Public Lecture by Prof. Serge Haroche
« Power and the strangeness of the quantum »
Wednesday 1 April 2009, 7pm
Shaw Foundation Alumni House
11 Kent Ridge Drive
National University of Singapore
Born in 1944 in Casablanca, Serge Haroche graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) and received his Doctorate from Paris VI University in 1971. After a post-doctoral visit to Stanford University (USA) in 1975, he became full professor at Paris VI University in 1975, a position he held until 2001, when he was appointed Professor at Collège de France as the Chair of quantum physics. He has been Maître de Conference at Ecole Polytechnique, part time professor at Yale University (USA), member of Institut Universitaire de France and Chairman of the ENS Department of Physics.
He has received many prizes and awards as a result of his research into quantum optics and experimental quantum information science.
This event is part of Voilah! French Festival Singapore 2009 which will run until 15 April 2009.
Registration: http://www.science.nus.edu.sg/NUSpublictalk-haroche