:: 2007 / 2008 Season ::

coordinated by Dr. Bogdan Lita

Our current schedule for the 2007/2008 season meetings and invited speakers is as follows:

2007:
Sept. 20: Prof. Kent Choquette, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, OSA Travelling Lecturer, "Microcavity Lasers: Light for the Information Age"

Oct.18: John Kitching, NIST Boulder, "Small Time: A Chip Scale Atomic Clock"

Nov. 8: Jacque Pankove Tribute talk presented by Prof. Theodore Moustakas, Electrical Engineering and Physics, Boston University, "Progress in III-nitride semiconductors research and the influence of Jacques Pankove’s work in the development of this field"

Dec.11: Dr. Kevin Curtis, Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder, InPhase Technologies, Longmont, CO, "Holographic Data Storage at InPhase Technologies"

2008:

Jan. 17: Prof. Jorge J. Rocca, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO: "Compact high repetition rate soft x-ray lasers: a doorway to high intensity coherent soft x-ray science on a table-top"

Feb. 21: Dr. Weng Chow, Sandia National Laboratory: "Many body effects in semiconductor lasers"

Mar. 20: Dr. Cun-Zheng Ning, Arizona State University: "Nanolasers: Approaching the Ultimate Size Limit"

Apr. 17: Ken Zweibel: "Solar Grand Plan"

May 15: Dr. David W. Rusch, "The Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) mission"

If you have suggestions for the 2007/2008 season speakers or topics, please contact Bogdan Lita.