Sesquicentennial
Year of Maxwell's Equations and International Year of Light at UIUC
Grainger Auditorium, 1002 ECEB
Saturday
Sept. 26th, 2015
Agenda
(Hosts: W. C. Chew, E. Kudeki, G. Popescu, K. Choquette)
· 8:45 – 9:00 - Welcome:
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William Sanders (Department Head, ECE, UIUC)
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Kent Choquette (President Elect, IEEE Photonic Society and UIUC)
· 9:00 – 9:50
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Andrew
Weiner (Purdue University)
§ Keynote:
Ultrafast and Broadband Photonic Signal Processing
· 9:50 – 10:00
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Coffee
Break
· 10:00 – 10:50
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David
Schuster (University of Chicago)
§ Keynote:
Microwaves are photons too: Manipulating single microwave photons with circuits
· 10:50 – 11:00
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Coffee
Break
· 11:00 – 11:30
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Virginia
Lorenz (Physics, UIUC)
§ Engineering photonic quantum states
for quantum applications
· 11:30 – 12:50
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Lunch
Break and Discussion (lunch supplied to invitees only)
· 12:50 – 1:20
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Kimani
Toussaint (MechSE, UIUC)
§ Mutlifunctional
plasmonic nanoantennas
· 1:20 – 1:50
§ Metamorphosis
of the transistor into a laser
· 1:50 – 2:00
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Coffee
break
· 2:00 – 2:30
§ Casimir
Force, Quantum Optics, and Computational EM
· 2:30 – 3:00
§ Imaging
the True Colors of Cancer
· 3:00 – 3:40
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Student
Poster Session
· 3:40
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Poster
Award Ceremony