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Colloquium
The OSC Colloquium series is a dynamic forum for the interchange of ideas, techniques and research in all areas of optics, wherein academic scholars and industry leaders lead discussions about groundbreaking research and open the floor to questions and comments. Students, faculty members, members of the optics community and the public are all invited to attend.
Colloquium is held on Thursday in Meinel 307 each week during the academic year.
- Colloquium Lecture Series Coordinator: Kristin Stone
Fall 2020 & Spring 2021 Lectures
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Thursday, December 3, 2020 - 3:30pm - 5:00pmSpeaker: Shanhui Fan Topic: Visit our website for future lecture dates and speaker information: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium For a list of our archived lectures: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium/archive
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Thursday, November 19, 2020 - 3:30pm - 5:00pmSpeaker: Boubacar Kante Topic: Visit our website for future lecture dates and speaker information: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium For a list of our archived lectures: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium/archive
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Thursday, November 12, 2020 - 3:30pm - 5:00pmSpeaker: Euan McLeod Topic: Visit our website for future lecture dates and speaker information: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium For a list of our archived lectures: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium/archive
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Thursday, November 5, 2020 - 3:30pm - 5:00pmSpeaker: Andrei Faraon Topic: Visit our website for future lecture dates and speaker information: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium For a list of our archived lectures: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium/archive
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Thursday, October 29, 2020 - 3:30pm - 5:00pmSpeaker: Ed Boyden Topic: Optical Tools for Analyzing and Repairing Complex Biological Systems Visit our website for future lecture dates and speaker information: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium For a list of our archived lectures: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium/archive
To enable the understanding and repair of complex biological systems, such as the brain, we are creating novel optical tools that enable molecular-resolution maps of such systems, as well as technologies for observing and controlling high-speed physiological dynamics in such systems. First...
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Thursday, October 15, 2020 - 3:30pm - 5:00pmSpeaker: Marin Soljacic Topic: New physics from photonic systems Visit our website for future lecture dates and speaker information: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium For a list of our archived lectures: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium/archive
Nanophotonics offers unprecedented opportunities to mold the flow of light: novel material-systems can thus be implemented in which laws of physics can be tailored almost at will. I will describe this on a few recent examples from our work: non-Abelian topology, new framework for understanding...
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Thursday, October 8, 2020 - 3:30pm - 5:00pmSpeaker: Mark Schnitzer Topic: Optical imaging of brain dynamics Visit our website for future lecture dates and speaker information: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium For a list of our archived lectures: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium/archive
Optical techniques have become central to research at the forefront of brain science and are still rapidly increasing in their breadth and importance to the field. For instance, the U.S. BRAIN Initiative has as one of its priorities the aim of fostering continued innovation in this domain. I...
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Thursday, October 1, 2020 - 3:30pm - 5:00pmSpeaker: Hui Cao Topic: Mesoscopic Optics Visit our website for future lecture dates and speaker information: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium For a list of our archived lectures: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium/archive
Random scattering of light, e.g., in paint, cloud and biological tissue, is a common process of both fundamental interest and practical relevance. The interference of multiply scattered waves leads to remarkable phenomena in mesoscopic physics such as Anderson localization and universal...
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Thursday, September 24, 2020 - 3:30pm - 5:00pmSpeaker: Tom Baer Topic: “Optics and Photonics in the COVID 19 and climate change era” Visit our website for future lecture dates and speaker information: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium For a list of our archived lectures: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium/archive
The global challenges of the COVID 19 pandemic and the longer term effects of climate change require coordinated efforts by the scientific and engineering communities to provide accurate information to government officials to guide them as they put in place evidenced-based governmental...
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Thursday, September 17, 2020 - 3:30pm - 5:00pmSpeaker: Hatice Altug Topic: Nanophotonics: Enabling Technology for Next-Generation Biosensors Visit our website for future lecture dates and speaker information: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium For a list of our archived lectures: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium/archive
New healthcare initiatives with global health, precision medicine and point-of-care diagnostics are demanding breakthrough developments in biosensing and bioanalytical tools. Current biosensors are lacking precision, bulky, and costly, as well as they require long detection times, sophisticated...
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Thursday, September 10, 2020 - 3:30pm - 5:00pmSpeaker: Harry Atwater Topic: Three Grand Challenges for Nanophotonics Visit our website for future lecture dates and speaker information: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium For a list of our archived lectures: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium/archive
Research in nanophotonics, the science of light-matter interactions below the optical wavelength scale, is yielding advances that are opening paths for conceptually new “grand challenge” photonic technologies that have not previously been achievable. I will discuss three...
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Thursday, September 3, 2020 - 3:30pm - 5:00pmSpeaker: Jonathan Fan Topic: Data Driven Strategies in Inverse Electromagnetics Design Visit our website for future lecture dates and speaker information: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium For a list of our archived lectures: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium/archiveIn this talk, I will discuss new advances in the inverse design of freeform electromagnetic devices. Myfocus will be on a new optimization strategy based on global topology optimization networks, termedGLOnets, in which the global optimization process is reframed as the...Thursday, August 27, 2020 - 3:30pm - 5:00pmSpeaker: George Barbastathis Topic: AI-enhanced vision: seeing the invisible Visit our website for future lecture dates and speaker information: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium For a list of our archived lectures: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/news-events/events/colloquium/archiveIf you point your camera to a scene, and the camera registers nothing—does it mean thatnothing was really there? Hardly! The camera pixels measure “raw” light intensity where theencoded information often is much richer than a human observer could tell...
