CREOL Industrial Affiliates Symposium 2021
APRIL 15 - 16
online
Presented by
CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics
Including a special Pre-Symposium Event:
Student Professional Development (April 2)
Career and Internship Fair (April 15)
1:00 PM – Welcome
David Hagan, Interim Dean, CREOL
1:05 PM – Advancing the Endless Frontier
Bindu Nair, Director of Basic Research, Department of Defense
1:35 PM – Welcome to UCF
Michael Johnson, Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
1:45 PM – Overview of CREOL
David Hagan, Interim Dean, CREOL
2:15 PM – Towards space-time optics and photonics
Ayman Abouraddy, Professor, CREOL
2:35 PM – Chip-scale optical to RF link via harmonic injection locking
Ricardo Bustos Ramirez, Student of the Year Talk
2:50 PM – Tom Hausken, Senior Industry Advisor, OSA
3:00 PM – Transition to Remo Software
3:00 PM – Poster Session, Lab Tours, and Senior Design Showcase
4:30 PM – Distinguished Alumni Awards, presented by Jason Eichenholz, Alum and CTO of Luminar Technologies
2020 Brian Lawrence and 2021 Carl Kutsche
4:45 PM – Social Mixer
9:30AM – 12:30PM EST (Short Courses)
Registration Required for Zoom access.
9:30 AM – Semiconductor diode laser arrays: principles of design, array beam combining, and applications
Yehuda Braiman, Professor, CREOL
9:30 AM – Practical spectroscopy for medicine, industry and defense
Matthieu Baudelet, Assoc. Professor, Chemistry
1:00PM – 4:00PM EST
1:00 PM – Welcome
David Hagan, Interim Dean, CREOL
1:10 PM – PolyOculus: Low-cost telescope arrays for satellite communication, LIDAR, and astrophysics
Stephen Eikenberry, Professor, University of Florida
1:30 – 2:00 PM – Student Talks
Ziqian He – Miniature Planar Telescopes for Laser Beam Steering
Benjamin Croop – Artefact-Free Fluorescence Imaging via an Annular Fiber Bundle
2:00 PM – Kent Rochford, Executive Director, SPIE
2:10 PM – Industrial Affiliate Spotlights
2:50 PM – Nathaniel Quick, Executive Director, LIA
3:00 PM – High Power Lasers – Past, Present and Future.
Richard Bagnell, Former DARPA, Directed Energy
3:30 PM – High power laser development and applications – a new center for directed energy
Martin Richardson, Professor, CREOL
3:50 PM – Closing Remarks
David Hagan, Interim Dean, CREOL