Speaker(s): Prof. Donna Strickland and Ms. Maria Rey

Abstract:

  1. Prof. Donna Strickland

2013 OSA (Optical Society of America) President Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo

Donna Strickland received her B. Eng. from McMaster University and her PhD from the University of Rochester. Along with her PhD supervisor, Dr. Gerard Mourou, Donna Strickland co-invented Chirped Pulse Amplification. Dr. Strickland was a research associate at the National Research Council of Canada, a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and a member of technical staff at Princeton University. Dr. Strickland joined the physics department of the University of Waterloo in 1997. Dr. Strickland’s ultrafast laser group develops high-intensity laser systems for nonlinear optics investigations. She is a recipient of a Sloan Research Fellowship, a Premier’s Research Excellence Award, a Cottrell Scholars Award and is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America. She served as the 2013 OSA president.

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  1. Dr. Maria Rey

Former Director General of Defence Research and Development (DRDC) Ottawa

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Date: 03-10-2014

Time: 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Location: 1125 Colonel By Drive, Mackenzie Building (ME) 5170

Registration: Free registration

Organizer(s): Winnie Ye, SMIEEE

Organizer Email: winnie_ye@carleton.ca

Organized by:

  • IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Ottawa Chapter
  • IEEE Photonics Society Ottawa Chapter,
  • IEEE EMBS Ottawa Chapter,
  • Carleton University Photonics and Laser Technology (PLT),
  • IEEE Carleton University IEEE Student Chapter, and
  • Carleton University SPIE Student Chapter