2023 Colloquium & Seminar Schedule
For past colloquia talks at the Institute of Optics, visit the archives page Colloquia Archives.
How 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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