J. Mark Sowers Distinguished Lecture Series ft. 2018 Nobel Prize Winner Donna Strickland (Online)
Venue: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Virginia Tech College of Science
Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Time: 7:30 - 8:50 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free

Description:
The Virginia Tech College of Science presents the 2021 J. Mark Sowers Distinguished Lecture Series online with guest speaker Donna Strickland presenting the topic "Generating High-Intensity, Ultrashort Optical Pulses" on Wednesday, March 10, 2021.

Donna Strickland was a recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics and professor at the University of Waterloo. She is a pioneer in the field of pulsed lasers. This is the first time the College of Science has the honor of hosting a female Nobel Laureate for the lecture series.

Strickland is a professor with the University of Waterloo’s Department of Physics and Astronomy. She co-won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics for her work in developing chirped pulse laser amplification with Gérard Mourou, her Ph.D. supervisor at the time. They published the Nobel-winning research in 1985 when Strickland attended New York’s University of Rochester.

"Together Strickland and Mourou paved the way toward the most intense laser pulses ever created, helping revolutionize the field of laser physics," Virginia Tech Physics professor Giti Khodaparast said. According to Strickland’s biography, her work in lasers led to a wide variety of medical and tech breakthroughs, from cutting a patient’s cornea in laser eye surgery to the machining of small glass parts found in cell phones and tablets.

Strickland became the third woman in history to win the Nobel Prize in Physics, joining Marie Curie (1903) and Maria Goeppert Mayer (1963).

Admission is free however registration is required.

To register, visit: https://aimsbbis.vt.edu/Sowerslecturestrickland.

The J. Mark Sowers Distinguished Lecture Series in the College of Science at Virginia Tech is a forum for the exchange of new and innovative ideas in scientific fields. The series has attracted national and world-renowned scholars, including a laser physicist, a nanoscientist, an astrophysicist (and also Nobel Laureate), an applied mathematician, the director of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, and a statistician who specializes in machine-learning. Discussions have delved into brain sciences, speech and hearing development, black holes, and more.

The Virginia Tech College of Science's future is built by scientists who discover, create, inspire, and inform. We are dedicated to science excellence, discovery, diversity of both people and ideas, and the Virginia Tech motto of Ut Prosim, That I May Serve.

Links:

• https://www.science.vt.edu/
• https://www.facebook.com/VirginiaTechScience
• https://www.twitter.com/vt_science
• https://www.instagram.com/vt_science/

To view the event flyer, visit: https://imgur.com/s6R1QtO.

For more information, visit: https://vtnews.vt.edu/articles/2021/03/science-sowers_lecture_series_virtual_strickland.html or https://www.science.vt.edu/index/calendar.html.

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