Spring 2025
January 31st – 11am, Light manipulation using multilayered transition metal dichalcogenides, Su-Hyun Gong, Korea University
February 14th – 11am, Advancing the next generation of photonic systems using machine learning, Darko Zibar, Technical University of Denmark
March 28th – 11am, Optics à la mode – a new way of making, using and understanding optics, David Miller, Stanford University
Previous Colloquium Series
Fall 2024
August 30th – 11am, Navigating the Confluence: Leverage AI, Confidential Computing, and Heterogeneous Integration, Sazadur Rahman, University of Central Florida, Physics
September 6th – 11am, CHIPS Act and Florida’s Semiconductor Ecosystem: Partnerships, Photonics, and AI, Volker Sorger, University of Florida
September 18th – 12pm, High-Speed Compressible Turbulent Reacting Flows from Hypersonics and Energy to Space Rockets and Exploding Stars, Kareem Ahmed, University of Central Florida, MAE
October 18th – 11am, Shaping Tomorrow’s World: The Fusion of X-Realities and Emerging Optical Technologies, Jannick Rolland, University of Rochester
November 1st – 11am, TBD, Demetrios Christodoulides, University of Southern California
Spring 2024
February 6th – 11am, Extra-ordinary spectral broadening behavior of laser pulses in graphene-enhanced waveguides, Dr. Nathalie Vermeulen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
February 23rd – 11am, Ultrafast nonlinear optics at ionizing intensities, Pavel Polynkin, University of Arizona
March 8th – 11am, Holography in Degraded Environments, Dr. Abbie Watnik, Naval Research Laboratory
March 29th – 11am, Extreme Light Control with Metamaterials, Dr. Andrea Alù, City University of New York
April 5th – 11am, Ultrafast Nonlinear Nanophotonics: From Superior Components to Advanced Circuits, Alireza Marandi, California Institute of Technology
April 11th – 11am, Extreme Space-Time Optics & Quantum Meta-Photonics, Vlad Shalaev, Purdue University
April 12th – 11am, Advancing Nano- and Quantum Photonics with Machine Learning, Alexandra Boltasseva, Purdue University
April 26th – 11am, Frequency Comb Spectroscopy with Coherent and Incoherent Light, Scott Diddams, University of Colorado
Fall 2023
August 22nd – 11am, Complex Nanophotonics : From Extreme Nonlinear Optics to All-Optical Image Processing, Dr. Raktim Sarma, Sandia National Laboratories
September 8th – 11 am, 3D Nanophotonic-electronic Integrated Circuits for Future Computing, Networking, and Imaging Systems with Self-Learning Capabilities, Dr. Ben Yoo, University of California at Davis (UC Davis)
October 13th – 12 pm, Long-lived Photons in Forbidden States: the influence of light’s topology on its propagation characteristics, Dr. Siddharth Ramachandran, Boston University
November 6th – 11 am, Ultrafast Long Wavelength Lasers: A New Field of Opportunities, Dr. Michaël Hemmer ’11PhD, JILA University of Colorado Boulder
November 8th – 11 am, Algorithm-driven paradigms for freeform photonic metamaterials, Dr. Jonathan Fan, Stanford University
Spring 2023
January 13th – 11am, Structured Light: A Transition from Simple Beam Shaping to Advanced Sensing and Communication Exploiting Orbital Angular Momentum in Maritime Environments, Eric Johnson, Clemson
January 18th – 12pm, Beyond the Diffraction Limit: Imaging 3D Nanostructured Gels with Visible Light, Chaitanya Ullal, RPI
January 25th – 12pm, Emerging Materials, Devices, and ASICS for the 21st Century, Edo Waks, University of Maryland
February 15th – 12pm, Using Stimulated Brillouin scattering for sensing, spectroscopy, and optical signal processing, Brandon Redding, Naval Research Lab
February 24th – 11am, Surface enhanced coherent Raman scattering: blessing or curse?, Eric Potma, UC Irvine
March 10th – 11am, Liquid Crystal for VR, Fenglin Peng, META
March 22nd – 12pm, Hybrid Quantum Photonic Circuits and Quantum Frequency Conversion, Hong Tang, Yale
April 7th – 11am, Optical Image-Guided Autonomous Robotic Surgery, Jin U. Kang, Johns Hopkins
April 14th – 11am, Structured Light and Darkness in Nanophotonics, Natalia Litchinister, Duke
April 19th – 12pm, Low loss photonic systems for advanced quantum measurements, Andrey Matsko, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Caltech)
April 28th – 11am, Technologies to Image Other Worlds, Laurent Pueyo, Space Telescope Science Institute
May 5th – 11am, Recent Advances in Astrophotonics: Sophisticated Filters, Spectrometers, and Interferometers on a Chip, Sylvain Veilleux, University of Maryland
Fall 2022
September 2nd – 11am, Non-Hermitian Systems, Hadiseh Nasari, University of Southern California, CREOL
September 9th – 11am, Nanophotonics and Metamaterials, Viktoriia Babicheva, University of New Mexico
September 16th – 11am, Flexible electronics, Kyusang Lee, University of Virginia
