Past Activities



We hold the Photonics Seminar Series in which speakers are invited from universities and companies to give talks about their exciting research. The seminars are held approximately once a month. We also have visitor seminars occasionally. Below is a list of previous seminars.



Nov 12, 2009


Turning Tissues Transparent by Time-Reversing Light
Changhuei Yang
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering
California Institute of Technology




Oct 15, 2009


Nonlinear Fiber Optics: New Fibers - New Oppotunities
John Dudley
Professor of University of Franche-Comte, France
Director of FEMTO-ST Optoelectronics and Photonics Research Section



Sep 17, 2009


Integration of Nanostructures for Sensor Systems
Axel Scherer
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics, and Physics
Co-Director of Kalvi Nanoscience Institute
California Institute of Technology



Sep 8, 2009


Nitrides for Illumination - towards a New Approach
Henning Riechert
Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik, Berlin



May 21, 2009


Opto-Electronic Oscillators
Prakash Koonath
Seinor Engineer
OE Waves

Integrated Microfluidics, Photonics, and Acoustics for Biomedical System-on-a-Chip
Yuhwa Lo
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, San Diego



May 18, 2009


Dielectric Optical Antenna Emitters and Metamaterials
Jon Schuller
Ph.D. Candidate
Applied Physics Department
Stanford University



May 8, 2009


Surface Plasmonic and Nanowire Nanolasers
Cun-Zheng Ning
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Arizona State University
Center for Nanophotonics - Arizona Institute of Nanoelectronics
Center of Solid State Electronics Research



Mar 19, 2009


Applications of Coherent X-Ray Diffraction Microscopy in Nanoscience and Biology
Huaidong Jiang
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of California, Los Angeles

Two-Photon Calcium Imaging to Record Activity of Cortical Neurons in Unanesthetized Mice
Carlos Portera-Cailliau
Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurobiology
University of California, Los Angeles



Mar 5, 2009


Petascale Cyberinfrastructure by Nanoscale Systems Integration
S. J. Ben Yoo
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, Davis



Mar 19, 2009


Manipulating Spatial Position of Qunatum Dots and their Optical Characteristics
Baolai Liang
Interim Technical Director
Integrated Materials Laboratory
California NanoSystems Institute
University of California, Los Angeles

Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers and Quantum Confinement
Benjamin Williams
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles



Jan 22, 2009


Optical Rogue Waves and Stimulated Supercontinuum Generation
Daniel R. Solli
Postdoctoral Fellow
Photonics Laboratory
University of California, Los Angeles

A New Tool for TeleMedicine: Lensfree On-Chip Imaging for High-Throughput Cytometry and Point-of-Care Diagnostics
Aydogan Ozcan
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
California NanoSystems Institute
University of California, Los Angeles


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