Donna Strikland - Making Really Short Pulses of Light

Boğaziçi University hosts Donna Strickland, 2018 Nobel Prize winner in Physics. Donna Strickland, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Waterloo University, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, together with Arthur Ashkin and Gerard Mourou for their discoveries in laser physics, will give an online conference titled “Making Really Short Pulses of Light” on October 28 at 17.00, upon the invitation of the Physics Department of Boğaziçi University. Strickland will give a presentation on her Nobel Prize in Physics which is about the practical implementation of chirped pulse amplification. Strickland, who served on the Canadian National Research Council, also worked at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Princeton University. The scientist, who joined the University of Waterloo in 1997, together with her team developed high-density laser systems for nonlinear optical studies. Strickland holds many awards and Honorary Doctorate degrees from national and international scientific institutions and is an Honorary Member of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and Physics Institute.