 The IEEE Eastern Carolina Lasers and Electro Optics Society Chapter and the Carolina Photonics Consortium will host a symposium on components for optical sensing on Thursday, September 25th, 2008 from 8:15 am to 4:30 pm at the Larry K. Monteith Research Center on the Centennial Campus of North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. (http://centennial.ncsu.edu/ ) The purpose of this one day symposium is to highlight state-of-the-art photonics research relevant to optical sensing. Invited speakers include LEOS Distinguished Lecturers Kent Choquette (U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and Cun-Zheng Ning (Arizona State University), William Clark (Army Research Office Electronics Division Chief), and researchers from local institutions (Duke, NCSU, RTI, UNC-Charlotte). The program also features a poster session, a tour of facilities at NCSU, and a reception/industry cluster. If you are interested in attending this symposium, please contact Leda Lunardi (leda@ieee.org) or Dr. Adrienne Stiff-Roberts at Duke University (astiff@ee.duke.edu ) Agenda7:30-8:15 am Registration outside Rm. 246
8:15 am Welcome (Lunardi and Stiff-Roberts)
8:30 am Dr. Kent D. Choquette, Email: choquett@illinois.edu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “VCSELs for Optical Sensing”
Dr. Anuj Dhawan, Duke/NC State, Email: anuj.dhawan@duke.edu, "Plasmonic Nanostructures for Optical Sensing Applications".
10 am to 10:30 am Break and Networking
10:30 am Dr. Cun-Zheng Ning, Email: cning@asu.edu, Arizona State University, “Surface Plasmonic and Nanowire Nanolasers: Approaching Ultimate Size Limit of Lasers”
Dr. Faramarz Farahi, Email: ffarahi@uncc.edu, UNC-Charlotte, “Micro-Optic and Guided-Wave Optical Sensors”
12:00-1:15 pm Lunch Break/Poster Session (Hall and Rm 246)
1:15 pm Dr. Sonia Grego, Email: sgrego@rti.org. Research Triangle Institute, “Grating-integrated Optical Waveguide Sensors for Chemical and Biological Applications”
Dr. Eric G. Johnson, Email: egjohnso@nsf.gov, National Science Foundation- Arlington, VA, “The Photonic Device Programs in the Engineering Directorate at NSF”
Dr. William Clark, Email: william.w.clark@us.army.mil, Army Research Office-Durham, "An Overview of Optical Sensing at ARO"
3:45 pm- 4:30 pm Tour NCSU Facilities (TBA)
4:30 pm 6 pm Reception/ Industry Cluster (Jeff Conley) Rm 246
If you are interested in participating, please contact either Dr. Leda Lunardi at NC State (llunard@ncsu.edu) |
Symposium on Components for Optical Sensing |