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<div align="center"><font color="navy"><b>Old Dominion University<br>
Department of Physics</b></font></div>
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<div align="center"><font color="#31849B"><b>Fall Colloquium Series<br>
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<font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><b>Tuesday September 17, 2013</b></font></font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman" size="5"><b>"X-ray Lasers - From A Dream To Reality"</b></font></font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#1F497D"><b>Dr. Linda Young</b></font></font></div>
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<font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="black">The first optical laser was created by Ted Maiman in May of 1960 at Hughes Rearch Laboratories. From that small-scale demonstration, lasers are now ubiquitous in society, as
celebrated by Laser Fest 2010, which marked the laser's 50th anniversary. Within that timespan – we also witnessed the birth of the world’s first x-ray free electron laser, LCLS at SLAC, which produced coherent radiation at 1.5 Ångstroms on April 20, 2009.
LCLS is no ordinary laser; it employs a 1-kilometer linac to accelerate electrons up to the speed of light and a 100-m array of magnets to produce x-ray bursts containing gigawatts of power – a billionfold increase over that available from x-ray synchrotrons,
the other research tool used by scientists interested in determining 3D-structure of materials at the atomic scale. In this lecture I will describe the birth of the machine, the first experiments that elucidated the response of matter to these powerful x-ray
laser pulses, and the challenges ahead as the x-ray laser enthusiasts from around the globe race to fulfill its dream of imaging single biomolecules without the need to resort to crystallization</font><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" color="black">.
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<div align="center"><font size="4">Presentation: OCNPS 200 @ 3:00 pm</font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="4">Refreshments: Atrium @ 2:30 pm</font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="5">More details at
<a href="http://sci.odu.edu/physics/">http://sci.odu.edu/physics/</a></font></div>
<div align="center"><font size="5">All are Welcome!</font></div>
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