Laboratory for Laser Energetics

Campbell, who has attracted record funding for LLE during his four years as director, will step down in January 2022.

Deeney brings extensive experience running complex operations to this new role at the University’s Laser Lab.

An international research team including University of Rochester scientists has validated a nearly 40-year-old prediction that helium rain is possible inside planets such as Jupiter and Saturn.

Measuring carbon at the highest pressures ever achieved in a laboratory, researchers at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics report first model of the carbon structures that may make up planets outside the solar system.

Dustin Froula received the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, one of the most respected awards given by the US Department of Energy, for his research.

The Department of Energy funding, distributed to the Laser Lab and other LaserNetUS institutions, will provide beamtime for researchers across the globe to conduct laser experiments using network facilities.

Nonprofit research and educational foundation highlights “demonstrated leadership in applying results to laser facilities.”

The University is the host institution for a NSF-funded national collaboration to explore ‘revolutionary states of matter.’

Laboratory for Laser Energetics pioneers Ricardo Betti and Wolfgang Theobald honored by American and European Physical Societies.

Time sharing, staggered shifts, and reconfigured spaces are among the adaptations in place as research resumes at Rochester.