Colloquium and Seminar Schedule 2011-2012


Colloquia will be held in Sloan Auditorium

Goergen Building, Monday, 3:00-4:00 pm

unless otherwise noted.


Date Speaker Title Details

Colloquium

Sept. 12

Dr. Daniel C. Harris Naval Air Systems

History of Magnetorheological Finishing

Poster

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Colloquium

Oct 3

Prof. Joseph H. Eberly U of Rochester

Polarization of Light and Classical Entanglement

Poster

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Oct 10

Fall Break

Oct 17

FIO San Jose

Colloquium

Oct. 24

Prof.Sang-Hyun Oh

U of Minnesota

Engineered plasmonic nanostructures for photonics and biotechnology

Poster

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Colloquium

Oct 31

Dr. Jack Kelly

LLE Rochester

The Optics of Inertial Confinement Fusion

Poster

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Joint Colloquium Industrial Associates Presentation

Nov 7

Prof. Duncan T. Moore

U of Rochester

Gradient-Index Optics and Concentrating Photovoltaics

Poster

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Colloquium

Nov 14

Dr. James Wynne

IBM

Excimer Laser Surgery: Applications to Laser Refractive Surgery and Debridement of Necrotic Lesions of the Skin

Poster

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Colloquium

Nov. 21

Prof. James P.Shaffer

U of Oklahoma

Interactions and Novel Forms of Matter in Ultracold Rydberg Gases

Poster

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Colloquium

Dec 5

Prof. Jennifer Hunter

U of Rochester

Seeing Cellular Mosaics in the Living Eye

Poster

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Colloquium

Dec 12

Prof. Jianming Dai
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

TeraHertz Wave Air Photonics

Poster

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Dec 19 - Jan 16

Winter Break

Colloquium

Jan 30

Prof.Anders Larsson

Chalmers University

Goteborg, Sweden

Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers for Sensing and Communication

Poster

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Colloquium

Feb 6

Prof. Duncan Steel

U Michigan

Semiconductor Quantum Dots for Quantum Photonics

Poster

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Colloquium

Feb 13

Prof. Mishkat Bhattacharya

RIT

Optomechanics With a Twist

Poster

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Colloquium

Feb 20

Prof. Nicholas George

Rochester 

Design and Performance of EDOF Digital Cameras

Poster

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Joint Colloquium

Feb 22

B&L 109

3:45 pm

Prof. Wayne Knox

Rochester

Non-invasive vision correction using femtosecond lasers

Poster

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Colloquium

Feb 27

Prof. Chris Xu

Cornell

Pushing the Depth Limit of Multiphoton Microscopy

Poster

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Joint Colloquium

Physics & Astronomy

Optics Industrial Associates

Mar 5

Professor Alex Gaeta

Cornell

Temporal Magnification, Compression, and Cloaking of Light

Poster

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Mar 12

Spring Break

Colloquium

Mar 19

Dr. Rosaly Lopes

JPL

Unveiling Titan: Results from the Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and its Moons

Poster

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Colloquium

Apr 9

Daniel James

U of Toronto

Measuring and Characterizing Quantum States and Processes

Poster

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Colloquium

Apr 16

Prof. Daniel Gauthier Duke University

Subwavelength imaging using chaos

Poster

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Apr 23

Prof. Charles P. Lin

Harvard University

Cell Tracking in Live Animals: extending intravital microscopy in time and space

Poster

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Apr 30

Dr. Paul Lett

NIST

Manipulating Classical and Quantum Images with Four-Wave Mixing

Poster

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May 2

Classes End

Link to 2010-2011 Colloquium Schedule

Link to 2009-2010 Colloquium Schedule