This year’s Alpheus Smith Lecture will feature Anne L’Huillier. L’Huillier, a French native and researcher at Lund University in Sweden, was one of the three winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics. L’Huillier, along with Pierre Agostini of The Ohio State University and Ferenc Krausz of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Germany, were awarded the prize for their work on attosecond light pulses.
Dr. L’Huillier’s work using lasers to study electrons helped enable this study of high-speed electrons, which was previously thought impossible. This 2023 Nobel Laureate's work will have applications across disciplines, from physics to electronics and even in medicine.
From her time as a student in France, to her work in Sweden and the United States, she has achieved much in her career, culminating in becoming a Nobel Laureate. L’Huillier is a well-decorated and respected physicist and we are thrilled to have her at Ohio State.
The 61st Alpheus Smith Lecture will take place at the Fawcett Center on Friday, August 16, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. Free and open to the public, we invite you to join us in kicking off the fall semester with this once-in-a-lifetime experience.
The Alpheus Smith Lecture has been bringing cutting-edge work of Nobel Laureates and other prominent physicists to the community since 1960. The free, public lecture series is endowed by Robert Smith to honor his father, Professor Alpheus W. Smith.
