Dr. Salvador Ferrer, associate director of the ALBA Synchrotron
- https://www.cells.es/en/media/events/alba-public-events/the-nature-of-light-from-ancient-greece-to-today
- The nature of light: from ancient Greece to today
- 2017-03-10T12:00:00+01:00
- 2017-03-10T13:00:00+01:00
- Dr. Salvador Ferrer, associate director of the ALBA Synchrotron
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- Mar 10, 2017 from 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM (Europe/Madrid / UTC100)
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- ALBA Synchrotron, Maxwell Auditorium
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The lecture will cover the history and the understanding of light across the last 25 centuries with a focus on the discovery of the synchrotron radiation.
It will particularly introduce the contributions of Maxwell's and Faraday's to the field complemented with a few examples of applications of synchrotron light in the research nowadays.
Finally a brief description of 4th generation sources will be presented.
