Join us for a physics colloquium, entitled “Attosecond Interferometry” with Professor Nirit Dudovich, Weizmann Institute of Science.
Please note – The lecture will run from 16:00-17:00, followed by refreshments from 17:00-18:00 in the Level 2 Foyer of the Blackett Building.
Abstract
Attosecond science is a young field of research that has rapidly evolved over the past two decades. One of the most important aspects of attosecond spectroscopy lies in its coherent nature. Resolving the internal coherence is a primary challenge in this field, serving as a key step in our ability to reconstruct the internal dynamics.
As in many other branches in physics, coherence is resolved via interferometry. In this talk, Professor Dudovich will describe advanced schemes for attosecond interferometry. The application of these schemes provides direct insights into a range of fundamental phenomena in nature, from tunnelling and photoionization in atomic systems to ultrafast chiral phenomena and attosecond scale currents in solids.
Biography
Professor Dudovich works at the forefront of laser physics and optics. She investigates ultrafast interactions between light and matter on a attosecond time scale.She earned a BSc in physics and computer science from Tel Aviv University in 1996 and received an MSc and PhD in physics from the Weizmann Institute in 1999 and 2004. In 2004 Professor Dudovich received the Rothschild Fellowship for postdoctoral studies and joined the group Professor Paul Corkum. In 2007 she joined the Weizmann Institute of Science and established the first research group for attosecond science in Israel.
Professor Dudovich is a recipient of a number of prestigious fellowships and awards, including the 2013 Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research, the IPS Prize for Young Physicist in 2012, the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in 2012, and the Weizmann award in 2021. She received the ERC Starting investigator grant (2015) and consolidator grant (2019). Professor Dudovich was elected to the Young Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and in 2016, she was elected to be a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS).