2023 Colloquia
Nanophotonic materials and platforms to tackle global health issues
Monday, December 4, 2023
3:30 p.m.
Dr. Swarnapali (Pali) De Silva Indrasekara, Director of Advanced Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Technologies at the United States Pharmacopeia (USP)
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingMulti-Petawatt Physics and EP-OPAL: Planning for a Next-Generation Laser User Facility Dedicated to the Study of Ultrahigh-Intensity Laser–Matter Interactions
Monday, November 27, 2023
3:30 p.m.
Professor Jon Zuegel, Distinguished Scientist and the Laser and Materials Technology Division Director at the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Professor, Institute of Optics
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingCoherent light-matter interactions in van der Waals materials
Monday, November 20, 2023
3:30 p.m.
Professor Hui Deng, Electrical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingNonlinear Topological Photonics
Monday, November 6, 2023
3:30 p.m.
Professor Bo Zhen, Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingStructuring light to reveal the invisible
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
3:30 p.m.
Eileen Otte, Postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Mark L. Brongersma at the Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials (GLAM), Stanford University
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingNon-linear organic small molecule imaging agents
Monday, October 30, 2023
3:30 p.m.
Professor Andrea Armani, Sr. Director of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Ellison Institute and Ray Irani, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingNew Visual Assistants for a Restored Vision
Monday, October 16, 2023
3:30 p.m.
Jean-Louis DeBougrenet de la Tocnaye, Professor and Head of Optics Department at IMT Atlantique (France)
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingInterfacial Exciton Control for Solar Energy Conversion and Optoelectronics
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
12:45 p.m.
YunHui (Lisa) Lin, Director's Postdoctoral Fellow, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingROC Optica Speaker Series Presents: Optical Frequency Combs and their Application in Optical Clocks, Quantum Sensing, and Spectroscopy
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
7 p.m.
Saeed Pegahan, PhD Frequency Comb Scientist at TOPTICA Photonics USA
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingExtreme Light Control with Metamaterials
Monday, October 2, 2023
3:30 p.m.
Andrea Alù, Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York (CUNY), Founding Director of the Photonics Initiative at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center, Einstein Professor of Physics at the CUNY Graduate Center
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingReflectance confocal microscopy of skin cancers: technology, clinical advances, early impact on patient care
Monday, September 25, 2023
3:30 p.m.
Milind Rajadhyaksha, Doctor and Professor, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingFemtosecond Fieldoscopy
Monday, September 25, 2023
12:45 p.m.
Hanieh Fattahi, Associated Investigator for the Topic "Quantum Optics and Ultrafast Dynamics", Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingSilicon Photonics for LiDAR, Augmented Reality, Biophotonics, Quantum Engineering, and Beyond
Monday, September 18, 2023
3:30 p.m.
Jelena Notaros, Robert J. Shillman Career Development Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingFull-color imaging using large-aperture meta-optics
Monday, September 11, 2023
3:30 p.m.
Arka Majumdar, Associate Professor, University of Washington
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingHow Relativistic Photonics Enables Compact Accelerators, X-ray Sources and Tests of Quantum Gravity
Monday, April 24, 2023
3:30 p.m.
Bjorn Manuel Hegelich, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin, leading the research group for Relativistic Quantum Photonics; Founder and CEO of TAU Systems Inc.
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingVisible Light Photonics for Atomic and Quantum Application
Monday, April 17, 2023
3:30 p.m.
Distinguished Professor Daniel J. Blumenthal, University of California, Santa Barbara
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingUltra-long Fiber Lasers: from distributed Raman amplifiers to ultrafast pulsed sources
Monday, April 10, 2023
3:30 p.m.
Juan Diego Ania-Castañón, Director of the Spanish National Research Council’s (CSIC) Institute of Optics, Coordinator of the Nanoscale and Nonlinear Guided Optics group
On Zoom only
Continue ReadingPoint Defects in Crystals: Trapped Atoms for Quantum Technologies
Monday, April 3, 2023
3:30 p.m.
Professor Kai-Mei Fu, Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington
Presented live in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingThe Photon Chasers
Monday, March 20, 2023
3:30 p.m.
Mohammad Karim, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Dartmouth
On Zoom only
Continue ReadingHigh-dimensional quantum technologies: Harnessing structured light for the quantum networks of tomorrow
Monday, March 13, 2023
3:30 p.m.
Mehul Malik, Professor of Physics and Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
On Zoom only
Continue ReadingLight Field Control of Real and Virtual Charge Carriers
Monday, February 27, 2023
3:30 p.m.
Professor Ignacio Franco, Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester
In-person in Goergen 101 and Zoom
Continue ReadingGlasses for Terahertz Optics and Photonics
Monday, February 20, 2023
3:30 p.m.
Dr. S. K. Sundaram, Inamori Professor of Materials Science and Engineering (Endowed Chair) and Chair of the Mechanical, Electrical, and Renewable Energy Engineering, Alfred University
Presented on Zoom
Continue ReadingAdvances in Direct-Drive Fusion, High-Energy-Density Physics, and Laser Technologies at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Monday, February 13, 2023
3:30 p.m.
Christopher Deeney, Director of the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester
In-person in Goergen 101 and Zoom
Continue ReadingCould holographic displays be the key to achieving realism?
Monday, February 6, 2023
3:30 p.m.
Professor Kaan Aksit, Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, University College London
In-person in Goergen 101 and Zoom
Continue ReadingLighting up the oceans: High-Q metasurfaces for multi-omic analysis of aquatic ecosystems
Monday, January 30, 2023
3:30 p.m.
Professor Jennifer Dionne, Senior Associate Vice Provost of Research Platforms/Shared Facilities, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Presented Remotely on Zoom
Continue ReadingReduction of the Quantum Decoherence in Integrated Photonics by Machine Learning-assisted Design
Monday, January 23, 2023
3:30 p.m.
Professor Pablo A. Postigo, The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester
In-person in Goergen 101 and Zoom
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