2020 Winter Workshop
Wednesday, January 8 (Immersion DAY)
Morning: Immersion Labs
Afternoon: Explore Tucson (e.g. Sabino Canyon tour)
Evening: Welcome reception dinner and Student Poster Session
Thursday, January 9 (CAREER DAY)
(All sessions at Optical Sciences 307)
8:15 Welcome: Dean Thomas Koch, University of Arizona
8:30 Colloquium: Prof. Daniel Marrone, University of Arizona
The Event Horizon Telescope – First Image of a Black Hole
9:30 Break
10:00 Cecile Chaix, Snap Inc. (UA Optics Alumna)
Snapshots from an early-career optical engineer
10:20 Zachary Newman, National Institute of Science and Technology (UA Optics Alumnus)
From grad school to national lab to start-up: A few things I’ve learned from my career in optics
10:40 Panel discussion: Chaix, Newman, Lumbres, Kieu, Kim
11:30 Lunch
12:30 Colloquium: Joseph Goodman, Stanford University
Lessons I’ve Learned in Optics
1:30 Break
1:45 Vasilly Astratov, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
From Microscopy to Nanoscopy Using Contact Dielectric Microspheres
2:15 Axel Schülzgen, University of Central Florida
Imaging through Glass-Air Disordered Optical Fiber
2:45 Break & Lab Tours (incl. Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab)
4:15 Ines Montano, Northern Arizona University
Optically Pumped Terahertz Quantum-Cascade Amplifier: A Model System for Quantum Coherence Effects
4:45 Arash Mafi, University of New Mexico
Research and Education in Optics and Photonics at UNM, and Embracing Disorder in Optics
5:15 Break
5:30 Jhen Lumbres, University of Arizona
Efforts in building astronomical instruments for detecting exoplanets with ground-based telescopes and citizen science
6:00 Lab Tours & Free Time
7:00 Banquet (Silver and Sage Room, UA campus)
After Dinner Speaker: James Wyant, University of Arizona
From Foot Scanners to Space Telescopes, and Everything in Between
Friday, January 10
(All sessions at Optical Sciences 307)
8:30 Colloquium: Gary Grim, National Ignition Facility/Lawrence Livermore Natl. Laboratory
An Introduction to Inertial Confinement Fusion
9:30 Meredith Kupinski, University of Arizona
Angle of Linear Polarization (AoLP) Images of Outdoor Scenes
10:00 Break
10:30 Mark Beck, Reed College,
Preparing our Students for Quantum 2.0
11:00 Nathan Lempke, Bethel University
Doppler-free spectroscopy in an optics teaching lab
11:30 Tom Milster, University of Arizona
The MODE Lens: Sensing for Signatures of Life on 1000 Earths
12:00 Lunch (Optical Sciences)
1:00 Lab Tours & Free Time
2:00 Scott Carney, University of Rochester
Computed Imaging
2:30 Richard Blackmon, Elon University
Optical Coherence Tomography for Breast Cancer
3:00 Break
3:15 Joseph Shaw, Montana State University
Advancing the Photonics Frontier in Montana
3:45 Euan McLeod, University of Arizona
4:15 Break
4:30 Dwight Whitaker, Pomona College
Optics and 17th Century Art
5:00 Colloquium: John Schaefer, University of Arizona
TBD
Free Time
7:00 Dinner