The goal of the open-source OSIRIS project is to provide a large user base with a flexible software framework to study a variety of physics problems within high energy density plasma science, plasma-based acceleration, space and astrophysics, the nonlinear optics of plasmas, QED and other exotic plasmas, and high-intensity laser and beam plasma interactions. The OSIRIS Consortium will be the entity that helps to coordinate the continued development of OSIRIS and to ensure that a community of users utilizes OSIRIS effectively and to its full potential. While anyone can freely access the open-source OSIRIS project without being a member of the OSIRIS Consortium, affiliated members can have access to additional support and development branches of OSIRIS beyond the public version.

The governance model of the OSIRIS Consortium is aligned with the best practices in open-source projects, following the model of the Open MPI open-source project.

Consortium members

Membership of the OSIRIS Consortium is organized in three levels: User, Developer, and Steering Committee. The full definitions of these three levels of membership, including their rights and responsibilities, can be found on the Consortium membership page.

Steering Committee

Developers

Users

  • Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal
  • UCLA, Los Angeles, California
  • University of Michigan
  • University of Rochester - Laboratory for Laser Energetics
  • Tsinghua University
  • Peking University
  • Oslo University
  • University of Strathclyde
  • Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
  • Max Plank Institute for Physics
  • Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics
  • Politécnico di Torino
  • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
  • Ben-Gurion University
  • CEA France
  • University of Salamanca
  • ELI Beamlines
  • Oxford University
  • University of Santiago de Compostela
  • Chalmers University of Technology
  • Lancaster University
  • University of Manchester

Join the OSIRIS Consortium

New members are welcome to join the OSIRIS Consortium. Prospective members are required to sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) which sets forth the rights, privileges, and responsibilities for each level of membership within the Consortium.

Links to the MOUs for each membership level will be made available shortly.