Events
2013 Colloquium & Seminar Schedule
Nanostructured thin films using oblique angle deposition: synthesis, optical properties and applications
Dr. Andrew Sarangan, University of Dayton
Thursday, February 14, 2013
3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Sloan Auditorium
Nanomanufacturing of multifunctional surface
Dr. George Barbastathis, MIT
Thursday, February 21, 2013
3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Sloan Auditorium
Transverse Anderson localization in disordered optical fibers and waveguides
Dr. Arash Mafi, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Thursday, February 28, 2013
3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Sloan Auditorium
A history of, and update on, and wish list for optics in concentrating photovoltaics (CPV)
Adam Plesniak, Director Advanced Technology, Amonix Inc.
Monday, March 4, 2013
3 p.m.–4 p.m.
Sloan Auditorium - Please note different day and time
Terahertz Spectroscopic Polarimetry and the Quest for THz Vibrational Circular Dichroism
Dr. Charles Schmuttenmaer, Yale University
Thursday, March 21, 2013
3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Sloan Auditorium
Dissipative Solitons and Similaritons: New Nonlinear Waves Enable High-Performance Fiber Lasers
Dr. Frank Wise, Department of Applied Physics, Cornell University
Thursday, April 4, 2013
3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Sloan Auditorium
Interferometric grating tilting, laser-damage detection, and deformable gratings for large-scale laser systems
Dr. Jie Qiao, LLE, University of Rochester
Thursday, April 11, 2013
3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Sloan Auditorium
Towards the most intense light fields in the Galaxy: The SCARLET Laser Focus
Dr. Enam Chowdhury, The Ohio State University, Department of Physics
Thursday, April 18, 2013
3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Sloan Auditorium
Summer Course Series at The Institute of Optics
Multiple internal and external lecturers
Monday, June 3, 2013
3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
various locations in Goergen Hall and Wilmot Building
Rochester Conferences on Coherence and Quantum Optics
Monday, June 17, 2013
3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
various locations on campus
First Photon Camp for High School Students
Monday, June 24, 2013
9 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
various locations on campus
Physics education research for the laboratory classroom
Dr. Benjamin M. Zwickl, Rochester Institute of Technology
Monday, September 23, 2013
3 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Sloan Auditorium
This talk was moved to December 9 due to a scheduling conflict
Dr. Robert Boyd, University of Rochester and University of Ottawa
Monday, September 30, 2013
3 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Sloan Auditorium
60 years of vision, entrepreneurship and optics at the U of R
Monday, October 14, 2013
11:30 a.m.–8 p.m.
Schlegel, Rettner, and Goergen Halls
Some nonlinear phenomena in periodic structures
Dr. Herbert G. Winful, University of Michigan
Monday, October 14, 2013
3 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Sloan Auditorium
THz Imaging - What you see and what you don't
Dr. Peter H. Siegel, California Institute of Technology and JPL
Monday, October 21, 2013
3 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Sloan Auditorium
Freeform optical surfaces in commercial products and new molding process for the infrared
Dr. William Plummer, WTP Optics Inc.
Monday, October 28, 2013
2:30 p.m.–4 p.m.
NEW TIME !!! Sloan Auditorium
Installation of Dr. Agrawal as the inaugural Dr. James C. Wyant Professor in Optics
Monday, October 28, 2013
4 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
Hawkins Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library
Laser Surface Texturing, Crystallization and Scribing of Thin Films in Solar Cell Applications
Dr. Y. Lawrence Yao, Columbia University
Monday, November 4, 2013
3 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Sloan Auditorium
Ultrahigh speed z-scanning optics for 3-D and high depth of field imaging
Dr. Craig B. Arnold
Monday, November 11, 2013
3 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Sloan Auditorium
Novel Terahertz Metamaterials
Dr. Antoinette J. Taylor, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Monday, November 18, 2013
3 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Sloan Auditorium
The extreme nonlinear optics of air and femtosecond optical filamentation
Dr. Howard M. Milchberg, University of Maryland
Monday, November 25, 2013
3 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Sloan Auditorium
CANCELLED due to family illness
Dr. P. Ewen King-Smith, The Ohio State University
Monday, December 2, 2013
3 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Sloan Auditorium
Quantum Nonlinear Optics in Ottawa
Dr. Robert Boyd, University of Rochester and University of Ottawa
Monday, December 9, 2013
3 p.m.–4:30 p.m.
Sloan Auditorium