Lasers in Medicine and Life Sciences

Advanced summer school for undergraduate and postgraduate students of medicine and physics 12th — 21st July 2017

1. Invitation the tradition, so we announce LAMELIS again this year. The LAMELIS 2017 summer school will be held between 12th and 21st July. The city of is proud The summer school is open to both medical stu- to have been chosen as the dents and physics students. Although the theoretical site of one of the four pil- depth of talks is tailored for medical students, the pro- lars of a massive European gramme can also benefit physics students as they can laser project entitled ELI learn of medical applications of lasers directly from (Extreme Light Infrastruc- distinguished experts of the field and receive first- ture). The construction of hand information on the current status of ELI-ALPS. ELI-ALPS (Attosecond Light Pulse Source), a facility ded- icated to ultra-short laser 2. Speakers pulses, has entered its final stretch. Apart from break- • Ferenc Bari (, HU) ing new ground in the study of very fast atomic and mo- • Elke Beyreuther (Helmholtz-Zentrum, DE) lecular processes, it is also expected to bring about • Tomáš Čižmár (University of Dundee, UK) improvements in medicine and life sciences. It is now the fourth time the University of Szeged has organised • Katalin Hideghéty (University of Szeged, HU) the summer school entitled Lasers in Medicine and • Petar Lambrev (Biological Research Centre, Life Sciences (LAMELIS) with the aim of discussing Szeged, HU) and disseminating the implications of these develop- ments. Encouraged by the feedback we have received • Péter Maróti (University of Szeged, HU) on the quality of the talks and the atmosphere of the • Justin Molloy (MRC National Institute for Med- previous events, we are committed to maintaining ical Research, UK)

2017 • Jörg Pawelke (Technische Universität Dresden, 5. The University of Szeged DE) • Adrian Podoleanu (, UK) The University of Szeged was established in 1921 with the relocation of the University of Kolozsvár (Cluj- Other speakers are being contacted. Napoca) founded in 1872. Since then, it has grown to be one of the most prestigious universities in , ranked as number one amongst Hungarian universit- 3. Seminars and laboratory ies and in the top 300 in the world in three consecutive years (2003, 2004 and 2005). It is now organised into 12 visits faculties, which provide education for 25 000 students and employ more than 6 000 people, 1 000 of which are We also offer seminars in the fundamentals of optics teachers. and laser physics, and you will have the chance to gain Alongside inter- hands-on experience with lasers in research laborator- nationally noted ies and clinical facilities. contributions to mathematics, in- formation techno- logy, physical and material sciences, the University is also noted for its strong focus on life sciences, augmented by close ties to the Biological Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The most significant accom- plishment under the auspices of the University of Szeged so far has been the discovery of vitamin C and the exploration of the citric acid cycle, made by Al- bert Szent-Györgyi and rewarded with a Nobel Prize in 1937. 4. The city of Szeged 6. Practical information and Szeged is the third largest city of Hungary and the re- gional centre of the Southern Great Plains. It is di- fees vided in two by the river . The name Szeged was first mentioned in a royal charter of 1183. It might Admission criteria have come from Hungarian ‘szeg’ (angle), referring to the corner the river Tisza makes with its tributary, the The programme is open to a maximum of 45 un- Maros, whilst some say it can be traced back to an ar- dergraduate or postgraduate students in the fields of chaic sense of ‘szeg’,meaning ‘dark blond’,and it refers medicine or physics. If necessary, selection will be to the colour of the water where the Maros joins the made considering the students’ motivation, English Tisza. The current cityscape was formed by the re- level and previous research experience, if any. construction following the great flood of 1879, which killed 165 people and destroyed about 5 600 buildings. Application An emblematic building of the city, the Votive Church, was erected in memory of the flood, and the sections Please download the pdf application form from www. of the outer boulevard bear the names of the cities that lamelis.eu/appform/ApplicationForm.pdf and send contributed to the rebuilding of Szeged: Rome, Brus- it to [email protected]. th sels, Berlin, Paris, London and Moscow. Application deadline: 10 May 2017. Fee: 200€. This fee includes tuition, accommod- A city of 170 000, ation, lunches, scheduled excursions and extracur- Szeged is a teeming ricular activities. We do not cover the costs of pass- cultural and intel- ports, visas, health insurance, travel to and from Hun- lectual centre with gary and other personal expenses. a student popula- tion of 25 000, many of whom are inter- 7. Further information national students of medicine, giving Department of Medical Physics and Informatics the city a touch of University of Szeged, Faculty of Medicine – Faculty of multiculturalism. Still, it remains a quiet, human- Sciences sized, liveable and loveable city, whose atmosphere is Korányi fasor 9, H-6720, Szeged, Hungary created by the Tisza, by extensive green spaces and by Postal address: H–6701 Szeged, PO box 427, Hungary enchanting statues. Boasting an average of 2 000 sun- E-mail: [email protected] shine hours a year, Szeged has earned the moniker ‘the Website: http://www.lamelis.eu City of Sunshine’. In addition to its theatre and sym- Facebook: phonic orchestra, in the summer Szeged also hosts https://www.facebook.com/lamelis.szeged the Open Air Festival, the history of which goes back Youtube: more than 80 years. The Hungarian festival season • 2014: http://tinyurl.com/lamelis2014 concludes with the Szeged Youth Days (SZIN) each • 2015: http://tinyurl.com/lamelis2015 year since 2003. • 2016: http://tinyurl.com/lamelis2016 2017