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SUMMARY:ICFO | PAUL CORKUM
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DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 6\, 2018\, 12:00. ICFO AuditoriumPAUL CORKUM\nDe
 partment of Physics\, University of Ottawa\; Director\, NRC Attosecond Sci
 ence Program\, Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences\, National Researc
 h Council of Canada$$\nPaul Corkum (OC\, FRS\, FRSC\, FRSP) graduated from
  Lehigh University\, Bethlehem\, PA\, in 1972 with a Ph. D. in theoretical
  physics.  In 1973 he joined the staff of the National Research Council of
  Canada where he built one of the world’s most famous groups working on 
 the interaction of very short light pulses with matter.  Corkum is best kn
 own for introducing many of the concepts of how intense light pulses inter
 act with atoms\, molecules and solids\, and then confirming the concepts e
 xperimentally.  He was the first to show how to make and measure an attose
 cond pulse and how this new technology could be used to image atomic-scale
  structure.   \nCorkum holds a Canada Research Chair at the University of 
 Ottawa and directs the Joint NRC/University of Ottawa Attosecond Science L
 aboratory.  He is a member of the Royal Societies of London and of Canada 
 and also a foreign member of the US National Academy of Science and of the
  Austrian Academy of Science.  \nAmong his awards are the Canadian Associa
 tion of Physicists’ Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Physics (1996
 )\; the Royal Society of Canada’s Tory Award (2003)\; the Optical Societ
 y’s Charles H. Townes Award (2005)\; the IEEE’s Quantum Electronics Aw
 ard (2005)\; the American Physical Societies’ Schawlow Prize (2006) and 
 the ACS Zewail Award (2010)\; the Royal Photographic Society’s Progress 
 Medal  (2013) (the society’s highest honour)\; and the Optical Society o
 f America’s Charles Ives Award (2014) (the society’s highest award.). 
  \nIn 2013\, Corkum received both Israel’s Harvey Prize for Physical Sci
 ences and Saudi Arabia’s King Faisal International Prize for Science (Ph
 ysics).  In 2015\, he shared the Russian Academy of Sciences Lomonosov Gol
 d Medal for outstanding achievements in the natural sciences & humanities 
 (the Academy’s highest award) and was named a Thomson Reuters Citation L
 aureate\, for researchers whose work is -- “of Nobel class” and likely
  to earn the Nobel someday.  \n
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