Friday, June 5th, 12:00, ICFO's Auditorium
ORAZIO SVELTO
Emeritus Professor of Physics at the Polytechnic Institute of Milan$$Orazio Svelto´s research has covered a wide range of activity in the field of laser physics and quantum electronics, starting from the very beginning of these disciplines (1962). This activity includes ultrashort-pulse generation and applications, development of laser resonators and mode-selection techniques, laser applications in biology and medicine, and development of solid-state lasers. Professor Svelto is the author of more than 200 scientific papers and his researches have been the subject of more than 70 invited papers at international conferences. He is the author of the book “Principles of Lasers”, presently at its fifth edition (Springer, New York, 2010). The book is used at several universities worldwide, also in its translations in Russian, Chinese, Greek, Arabic and Farsi languages. He has served as a program chair of the IX International Quantum Electronics Conference (1976), as a chair of the European program committee for CLEO ’85 and CLEO ’90, and as a general co-chair for the first CLEO-Europe Conference (1994). He is the recipient of the Quantum Electronics and Optics Prize of the European Physical Society (1998) and of the Charles H. Townes of the Optical Society of America (2005). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (1993) and of the Optical Society of America (1999).