Einstein Lectures 2025 with physicist Donna Strickland

The Einstein Lectures are a series of lectures in memory of the work of Albert Einstein, organized by the University of Bern and the Albert Einstein Society, which launched them in 2009. They take place on three consecutive evenings in the auditorium of the main building of the University of Bern and are open to all interested parties.

Each year, a research personality is invited who has rendered outstanding services in areas of Albert Einstein's legacy and has gained international recognition. The speakers come from the disciplines of physics/astronomy, mathematics and philosophy, alternating in a three-year cycle.

The Einstein Lectures 2025 are dedicated to laser physics and optics. Canadian Nobel Prize winner Prof. Donna Strickland will discuss the groundbreaking generation of ultrashort laser pulses and their use in research, medicine, and climate observation over three evenings: from October 20 to 22, 2025, in the main building of the University of Bern.

Donna Strickland is a physics professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018 together with Gérard Mourou and Arthur Ashkin for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics. Donna Strickland was only the third woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics after Marie Curie in 1903 and Maria Goeppert Mayer in 1963, 55 years later.