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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 the ubiquity of switchbacks (SBs): sharp magnetic deflections in the nascent solar wind. Their origin represents a major question for understanding solar wind acceleration and heating. Among the...

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), received the prestigious Ulrich Kogelschatz Lecture Award. The award was presented to her “for her outstanding contribution to the modelling of low-temperature plasmas, which has provided new...

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, September 11 at 10:00 – Salle Jean Lascoux (Wing 0), École Polytechnique, Palaiseau The seminar, entitled “Probabilistic approach to non-invasive diagnostic of electron energy distribution functions in low...