Second Saturday Program
6:00 pm, March 8, 2025

Saturday Night Lights
Presenter: John Black

Lasers have become ubiquitous in modern life, from check-out scanners to DVD players to contemporary fiber-optic communications. We’ll shine a light on what a laser is, what it can do, and how lasers are being applied in astronomy, autonomous vehicles and medicine.

About the speaker: BPAA member John is a PhD chemist who came over from the Dark Side after seeing the amazing ways lasers impact people’s lives. He escaped from Silicon Valley and moved to Bainbridge Island which reminds him of the Lake District in England where he grew up. At BP Astro he got to drive a really big masonry drill, but secretly aims to put a laser and adaptive optics on the Takahashi.