This is the current Frontiers in Photonics Wednesday seminar schedule, updated as speakers are confirmed. Suggestions for speakers are always welcome. (send a message to R. J. Dwayne Miller:)
| Date | Speaker/Institution | Host/Contact | Title/Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 06 | Prof. Amr Saher, Department of Electronics & Electrical Engineering University of Glasgow | Ted Sargent | Photonic Integration via Selective Semiconductor Bandgap Modification using Impurity-Free Vacancy Disordering (IFVD) |
| Jan 13 | Prof. Moshe Shapiro, Weizmann Institute of Science | Paul Brumer | Radiative Recombination and Catalysis Induced by a Sequence of Laser Pulses |
| Jan 20 | Prof. Curtis Menyuk, Dept. of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, USA | Peter Smith | Dispersion-managed solitons: A new approach for high data rate optical fiber transmission. |
| Jan 27 | Prof. Alexander Sergienko, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University, Boston, USA | Aephraim Steinberg | Polarized Entangled Photons in Quantum Communications and Optical Metrology |
| Feb 03 | Prof. Gilles Brassard, Département d'Informatique et recherche opérationnelle, University of Montreal | Aephraim Steinberg | Quantum Information Processing |
| Feb 10 | Dr. Christian-Y Côté, Axis Photonique Inc., Varennes, QC | Marc Nantel | Measuring Ultrashort Events on the Femtosecond Time Scale using Laser-Triggered Streak Cameras |
| Feb 17 | No Seminar | Reading Week | |
| Feb 24 | Michael Page, Ontario College of Art and Design | Dwayne Miller | Recent Developments in Spatial Imaging and the work on-going by researchers at the Ontario College of Art and Design |
| Mar 03 | Prof. Michel Meunier, Director, Department of Engineering Physics and Materials Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Quebec, Canada | Peter Herman | Applications of Laser to Materials Processing |
| Mar 10 | Prof. Daniel R. Grischkowsky, School of Elec. & Comp. Engr., Oklahoma State University Stillwater, OK 74078, USA | Henry van Driel | Unique Properties and Applications of THz Photonics |
| Mar 17 | Prof. Katie Hall, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Advanced Networks Group, Lexington, USA | Peter Smith | Ultrafast Optical Time Division Multi-Access Networks |
| Mar 24 | No Seminar | Cancelled | |
| Mar 31 | Dr. Eric Jervis, Departments of Chemical Engineering and Physics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario | Lothar Lilge | Application of photonic techniques in tissue engineering research |
| Apr 7 | No Seminar | Cancelled | |
| Apr 14 | No Seminar | Study Week | |
| Apr 21 | No Seminar | Final Examination | |
| Apr 28 | No Seminar | Final Examination | |
| May 31 | Prof. Kozho Hakuta, Department of Applied Physics and Chemistry, University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo, Japan | Boris Stoicheff | Solid and Liquid Hydrogen: New Perspectives in Laser Physics |
| June - July | No Seminars | Summer Break | |
| Aug. 25 | Prof. R. J. Dwayne Miller, Departments of Chemistry and Physics, University of Toronto | Dwayne Miller | Photonic Theme 1 - Laser Source Development Program Update |
| Sep.15 | No Seminar | Cancelled | |
| Sep. 22 | No Seminar | Cancelled | |
| Sep 29 | Dr. Michael Sherar, Prof. University of Toronto, Medical Biophysics, Sr. Scientist, Medical Physics, OCI | Brian Wilson | Biomedical Theme 2 - Minimally Invasive Laser Therapies with Image Guidance |
| Oct 06 | Dr. Joel Kubby, Senior Scientist, Xerox Corporation, Webster, New York | John Polanyi | Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS |
| Oct 13 | Prof. John C. Cartledge, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada | Peter Smith | Semiconductor Optical Modulators for 10 Gb/s Transmission Systems |
| Oct 20 | Prof. Watt W. Webb, Dept. of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, USA - NO SEMINAR | Cancelled | |
| Oct 27 | J.G.SIMMONS, B.B.ELENKRIG, AND S.SMETONA Centre for Electrophotonic Materials and Devices, McMaster University, Hamilton,Ontario, L8S 4L7, Canada B.TAKASAKI AND J.D.EVANS Nortel Technology, P.O.Box 3511, Station C, Ottawa, Ontario, K1Y4H7, Canada | Gerard Lynch | Photonic Theme 2 - Series Resistance and its Effect on the Maximum Output Power of 1.5 µm Strained-Layer Multiple-Quantum-Well Ridge Waveguide InGaAsP Lasers |
| Nov 01 - SPECIAL JOINT PRO/PHYS. CHEM. SEMINAR | Prof. John R. Miller, Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Labroratory, NY, USA | Dwayne Miller | Chemistry, Electrochemistry and Long-Distance Electron Transfer and Brookhaven's New Laser Electron Gun, "LEAF" |
| Nov 03 | Dr. Chunlei Guo, Los Alamos National Laboratory | Rashmi Desai | Structural Phase Transition of Aluminum Induced by Electronic Excitation |
| Nov 10 | Prof. Wayne Wang, Nortel-Carleton Lab for Advanced Materials Research, Department of Chemistry, Carleton University | Ted Sargent | Organic Electrochromic Materials |
| Nov 17 | No Seminar | Cancelled | |
| Nov 24 | Brian C. Wilson, Ontario Cancer Institute & U. Toronto
Frank Fischer & Roy Pottier, Royal Military College Michael Patterson & Robert Weersink, McMaster University Lothar Lilge, PRO Biomedical Facility & U. Toronto | Brian Wilson | Biomedical Theme 1 - Photodynamic Therapy: Applications of Fluorescence in Clinical and Basic Research |
| Dec 01 | Dr. Wayne H. Knox Director, Advanced Photonics Research Department Lucent Technologies Bell Labs Holmdel, NJ | Dwayne Miller | Ultrafast Technology in Telecommunications, and how telecommunications really works, too! |
| Dec 08 | No Seminar | Study Week | |
| Dec 15 | No Seminar | Final Examination | |
| Dec 22 | No Seminar | Christmas Holidays | |
| Dec 29 | No Seminar | Christmas Holidays | |