Wednesday, January 10, 2007
3 p.m.–4 p.m.

Sloan Auditorium

How We See in Color

Monday, January 28, 2008
3 p.m.–4 p.m.

Prof. David Williams Brain & Cognitive Sciences and Optics U of R

Sloan Auditorium

Harnessing Light with Plasmonics

Friday, February 8, 2008
3 p.m.–4 p.m.

Prof. William Barnes University of Exeter

Sloan Auditorium

Introduction to the Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics

Monday, February 18, 2008
3 p.m.–4 p.m.

Prof. John Sipe University of Toronto Host: Boyd

Sloan Auditorium

Biphotons and streams of squeezed vacua: searching for simple physical pictures.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008
3 p.m.–4 p.m.

Prof. John Sipe University of Toronto Host: Boyd

Sloan Auditorium

Infrared Near Field Scanning Optical Microscopy based on Silver Halide Fibers

Tuesday, February 19, 2008
3 p.m.–4 p.m.

Dr. Katy Roodenko Institute of Analytical Sciences Berlin, Germany Host: Novotny

Sloan Auditorium

CEIS: Technology Transfer from the University of Rochester to New York State Industry

Monday, February 25, 2008
3 p.m.–4 p.m.

Prof. Eby G. Friedman ECE U of R

Sloan Auditorium

Nonlinear Scanning Spectroscopies Illuminating the Biophysics of Life

Monday, March 3, 2008
3 p.m.–4 p.m.

Prof. Watt Webb Cornell

Sloan Auditorium

Semiconductor Cavity QED

Monday, March 17, 2008
3 p.m.–4 p.m.

Prof. Hyatt Gibbs University of Arizona

Sloan Auditorium

Are Carbon Nanotubes Useful Optical Materials?

Monday, March 24, 2008
3 p.m.–4 p.m.

Prof. Todd Krauss Chemistry Department U of R

Sloan Auditorium

Computer image analysis in the study of art

Thursday, March 27, 2008
3 p.m.–4 p.m.

Dr. David G. Stork Ricoh Innovations

Sloan Auditorium

Nonimaging Optics: From Design to Manufacture

Thursday, April 3, 2008
3 p.m.–4 p.m.

Dr. John Koshel University of Arizona

Sloan Auditorium

Nanolasers: Approaching the Ultimate Size Limit

Friday, April 11, 2008
3 p.m.–4 p.m.

Prof. Cun-Zheng Ning Arizona State University

Sloan Auditorium

Nano-Photonic Interconnection Networks for Chip-Multiprocessor Computing Networks

Monday, April 14, 2008
3 p.m.–4 p.m.

Prof. Keren Bergman Columbia Univ.

Sloan Auditorium

Reading the Sky's Icy Halos

Monday, April 21, 2008
3 p.m.–4 p.m.

Prof. Robert Greenler University of. Wisconsin/Milwaukee

Sloan Auditorium

Near Field Photo Induced Molecular Movement in Azobenzene Polymer Films

Thursday, May 8, 2008
3 p.m.–4 p.m.

Dr. Mathieu Juan Univ. of Tech. of Troyes France

Sloan Auditorium

Polarization Stabilizer and its Applications to the new formats in Optical Communication

Thursday, May 22, 2008
3 p.m.–4 p.m.

Prof. Mario Martinelli Politechnico di Milano Italy

Sloan Auditorium

From Photon Bursts to Quantum Beats: Experiments in Cavity QED

Monday, September 8, 2008
3 p.m.–4 p.m.

Prof Luis Orozco U. of Maryland

Sloan Auditorium

Detection of Nanoscale Molecules in Nanoscale Holes

Monday, September 15, 2008
3 p.m.–4 p.m.

Prof. Sharon Weiss Vanderbilt

Sloan Auditorium

High Energy Low Temperature Physics

Thursday, September 25, 2008
3 p.m.–4 p.m.

Nobel Laureate Prof. Anthony Leggett Univ. Illinois

Sloan Auditorium

Why Can't Time Run Backwards?

Thursday, September 25, 2008
4 p.m.–5 p.m.

Nobel Laureate Prof. Anthony Leggett Univ. Illinois

Sloan Auditorium

Testing the Limits of Quantum Mechanics: Motivation, Progress and Prospects

Thursday, September 25, 2008
4 p.m.–5 p.m.

Nobel Laureate Prof. Anthony Leggett Univ. Illinois

Sloan Auditorium

Does the Everyday World Really Obey Quantum Mechanics?

Thursday, September 25, 2008
4 p.m.–5 p.m.

Nobel Laureate Prof. Anthony Leggett Univ. Illinois

Sloan Auditorium

Wavefront Control with Liquid-Crystal Devices and Some of Its Applications

Monday, September 29, 2008
3 p.m.–4 p.m.

Dr. Tomohiro Shirai AIST Tsukuba, Japan

Sloan Auditorium

Optical Design for Microlithography

Monday, October 13, 2008
3 p.m.–4 p.m.

David Williamson Nikon Research

Sloan Auditorium

Atom in Free Space - Catching a Single Photon

Monday, October 27, 2008
3 p.m.–4 p.m.

Prof. Gerd Leuchs Max-Planck Inst. Erlangen, Germany

Sloan Auditorium

Future Music Technologies?

Monday, November 3, 2008
3 p.m.–4 p.m.

Prof. Mark Bocko, ECE, Rochester

Sloan Auditorium

Optics for Solid-State Lighting

Saturday, November 8, 2008
3 p.m.–4 p.m.

Dr. G. Michael Morris Apollo Optical Systems

Sloan Auditorium

OMEGA EP and Technologies used to Focus and Characterize High-Energy Petawatt Pulses

Monday, December 1, 2008
3 p.m.–4 p.m.

Dr. Jake Bromage, LLE, Rochester

Sloan Auditorium

Astrocytes Alive!

Monday, December 8, 2008
3 p.m.–4 p.m.

Prof. Maiken Nedergaard, MD Neurosurgery, Rochester

Sloan Auditorium