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The College of Sciences and the Georgia Tech Research Institute are hosting a special event in celebration of the establishment of the Glen P. Robinson Chair in Electro-optics. On Monday, February 16 at 4:00 p.m., Nobel Laureate physicist Charles Townes will present a lecture in Room 16 of the Chemistry Annex. A reception will follow.
Townes, Professor Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley, received the 1964 Nobel Prize in Physics for his fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics. Inventor of the maser, a device that amplifies electromagnetic waves, and co-inventor of the laser, Townes will discuss laser history and retrace the work that he pioneered in quantum electronics and microwave spectroscopy. Both masers and lasers have many useful applications in radar, communications, astronomy, navigation, atomic clocks, surgery, and industry.
The Georgia Tech Police Department has received the permit that it needs to enforce the speed limits on campus. The GTPD wanted permission to use radar to enforce the speed limits so that they could increase traffic safety on campus.
Campus streets have a 25 miles per hour posted speed limit. Hemphill Avenue is an exception, with a speed limit of 30 miles per hour.
Following a series of complaints about speeding vehicles on Ferst Drive, speed surveys indicated that nearly 66 percent of the drivers exceeded the posted speed limit.
The GTPD is expecting voluntary compliance to the speed limits. Those who disregard the posted speed limits will be subject to citation.