May 21, 2020 - Donna Strickland

Conversation with Donna Strickland

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Please join us for a special meeting of the meeting with the NES/OSA. 

Our guest will be Professor Donna Strickland, University of Waterloo, in conversation with Stephen D. Fantone, Optikos and Katherine Calabro, Synopsys.

Dr. Strickland is an optical physicist and pioneer in the field of pulsed lasers. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018, together with Gérard Mourou, for the invention of chirped pulse amplification.

Her Nobel Lecture and Banquet speeches may be found here:   Nobel Lecture

This is a very special event for NES/OSA. We are honored that Dr. Strickland will join us. Please help us by sending your questions, or suggestions of topics for the conversation to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

NES/OSA's May Meeting Meeting Will Be Held Remotely on May 21, 2020 beginning at at 7:00 pm.

Registration will be required so we can provide information on how to join the meeting. After you register for the meeting, you will be sent a link and a password for attendance.

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Meeting Logistics

Location  Online, details to be provided to registered attendees
Meeting Date Thursday, 21 May 2020
Reservation Deadline Tuesday, 19 May 2020 @ 6pm
Event Schedule
Presentation: 7:00pm

We will start the session 15 min prior to
the presentation for debugging connection issues for participants

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Dinner Prices

NES/OSA Members $25.00
Guest of an NES/OSA Member $25.00
Non-Members $30.00
Students $5.00
Post-Docs $10.00

Reservations

Dinner & Meeting reservations must be made by Tuesday, 19 May 2020 at 6pm.  We can no longer accept dinner reservations after this cutoff.

Meeting-Only registrations are appreciated by Wednesday, 20 May 2020 .  Walk-ins are acceptable for the meeting-only.

Reservations can be made via the "Click to sign up" button above or by leaving a message on our Google Voice mailbox at (617) 454-4693.

When making reservation via voicemail, please provide the following information for each guest:

  • Dinner & Meeting or Meeting-Only
  • Name
  • Affiliation (Company, School, retired, etc.)
  • NES/OSA Membership Status
  • Daytime phone number where you can be reached (in case of change or cancellation)

General Information about NES/OSA Meetings

Cancellations

If the meeting must be cancelled for any reason, we will try to call you at the phone number you leave with your reservation.

No-Shows

We have to pay for the dinners reserved as of the Tuesday before the meeting, so no-shows eat into our cash reserve. If you will not be able to attend, please let us know as early as possible. 

Membership Rates:

Corporate Sponsors $250.00
Professional Sponsors $50.00
Regular Members $15.00
Student Members Free

NOTE: The extra $5.00 of the non-member dinner fee can be used toward membership dues if the non-member joins and pays dues for the current year at the meeting.