The Nicolaas Bloembergen
Nobel Laureate Scientific Symposium

 

March 12, 2010  8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.  Meinel 307

 

Nobel Laureates

  • Nicolaas Bloembergen

  • Harvard University/University of Arizona

  • Roy J. Glauber

  • Harvard University

  • John L. Hall

  • JILA, University of Colorado

  • Charles H. Townes

  • University of California, Berkeley

Members of the Press may attend.

 

For more information, please contact:

Ms. Luz Palomarez at luz@optics.arizona.edu

or 520-626-6959.

 

Symposium Photos

 

Speakers

  • Robert W. Boyd, University of Rochester

  • Richard W. Dixon, Retired AT&T Bell Labs

  • Michael Downer, University of Texas, Austin

  • Steve Harris, Stanford University

  • Jeff Kimble, California Institute of Technology

  • Margaret Murnane, JILA, University of Colorado

  • Robert A. Myers, Retired IBM

  • C. Kumar Patel, Pranalytica, Inc. and Retired UCLA

  • Marlan Scully, Texas A&M University

  • Y. Ronald Shen, University of California, Berkeley

  • Peter P. Sorokin, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

  • Eric Van Stryland, University of Central Florida, CREOL

  • Eli Yablonovitch, University of California, Berkeley

  • Amnon Yariv, California Institute of Technology

 

Symposium Program

 

8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:15a.m. James C. Wyant and Nicolaas Bloembergen: Welcome and Opening Remarks
8:25 a.m. Charles H. Townes: Characteristics and Behavior of Old Stars as Measured
by Interferometry
8:50 a.m. Eli Yablonovitch: Optical Antenna: Spontaneous Emission Faster than
Stimulated Emission
9:15 a.m. Steve Harris: Hiding Single Photons
9:40 a.m. John L. Hall: Sub Hz Line-Width Lasers -- A Million at a Time
10:05 a.m. Break
10:20 a.m. Y. Ronald Shen: A Long Stream from a Deep Well
10:45 a.m. Jeff Kimble: Cavity QED with Single Atoms, Photons, and Phonons
11:10 a.m. Roy J. Glauber: Cooperative Quantum Emission
11:35 a.m. C. Kumar Patel: Directed Energy Weapons Study of 1987 and
What is New Now
Lunch Open
1:00 p.m. Eric Van Stryland: Nonlinear Spectrophotometry
1:25 p.m. Robert W. Boyd: 50 Years of Nonlinear Optics and 90 Years of Nico
1:50 p.m. Margaret Murnane: Attosecond Science using Extreme Nonlinear Optics
2:15 p.m. Marlan Scully: Applying Coherent Raman Spectroscopy to the Detection
of Anthrax, and Other Stuff I Learned from Nico
2:40p.m. Peter Sorokin: Two-Photon Absorption by H2 Molecules: Origin of the
2175 Angstrom Astronomical Band?
3:05 p.m. Break
3:20 p.m. Michael Downer: Seeing is Believing: Holographic Visualization of
Laser Wakefields
3:45 p.m. Amnon Yariv: Nonlinear Optics in Some Recent Coherent Photonics
Applications
4:10 p.m. Robert A. Myers: Part I: Who (really) Invented the Laser? Patent
Priority and Bloembergen ‘654
4:35 p.m. Richard W. Dixon: Part II: Who (really) Invented the Laser? Bell
Laboratories and Other Patents
5:00 p.m. James C. Wyant: Adjourn Scientific Symposium