BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal iCal API//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Events items teaser X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:68d2401422efc DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170731T143000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170731T143000 URL:/institute-for-quantum-computing/events/optical-pre cursors-fundamentals-applications SUMMARY:Optical precursors: From fundamentals to applications CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nCOLLOQUIUM FEATURING HEEJEONG JEONG - HONG KONG UN IVERSITY OF SCIENCE\nAND TECHNOLOGY\n\nOptical precursors are transient el ectromagnetic wave packets\npropagating precisely at the speed of light in vacuum through a\ndispersive and absorptive dielectric. Even though its e xistence was\nconjectured by Sommerfeld and Brillouin 100 years ago\, the detection\nseemed to be impossible due to its exceedingly small amplitude and\nfemtosecond time scale in ordinary linear dispersive media. \n DTSTAMP:20250923T063708Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR