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Congratulations to Jade Touresse , who successfully defended his thesis entitled "Propagation of solar coronal jets in the inner heliosphere: Investigating a solar origin scenario for switchbacks" Abstract The Parker Solar Probe (PSP) mission has revealed...

During the 19th International HAKONE Symposium on High Pressure Low-Temperature Plasma Chemistry, held at the University of Montreal (Canada) from August 23 to 27, 2026, Anne Bourdon, CNRS Research Director at the Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (LPP)...

The LPP will host Simon Chouteau, a postdoctoral fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) at Osaka University, for a seminar devoted to non-invasive diagnostics of low-temperature plasmas using optical spectroscopy. Friday...

The Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas is organizing the 3rd SciQLop workshop, to be held from 15 to 17 September 2026 on the Campus Pierre & Marie Curie (Sorbonne Université), led by Alexis Jeandet and Nicolas Aunai. SciQLop is a tool developed at LPP...

The DYNAFLUC (Dynamics of Turbulence Fluctuations) project, funded through the French-German International Collaborative Research Programme (PRCI), officially started in April 2026 and will run for three years. On the French side, the project is led by...

Bayane Michotte de Welle, who completed her PhD at LPP, has been awarded the 2025 René Pellat Prize, a PhD thesis prize granted by the Plasmas Division of the French Physical Society. Her thesis, entitled “Statistical study of the global constraints...

This summer school is organized once a year over the course of one week. It offers a unique opportunity to attend, free of charge, a 5-day summer school held in Roscoff (Brittany) at the Marine Station. The program is primarily intended for students...

Congratulations to Pierre Guillon, who successfully defended his thesis entitled “Transport Modelling for Fusion Devices Using Reduced Models for Turbulence” Absract The goal of this thesis is to develop and improve reduced models for turbulent transport...

On June 8 and 9, the LPP organized a workshop devoted to non-thermal plasmas, bringing together several international specialists to discuss current challenges in plasma diagnostics, modeling, and applications. The first day was held in the Jean-Lascoux...

The Smile space mission was successfully launched on 19 May 2026 aboard a Vega-C rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Jointly led by the European Space Agency and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Smile (Solar wind Magnetosphere...

Vincent David has been awarded the 2024 René Pellat Prize, a PhD thesis prize granted by the Plasma Division of the French Physical Society. This distinction recognizes his work on multi-scale turbulence in the solar wind. Vincent David completed his PhD...

The Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas congratulates Alejandro Álvarez Laguna, CNRS Research Scientist at LPP, on being awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal. This distinction recognises his work on non-equilibrium plasmas, conducted at the interface between...