Workshop 2016
The goal of the Optics and Photonics Workshop is to provide a forum for faculty and students from predominately undergraduate institutes to share results, approaches, and methodologies in optics & photonics research and education that are unique to the undergraduate setting. Participants are invited to give presentations on optics related research and its contribution to undergraduate education, or more broadly on the role of optics in undergraduate education at your institution. At the same time, keynote presentations will provide examples of cutting-edge research and some of the exciting opportunities that await students beyond the undergraduate level.
The workshop will consist of a mix of talks over 2 full days by participating faculty, select undergraduate students, keynote speakers, and a poster session for undergraduate students. Lab tours will also be available at the conclusion of the Workshop.
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2016 Workshop Schedule
Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016
7:00 Welcome Reception and Undergraduate Poster Session
Friday, Jan. 8, 2016
Morning Session Moderator: Masud Mansuripur
8:30 Dean’s Welcome
8:45 Keynote: Eric Mazur, Harvard University
Confessions of a Converted Lecturer
10:00 Break
10:30 Kevin Jones, Williams College
Michelsons all the way down: Optics Experiments in the Williams College Physics Curriculum
11:00 Chad Hoyt, Bethel University
Low-cost fiber laser frequency combs for open-ended laboratory projects
11:30 Ertan Salik, California State Polytechnic University – Pomona
Optics Lecture, Lab, and Projects on Fiber Optic Sensors at Cal Poly Pomona.
12:00-1:30 Lunch
Afternoon Session Moderator: Dae Wook Kim
1:30 John Koshel, University of Arizona
The PhD Program in Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona
1:55 Lowell McCann , University of Wisconsin – River Falls
ALPhA’s Impacts on Undergraduate Physics
2:15 Angela Ludvigsen, University of Wisconsin – River Falls
Whispering Gallery Modes Used to Characterize Levitated Aerosol Droplets in an Optical Trap
2:30 Ramen Bahuguna, San Jose State University
On Wave Particle Duality And The Classical Analog of Single Photon Double-Slit Experiment
3:00 Break
3:30 Jenny Magnes, Vassar College
Live Diffraction Patterns as a Path to Fourier Transforms
4:00 Jonathan Friedman, Puerto Rico Photonics Institute
Optics and Photonics for Space Weather Research.
4:30 Michael Hart, University of Arizona)
Adaptive Optics in Astronomy
5:00 Lab tours and free time
7:00 Banquet
Speaker: Prof. Roger Angel (University of Arizona), Optics, Photonics, and Solar Energy
Saturday, Jan. 9, 2016
Morning Session Moderator: Poul Jessen
8:30 Keynote: Charles Falco, University of Arizona
Optics at the Dawn of the Renaissance
9:15 Robert Bunch, Rose Hulman Institute of Technology
Evolution of optical engineering senior capstone design and curriculum
9:45 Alex Small, California State Polytechnic University – Pomona
Teaching Computation in Optics and Information Literacy in Computation
10:15 Break
10:45 Theresa Lynn, Harvey Mudd College
Toward Quantum Communication with Qudits: Measuring Orbital Angular Momentum Entangled Photon Pairs from SPDC
11:15 Arjendu Pattanayak, Carleton College
Entanglement in a 2-qubit system is related to the classical dynamics
11:45 Hyung Choi, Greenville College
Going beyond Bell¹s Inequalities by Quantum Hyper-entanglement
12:15 Lunch
Afternoon Session Moderator: R. Jason Jones
1:45 Rufino Diaz Uribe, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
The development of Optics at the UNAM
2:15 R. Jason Jones, University of Arizona
Ultrafast optics from seconds to attoseconds
2:45 Austin Riedeman, Bethel University
Inexpensive ultrafast optics laboratory projects with mode-locked erbium fiber lasers
3:00 Break
3:30 Euan McLeod, University of Arizona
Developing field-portable biomedical imaging technologies
4:00 Final remarks
4:15 Discussion: Ideas and plans for future workshops
4:45 Lab tours and free time
7:00 Group Dinner
Sunday, Jan. 9, 2016
Activities (e.g. hiking, museums, exploring Tucson) can be arranged for those interested who are leaving later in the day.
Confirmed Faculty Attendees
- Ramen Bahuguna, San Jose State University
- Chad Hoyt, Bethel University
- Lifeng Dong, Hamline University
- Lowell McCann, University of Wisconsin River Falls
- Ertan Salik, Cal Poly Pomona
- Rufino Diaz Uribe, Univ Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
- Robert Bunch, Rose-Hulman
- Kevin Jones, Williams College
- Alex Small, Cal Poly Pomona
- Hyung Choi, Greenville College
- Arjendu Pattanayak, Carleton College
- Theresa Lynn, Harvey Mudd College
- Jenny Magnes, Vassar College