NEWS On 14 December, Ferenc Krausz, one of this year's Nobel laureates in Physics, will come to Umeå University and give an open lecture. The visit is hosted by Umeå physicist László Veisz who has had a long collaboration with Ferenc Krausz.
Professor Ferenc Krausz is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023.
ImageStefan HöckKatrine Riklund, Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Umeå University, looks forward to welcoming the Nobel laureate to Umeå.
“Our warmest congratulations to Ferenc Krausz who honors us with his visit and a lecture that we all get to take part in. We know that international collaborations provide increased quality, and we are also proud that László Veisz has had various collaborations with Krausz's group in the field of laser physics. Professor Krausz's visit will strengthen these relationships,” she says.
Meet this year's Nobel laureate in Physics – more about the open lecture in Aula Nordica
Hungarian-Austrian Ferenc Krausz is awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering experiments with attosecond pulses of light. An attosecond is an extremely short period of time, one billionth of a billionth of a second.
Krausz shares the Nobel Prize with Pierre Agostini and Anne L'Huillier. The work of these three has made the previously impossible possible: to observe and study the movement of electrons inside atoms. The movement of electrons is so incredibly fast that it requires light flashes measured in attoseconds to be able to see them. Ferenc Krausz and his team were among the first to produce such attosecond pulses of light. Their results were published in 2001.
Attosecond physics has potential applications in many different fields. For example, it can be used to understand and control how electrons behave in materials and to identify different molecules, which is important in medical science to develop new medicines and understand biological processes at the molecular level.
László Veisz, Professor of Physics at Umeå University, has known Ferenc Krausz for a long time and worked with him in research for many years. It was therefore natural to invite him to Umeå in the context of the Nobel celebrations. In the morning before the open lecture in Aula Nordica, Ferenc Krausz will visit various labs, including László Veisz's lab and the unique laser system that was inaugurated last fall.
“Using our new laser system and the existing experimental setup, we will be able to push the limits of attosecond physics towards even better observation of electron dynamics in gases and solids that is not available anywhere else,” says László Veisz.
“It is an honor to have Ferenc Krausz come to Umeå University! We already have strong connections through our outstanding research in laser physics and the visit will further strengthen these connections,” says Mikael Elofsson, Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technology.