Fall 2021
Linda Young: Thursday November 18, 2021 (8th week), 7 PM CST
Linda Young is a Distinguished Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory and a professor of physics at The University of Chicago. She obtained her S.B. from MIT and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. After a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Chicago, she started her research career in the Physics Division at Argonne National Laboratory, where she has worked in precision laser spectroscopy, electron scattering from polarized deuterium targets, atom trap trace analysis and x-ray interactions with matter from the linear to nonlinear regimes. She has served as the Director of the X-ray Science Division of the Advanced Photon Source and the Chair of the Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics of the American Physical Society. She serves on many scientific advisory boards and panels worldwide. She has been honored as a Fellow of the American Physical Society, JILA Visiting Fellow and as a Helmholtz International Fellow.
Web: www.anl.gov/profile/linda-young
www.anl.gov/cse/atomic-molecular-and-optical-physics
Web: www.anl.gov/profile/linda-young
www.anl.gov/cse/atomic-molecular-and-optical-physics