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Archive of Spring 2007

Optics Seminar Series & Other Center Events


All Seminars Held in Grigg Applied Physics & Optics Building Room 132


Date          
Speaker/Topic                        
Monday, January 8
FIRST DAY OF CLASSES
Monday, January 15
MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY, NO CLASSES
Friday, January 19
Dr. Robert Ingel
Formerly of U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C.
Can you get accurate solutions by removing 75% or more of your data points?
Friday, January 26
No Seminar: Photonics West 2007
Friday, February 9



Dr. Cai presented a special joint Math/Optics Seminar February 9th at 2pm.
Dr. Phil Brown (11am - Noon)
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson
TEXTILE FIBERS: Can They Really do That?

Dr. Wei Cai (2:00 - 3:00pm)
Mechanical Engineering Department, Stanford University
Brittle and Ductile Failure Mechanisms of Semiconductor Nanowires
Friday, February 16


ZHANG SEMINAR PHOTOS

Dr. Ying Zhang
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Hierarchical Design Synthesis and Optimization of MEMS
Friday, February 23


LEE SEMINAR PHOTOS

Dr. Stephen J. Lee
Chemical Sciences Division, U.S. Army Research Office
Basic Research for Hazardous Materials Management, Homeland Security, and Defense
Friday, March 2


BAER SEMINAR PHOTOS

Dr. Thomas M. Baer
Stanford Photonics Research Center, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University
Vice-President of the Optical Society of America (OSA)
"Advances in Cancer Detection and Diagnosis: The Revolution in Bioimaging and Micro-molecular Analysis"

March 5 - 9
SPRING BREAK, NO CLASSES
Friday, March 16

GALLIPPI SEMINAR PHOTOS

Caterina M. Gallippi, Ph.D.
Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, UNC Chapel Hill
MUS and ARFI Ultrasound for Enhanced Delineation of Atherosclerosis

Friday, March 23

Dr. Robert K. Tyson
Department of Physics and Optical Science, UNC Charlotte
"A View of the Celtic Tiger"

Friday, March 30

LIU SEMINAR PHOTOS

Dr. Ke Liu
Center for Optoelectronics & Optical Communications
UNC Charlotte, Charlotte NC
"Interaction of CdSe/ZnS quantum dots: among themselves and with matrices"

Friday, April 13

FEOFILOV SEMINAR PHOTOS

Dr. Sergey Feofilov
Researcher, University of Georgia, Athens GA USA
and
Solid State Optics Department at
A.F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
"Optical Studies of Insulating Nanocrystals Doped with Rare Earth and Transition Metal Ions "

Friday, April 20

YE SEMINAR PHOTOS


Dr. Tong Ye
Research Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry,
Duke University, Durham, NC  27708

Topic: “Two-photon Absorption Microscopy –
Toward Early Melanoma Detection In Vivo”

Monday, April 23
6:00pm Seminar
5:30pm Reception

Dr. Hugo Thienpont
CRI Distinguished Visiting Scholar
Charlotte Research Institute, Charlotte NC
Topic: "European Network of Excellence on Micro-optics (NEMO)"

Tuesday, April 24

Dr. Hugo Thienpont
CRI Distinguished Visiting Scholar
Charlotte Research Institute, Charlotte NC
Topic: "Industry-University Projects"

Tuesday, May 1
LAST DAY OF SPRING SEMESTER
   


Archive of Spring 2007 Optics Center Events

Photonics West 2007
Carolinas MicroOptics Triangle Neighborhood
Exhibition: January 23 - 25, 2007
Conference: January 20 -25, 2007
San Jose, California USA
SPIE Site Information

Carolinas Photonics Day at NC State University
Monday, February 5th, 2007
Monteith Research Center, Room 136/246
Centennial Campus, Raleigh
http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/innovators

Carolinas Photonics Day at Duke
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
8:00am to 5:00pm
Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics
Duke University - Durham, North Carolina
Jeff Conley (864) 325-4700 jcon@charter.net

Graduate Student Research Fair
Flyer_Research_Fair_2007_FINAL.pdf
Saturday, March 31, 2007
9:30AM to 4PM
New College of Education
Abstracts Due Feb. 2nd: http://www.sco.uncc.edu/gpsg/

SPIE Members (Including Dr. Michael Fiddy)
Emphasize Importance of R & D Funding to Congress

Congress Hears about R&D Funding from Hundreds of Constituents
May 1st and 2nd, 2007
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