Event Details & Agenda

Spring 2026 Dates:
February 16 – 18

 
Tips for a Successful IA Meeting | Attend Virtually on Tuesday | PDF Agenda Coming Soon!

MONDAY, February 16, 2026

10:00 AM – 1:00 PM IA Corporate Showcase Set Up
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Student Poster Sessions with Networking & Light Snacks
3:00 PM – 6:00 PM IA Member Corporate Showcase
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM Dinner
7:30 PM – 8:00 PM Showcase Breakdown & Pack Up

TUESDAY, February 17, 2026

Attend Today’s Presentations Virtually 

 

7:45 AM – 9:00 AM Welcome Breakfast
9:01 AM – 9:16 AM Group Photo
9:17 AM – 9:27 AM Welcome and Wyant College of Optical Sciences Update, Dean Brian Anderson
9:32 AM – 10:12 AM Keynote Speaker, Cat Merrill
10:13 AM – 10:33 AM Faculty Talk, Yuzuru Takashima
10:40 AM – 10:45 AM Student Talk, James Taylor
10:46 AM – 10:51 AM Hill Tailor – Metrology Techniques to Fabricate Wedged Geometry for Segmented X-ray Mirror Assemblies   
10:52 AM – 11:07 AM John Bass – Precise holographic field modulation with four-phase encoding 
11:08 AM – 11:28 AM Break
10:26 AM – 10:31 AM Faculty Talk, Yeran Bai
11:29 AM – 11:34 AM Jiabin Chen – Deep Ultraviolet Microscopy for Stain-Free Tissue Imaging and Cytology Diagnostics   
11:35 AM – 11:40 AM Patrick Cornwall – Computational Imaging for Skin Lesion Assessment Using Synthetic Waves 
11:41 AM – 11:46 AM Lily McKenna – Optimizing a liquid crystal Mueller polarimeter for imaging corneal birefringence 
11:47 AM– 12:07 PM Faculty Talk, Cris Panda
12:08 PM – 12:13 PM Atkin Hyatt – Torsional Quantum Optomechanics 
12:14 PM – 12:19 PM Alana Gonzales – Designing an Endoscope for Stomach Cancer Detection with Optical Coherence Tomography and Elastography 
12:20 PM – 12:40 PM Walk to Bear Down Gym
12:41 PM – 1:58 PM Lunch
1:59 PM – 2:09 PM Walk back to GCRB
2:10 PM – 2:25 PM Academics Update, John Koshel 
2:26 PM – 2:36 PM SOCk and OFA Presentation
2:37 PM – 2:57 PM Industry Update, John Yoon, SPIE
2:58 PM – 3:18 PM Faculty Talk, Mark Spencer
3:19 PM – 3:29 PM Laura Sawyer – Exploring photocatalytic mechanisms via ultrafast time-resolved spectroscopy 
3:30 PM – 3:40 PM Clarissa DeLeon – Sky Polarization Neutral Point Tracking for Monitoring Atmospheric Aerosols 
3:41 PM – 4:00 PM Break
4:01 PM – 5:30 PM Curriculum and Workforce Round Table, John Koshel
4:01 PM -5:30 PM Open Labs

WEDNESDAY, February 18, 2026

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM Networking Breakfast
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Mirror Lab Tours*
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM Fairwell Pizza Lunch
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Student Interviews**

*Please be advised that all Mirror Lab tour spots are now full. Advance sign-ups are now closed. 

**Opportunities for student interviews are available throughout the meeting and must be pre-arranged through registration.