9:00 AM – 12:00 pm

Senior Design Showcase
CREOL Lobby

10:00 am – 2:00 pm

Spring Career Fair
Research 1 Room 101AB

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Lab Tours
CREOL Building

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Special Guest Lecture: Light a Path for Quantum Sensing
Jun Ye, University of Colorado
CREOL 102/103

6:00 pm

Industrial Affiliates Mixer
Bar Louie – UCF

8:15 am – 9:10 am

Continental Breakfast and Walk In Registration

Welcome to UCF
Michael D. Johnson, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs

Welcome and Overview of CREOL
David Hagan, Dean & Director

Session I: Tech Hubs: Semiconductors and Sensing

9:10 am – 10:40 am

SMART USA: Digital Twins – A Revolution in Advanced Manufacturing and Innovation
Volker Sorger, University of Florida

Expanding Central Florida’s Semiconductor Ecosystem

Leland Nordin, University of Central Florida

The Montana Headwaters Tech Hub for Smart Photonic Remote Sensing Systems

Joseph Shaw, Montana State University

Student of the Year Talk: Non-Gaussian Light Scattering Phenomena and Applications

Shubham Dawda, University of Central Florida

Session II: Tech Hubs: Quantum

11:10 am – 11:55 am

Engineering Quantum: Building the National Quantum Nanofab
Scott Diddams, University of Colorado Boulder

UCF’s Quantum Leap Initiative

Andrea Blanco-Redondo, University of Central Florida

Lunch Break, Student Poster Judging, and Exhibit Tables

11:55 am – 1:00 pm

Session III: Industry Updates and Florida Panel

1:00 pm – 2:45 pm

SPIE Industry Update

Peter de Groot

Optica Industry Update

Jim Kafka

Unleashing the Florida Photonics Industry: Establishing a Photonics Hub in Florida

Ty Olmstead, Volker Sorger, Scott Diddams, Joseph Shaw, Jim McNally / Moderated by Leland Nordin

Company Spotlight Presentations

Edmund Optics

Safran Optics 1

Relativity Networks

Session IV: Technicians and Training

2:45 pm – 4:00 pm

The National Landscape of Photonics Technician Training

Natalia Chekhovskaya, Indian River State College

Valencia College Technical Training Program

Brendon Monize, Valencia College

Awards and Closing Presentation

Distinguished Alumnus Award

Faculty Awards

Optimax Research Grant Award

Student Poster Awards

12:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Spring Thing Social

100 Tuskawilla Road, Winter Springs 32708. The event will be catered by Dustin’s BBQ. Games and entertainment provided by CREOL students. RSVP to Denise Whiteside denise@creol.ucf.edu