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The Symposium Program PDF (225 KB)
Keynote Speaker Profiles PDF (92 KB)
Metamaterials Center Fact Sheet
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Speaker Presentations
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SphereOptics Technical Seminar and Product Demonstration originally scheduled for
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Has been Postponed to a later date
Please check back for information on a future date



Workshop - Presentations

Speaker Presentation Files

A majority of the presentations from the May '09 Metamaterials workshop are now available and can be viewed via secure web site access. Please note that the decision to share their work is up to the individual author(s). For more information please click on the link above. Thank you.


Metamaterials "The field of metamaterials is growing rapidly and is starting to impact our thinking about the design of...."
6th Annual CRI
Summer Conference
May 27 - 30, 2009


A New video from SPIE featuring Dr. Robert Tyson on how adaptive optics technology is poised to spread to new applications.

Click Here for Video


A video featuring OIDA president Michael Lebby
and Laser Focus World chief editor Steve Anderson contains an overview of OPTOmism conference
(May 18-20) content:

http://www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/359893


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2009 Global Venture Challenge UNC Charlotte team pictured left to right, students Terence Goveas, David Schroder, and Tanya Dias, Associate Professor Dr. Mohamed-Ali Hasan, and Ken Paulus, Assistant Director for Business and Entrepreneurial Development for the Charlotte Research Institute. Not pictured, Dr. Michael Fiddy.
Click Here for Charlotte Observer Article..
"UNCC team vies for world title."


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Joint ECE-Optics
Seminar

Tuesday
March 31, 2009

Larry Rowland
Owner,
Aymont Technology

Seminar Topic:
"Novel Silicon Carbide for Avalanche Photodiodes"



Grigg Room 132
2.00 - 3.30

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Olympus Show and
Equipment Demo

April 9th & 10th

Bring your samples, ask questions, capture images, measure, analyze and investigate.

For more info, Contact: Chris Dunkley

Tel: 919-601-1340

Email:

chris.dunkley@olympus.com

...Equipment List





Jobs: Optics Grads Wanted!
BS / MS / PhD

CLICK HERE






(from L to R - Aaron Cannistra, Mike Fiddy, Scott Williams)


(Booths 6170 - 6177)


Menelaos Poutous (left) and Scott Williams (right)






The Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA) and Laser Focus World are presenting "OPTOmism" Conference and Exhibition, "Photonics for the Green Revolution," May 18 - 20, 2009, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California. CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE is OCT. 31, 08. For more information and/or to regsiter, click on the link below:
http://opt09.events.pennnet.com/fl//index.cfm



5th Annual CRI Summer Workshop

Computational Imaging and Superresolution

June 10 - 12, 2008






Visit SPIE's new Cluster Directory

spie.org/clusters

"Optics and photonics clusters provide you the opportunity to network with industry and academic leaders in your region."







NCSLI Awards



Department of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science Distinguished Professor Dr. Robert Hocken presented Optics Graduate Student Amit Suratkar the NCSLI Award. The National Conference of Standards Laboratories International Award was also presented to Mechanical Engineering Student Charlie Stroup...




Optics Grad Student Mingzhen Tang wins award at Photonics West 2008!



OSA Student Chapter,
Creation and Officer Election


Pictured left to right, Choon How Gan, Daryl Purcell,
Kristin Walker, Mingzhen Tang and Javaid Ikram


The OSA Charlotte Student Chapter held its first meeting and elected officers on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2007 in the Optics Library. The elected President is Choon How Gan, Vice President is Mingzhen Tang, Secretary is Daryl Purcell, Treasurer is Kristin Walker and the Outreach Coordinator is Javaid Ikram.

Link to Student Chapter Website




OSA and SPIE on Campus

"Thank You" Lunch - Speaker "Meet & Greet"


OSA Charlotte Local Chapter President, Choon How Gan, and SPIE UNC Charlotte Student Chapter President, Amit Suratkar, held a “Thank You” lunch on November 9th in appreciation of the time and support given by those involved with the open-house and outreach events during the Optics Center’s Symposium Week on campus. The lunch was held at noon in the Optics Library and participants were many and included Friday's Seminar speaker, Dr. Shrenik Deliwala and his associate from Analog Devices, Inc.


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Congratulations to Mingzhen Tang,
Haitao Zhang and Tsing-Hua Her!


Please join us in congratulating Mingzhen Tang, Haitao Zhang and Tsing-Hua Her for the recognition they are receiving at Optics.org for their paper, "Self-assembly of tunable and highly uniform tungsten nanogratings induced by a femtosecond laser with nanojoule energy," being highlighted this week in the Journal of Nanotechnology!



Pictured left to Right Haitao Zhang,
Mingzhen Tang and Tsing-Hua Her




...upcoming events

6th Annual CRI Summer Workshop
May 27 - 30, 2009
MetaMaterials

Hosted by: Dr. Michael Fiddy
The Center for Optoelectronics and Optical Communications
235 Grigg Hall, Applied Optics and Physics Building


Friday Optics Seminars
Spring 2009 Seminar Series
Center for Optoelectronics and Optical Communications
at UNC Charlotte



...Symposia Info


7th Annual Symposium

November 6, 2008
7th Annual Symposium on Solar Power

Hosted by: Dr. Michael Fiddy
The Center for Optoelectronics and Optical Communications
235 Grigg Hall, Applied Optics and Physics Building




Highlights of the 6th Annual Symposium

November 1, 2007

Keynote Speaker: Nobel Laureate William D. Phillips
Hosted by: Dr. Michael Fiddy
Photonics.com Article
The Center for Optoelectronics and Optical Communications
235 Grigg Hall, Applied Optics and Physics Building



...Workshop Info

 

Highlights of the 5th CRI Workshop
Computational Imaging and Superresolution
June 10 - 12, 2008

 
 
 
Highlights of the 4th CRI Workshop
The Physics of Microresonators
June 6 - 9, 2007

The 4th CRI Workshop held at UNC Charlotte’s Optoelectronics Center and hosted by the Charlotte Research Institute and Drs. Robert Wilhelm, Michael Fiddy and Vasily Astratov rang with resounding success, bringing together the brightest stars in the field of microresonator exploration for two and a half presentation-packed days and a spirited discourse that had attendees anticipating a topic for next year’s yet-to-be-titled 5th CRI Workshop. A good time was shared by all.

 



 


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Optics Grads Wanted!

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The Nobel Prize
in Physics 2009

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


Optoelectronics Center
Calendar of Events


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SPIE Student Chapter
Web Site



OSA Student Chapter
Web Site

Jobs: Optics Grads Wanted!
BS / MS / PhD

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Optics Center PowerPoint
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