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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 Gérard 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 Gérard 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 McGill 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 McGill each year to give two 
 lectures\, one of which is a lecture for the general public.**\n
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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:https://www.mcgill.ca/science/channels/event/public-lecture-2018-nobel-
 laureate-donna-strickland-generating-high-intensity-ultrashort-optical-301
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