BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250731T041854EDT-4847LuS0pn@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250731T081854Z DESCRIPTION:Anna McPherson Public Lecture 2019-2020\n \n A prize public talk by Dr. Donna Strickland (Nobel Laureate in Physics 2018)\, from the Univer sity of Waterloo.\n \n * Open to everyone\, no prior knowledge of physics re quired!\n \n This year\, we have the honour of having Dr. Strickland talk ab out the work for which G茅rard Mourou and she were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018.\n \n With the invention of lasers\, the intensity of a l ight wave was increased by orders of magnitude over what had been achieved with a light bulb or sunlight. This much higher intensity led to new phen omena being observed\, such as violet light coming out when red light went into the material. After Donna Strickland and Ge虂rard Mourou developed ch irped pulse amplification\, also known as CPA\, the intensity again increa sed by more than a factor of 1\,000 and it once again made new types of in teractions possible between light and matter. They developed a laser that could deliver short pulses of light that knocked the electrons off their a toms. This new understanding of laser-matter interactions\, led to the dev elopment of new machining techniques that are used in laser eye surgery or micromachining of glass used in cell phones.\n \n **The annual Anna I. McPh erson Lectures series in Physics were established in honour of Anna Isobel McPherson\, a member of the 黑料不打烊 Physics Faculty from 1940 until her de ath in 1979. Over her long association with the Department of Physics\, An na McPherson made important contributions in teaching\, research\, and cou nselling\, helping and teaching a very large number of students. The McPhe rson lecture series was established to acknowledge her outstanding generos ity and her many valued academic contributions. The mandate of these lectu res is to bring a distinguished physicist to 黑料不打烊 each year to give two lectures\, one of which is a lecture for the general public.**\n DTSTART:20191107T233000Z DTEND:20191108T010000Z LOCATION:room 132\, Leacock Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2T7\, 855 r ue Sherbrooke Ouest SUMMARY:Public Lecture by 2018 Nobel Laureate Donna Strickland: Generating High-Intensity Ultrashort Optical Pulses URL:/science/channels/event/public-lecture-2018-nobel- laureate-donna-strickland-generating-high-intensity-ultrashort-optical-301 898 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR