Photonics Seminar Series

This seminar series is meant to provide an opportunity for the Photonics community at USC to interact with researchers within and outside the University. We will be featuring a mixture of USC student speakers and outside guests. For further information, please contact Jing Ma (jingm [at] usc [dot] edu) or Professor Michelle Povinelli (povinell [at] usc [dot] edu).

Spring 2011 Seminars 

• Thursday, Feb. 24, 1:00-2:00pm in SSL 150
  Integrated optical sensors for portable biomedical sensing and imaging
  Prof. Ofer Levi, University of Toronto

• Thursday, Feb. 10, 1-2pm in EEB 248
  Photothermal Excitation for Ultrafast Micro and Nanofluid Systems and Biomedical Applications
  Prof. Eric P. Y. Chiou, UCLA

 

Fall 2010 Seminars 

• Thursday, Nov. 18, 12:45-1:45pm in SSL 150
  Metal optics at the nano-scale: from basic physics to integrated optoelectronic applications
  Dr. Peter Catrysse, Stanford

• Thursday, Nov. 11, 1-2pm in EEB 248
  Extending the Photonics Toolbox with Plasmonic Super Absorbers and Active Optical Metamaterials
  Dr. Koray Aydin, Caltech

 

Summer 2010 Seminars 

• Friday, Jun. 25, 2-3pm in SSL 150
  Quantum Information Processing on Photonic Chips
  Prof. Dirk Englund, Columbia University

 

Spring 2010 Seminars 

• Thursday, Apr. 29, 1-2pm in EEB 248
  Photonics based Telemedicine Technologies toward Smart Global Health Systems
  Prof. Aydogan Ozcan, UCLA

• Thursday, Apr. 22, 1-2pm in EEB 248
  Prof. Shayan Mookherjea, UCSD

• Thursday, Apr. 15, 1-2pm in EEB 248
  Plasmonic Super Resolution Imaging
  Prof. Zhaowei Liu, UCSD

• Monday, Mar. 29, 1-2pm in EEB 248
  Optical Interference for Nanoscale Biological Imaging and Detection
  Prof. M. Selim Ünlü, Boston University

• Thursday, Mar. 25, 1-2pm in EEB 248
  Student talk
  Large tuning of birefringence in two strip silicon waveguidesvia optomechanical motion, Jing Ma
  In-Plane Thermally Tuned Silicon-on-Insulator Wavelength Selective Reflector, Lawence Stewart

• Thursday, Mar. 11, 1-2pm in EEB 248
  Resonant single sideband modulators
  Dr. Andrey Matsko, OEwaves Inc.

• Friday, Jan. 29, 4-5pm in SSC 319
  Disorder-immune slow light with topological electromagnetic modes
  Dr. Zheng Wang, MIT

• Wednesday, Jan. 27, 10-11am in SSC 319
  Symmetry-induced modal dispersion in CROW's
  Prof. Jacob Scheuer, Tel Aviv University