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Annual Larmor Lecture: Prof Ferenc Krausz

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The School of Maths & Physics is delighted to welcome Nobel Prize winner Prof. Ferenc Krausz as our speaker for this year's Annual Larmor Lecture. The title of his talk is: 'Attosecond Science - From Capturing Electrons to Probing Human Health'.

Date(s)
November 2, 2023
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Larmor Lecture Theatre, Main Physics Building
Time
16:00 - 17:00
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You are cordially invited to the 2023 Annual Larmor Lecture, to be held on Thursday 2nd November at 4pm in the Larmor Lecture Theatre. (Refreshments from 3.30 pm)

Abstract:
Attosecond metrology emerged on the turn of the millennium and enabled scientists to observe fundamental electronic processes in atoms, molecules, or solids in real time. Attosecond techniques now permit measurement of the oscillating electric field of light from the infrared to the ultraviolet. We will discuss how this unprecedented technical capability may help advance electronic signal processing towards its ultimate speed limit and allows sensing changes in the molecular composition of human blood, for health monitoring.

Bio:

Ferenc Krausz (born 1962 in Mór/Hungary) earned his degree in Electrical Engineering at the Technical University Budapest (1985). He completed his doctorate in Laser Physics at the Technische Universität (TU) Vienna (1991) where he habilitated in the same research field in 1993, took up his assistant professorship in 1998 and full professorship in 1999. In 2003 Ferenc Krausz was appointed Director 
of the Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) in Garching. In October 2004 he became professor at the Faculty of Physics of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich and has since then held the Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics.

In a series of experiments performed between 2001 and 2004 Ferenc and his team succeeded in producing and measuring attosecond light pulses and applying them for the first real-time observation of atomic-scale electronic motions. These achievements earned 
him the reputation as the co-founder (along with Paul Corkum) of the field of Attosecond Physics, a scientific discipline devoted to real-time observation and control of electron phenomena, as also acknowledged by their selection as 2015 Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates. 

More recently, he turned his attention to capitalizing on ultrafast laser techniques for disease detection by the molecular fingerprinting of human bio-fluids. For his contributions to ultrafast science, Ferenc Krausz shared the 2013 King-Faisal Prize for Science with Dr. 
Paul Corkum and the 2022 Wolf Prize in Physics with Prof. Anne L’Huillier and Dr. Paul Corkum. In June 2023 he received the “Frontiers of Knowledge Prize” donated by the Spanish Banking Corp. BBVA, also together with Prof. Anne L’Huillier and Dr. Paul Corkum. In 2023, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter" together with Prof. Anne L'Huillier and Prof. Pierre Agostini.

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