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SUMMARY:IEM Distinguished Lecturers Seminar: Achieving information immorta
 lity with 5D memory crystal
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Peter G. Kazansky\nOptoelectronics Research Centre\, Uni
 versity of Southampton\, UK\nThe seminar will take place in the main audit
 orium in Neuchâtel Campus (MC A1 272) and will be simultaneously broadc
 asted in ELA 2.\n\nCoffee and cookies will be served at 13:00 before the s
 eminar\, in front of the two auditoriums. \n\nAbstract\nDigital storage\, 
 compared to paper or stone\, is not very durable. The main problem is the 
 lack of suitable storage technology and media that has the advantages of b
 oth high capacity and long life. Recently\, ultrafast laser writing throug
 h anisotropic nanostructures in silica glass for optical memory with high-
 capacity polarization multiplexing has been proposed and demonstrated. The
  storage provides hundreds of terabytes of data capacity\, thermal stabili
 ty up to thousand degrees thousand degrees Celsius\, and virtually unlimit
 ed room temperature life\, recognized by the Guinness Book of Records as t
 he most durable digital storage medium. The successful demonstration of wr
 iting and reading data in a 5D memory crystal opens an opportunity to chal
 lenge the traditional design of cloud storage systems and ultimately achie
 ve information immortality.\n \nBiography\nPeter G. Kazansky studied phys
 ics in Moscow State University and received Ph.D. from the General Physics
  Institute in 1985. From 1989 to 1993 he led a group in the GPI\, which un
 raveled the mystery of light-induced frequency doubling in glass.  In 199
 2 he joined the ORC at the University of Southampton where since 2001 he i
 s a professor pursuing his interests in new optical materials and phenomen
 a. More recently he pioneered the field of ultrafast laser nanostructuring
  in glass leading to invention of “5D memory crystal\,” which holds a 
 Guinness world record for the most durable data storage medium. He is a Fe
 llow of the Optical Society of America.\n 
LOCATION:MC A1 272 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==MC%20A1%20272 https://epfl.
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