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Extreme Dynamics in Semiconductor Lasers Under Modulation

April 18, 2022

Nicholas G. Usechak, Director of Ultrafast Photonic Devices and Research Laboratory

Large Third-Order Nonlinearities in Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) Grown Nitrogen-Enriched TiO2 Nanoscale Films & A Career Encompassing Optical Physics, Diversity and Mentoring

April 11, 2022

Dr. Anthony M. Johnson, Director for the Center for Advanced Studies in Photonics Research (CASPR)

Colloquium: From Maxwell’s Equations and Quantum Mechanics to Engineered Optical Fiber for Mitigating Thermal Mode Instability

April 4, 2022

John Marciante

Colloquium: Strong light-matter interaction in van der Waals materialsDr. Vinod Menon

March 28, 2022

Vinod Menon Professor & Chair

Colloquium: How Optics & Photonics Enable Discovery at the Sun’s Poles

March 21, 2022

Grover Swartzlander Professor for the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science,

Colloquium: Quantum Chip Optoelectronics Interposer Packaging

March 14, 2022

Ajey Jacob, Director at Information Sciences Institute

Quantum Telescopy: Very Long Baseline Interferometric Imaging using Single-Photon States as a Nonlocal Oscillator

March 7, 2022

Michael Raymer Professor of Physics &Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Colloquium: Exploring Light-Matter Interactions with Symmetry and Topology of Light

February 28, 2022

Natalia Litchinitser, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Professor of Physics

Colloquium: Applications of Gabor-domain optical coherence microscopy

February 21, 2022

Cristina Canavesi, PhD, MBA, LighTopTech Corp., President

Colloquium: Integrated Photonics at MIT Lincoln Laboratory Dr. Cheryl Sorace-Agaskar

February 14, 2022

Dr. Cheryl Sorace-Agaskar, Senior Scientist, Quantum Information and Integrated Nanosystems Group, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Colloquium: Lasers, the Nobel Prize, and the History of Nonlinear Science

February 7, 2022

John Dudley, Ph.D. Professor of Physics, CNRS Research Institute FEMTO-ST in Besancon, France

Colloquium: On-chip weak value amplification

January 31, 2022

Jaime Cardenas, Associate Professor, The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester

Digital and Optical compensation of fiber nonlinear effects

Monday, February 1, 2021
3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.

Dr. Shiva Kumar

Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

McMaster University

Zoom Virtual Setting

Optical Communications Opportunity at the nexus of four market inflection points

Monday, February 8, 2021
3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.

Dr. Theodore(Tod) Sizer

Zoom Virtual Setting

New Developments in Nonlinear Optics Using Optical Metasurfaces

Monday, February 15, 2021
3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.

Dr. Igal Brener

Sandia National Laboratories and Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Zoom Virtual Setting

Designing corrections for presbyopia

Monday, February 22, 2021
3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.

Dr. Susana Marcos

Zoom Virtual Setting

The next generation of large ground-based telescopes

Monday, March 1, 2021
3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.

Dr. Jeff Kuhn

Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii,

Zoom Virtual Setting

Optical design with freeform optics in imaging applications

Monday, March 15, 2021
3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.

Dr. Aaron Bauer

The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester

Zoom Virtual Setting

Integral equations, constructing O(N) unconditional stable methods for both linear and non-linear PDEs.

Monday, March 22, 2021
3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.

Andrew Christleib Department Chair, Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering; MSU Foundation Professor, Department of Mathematics

Michigan State University

Zoom Virtual Setting

Ultrafast Lasers Enabled Optical and Photonic Fabrication and Integration

Monday, March 29, 2021
3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.

Dr. Jie Qiao

Associate Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology | Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science

Zoom Virtual Setting

LLE: Today and Tomorrow

Monday, April 5, 2021
3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.

Dr. Mike Campbell, Director | UR · Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) | University of Rochester

Zoom Virtual Setting

Redefining material design paradigms for next generation optical materials

Monday, April 12, 2021
3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.

Dr. Kathleen Richardson, Pegasus Professor of Optics and Materials Science and Engineering at CREOL/College of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central FL

Zoom Virtual Setting

Corneal Refractive Error Correction: injury and healing of a living lens

Monday, April 26, 2021
3:30 p.m.–4:30 p.m.

Dr. Krystel Huxlin

Zoom Virtual Setting

Modelling nanophotonic and plasmonic components and Diversity and Inclusion in STEM

Tuesday, April 27, 2021
7 p.m.–9 p.m.

Dr. Arti Agrawal | School of Electrical and Data Engineering at the University of Technology Sydney

Zoom Virtual Setting

Structural and Functional Imaging of Tissues with Optical Coherence Tomography/Elastography (IN-PERSON)

Monday, September 13, 2021
3:30 p.m.–4:40 p.m.

Dr. Kirill V. Larin

Director for Graduate Program, Cullen College of Engineering Professor

University of Houston, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Bausch & Lomb Room 109

Nanophotonics at work: quantum computers , space satellites, biodetection & cosmetics

Monday, September 20, 2021
3:30 p.m.–4:40 p.m.

Dr. Pablo A. Postigo

Professor

University of Rochester, The Institute of Optics

Zoom Virtual Setting

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and HED Science

Monday, September 27, 2021
3:30 p.m.–4:40 p.m.

Kimberly S. Budil, Ph.D.

Director

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Zoom Virtual Setting

Confronting myopia’s global rise with novel optical wavefronts (IN-PERSON)

Monday, October 4, 2021
3:30 p.m.–4:40 p.m.

Dr. Len Zheleznyak

Vice President of Vision Science at Clerio Vision, Inc

Bausch & Lomb Room 109

Scalable semiconductor quantum and classical photonics

Monday, October 18, 2021
3:30 p.m.–4:40 p.m.

Dr. Jelena Vuckovic

Jensen Huang Professor in Global Leadership, School of Engineering, Professor of Electrical Engineering and by courtesy of Applied Physics, Stanford University

Fortinet Founders Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering Faculty member of Ginzton Lab, Q-FARM, PULSE, SIMES, SPRC, Wu-Tsai Neurosciences Institute, SystemX, Bio-X

PI of the Nanoscale and Quantum Photonics (NQP) Lab

Remote Zoom