Industrial Associates Fall '09 Meeting


Preliminary Agenda

Sunday, October 25, 2009

6 - 9pm Reception
Boulder Coffee Company
955 Genesee Street

Monday, October 26, 2009

8:15am Continental Breakfast
Sloan Auditorium

9:10am "Welcome and Institute Update"
Dr. Wayne Knox, Director of the Institute of Optics
Sloan Auditorium

9:15 - 9:45am "Materials Processing and Incandescent Lightbulbs"
Dr. Chunlei Guo, Professor, Institute of Optics
Sloan Auditorium

9:45 -10:15am "The Future of Incandescent Lighting"
Dr. Robert Gray, Deposition Sciences
Sloan Auditorium

10:15 - 10:45am "Optics for Solid State Lighting"
Mike Morris, Apollo Optics and RPC Photonics
Sloan Auditorium

10:45 - 11:15am "Optics for Solid State Lighting"
Dr. Ching Tang Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, UofR
Sloan Auditorium

11:15 - 11:30am "Discussion led by Dr. Wayne Knox"
Sloan Auditorium

11:30am -1:00pm Lunch/Poster Session
Munnerlyn Atrium/Goergen 108

1:00 - 3:45pm Talks and Company Presentations
Goergen 108

4:00 - 4:12pm "From Conics to Freeform: A Journey Through Reflector Design"
Florian Fournier, William Cassarly, and Jannick P. Rolland
Sloan Auditorium

4:12 - 4:24pm "Phase Space Distributions for Dispersive Media"
Jonathan Petruccelli and Miguel A. Alonso
Sloan Auditorium

4:24 - 4:36pm "Label-free Optical Detection and Classification of Single Viruses"
Anirban Mitra and Lukas Novotny
Sloan Auditorium

4:36 - 4:48pm "Pupil Engineered Confocal Microscopy for Investigation of Turbid Media"
Chris Glazowksi and Jim Zavislan
Sloan Auditorium

4:48 - 5:00pm "Numerical Modeling of Tough Problems"
Xu Wang and Joe H. Eberly
Sloan Auditorium

5:00 - 5:12pm "Polarimetry Using Stress-Engineered Optical Elements"
Amber Beckley and Thomas Brown
Sloan Auditorium

5:12 - 5:24pm "Serial Measurements of the Same Single Molecules in Solution"
John Lesoine and Lukas Novotny
Sloan Auditorium

5:24 - 5:36pm "All-Fiber Isolator Based on Faraday Rotation"
Lei Sun, S. Jiang, J.D. Zuegel, and Jim R. Marciante
Sloan Auditorium

5:36 - 5:48pm "Using Nodal Aberration Theory to Distinguish Image Degradation..."
Tobias Schmid, Kevin Thompson, Jacques Sebag, William Gressler, and Jannick P. Rolland
Sloan Auditorium

6:00 pm Evening Reception
Munnerlyn Atrium

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

8:30am Continental Breakfast
Goergen Hall
5th Floor Lounge

9:00am Company-Student Employment Interviews
Location TBD

12noon Lunch
509 Goergen Hall

1:15pm Interviews continue
Location TBD

HOTEL INFORMATION
The DoubleTree Hotel Rochester, 1111 Jefferson Road, has reserved blocks of rooms for those attending the meeting (room rate: $119.00). When calling, please identify yourself with U of R Optics – Industrial Associates Program. To make reservations or request additional information about accommodations, please call 1-800-822-8733. Please be sure to make your reservation before March 9, 2009.

Location: DoubleTree Hotel Rochester is located just south of Downtown Rochester in Henrietta at the intersection of Jefferson and East Henrietta Roads just off I-390. The hotel is also near many of the city's most popular attractions. Visit us at www.rochester.doubletree.com

Directions from Airport: Merge onto I-390 S and take Rt. 252 (Jefferson Rd Exit) (Exit 14A) and turn right onto Jefferson Road. You will see the hotel on your left.

Local Transportation: Hotel provides complimentary shuttle service to and from the airport and the University (with advance notice). If you need transportation to the hotel from the airport, call upon arrival. You will find a phone for the DoubleTree Hotel in the baggage claim area. If transportation is needed from the Hotel to the U of R, on Monday and Tuesday, please call 1-585-475-1510 in advance and let them know.

Reservations: Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel directly, online at www.doubletree.com, through a professional travel agent, or by calling 1-800-222-8733.

Address: DoubleTree Rochester
111 Jefferson Road
Rochester, NY 14623
Tel.: (585) 475-1510
Fax: (585) 427-8673