2013 Colloquium & Seminar Schedule
Nanostructured thin films using oblique angle deposition: synthesis, optical properties and applications
Thursday, February 14, 2013
3:30 p.m.4:30 p.m.
Dr. Andrew Sarangan, University of Dayton
Sloan Auditorium
Continue ReadingNanomanufacturing of multifunctional surface
Thursday, February 21, 2013
3:30 p.m.4:30 p.m.
Dr. George Barbastathis, MIT
Sloan Auditorium
Continue ReadingTransverse Anderson localization in disordered optical fibers and waveguides
Thursday, February 28, 2013
3:30 p.m.4:30 p.m.
Dr. Arash Mafi, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Sloan Auditorium
Continue ReadingA history of, and update on, and wish list for optics in concentrating photovoltaics (CPV)
Monday, March 4, 2013
3 p.m.4 p.m.
Adam Plesniak, Director Advanced Technology, Amonix Inc.
Sloan Auditorium - Please note different day and time
Continue ReadingTerahertz Spectroscopic Polarimetry and the Quest for THz Vibrational Circular Dichroism
Thursday, March 21, 2013
3:30 p.m.4:30 p.m.
Dr. Charles Schmuttenmaer, Yale University
Sloan Auditorium
Continue ReadingDissipative Solitons and Similaritons: New Nonlinear Waves Enable High-Performance Fiber Lasers
Thursday, April 4, 2013
3:30 p.m.4:30 p.m.
Dr. Frank Wise, Department of Applied Physics, Cornell University
Sloan Auditorium
Continue ReadingInterferometric grating tilting, laser-damage detection, and deformable gratings for large-scale laser systems
Thursday, April 11, 2013
3:30 p.m.4:30 p.m.
Dr. Jie Qiao, LLE, University of Rochester
Sloan Auditorium
Continue ReadingTowards the most intense light fields in the Galaxy: The SCARLET Laser Focus
Thursday, April 18, 2013
3:30 p.m.4:30 p.m.
Dr. Enam Chowdhury, The Ohio State University, Department of Physics
Sloan Auditorium
Continue ReadingSummer Course Series at The Institute of Optics
Monday, June 3, 2013
3:30 p.m.4:30 p.m.
Multiple internal and external lecturers
various locations in Goergen Hall and Wilmot Building
Continue ReadingRochester Conferences on Coherence and Quantum Optics
Monday, June 17, 2013
3:30 p.m.4:30 p.m.
various locations on campus
Continue ReadingFirst Photon Camp for High School Students
Monday, June 24, 2013
9 a.m.4:30 p.m.
various locations on campus
Continue ReadingPhysics education research for the laboratory classroom
Monday, September 23, 2013
3 p.m.4:30 p.m.
Dr. Benjamin M. Zwickl, Rochester Institute of Technology
Sloan Auditorium
Continue ReadingThis talk was moved to December 9 due to a scheduling conflict
Monday, September 30, 2013
3 p.m.4:30 p.m.
Dr. Robert Boyd, University of Rochester and University of Ottawa
Sloan Auditorium
Continue Reading60 years of vision, entrepreneurship and optics at the U of R
Monday, October 14, 2013
11:30 a.m.8 p.m.
Schlegel, Rettner, and Goergen Halls
Continue ReadingSome nonlinear phenomena in periodic structures
Monday, October 14, 2013
3 p.m.4:30 p.m.
Dr. Herbert G. Winful, University of Michigan
Sloan Auditorium
Continue ReadingTHz Imaging - What you see and what you don't
Monday, October 21, 2013
3 p.m.4:30 p.m.
Dr. Peter H. Siegel, California Institute of Technology and JPL
Sloan Auditorium
Continue ReadingFreeform optical surfaces in commercial products and new molding process for the infrared
Monday, October 28, 2013
2:30 p.m.4 p.m.
Dr. William Plummer, WTP Optics Inc.
NEW TIME !!! Sloan Auditorium
Continue ReadingInstallation of Dr. Agrawal as the inaugural Dr. James C. Wyant Professor in Optics
Monday, October 28, 2013
4 p.m.5:30 p.m.
Hawkins Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library
Continue ReadingLaser Surface Texturing, Crystallization and Scribing of Thin Films in Solar Cell Applications
Monday, November 4, 2013
3 p.m.4:30 p.m.
Dr. Y. Lawrence Yao, Columbia University
Sloan Auditorium
Continue ReadingUltrahigh speed z-scanning optics for 3-D and high depth of field imaging
Monday, November 11, 2013
3 p.m.4:30 p.m.
Dr. Craig B. Arnold
Sloan Auditorium
Continue ReadingNovel Terahertz Metamaterials
Monday, November 18, 2013
3 p.m.4:30 p.m.
Dr. Antoinette J. Taylor, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Sloan Auditorium
Continue ReadingThe extreme nonlinear optics of air and femtosecond optical filamentation
Monday, November 25, 2013
3 p.m.4:30 p.m.
Dr. Howard M. Milchberg, University of Maryland
Sloan Auditorium
Continue ReadingCANCELLED due to family illness
Monday, December 2, 2013
3 p.m.4:30 p.m.
Dr. P. Ewen King-Smith, The Ohio State University
Sloan Auditorium
Continue ReadingQuantum Nonlinear Optics in Ottawa
Monday, December 9, 2013
3 p.m.4:30 p.m.
Dr. Robert Boyd, University of Rochester and University of Ottawa
Sloan Auditorium
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