|| Full Program in PDF || UNC Charlotte || Optics Center || Register for Workshop || Conference Overview ||
Wednesday, June 6
7:00pm - 9:00pm |
Reception at Witherspoon Residence Hall (Hors d'oeuvres and Drinks Buffet) |
Thursday, June 7
| Click to View Full Printed Program - 35 pages - PDF - (1.08MB) | |
| OR | |
| Click the Speaker's Name Listed Below to Browse their individual Abstract/Biography |
|
7:30 - 8:30am |
Breakfast Thursday |
8:30 - 9:00 |
Opening Remarks  Robert Wilhelm, UNC Charlotte Welcome  Michael Fiddy, UNC Charlotte Introduction  Vasily Astratov, UNC Charlotte |
9:00 - 9:30 |
Applications of crystalline WGM resonators in microwave photonics Andrey B. Matsko, Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
9:30 - 10:00 |
Slow Wave Structures in Micro and Nano Photonics Shayan Mookherjea, University California San Diego |
10:00 - 10:15am |
Break - Thursday AM |
10:15 - 11:00 |
Nonlinear Optics and Optomechanics using High-Q Micro-resonators Kerry Vahala, Caltech |
11:00 - 11:45 |
Excitonic and Plasmonic Strong-coupling in Microcavities Jeremy J. Baumberg, University of Southampton, UK |
11:45 - 12:00 |
NSF and its photonics program overview Rongqing Hui, National Science Foundation |
12 Noon - 1:00pm |
Lunch Thursday |
1:00 - 1:45 |
Ultra-fast modulation of high confinement structures on a silicon chip Michal Lipson, Cornell University |
1:45 - 2:15 |
Micro/nanofibers and microfiber coil resonators Misha Sumetsky, OFS Laboratories |
2:15 - 2:45 |
Coherence Phenomena in Coupled Optical Resonators David D. Smith, NASA |
2:45 - 3:00 |
Multifunctional Materials Research Interests John T. Prater, Army Research Office |
3:00 - 3:15pm |
Break - Thursday PM |
3:15 - 4:00 |
Photonic Nanojets Allen Taflove, Northwestern University |
4:00 - 4:30 |
Optical transport phenomena in coupled spherical cavities Vasily Astratov, University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
4:30 - 5:00 |
Bound Modes in Arrays of Spherical Particles Alexander L. Burin, Tulane University |
6:00pm |
Depart for Duke Mansion for Dinner (Transportation Provided) (Information) |
6:45pm |
Cocktails at Duke Mansion |
7:30pm |
Dinner at Duke Mansion |
Friday, June 8
7:30 - 8:30am |
Breakfast Friday |
8:30 - 9:15 |
Silicon integrated nanophotonics for on-chip optical interconnects Yurii A. Vlasov, IBM |
9:15 - 9:45 |
Photonic crystal microcavity: from weak to strong coupling Tomoyuki Yoshie, Duke University |
9:45 - 10:15 |
Photonic Crystals for Quantum and Classical Information Processing Ilya Fushman, Stanford University |
10:15 - 10:30am |
Break - Friday AM |
10:30 - 11:00 |
Ultra-high Q Resonators for On-Chip Si Photonics Applications Ali Adibi, Georgia Tech. |
11:00 - 11:30 |
High-Q Microcavities for Biosensing and Light Manipulation Frank Vollmer, Harvard University |
11:30 - 12:00 |
Optical Forces and Slow Light in Microresonators Michelle L. Povinelli, Stanford University |
12 Noon - 1:00pm |
Lunch Friday |
1:00 - 1:45 |
Polymer Microring and Glass Microtube Resonators and Their Sensor Applications L. Jay Guo, University of Michigan |
1:45 - 2:15 |
Optofluidic ring resonators: properties, characterization, and applications Xudong (Sherman) Fan, University of Missouri-Columbia |
2:15 - 2:45 |
Spectral and spatial filters for passive and active devices Eric G. Johnson, University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
2:45 - 3:00 |
Perturbations of WGMs in microcavities caused by embedded nanoparticles Kirankumar R. Hiremath, University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
3:00 - 3:15pm |
Break - Friday PM |
3:15 - 4:00 |
Whispering-Gallery Chemical Sensors and Quantum-Dot Microlasers Albert T. Rosenberger, Oklahoma State University |
4:00 - 4:30 |
Feedback in random lasers Mikhail A. Noginov, Norfolk State University |
4:30 - 5:00 |
Nonlinear optical properties of planar microcavities and 1D photonic crystals Marco Liscidini, University of Toronto |
5:00 - 5:30 |
Resonating Microstructures: a Fourier optics perspective Markus Testorf, Dartmouth College |
5:30 - 5:45 |
Whispering gallery resonances in semiconductor micropillars Seungmoo Yang, University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
7:00pm |
Dinner in Courtyard on Campus "Beach Party" Theme (Catered) |
Saturday, June 9
7:30 - 8:30am
|
Breakfast Saturday |
8:30 - 10:30 |
Wrap Up |
11:30am |
Depart for Catawba Queen |
12:30 - 2:30pm |
Lunch on the Catawba Queen (Transportation Provided) (Information) |
2:30 |
Disembark and Depart for Campus |
3:00pm |
Arrive on Campus |
| End Conference | |