Donna Strickland; Benjamin Schmitt & Joe Serio: Life Before the Big Bang

A special episode following the journey of a team of scientists
as they seek to discover the origins of the universe in the
frozen tundra of Antarctica. Plus: an interview with Nobel Prize
winner Donna Strickland.


Dr. Donna Strickland is a professor in the department of physics
and astronomy at the University of Waterloo and one of the
recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018 for developing
chirped pulse amplification with her PhD advisor, Dr. Gerard
Mourou. Benjamin L. Schmitt is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and
project development scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center
for Astrophysics (CfA). Joseph Serio is co-founder and vice
president of Vertex Optics Inc.


All Things Photonics is produced by Photonics Media and airs
every other Tuesday. You can find links to the stories mentioned
in the episode on our website, www.photonics.com/podcast.