Congratulations to Wyant College fourth-year doctoral student, Joel Berkson, on this amazing accomplishment. On October 11, Tech Launch Arizona hosted its ninth annual I-Squared Awards and Expo event selected Joel for the Student Innovator of the Year award.

Recent alumnus (Wyant College, MS '22), and Watts Up! featured Grad Dad, was interviewed by his employer, Waymo, to discuss his work on lidar and driverless vehicles.

Pitch the business plan for your optics and photonics startup to industry professionals and gain expert advice, visibility with the VC funders, network building, and the chance to win cash and prizes.

A big welcome to Erika Lopez. New accountant for the Wyant College, Erika is originally from California and moved to Tucson in 2003.

Saikat Guha

In this talk, I will give an overview and glimpses of research at and surrounding the NSF-ERC Center for Quantum Networks (CQN). The objective of CQN is to design and build the foundational technologies to realize fault-tolerant long-distance quantum networking supported by repeaters and satellite connections, guided by an applications roadmap and deliberate research on long-term societal impacts.

Gaston Baudet

Wavefront (WF) sensing is essential in many fields such as adaptive optics (AO), qualitative ophthalmic measurement or optical testing and alignment, to name few. For instance, in the context of telescopes, especially reflectors, alignment of the optical surfaces (mirrors and field lenses) is critical for reaching the diffraction limit.