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GAP Participation in the 67th APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting
Researchers and graduate students from the Group of Astrophysical Plasmas (GAP) recently participated in the 67th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, held from November 17-21, 2025, in Long Beach, California. As part of the broader delegation from the Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear (IPFN), group members Frederico Fiúza, Pablo San Miguel Claveria, and João Biu presented their work on current-filamentation instabilities in laser-solid interactions, relativistic beam-plasma instabilities, and machine-learning methods applied to collisionless shock study.
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Frederico Fiúza leads COST Action EXPAND
Frederico Fiúza is leading a new COST Action titled 'Extreme Plasma Network for Advanced Discovery' (EXPAND). This European initiative, set for a 4-year duration, aims to deepen the understanding of extreme plasma physics, from the environments of black holes and neutron stars to laboratory experiments involving intense lasers and particle beams, by bringing together and sharing the expertise and tools from different groups to maximize production of new knowledge and breakthrough discoveries.
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Members of the Group of Astrophysical Plasmas receive 70 million CPU hours
As part of the FCT HPC Advanced Computing Projects call Pablo San Miguel was awarded 40 million CPU hours in Deucallion to investigate Collisional Relativistic Plasma Instabilities and Frederico Fiuza was awarded 30 million CPU hours in MareNostrum 5 to study energy partition and particle acceleration in collisionless shocks.
