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Paul B. Corkum to deliver the 2009 Hermann Anton Haus
Lecture: Lecture series honoring Haus brings eminent visitors
to MIT
For Immediate Release
TUESDAY, 2 April 2009
Contact: William Smith, Assistant
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CAMBRIDGE, MA. 04.02.2009
The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces
that Dr. Paul B. Corkum, Professor of Physics, Ottawa
University and the National Research Council of Canada,
will deliver the 2009 Hermann Anton Haus Lecture. The
lecture will take place Monday, 27 April 2009, 4:00
PM, in the Hermann Anton Haus Room of the RLE Conference
Center (Room 36-428). The lecture is open to the general
public.
Professor Corkum is known for research that launched
attosecond science. After studying the interaction
of intense light pulses with atoms and molecules, his
group he proposed how atomic and molecular gases can
be used to produce attosecond pulses. In 2002 they
measured the motion of hydrogen atoms in a hydrogen
molecular ion with a timing precision of 200-attoseconds
and a spatial precision of 0.02 Angstroms. In 2004
they demonstrated how attosecond technology can be
used to image the highest occupied molecular orbital
of Nitrogen. More recently they were able to strobe
the attosecond motion of an electron in a hydrogen
molecule almost instantaneously as the molecule breaks.
Professor Corkum is a member of the Royal Societies
of London and of Canada. He was the recipient of the
Optical Society of America's Charles H. Townes award
and the IEEE's Quantum electronics award in 2005. In
2006 he received the American Physical Society's Arthur
L. Schawlow Prize and Canada's Killam Prize for physical
sciences.
The Hermann Anton Haus Lecture is RLE's visiting lecturer
program designed to bring the leading world researchers
in fields intersecting RLE interests to RLE to share
their thoughts and perspectives with the MIT community.
The lecture honors the memory of Professor Haus, and
continues the process of collaborative dialog that
he promoted throughout his lifetime.
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