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Prof. Marcel Clerc named Editor-in-Chief of a leading scientific journal in nonlinear science.
Workshop MIRO, Santiago, Chile, December 2025
LAFER attends to INES, Valparaiso, Chile, December 2025
LAFER attends to SPIE Optics+Photonics, San Diego, California, USA, July 2025
Roberto Gajardo PhD thesis defense, June 16 2025
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Victor Fernandez Master thesis defense, May 28 2025
(Youtube)
Pedro Aguilera Master thesis defense, May 08 2025
(Youtube)
Belén Hidalgo Master thesis defense, March 28 2025
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Summer practice: Florencia Fuentes, Carlos Saez, and Mauro Riquelme, January 2025
Martin Bataille Master thesis defense, January 27 2025
(Youtube)
Workshop MIRO, November 2024
Press: Chilean scientifics discover how to control light propagation, July 2024
Press: Researchers from University of Chile develop models to better understand optical turbulence, June 2024
Lucciano Letelier Master thesis defense, April 08 2024
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Summer practice: Laura Ramírez, Santiago Ocampo, Luciano Toro, Martín Rubio, Eduardo Droguett, and Martin Carcamo, January 2024
David Pinto PhD thesis defense, November 23 2023
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Sebastián Echeverría PhD thesis defense, June 19 2023
(Youtube)
Press: Physicists propose a new generation of concentric ring patterns, 2023
(TSX Plus)
Press: Chilean physicists discover a novel way in which nature organizes itself, 2022
(CNN, El Mostrador, Diario UChile, Meridional Radio, Radio ADN)
Gregorio Gonzalez PhD thesis defense, October 11 2021
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Alejandro Alvarez PhD thesis defense, September 22 2021
(Youtube)
Press: Chilean–New Zealand team proposes a cybersecurity system based on bursts of light, September 22 2021
Press: Discovery by Chilean physicists could enable the fabrication of super clothing, June 25 2021
(LUN, El Mostrador)
Press: Researchers develop a material that mimics black hole properties, May 14 2021
(CNN, El Mostrador, La Nación, 24 Horas, T13)
Prof. Clerc is recognized as a scientist who has been exceptionally helpful in assessing manuscripts for publication in the APS journals, 2021 oustanding APS Referee, February 2021
(APS)
Press: Chilean researchers carry out the first classification of “natural labyrinths”, December 2020
Fabian Alvarez Master thesis defense, November 25 2020
(Youtube)
Press: Chilean researchers propose a novel state of matter November 2020
Press: Frontier research; Chilean physicists propose a new and revolutionary type of wave, October 2020
Valeska Zambra Master thesis defense, August 27 2020
(Youtube)
Press: Chilean-French investigation creates device capable of detecting the movement of viruses, May 2020
Gladys Jara Master thesis defense, May 25 2020
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Press: Chilean physicists create model to understand and predict turbulences, April 2020
Press: Chilean physicists lead discovery of a new type of light, April 2020
Press: Chilean-Belgiumm scientific finding could help to plant more efficiently in droughts, April 2020
(Sputnik Mundo, Radio Pauta, The Clinic, El Mostrador, Bio Bio Chile)
Interview: Experimenta, screens and pixels for kids, March 2020
Summer practice, Pedro Aguilera, Roberto Gajardo, Matias Gutierrez, and Martin Bataille, January 2020
Valeska Zambra shares with the Nobel Prize winner (2019) Donna Strickland, January 2020
XVI International Workshop on Instabilities and Nonequilibrium Structures, Valparaiso, Chile, December 2-6, 2019
(UCV)
Visit of the profs. Edgar Knobloch, Mustapha Tlidi, and Saliya Coulibaly, December 2019
Valeska Zambra, winner of the young chilean woman of the year award, 2019
Alejandro Alvarez-Socorro receiving the prize of the best poster in nonlinear at the StatPhys 27 conference, Buenos Aires, July 2019
Prof. Clerc shares with Prof. Kosterlitz (Nobel prize in Physics 2016) at the StatPhys 27 conference, Buenos Aires, July 2019
Visit of Prof. Clerc CN2, Palessau
Serbian-Chilean meeting on optics and spectroscopy, Santiago, June 14 2019
LAFER members visit the Barcelona Institute of Materials Science
Press: Chilean Scientifics develop model that could explain and predict catastrophes, April 2019
(Radio La Clave, T13, La Tercera, El Ciudadano, El Mostrador, Bio Bio Chile)
Visit of Prof. Alain Aspect to University of Chile, April 2019
Visit of the LAFER group to the liquid crystal laboratory, University of Concepcion, January 2019
Visit of Pierre Coullet and Mustapha Tlidi, December 2018
Press: Student of the Physics Department and MIRO gets distinction from the Royal Society, December 5 2018
Gonzalo Camel gets his degree in mathematical engineering, 2018
Participation in the Dynamics Days Latin America and the Caribbean, November 2018
Interview: Exploradores program, November 15 2018
(TVN)
Press: Camila Castillo, Chilean physics could have the key to control the spread of fires, November 13 2018
(El Mostrador, FCFM, EMOL)
Workshop: Óptica de Cristales líquidos, Santiago, September 2018
Interview: Prof. Clerc invited to T13 radio talk about optics, 2018
Press: Chilean Physicists accomplish milestone that could be key for the future optical computing, August 2018
Prof. Clerc invited talk to SPIE conference, San Diego, USA, August 2018
Press: Chilean scientist propose using light pulses for the transmission of information, 2018
Press: Scientists move towards the construction of nanomachines, December 2017
Press: Physicists from the University of Chile will be part of a new Millennium Institute for Optical Research (MIRO), 2017
(FCFM)
Prize: Outstanding Research, 2017
(FCFM)
Nonlinear optics of liquid crystals meeting, 2017
Interview: Optics, quantum mechanics, and nonlinear physics, 2017
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Prof. Clerc invited talk to CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2017 conference, Munich, Germany, 2017
Press: Physicists from University of Chile publish innovative optical discovery, August 2016
Interview: The chilean that discovered the mistery of freak waves, 2016
LAFER members participate in conference in Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Valparaiso (Chile), December 2015
Press: Physicist determine the behavior of "freak waves", giant waves, and optical systems, December 2015
Press: El Mercurio newspaper supplement of school of engineering and science of University of Chile, displays an image of the Lafer, November 2015
Press: Scientifics from DFI study ways to manipulate the light in liquid crystals, November 2015
Talk: On the interaction of light and matter, July 2015
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Interview: Disclosure of liquid cristal and photo-isomerization, May 11 2015
Summer practice 2015, Matias Soto and Valeska Zambra
Incorporation of Drs. Rouf Barboza and Mario Wilson as postdoctoral researchers, 2014
Visits by Profs. E. Tirapegui (Universidad de Chile), Mustapha Tlidi (University of Brussels) and Pierre Coullet (University of Nice and Sophia-Antipolis), January 2013
Incorporation of Dr. Vincent Odent as a postdoctoral researcher, in charge of the initialization and startup of LAFER, 2012
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