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Seminar Archive List
(More previous seminars can be found in Past Events)
| Date | Speaker | Location | Title |
| August 23, 2024 | Dr. Jared Mikkelsen, Lightmatter | MP102 | Accelerating AI through Photonics |
| July 11, 2024 | Prof. Wim Bogaerts, Ghent University – IMEC, Photonics Research Group | GB244 | Programmable Photonic Circuits for RF and Optical Signal Processing |
| May 14, 2024 | Prof. Alexander Gaeta, David M. Rickey Professor of Applied Physics, Columbia University | MP134 | Synchronization Dynamics of Nonlinear Photonic Oscillators |
| May 1-2, 2024 | Prof. Emanuel Istrate, Victoria College, University of Toronto | GB244 | Noise in Optical Measurements Workshop |
| Apr 4, 2024, 4-5pm | Prof. Yongfeng Lu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) | SF1105 | Spectrally, Spatially, and Temporally Controlled Laser Processing and Characterization |
| Oct 16, 2023, 3 pm | Prof. Barry Sanders, University of Calgary | MP606 | Quantum kittens, cats, combs and compasses: superposing coherent states for sensing, communication, computing and pleasure |
| Sept 19, 2023, 5-6 pm | Dr. Eli Bourassa, Xanadu | MS3278 | Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing with Photonics |
| July 24, 2023, 2 pm | Prof. Yaron Bromberg, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | GB119 | Coherent backscattering of entangled photon pairs |
| March 23, 2023, 5-6 pm | Prof. Anthony Chan Carusone, University of Toronto, Alphawave Semi | GB119 | The Role of Co-Packaged Optics in our Connected Future |
| May 26, 2022, 3 pm | Prof. Roel Baets, Ghent University | GB303 | Heterogeneous Integration in Silicon Photonics |
| Nov. 12, 2021, 1 pm EST | Prof. Dirk R Englund, MIT | Zoom | Programmable Photonics for Quantum Information and Machine Learning |
| Oct. 22, 2021, 1 pm EST | Dr. Aaron Zilkie, Rockley Photonics | Zoom | Rockley Photonics: A Case Study of a High-Growth Silicon Photonics Start-Up |
| May 6, 2021, 10 am EST | Prof. Jianping Yao, University of Ottawa | Zoom View recording | Microwave Photonics |
| Apr. 15, 2021, 12 pm EDT | Prof. Kerry Vahala, Caltech | Zoom View recording | Microcombs: Unifying the optoelectronic spectrum at the chip scale |
| Mar. 4, 2021, 4 pm EST | Prof. Benjamin Eggleton, University of Sydney | Zoom View recording | A Renaissance in Brillouin scattering |
| Feb. 26, 2021, 12 pm EST | Prof. Bhavin Shastri, Queen’s University | Zoom View recording | Neuromorphic silicon photonics and applications |
| Jan. 20, 2021, 4 pm EST | Prof. Nader Engheta, University of Pennsylvania | Zoom Meeting ID: 811 4525 3617 | Structuring Light with Metaphotonics |
| Dec. 10, 2020, 12 pm | Prof. Andrew Weiner, Purdue University | Zoom View recording | High-Dimensional Frequency Domain Quantum Photonics |
| Nov. 12, 2020, 1 pm | Prof. Govind P, Agrawal, Rochester University | Zoom View recording | Space-Time Duality in Optics and its Applications |
| Feb. 19, 2020, 11 am | Prof. Sophie Larochelle, Laval University | GB 220 | Optical fibers and amplifiers for space division multiplexing |
| Jan. 17, 2020, 11 am | Prof. Qiaoqiang Gan, University at Buffalo | GB 221 | Hybrid solar-vapor generation and radiative cooling condensation: a cost-effective strategy for solar water sustainability |
| Oct. 16, 2019 10 am | Prof. Andrew Kirk, McGill University | 10 King’s College Rd., SF1101 | Photonic biosensing: opportunities and challenges |
| Sep. 10, 2019 1 pm | Prof. Mostafa El-Sayed, Georgia Institute of Technology | 1 King’s College Cir., MS 3153 | Nanotechnology Enables Hot Gold Nanorods to Kill Cancer Cells and to Stop Alive Sick Cells from Migrating to other Places in the Body |
| May 28, 2019 3 pm | Prof. Akira Furusawa, University of Tokyo | 35 St. George St., GB 303 | A time-domain multiplexed measurement-based large-scale optical quantum computer |
| June 12, 2019 2 pm | Prof. Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh, ICFO | 35 St. George St., GB 303 | Optical parametric oscillators: Fundamental concepts to advanced technology |
| May 16, 2019 4 pm | Dr. Hiroki Takesue, NTT | 35 St. George St., GB 303 | Coherent Ising machine: a photonic computer using network of degenerate optical parametric oscillators |
| Mar. 28, 2019 12 pm | Dr. Rohit P. Prasankumar, Los Alamos National Lab | 40 St. George St., BA 1170 | Shedding New Light on Dirac Materials with Nonlinear Optics |
| Jan. 21, 2019 1 pm | Dr. Sylvie Menezo, SCINTIL Photonics | 40 St. George St., BA 1170 | Lasers and modulators made from a new InP/Si heterogeneous integration process |
| Jan. 16, 2019 1 pm | Prof. Jian-Hua Jiang, Soochow University | 164 College St., RS 211 | Topological cavity states in two-dimensional photonic/phononic chips |
| Dec. 5, 2018 3 pm | Prof. Robert W. Boyd, University of Ottawa | 1 King’s College Cir., MS 3153 | Epsilon-Near-Zero Materials: How Light Behaves When the Refractive Index Vanishes |
