Event From Date:
Wednesday, 19 February 2020
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Wednesday, 19 February 2020
Event Title:
SPS organises Mizushima-Raman Public Lecture by Tahei Tahara
Event Details:
School of Physical Sciences
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Mizushima-Raman Public Lecture
Title: Wonder world seen with ultrashort light
Speaker: Tahei Tahara
RIKEN (Wako), Japan
Date: Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Time: 4:00 pm
Venue: Seminar Room, SPS
About the Talk : When we can see what we could not see before, new science emerges. Spectroscopy is the “eyes” of modern science, and hence it plays essential roles in its frontier. In particular, the recent advance of ultrafast laser technology has enabled us to utilize ultrashort optical pulses as short as 10 femtoseconds in a variety of experiments. The short duration of such ultrashort optical pulses allows us to track chemical changes occurring in the femto/picosecond time scale, and the high peak power enables us to selectively observe molecules at the interface region as thin as 1 nm using nonlinear spectroscopy. In this lecture, I will talk about the wonder world of molecules seen with the most advanced spectroscopy.