Oxford Centre for High Energy Density Science (OxCHEDS)

The OxCHEDS Annual Meeting 2025 was held at Lady Margaret Hall on the 24th - 25th March.

The European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser's annual Young Scientist award has gone to Dr Patrick Heighway for his work during the commissioning of the DiPOLE 100-X laser.

On the 18th-19th March, the Oxford Centre for High Energy Density Science (OxCHEDS) celebrated its 10-year anniversary at the OxCHEDS Annual Meeting.

The Institute of Physics’ annual Culham Thesis Prize has been awarded to Dr Thomas Gawne for research he carried out as member of the Oxford Centre for High Energy Density Science (OxCHEDS).

Professor Peter Norreys has been awarded the American Nuclear Society's Edward Teller Medal.

The OxCHEDS Annual Meeting was held on the 20-21 March 2023 at Trinity College Oxford, attracting a record 54 registrants in approximately equal numbers from Oxford and AWE.

Professor Gianluca Gregori has been awarded the Institute of Physics' 2022 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin medal and prize.

In the last two weeks of July, the Orion Laser Facility at AWE Aldermaston successfully conducted its first academic access experiment for over three years.

The OxCHEDS Annual Meeting was held on the 21-22 March 2022 at Lady Margaret Hall (LMH), University of Oxford, attracting a record 52 registrants for the second year running.

Colin Danson spoke about research conducted at the Orion laser facility and his outlook on the future of high-power lasers on the Institute of Physics' Physics World Weekly podcast.

On the 14th and 15th of April, 2021, AWE held its first (virtual) Physics PhD conference.

The 4th in the series of High Power Laser Science and Engineering Symposia, HPLSE2021 (held between 12-16 April 2021 in Suzhou, China) saw plenary talks from three OxCHEDS academics.

A major review of the history of high-power laser research and development in the UK has been published.

The seventh annual meeting of the Oxford Centre for High Energy Density Science (OxCHEDS) took place online on the 22nd and 23rd of March, and attracted a record 52 registrants from AWE and the University of Oxford.

Professor Gianluca Gregori has been awarded the American Physical Society's John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research for the second consecutive year.

Muhammad Kasim of the University of Oxford has exploited convolutional neural networks to speed up simulations of disparate physical systems by up to nine orders of magnitude.

A major review paper entitled Laser produced electromagnetic pulses: generation, detection, and mitigation(link is external) has just been published with co-authorship from OxCHEDS.

On the 2nd and 3rd of March, the Royal Society played host to a meeting of the world’s foremost scientists and policy advocates in nuclear fusion entitled Prospects for High Gain Inertial Fusion Energy.

The Oxford Centre for High Energy Density Science (OxCHEDS) has led the first ever experiment on the newly-commissioned High Energy Density Science end-station at the European XFEL.