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Optics Seminar Series for Fall 2008

All Seminars Held in Grigg Applied Physics & Optics Building Room 132


Fridays 2:00 - 3:00 pm unless otherwise indicated

Date          
Speaker/Topic                        
   
Monday, Aug. 25
FIRST DAY OF CLASSES
Friday, Aug. 29
No Optics Seminar Scheduled
Monday, Sept. 1
LABOR DAY- UNIVERSITY CLOSED
Friday, Sept. 5
Solar Power Brainstorming Session
Friday, Sept. 12
Solar Power Brainstorming Session Part 2
Friday, Sept. 19
Dr. Stephen R. Mosier
Vice Chancellor for Research & Federal Relations
UNC Charlotte
Seminar Topic: "Export control issues and technology management plans"
Friday, Sept. 25
Friday, Sept. 26
Dr. Vladislav V. Yakovlev
Department of Physics
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Seminar Topic: "Imaging, manipulating, and controlling the dynamics of single molecules with light"
...more information
Friday, Oct. 3
Dr. Weiguo "Bill" Yang
Assistant Professor of Engineering and Technology
Western Carolina University
Seminar Topic: "Single section passive mode-locked multi-spatial-mode semiconductor lasers"
...more information
Friday, Oct. 10
Dr. Virendra (Vini) N Mahajan
The Aerospace Corporation
El Segundo, CA

Seminar Topic: "Orthonormal polynomials for wavefront analysis"
...more information
Mon & Tues, Oct. 13 - 14
FALL BREAK- NO CLASSES
Friday, Oct. 17


Dr. Manijeh Razeghi
Walter P. Murphy Professor and Director,
Center for Quantum Devices, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University
Seminar Topic:
"Building a Better Infrared Laser with Band Structure Engineering"
...more information
Sun - Thur, Oct. 19 - 23
OSA's Frontiers in Optics 2008, Laser Science XXIV, Rochester
Friday, Oct. 24
Zoya Volynskaya
G.R.Harrison Spectroscopy Lab, MIT
Seminar Topic: "Diagnosis of Breast Cancer: a Spectroscopic Approach"
...more information
Friday, Oct. 31
Dr. Christopher J. Fecko
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
UNC Chapel Hill
Seminar Topic: "Imaging protein dynamics at transcriptionally active genes"
...more information
Monday, Nov. 3

(CXLD to be rescheduled)
Dr. Nan Marie Jokerst
Professor, J.A. Jones Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Duke University
Seminar Topic:“Integrated Photonics, Plasmonics, and Metamaterials for Optical Interfaces, Signal Distribution, Chip Scale Sensing, and Imaging”
Friday, Nov. 7
No Optics Seminar Scheduled
(Center Annual Symposium on Nov. 6th)
Nov. 9 - 13
Friday, Nov. 14
Special time: 3PM - 4
Dr. Daniel James
Department of Physics
University of Toronto
Seminar Topic: "Quantum Information"

...more information
Nov. 18 - 20
HONET
Friday, Nov. 21
Dr. Stephen R. Mosier
Vice Chancellor for Research & Federal Relations
UNC Charlotte
Seminar Topic: "Update On Export control issues and technology management plans"
Wed, Nov. 26
THANKSGIVING - NO CLASSES
Thu & Fri Nov. 27 & 28
THANKSGIVING - UNIVERSITY CLOSED
Sat, Nov. 29
THANKSGIVING - NO CLASSES
Friday, Dec. 5
No Optics Seminar Scheduled
Tuesday, Dec. 9
LAST DAY OF CLASSES
Thursday, Dec. 11
FIRST DAY OF EXAMS
Friday, Dec. 12
Dr. Jitto Titus
Photonics Material Research Laboratory,
Auburn University, Auburn, AL
Seminar Topic: "The Studies of the Nonlinear Optical Properties of an Organic Polymer: DAST and Specific Non-Conjugated Conductive Nano-Polymers"
...more information


Communications and Networks related seminars are co-sponsored by the
IEEE Charlotte Communication Society
 

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