📅 When: 14 November (Saturday), 11.00 am
📍 Where: Conference Centre – central entrance to the building
20 Wybrzeże Kościuszkowskie Street, Warsaw
🎟 Free admission
The lecture will be delivered in English, with simultaneous interpretation into Polish available on site.
Prof. Anne L’Huillier is a physicist, Nobel Prize laureate and one of the pioneers of attosecond physics. She works at Lund University in Sweden. Her research focuses on some of the fastest processes in matter – changes in the world of electrons that take place on the attosecond timescale. An attosecond is one billionth of a billionth of a second.
Her groundbreaking research began in the late 1980s. At the Saclay research centre in France, she discovered that when intense laser light interacts with a gas, it generates radiation at frequencies many times higher than that of the original laser light. This phenomenon became one of the foundations of techniques used to generate extremely short pulses of light, making it possible to observe the dynamics of electrons inside atoms, molecules and materials. For her pioneering work, she was awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Pierre Agostini and Ferenc Krausz.
The event is organised as part of the QuRAK project (Quantum Research and Applied Knowledge), coordinated by the Centre for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (CFT PAS). The project aims to establish a Centre of Excellence at CFT PAS, dedicated to research in quantum physics and quantum technologies.
The Copernicus Science Centre is a partner in the project. Our role is to bring the fascinating world of quantum physics closer to the general public. Between 2026 and 2032, you can look forward to a series of free popular science lectures. We will also develop laboratory workshops for secondary school students.
About the project
The Quantum Research and Applied Knowledge (QuRAK) project is funded under the prestigious Teaming for Excellence programme (Horizon Europe), under Grant Agreement No. 101250265.
Thanks to this funding and additional support from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the Foundation for Polish Science, the project will support a range of initiatives, including transforming the Centre for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (CFT PAS) into a Centre of Excellence, establishing new research teams, developing computing infrastructure, recruiting researchers internationally, introducing mobility programmes, co-developing international education pathways, promoting the application of research results, and carrying out extensive science communication and public engagement activities.
