Spielman, Senior Scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Professor of Physics at the University of Rochester, and longtime member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers…

A group photo from the 2023 Stephen D. Jacobs Memorial talk.

Stephen D. Jacobs 2023 Memorial Lecture

LLE hosted the 2023 Stephen D. Jacobs Memorial talk, featuring Svetlana Lukishova speaking on Liquid Crystals in Nonlinear and Quantum Optics. Lukishova’s talk highlighted the main effects of using liquid crystals…

Screen capture from video: Laser Research for the Next Generation, Laboratory for Laser Energetics at the University of Rochester.

LLE Featured in WebsEdge Science Video at APS March Meeting

LLE is featured in a new video by APS TV’s WebsEdge Science that will be shown at the American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting in Las Vegas 5–10 March. The…

Diagram demonstrating the All-Optical, Optically Addressable Liquid Crystal-Based Light Valve Employing Photoswitchable Alignment Layer for High-Power and/or Large Aperture Laser Applications

Awards, Honors, & Fellowships

Patent for LLE Technology Awarded

Steve Craxton and Lindsay Browning posing in front of an OMEGA Laser System poster

LLE High School Program Alums Continue to Excel

February 27, 2023

With Bachelor’s (cum laude) and Master’s degrees from Cornell University in biomedical engineering, Lindsay Browning, an alum of the 2016 LLE Summer High School Research Program from Penfield High School,…

Three photo collage. Top left LLE director with retiree. Top right, a portrait of retiree and photograph taken by retiree displayed on an easel. Bottom, group photo of retirement attendees.

Longtime LLE Photographer, Eugene Kowaluk, Retires

February 13, 2023

Target shot of laser on the top with a group photo on the bottom.

OMEGA EP’s 10,000th Shot

January 23, 2023

On 20 December 2022, the OMEGA EP Laser System fired its 10,000th target shot. Shot Director Scott Householder made the following announcement as the shot was being fired to commemorate…

Scientists group photo in front of LANL PLX.

Flash Center Releases New Version of FLASH code

January 6, 2023

FLASH v4.7 expands the range of laboratory experiments the code can model in fields including high-energy-density physics and fusion energy. The Flash Center for Computational Science at the University of…