September 23rd – 11am, Computational Microscopy, Lei Tan, Boston University
October 7th – 11am, Nanoscale nonlinear and quantum photonics, Mengjie Yu, University of Southern California
October 11th – 11am, Optical Metamaterials, Arka Majumdar, University of Washington
October 14th – 11am, Laurene Tetard, University of Central Florida, CREOL
October 21st – 11am, Photonics and biosensors, Sharon Weiss, Vanderbilt University
Spring 2022
January 13th – 12pm, ZELDA: A link to exoplanet imaging with current and future observatories, Mamadou N’Diaye, Observatoire de Cote d’Azure
January 21st – 12pm, Photo-sensitive infrared and visible glass as a route to laser patterned optical devices with a focus on undergraduate research and reciprocal mentoring, Casey Schwarz, Usinus College
February 17th – 12pm, Biomedical solutions for women’s cancer, Nimmi Ramanujam, Duke
February 24th – 12pm, Exoplanet Imaging with Extremely Large Telescopes, Rebecca Jensen-Clem, UC Santa Cruz
March 3rd – 12pm, New developments in ISO standards for optics, Dave Aikens, Savvy Optics
March 4th – 12pm, Special Colloquium: Photonic Time-Crystals, Mordechai (Moti) Segev, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
March 17th – 12pm, On-chip weak value amplification, Jaime Cardenas, U. Rochester
March 24th – 12pm, From fusion plasmas to particle accelerators – applications of high power lasers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Felicie Albert, Lawrence Livermore
March 31st – 12pm, Harnessing photons for Bond-selective Imaging, Neuromodulation, and Killing of Superbugs, Ji-Xin Cheng, BU
April 5th – 12pm, Improving the sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors with squeezed light, Kate Dooley, Cardiff U
April 14th – 12pm, Tackling longstanding challenges in ultrafast nonlinear optics via foreign but familiar physics, Jeffery Moses, Cornell
April 28th – 12pm, Multiphoton microscopy for in vivo skin imaging: from bench to bedside and back, Mihaela Balu, Beckman Institute
Fall 2021
September 3rd – 12pm, Fluorescence Microscopy with tailored light, Kyu Young Han, UCF
September 20th – 12pm, Meta-optics: From Flat Lenses to Structured Light and Dark, Federico Capasso, Harvard
September 30th – 3pm, Light-matter interactions with structured light in Van der Waals materials, Alexander Khanikaev, CUNY
October 4th – 12pm, Emission and scattering by interacting identical atoms, Jean-Jacques Greffet, Institut d’Optique, France
October 11th – 12pm, Label-free optical metabolic imaging for biomanufacturing, Melissa Skala, University of Wisconsin, Madison
October 18th – 12pm, Internal structuring of silicon with ultrafast lasers, David Grojo, CNRS and Aix-Marseille Univ., LP3 laboratory, France
October 25th – 12pm, Lead Chalcogenide Waveguide Integrated Mid-IR Photoconductors for Integrated Si Photonics, Anu Agarwal, MIT
November 8th – 12pm, Optical design challenges of the Mid-IR Imager and Spectrograph (METIS) for the Extremely Large Telescope, Bernhard Brandl, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
November 15th – 12pm, Ultrafast X-ray and XUV spectroscopy of charge dynamics in molecular systems, Li Fang, UCF
November 22th – 12pm, High-Resolution, Large Field-of-View, and Multi-View Single Objective Light-Sheet Microscopy Location, Loïc Alain Royer, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
November 23rd – 12pm, Ultrawide Bandgap III-Nitride Semiconductors: From Deep UV Optoelectronics to Quantum Photonics, Zetian Mi, U of M
Spring 2021
January 15th – 3pm, AH-MCC Research Talk, Narasimhan Rajaram, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
January 21st – 12pm, Free-Electron Quantum Optics, Ido Kaminer, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
January 28th – 12pm, Optical wireless communication with infrared pencil beams – enjoying the benefits of fiber without needing a fiber, Ton Koone, Eindhoven University of Technology
February 5th – 3pm, Space Division Multiplexing technologies, Nicolas Fontaine, Nokia Bell Labs
February 12th – 3pm, Mass Photometry: weighing molecules with light, Philipp Kukura, Oxford
February 26th – 5pm, From cold atoms to living cells with sculpted light, Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, The University of Queensland
March 5th – 3pm, Structuring Light with Extreme Metamaterials, Nader Engheta, University of Pennsylvania
March 11th – 12pm, New (chiral) light on Nonlinear Laser Spectroscopy, Oren Cohen, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
March 19th – 3pm, Ultrafast thulium fiber laser dynamics, Michelle Sander, Boston University
March 26th – 12pm, Ptychography Applications of X-ray coherent lensless imaging, Manuel Guizar-Sicairos, Paul Scherrer Institute
April 2nd – 3pm, Scalable Photonics: An Optimized Approach, Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University