Registration for our 2023 Symposium is now closed. We look forward to seeing you at next year’s Symposium, February 29 & March 1, 2024.
Hotels
Spring 2023 CREOL Career Fair
Location: Experiential Learning Center
Date: Thursday, March 2, 2023
For more information email Barron@creol.ucf.edu.
Schedule
Career Fair Welcome/Set Up
Career Services Presentation
Experiential Learning Presentation
Career Fair continued set up
Career Fair
2023 Symposium Agenda
Thursday, March 2
Short Course – Photonic Lanterns Rodrigo Amezcua Correa
Research 1 Room A101
- 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
CREOL Lobby Lab Tours, Reception
Friday, March 3
Location: UCF FAIRWINDS Alumni Center
Session I - Semiconductor Photonics
Chair - Guifang Li
The Lasting Impact of the Global Pandemic and resultant New Challenges for our Communication Networks Theodore Sizer (Nokia)
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
10:50 am
Break
Session II - Industry Focus
Chair - Peter Delfyett
11:15 am
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
12:15 pm
Lunch Break/Poster Session/Group Photo
1:45 pm
Company Spotlight LightPath Technologies
1:52 pm
Company Spotlight Jenoptik
1:59 pm
Company Spotlight Northrop Grumman
2:06 pm
Company Spotlight Corning
Session III - Space Photonics
Chair - Steven Eikenberry
2:15 pm
Student Talk: PolyOculus: Astrophotonics in Action Christina Moraitis
2:30 pm
Detecting extraterrestrial life with astrophotonics Nemanja Jovanovic (Caltech)
3:00 pm
SAIL Labs – beyond astronomical instrumentation and the cycle of innovation Sergio Leon-Saval (University of Sydney)
3:30 pm
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)
4:00 pm
Reception, award presentation
Saturday, March 4
