29/10/2020
Listen to RNZ’s episode of Smart Talk where three experts discuss the role of photonics in measuring climate change. The discussion was recorded as part of this years Dodd-Walls symposium.
The discussion was moderated by Kim Hill with the panel consisting of Professors Donna Stickland, Tom Baer and David Hutchinson. Donna won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2018 for her groundbreaking work in the generation of high-intensity, ultra-short laser pulses. Tom Baer is also a laser physicist and is the Executive Director of the Stanford Photonics Research Centre. David Hutchinson is a New Zealand quantum physicist and Director of the Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies—one of NZ’s ten Centres of Research Excellence.
Donna and Tom were together instrumental in the establishment of the Global Environmental Measurement and Monitoring (GEMM) Network, with a node now established in New Zealand supported by the Dodd-Walls Centre.
The discussion will cover the role of the GEMM Network and what part New Zealand can play in it, but also follow Kim Hill’s free-ranging style to cover aspects of Donna’s career and other elements of interest along the way.
