Stanford OSA/SPIE organizes technical seminars in a variety of optics-related fields for the general public. Most seminars are held on
Stanford campus in the Science & Engineering Quadrangle.
Since 2006, we have been partnering with groups like the Stanford Photonics Research Center and UC Berkeley OSA/SPIE to provide special events that include seminars.
As a new feature for 2007, we have begun to offer limited seating events, such as dinner after a seminar, with priority given to dues-paying
student OSA/SPIE members. To become a member or renew your membership, please click on the links on our home page!
For upcoming seminars please check our calendar under the "Home" tab
Spring 2006/07 Featured Seminars
- Thursday May 17 - Seminar, demo, Q&A with Dr. Richard Black from Photon Design (3pm AP299) [abstract]
- Thursday May 3 - Olympus Laser Confocal Microscopy seminar & demo (2:30pm AP299) [abstract]
Winter 2006/07 Featured Seminars
| Time/Place |
Speaker (Company) |
Title |
| Friday March 23, 2:30PM - Ginzton 31 (SW of courtyard) |
Dr. Sang-Yeup Kim, University of Tokyo |
High bit-rate transmission system based on multilevel coding combining coherent detection and digital signal processing
[abstract] |
| Friday March 23, 3:15PM - Ginzton 31 (SW of courtyard) |
Dr. Fong Kok Hann, University of Tokyo |
Passive mode-locking using single-wall carbon nanotubes
[abstract] |
| Tuesday March 20, 4:00PM - Applied Physcis 299 |
Donn Silberman, Founding Director, Optics Institute of Southern California
Engineer, Physik Instrumente |
Using Optics in Novel Ways for K-12 Education Outreach[abstract] |
| January 26th, 3:30pm, CISX-101 |
Dr. Tyler S. Ralston, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Real-time Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Microscopy:
Inverse Scattering for Optical Coherence Tomography
[abstract] |
Fall 2006/07 Featured Seminars
| Time/Place |
Speaker (Company) |
Title |
| December 20th |
Prof. Kenneth K. Y. Wong, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Hong Kong |
Recent Advances in Fiber Optical Parametric Amplifiers [abstract] |
| November 9th |
Dr. David Welch (Infinera) |
The Advantages of PIC based Digital Optical Networks [abstract] |
| October 19th |
Assistant Professor Daniel Palanker (Stanford University) |
Optoelectronic Retinal Prosthesis [abstract] |
| September 14th |
Dr. Harutyun A. Karapetyan (National Foundation of Science and Advanced Technologies (NFSAT)) |
Science and Optics in Armenia: Out with the Old, In with the New |
Previous Seminars
|
2006
|
| Date |
Speaker (Company) |
Title |
| April 27th |
Dr. Peter Hommelhoff (Stanford University) |
Field Emission Tip as a Nanometer Source of Free Electron Femtosecond Pulses |
| April 6th |
Dr. Azat Latypov (KLA-Tencor Corporation) |
Maskless lithography rasterization and SLM calibration algorithms and
methods: Survey of published approaches |
| March 9th |
Dr. Jim Kafka (Spectra-Physics) |
Ultrafast Lasers and Ultrafast Science |
| February 23rd |
Dr. Ofer Levi (Stanford University) |
Integrated Semiconductor Bio-Sensors for Cellular and Neural Imaging |
| February 16th |
Dr. Georg Schuele (Lumenis) |
Lasers in medicine |
| January 19th |
George Marcus (Stanford University) |
The Super-Conducting Accelerator Free Electron Laser (SCA FEL) at Stanford |
|
2005
|
| Date |
Speaker (Company) |
Title |
| November 17th |
Ken Milnes (Sportvision) |
Sports Broadcast Graphic Enhancements |
| November 10th |
Prof. Anthony E. Siegman (Stanford University) |
Optics with gain |
| October 13th |
Dr. Kevin Yasumura (Iolon) |
Tunable MEMS-Based Devices for Telecom Applications |
| June 2nd |
Hong C. Nguyen (University of Sydney) |
Tapered Photonic Crystal Fibres: Properties, Characterisation and
Applications |
| May 19th |
Dr. Brian E. Lemoff (Agilent Technologies) |
Gigabits to Terabits: A decade of Optical Interconnects Research at
Agilent Labs |
| May 5th |
Srini Kaza (Align Technology, Inc.) |
Manufacturing technology for Mass Customization of the Invisalign(TM)
Aligners |
| April 21 |
David Fattal (Stanford University) |
Photonic Quantum Information Processing |
| April, 14th |
Ruslan Belikov (Princeton University) |
Detecting Extra-Solar Earths: Shaped-Pupil Coronagraphy for NASA's TPF-C Mission |
| March, 3rd |
Nathan Gardner (Lumileds Lighting) |
High-Power Light Emitting Diodes and Their Application |
| February, 17th |
Dr. Barbara Paldus (Picarro) |
Advances in Optical Trace Detection |
|
2004
|
| Date |
Speaker (Company) |
Title |
| November, 11th |
Dr. Thomas Kane (Lightwave Electronics) |
Laser Technology at Lightwave Electronics |
| October, 26th |
Luigi Scaccabarozzi (J. Harris Group) |
Tightly Confining AlGaAs Waveguides and Photonic Crystal Microcavities for
Optical Frequency Conversion |
| October, 14th |
Dr. Ed Moses (LLNL) |
The National Ignition Facility: The World's Largest Optics and Laser System |
| June, 3rd |
Scott Yam (Kazovsky Group) |
Optical Networking: How Broad or How Deep Can You Go? |
| May, 3rd |
Yin-wen Lee (Byer Group) |
Ultralow-threshold Raman Lasers Using Dielectric Microspheres |
| April, 22th |
John Willison (Founder of Stanford Research Systems
and Former S. Harris Group Student) |
Atoms, Clocks and Dollars:
A Description of Product Development Using Table-top Physics and Trailing-edge Technology by Ginzton Lab Expatriates at a Post-entrepreneurial Company |
| April, 12th |
Supriyo Sinha (Byer Group) |
High Power Fiber Laser Research at Stanford University:
Applications towards Gravitational Wave Interferometry and Adaptive Optics
|
| February, 26th |
Omar Leung and Alex Payne (Silicon Light Machines) |
The Grating Light Valve: Technology and Applications |
If you have any questions, or can suggest a speaker, contact us.
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