2024 Colloquia
Opportunities for All-Optical Assembly of 3D Structures Using Selective Tweezing and Immobilization of Colloids
Monday, December 9, 2024
3:30 p.m.
Kimani C. Toussaint, Jr., Senior Professor and Director of the Brown University Center for Digital Health, Brown University
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingSymmetry Perturbation in Photonic Nanostructures, Controlling Light Emission and Photocatalysis
Monday, December 2, 2024
3:30 p.m.
Christian Seassal, Senior Researcher, French CNRS
Presented on Zoom
Continue ReadingIntegrated Nonlinear Photonics with Computational Optimization
Monday, November 11, 2024
3:30 p.m.
Kiyoul Yang, Assistant Professor, Harvard University
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingMagnetic Imaging with Quantum Sensors
Monday, November 4, 2024
3:30 p.m.
Raisa Trubko, Assistant Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingEVENT CANCELLED
Monday, October 28, 2024
3:30 p.m.
Giuseppe Strangi, Professor of Physics at Case Western Reserve University
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingBio-lasers and Their Novel Biomedical Applications
Monday, October 21, 2024
3:30 p.m.
Sherman Fan, Richard A. Auhll Professor of the College of Engineering and School of Medicine at the University of Michigan
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingIlluminate Disease By Programming Nonlinear Effects of Multimode Fibers
Monday, October 7, 2024
3:30 p.m.
Sixian You, Associate Professor, MIT EECS
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingExploiting Nanoscale Structures for Enhanced Light-Matter Interactions
Thursday, October 3, 2024
4:50 p.m.
Sharon Weiss, Chair in Engineering and Professor at Vanderbilt University
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingCircumscribing What is Possible in Nanophotonics: Fundamental Limits and Opportunities for Light Manipulation
Monday, September 30, 2024
3:30 p.m.
Alejandro Rodriguez, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director of the Materials Science and Engineering Program, Princeton University
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingQuantum Computing: Past, Present, Future
Friday, September 20, 2024
10:30 a.m.
Daniel F.V. James, Professor, University of Toronto
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingControlling Matter At Extreme Time Scales
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
4:50 p.m.
Francesca Calegari, Full Professor of Physics at the University of Hamburg
Presented in-person in Goergen 109 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingYou Can't Make Anything Better Than You Can Test It
Monday, September 9, 2024
3:30 p.m.
Daewook Kim, Associate Professor, James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingArtificial Intelligence unlocks Perceptual Realism in Holographic 3D Displays
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
9:30 a.m.
Kaan Aksit, Associate Professor of Computational Light at the University College London
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingThe NASA Habitable World Program
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
7 p.m.
Matt East, Mission Architect at L3Harris's Space and Airborne Systems
Presented in-person in Goergen 108 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingImaging Spectrometer Development and Applications for Earth and Planetary Science
Monday, April 22, 2024
3:30 p.m.
Holly Bender, Senior Optical Engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingDeveloping Integrated Photonics Hardware for Quantum Networking With Rare-Earth Ions
Monday, April 15, 2024
3:30 p.m.
Dr. Robert Pettit, Lead Quantum Scientist at memQ
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingHigh-Resolution Wavefront Microscopy for Applications in Bio-Imaging, Nanophotonics and Micro-Scale Thermometry
Monday, April 1, 2024
3:30 p.m.
Dr. Guillaume Baffou, CNRS researcher at Institut Fresnel, Marseille (France)
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingThe upgrade of the Advanced Light source and instrumentation development for coherent soft x-ray science
Monday, April 1, 2024
1 p.m.
Antoine Islegen-Wojdyla
Presented in-person in Bausch & Lomb 109
Continue ReadingQuantum Telescopy: Interferometric Imaging Using Shared Quantum Entanglement
Thursday, March 28, 2024
3:30 p.m.
Professor Michael Raymer, Oregon Center for Optical, Molecular, and Quantum Science, University of Oregon
Presented in-person in Goergen 109 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingFast Volumetric Imaging in Brain Tissue
Monday, March 25, 2024
3:30 p.m.
Professor Jerome Mertz, Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingPico-Second Laser Scanning Chemical-bond Imaging of Metabolic Activities in Aging and Diseases
Monday, March 18, 2024
3:30 p.m.
Professor Lingyan Shi, Professor in Bioengineering, UC San Diego
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue Reading30 Years of Magnetorheological Finishing: From the Origin Story to Today
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
7 p.m.
Dr. Paul Dumas, Applications Engineering Manager at QED Technologies
Presented in Wegman's 1400 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingLaser-induced damage of dielectric-enhanced mirrors at 1064 nm
Monday, March 4, 2024
4:30 p.m.
Dr. Jue Wang, Senior development associate at Corning Advanced Optics
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingOptical Thermometry Beyond the Diffraction Limit
Monday, February 26, 2024
3:30 p.m.
Andrea Pickel, Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingGuiding Trojan Optical Beams using Lagrange Points
Monday, February 19, 2024
3:30 p.m.
Professor Mercedeh Khajavikhan, Professor in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering and the Department of Physics and Astronomy
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingAdvancing Energy and Sustainability through Laser- and Non-Laser-based Material Functionalization
Monday, February 12, 2024
3:30 p.m.
Professor Chunlei Guo, Professor in Optics and Physics and Senior Scientist at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingExtreme Matters, Pressure to Explore New Worlds, Exotic Solids, and Fusion Burning Plasma
Monday, February 5, 2024
3:30 p.m.
Dr. Gilbert "Rip" Collins, Associate Director of the Laboratory for Laser Energetics and the Tracy Hyde Harris Professor of Physics and Mechanical Engineering
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
Continue ReadingToward a Biophysical Definition of Light for the Human Circadian System
Monday, January 22, 2024
3:30 p.m.
Dr. Mark Rea, Professor in the Department of Population Health Science and Policy at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Presented in-person in Goergen 101 and on Zoom
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