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LOCATION:Discovery Building\, H.F. DeLuca Forum\, or register for Zoom
  link at: http://go.wisc.edu/240r59
SUMMARY:Prof. Bergmann's Investiture Ceremony and Public Lecture\, Dep
 artment Meeting\, Uwe Bergmann\, UW–Madison Physics
DESCRIPTION:Join the department and Wednesday Nite @ The Lab for Prof.
  Bergmann's investiture ceremony and public lecture. A reception will 
 follow.<br>
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\nOn November 8\, 1895\, Wilhelm Conrad Rӧntgen di
 scovered a new invisible form of rays. He called them ‘X-Strahlen’
  or X-rays. Since that day\, X-rays have revolutionized medical imagin
 g and science. Starting in the 1970s\, powerful accelerator rings — 
 the so-called synchrotrons — have dramatically advanced the scientif
 ic use of X-rays\, by producing intense and highly-focused X-ray beams
 . Another quantum leap occurred in the late 2000s\, when X-ray free-el
 ectron lasers came to light. These X-ray lasers produce ultra-short pu
 lses with a brightness over one billion times larger than even the mos
 t powerful synchrotron sources. For the first time\, scientists can st
 udy matter not just at the length scale of atoms and molecules\, but a
 lso at the femtosecond (10-15 s) timescale of molecular motion. The dr
 eam of making molecular movies of a chemical reaction or a biological 
 function in real time is becoming reality. We will describe these mach
 ines and present some of the most exciting examples of recent X-ray la
 ser research.<br>
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\nThe Discovery Building is at 330 N. Orchard
  St\, Madison WI. Park for a small fee in Lot 20 at 1390 University Av
 e\, Madison WI
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=6550
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