Event

Evening Public Lecture: Optica fantastica – Images to illuminate the physics of light

  • Conférencier  Professor Sir Michael Berry

  • Lieu

    Kirchberg Campus, Room Paul Feidert. 6 Rue Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, 1359 Luxembourg.

    LU

  • Thème(s)
    Physique & sciences des matériaux

Seas sparkle, sunshine generates rainbows, ships make waves. The explanations of these familiar phenomena are as abstract as elsewhere in physics, but pictures are helpful because in light and water waves we can often see what we are talking about. There are other optical phenomena that are not immediately perceived (associated with polarization or fine-scale interference, for example), but even with these we can generate pictures to help our understanding. Poets and novelists, as well as painters, have sometimes represented optical phenomena in ways that are surprisingly close to those of physicists.

Free entrance.

Registration is required before the 11th of May 2018.

The speech will be followed by a question-and-answer session. A reception will take place afterwards.

In collaboration with The Bridge Forum Dialogue a.s.b.l.

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Professor Sir Michael Berry is also giving another speech on the 18th of May in Limpertsberg Campus: “Physics Colloquium: Variations on a theme of Aharonov and Bohm”