2023 Symposium Agenda
Thursday, March 2
2:00 pm – 3:45 pm
Short Course – Photonic Lanterns Rodrigo Amezcua Correa, CREOL, UCF
Research 1 Room A101
2:30 pm – 3:45 pm
Doing Business with UCF Harris Engineering (HEC) Room 101AB
- Office of Research (Research Funding, Centers & Institutes, Tech Transfer, Soft Landing Program)
- Florida High Tech Corridor (Matching Grants Program)
- Procurement Services
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Lab Tours & Reception
CREOL Lobby
Friday, March 3
Location: UCF FAIRWINDS Alumni Center
8:30 am – 9:00 am
Session I - High Power Lasers
9:30 am – 11:15 am
The Lasting Impact of the Global Pandemic and resultant New Challenges for our Communication Networks Theodore Sizer (Nokia)
Recent Progress in Heterogeneous Integrated Photonics Sasan Fathpour (CREOL, UCF)
Student Talk: A Coherent Multi-Dimensional Photonic Tensor Accelerator Alireza Fardoost
Student of the Year Talk: Integrated Optical Frequency Combs for Applications in Optical Communications & Microwave Photonics Chinmay Shirpurkar
Break
Session II - Industry Focus
11:15 am – 2:15 pm
CHIPS ACT PANEL – Industry and government experts discuss the local and national impacts for academia and industry
Optica David Lang
BRIDG James Vandevere
SPIE Jennifer O’Bryan
Jenoptik Jay Kumler
Whitmer & Worrall Gabe Pellathy
Holland & Knight LLP Francisco Sanchez
Lunch Break/Poster Session/Group Photo
Company Spotlight LightPath Technologies
Company Spotlight Jenoptik
Company Spotlight Northrop Grumman
Company Spotlight Corning
Session III - Space Optics
2:15 pm – 4:30 pm
Student Talk: PolyOculus: Astrophotonics in Action Christina Moraitis
Detecting extraterrestrial life with astrophotonics Nemanja Jovanovic (Caltech)
SAIL Labs – beyond astronomical instrumentation and the cycle of innovation Sergio Leon-Saval (University of Sydney)
Distinguished Alumnus Talk: Optical generation of ultrastable microwave signals: 18 digits of optical atomic clock frequency stability on a 10 GHz carrier Franklyn Quinlan (NIST)
Awards and Closing Reception
Saturday, March 4
