{"id":95778,"date":"2024-09-20T13:21:56","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T17:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=95778"},"modified":"2024-09-21T00:01:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T04:01:51","slug":"laser-research-focus-of-nobel-prize-winners-brock-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2024\/09\/laser-research-focus-of-nobel-prize-winners-brock-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Laser research focus of Nobel Prize winner\u2019s lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A century of laser advancements was a highlight of a free community talk by Nobel Prize winner Donna Strickland.<\/p>\n<p>Honoured in 2018 with the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Canadian optical physicist and pioneer of ultrafast and high-intensity lasers presented to more than 200 people Thursday, Sept. 19 in Brock University\u2019s Sean O\u2019Sullivan Theatre as part of the Faculty of Mathematics and Science\u2019s Research Colloquium Series.<\/p>\n<p>Strickland, a Professor at the University of Waterloo, led the audience through a history of laser research and discussed how her own Nobel Prize-winning research with G\u00e9rard Mourou resulted in a new understanding of laser-matter interactions that has led to revolutionary laser applications such as eye surgery and micromachining techniques.<\/p>\n<p>She also reflected on the experience of attending the Nobel Prize award ceremony at Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden and her conversations with Swedish royalty and fellow Nobel Prize laureates.<\/p>\n<p>As part of her visit to Brock, Strickland met with several Brock students, staff and faculty, including Associate Professor of Chemistry Jianbo Gao, who gave her a tour of his Ultrafast Photophysics of Quantum Materials Lab and shared some of the advancements in his own ultrafast laser research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A century of laser advancements was a highlight of a free community talk by Nobel Prize winner Donna Strickland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":95781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,9794,41],"tags":[48,703,7437,389,13801,348,12284,3328,6952,81],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95778"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95855,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95778\/revisions\/95855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}