Quantum Public Lecture: A Molecule Takes a Selfie While Creating the World’s Shortest Light Pulses

Join the Institute for Quantum Science and Technology in welcoming Paul Corkum, PhD, from the University of Ottawa and the National Research Council of Canada, to deliver a quantum public lecture titled A Molecule Takes a Selfie While Creating the World’s Shortest Light Pulses. Register for the lecture here. If you are unable to attend, you can watch the lecture live. About the speaker: Dr. Paul Corkum is best known for introducing many of the concepts in strong field atomic and molecular science. In the early 1990s, a number of new, seemingly unconnected, phenomena were discovered in strong field atomic physics. Two of the most important of these are high harmonic generation and correlated double ionization (a phenomenon in which an atom absorbs hundreds of photons and emits two electrons). Dr. Corkum developed a comprehensive theory of all of these phenomena. This work is the foundation on which all subsequent research in this area has been built. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1996) and the Royal Society of London (2005) and an elected member of the US Academy of Science (2009). Among his most prestigious prizes are the Canadian Association of Physicists’ Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Physics (1996), the Royal Society of Canada’s Tory Award (2003), the Optical Societies Charles H. Townes Award (2005) and the IEEE’s Quantum Electronics Award (2005). In 2013, Dr. Corkum received two very prestigious international awards, the Harvey Prize from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology and the King Faisal International Prize for Science. The Optical Society of America (OSA) awarded him the Frederic Ives Medal in 2014 and in 2015, Dr. Corkum was named Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate, reserved for researchers who are “of Nobel class” and likely to earn the Nobel someday.

Location:

MacEwan Hall Ballroom

Speaker:

Dr. Paul Corkum

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/quantum-public-lecture-molecule-takes-selfie-while-creating-worlds-shortest-light-pulses