Fermi Chair 2021-22: the science of light with lectures by Nobel Prize winner Serge Haroche
On Thursday, January 27, 2022, at 2 pm, in the Amaldi Lecture Hall of the Department of Physics, Prize winner for Physics Serge Haroche will be delivering, in English, his first lecture of the Enrico Fermi Chair 2021-22. This year's 15 lectures, all organised at the Department of Physics, will examine "The science of light: from Galileo's telescope to lasers and the quantum information revolution".
Serge Haroche, lecturer at the Collège de France, Sorbonne University in Paris, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2012 for "ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems".
His first lesson is entitled "Light in the 17th and 18th centuries". Topics covered include: the invention of the telescope and the pendulum, the roles of Galileo and Huygens; Newton, the emission theory and the spectrum of light; the aberration of stars.
The lectures are in English, free of charge and open to a non-specialist audience.
Since 2011, when the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research created the "Enrico Fermi" Chair, Sapienza University has invited global experts to illustrate the frontiers of knowledge and celebrate the genius of Enrico Fermi and the Italian scientific tradition, and promote modern Physics.
Speakers in recent years have included Barry Barish, 2017 Nobel prize (California Institute of Technology), Giovanna Tinetti (University College London), Francesco Sette (Director General of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility - ESRF) in Grenoble, Roberto Car (Princeton University), Gabriele Veneziano (CERN, Geneva and College de France, Paris), Luciano Maiani (Sapienza).
Serge Haroche is a French physicist of Moroccan origin who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2012 and the American David Wineland for research into experimental methods for measuring and manipulating individual atomic systems.
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