CREOL Industrial Affiliates Symposium 2023
march 2 & 3
Presented by
CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics
hotels
Comfort Suites UCF Area – Research Park
12101 Challenger Parkway
407-737-7303
800-517-4000
Courtyard by Marriott Orlando East/UCF Area
12000 Collegiate Way
407-277-7676
800-321-2211
DoubleTree by Hilton Orlando East – UCF Area
12125 High Tech Ave
407-275-9000 x7841
Previous Years Agenda (for reference only)
2022 Symposium agenda
1:00 PM – Short Course – Fourth Generation Optics; The Principles, Materials, Technology, and Applications
Nelson Tabiryan, BEAM Co.
L3Harris Engineering Center 101
3:00 PM – Short Course – Laser Beam Quality
Sean Ross, Air Force Research Laboratory, AFRL/RDMP
L3Harris Engineering Center 101
5:30 PM – Public Lecture – The James Webb Space Telescope; Its Mission, Design, Development and Progress to Science Operations
Jon Arenberg, Northrop Grumman
Classroom Building 2, room 201
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Fairwinds Alumni center
8:30 AM – Continental Breakfast and Walk In Registration
8:50 AM – Welcome to UCF
Alexander Cartwright, UCF President
9:00 AM – Welcome and Overview of CREOL
David Hagan, Dean, CREOL
Session I
9:20 AM – AR and VR Display will Change the World of Optics
Barry Silverstein, Facebook Reality Labs
9:45 AM – Light Engines for AR/VR Displays
ST Wu, CREOL, UCF
10:05 AM – Student Talk – Liquid Crystal Optical Elements for AR/VR Displays
Junyu Zou
10:20 AM – Student of the Year Talk – Propagation-invariant space-time wave packets localized in all dimensions
Murat Yessenov
10:35 AM – Break
Session II – Industry Focus
11:00 AM – Panel Discussion on the State of the Photonics Industry
OPTICA with Becky Bosco, SPIE with Andrew Brown, Florida Photonics Cluster with Alexei Glebov
Moderator: Jason Eichenholz
11:35 AM – Gentec EO
Ahmed Rihane
11:42 AM – Critical Frequency Design
Charles Middleton
11:49 AM – Control Microsystems
Graham Coffee
11:56 AM – Ficontech
Soon Jang
Session III – International Year of Glass
1:00 PM – International Year of Glass Introduction
Kathleen Richardson, CREOL, UCF
1:10 PM – International Year of Glass Lecture – Volume holographic elements in photo-thermo-refractive glass
Leonid Glebov, CREOL, UCF
1:40 PM – Student Talk – Optical Fibers for Extreme Performance: Shaping Glass Composition and Geometry
Matthew Cooper
1:55 PM – 2022 Optimax Grant for Research Award
2:00 PM – Walk to CREOL Building
2:15 PM – Posters and Lab Tours in the CREOL Lobby
4:00 PM – Reception
