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Stephen E. Harris
to deliver the 2008 Hermann Anton Haus Lecture:
Lecture
series honoring Haus brings eminent visitors to MIT
For Immediate Release
TUESDAY, 29 April 2008
Contact: William Smith, Assistant
Director for Finance and Sponsor Relations
Phone: +1.617.253.5621
Email: whs@mit.edu
CAMBRIDGE, MA. 04.29.2008
The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces
that Dr. Stephen E. Harris, the Kenneth and Barbara
Oshman Professor of Electrical Engineering, and Professor
of Applied Physics, Stanford University, will deliver
the 2008 Hermann Anton Haus Lecture. The lecture will
take place Wednesday, 30 April 2008, 4:00 PM, in the
Hermann Anton Haus Room of the RLE Conference Center
(Room 36-428). The lecture is open to the general public.
The title of the lecture is, "Nonlinear Optics
with Electromagnetically Induced Transparency."
Professor Harris is known for his early work on spontaneous
parametric emission, frequency conversion in metal
vapors, invention of the tunable acousto-optic filter,
techniques for lasers and nonlinear optics in the extreme
ultraviolet, and for more recent contributions to lasing
without inversion, electromagnetically induced transparency,
and slow light. He has received awards and honors including
the 1978 David Sarnoff Award of the IEEE, the 1985
Charles Hard Townes Award of the OSA, the 1994 IEEE/LEOS
Quantum Electronics Award, the 1999 Frederic Ives Medal
of the OSA, and the 2002 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in
Laser Science of the APS. Professor Harris is a Fellow
of the APS, the IEEE, and the OSA. He is a member of
the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy
of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences.
The Hermann Anton Haus Lecture is RLE's visiting lecturer
program designed to bring the leading world researchers
in fields intersecting RLE interests to RLE to share
their thoughts and perspectives with the MIT community.
The lecture honors the memory of Professor Haus, and
continues the process of collaborative dialog that
he promoted throughout his lifetime.
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