2024 Colloquium & Seminar Schedule
Colloquia talks at the Institute of Optics are typically every Monday during the semester. Detailed information is posted as it becomes available. Check back often for updates and new events.
Visit the colloquia archives page for a list of past colloquia talks.
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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