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Fourth Annual CRI Summer Conference The Physics of Microresonators June 6 - 9, 2007 UNC Charlotte Campus Grigg Hall Applied Optics Facility |
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| Dr. Michael A. Fiddy Director, Optoelectronics Center |
Full Program in PDF (1.1 MB) | Dr. Vasily Astratov Associate Professor, Physics and Optical Sceince |
Your hosts for the 2007 Event, Drs. Mike Fiddy and Vasily Astratov, welcome this year's participants to the Fourth Annual Charlotte Research Institute Workshop, the second to be held at UNC Charlotte's New Applied Physics and Optics Facility, which houses The Center for Optoelectronics and Optical Communications, and will serve as the location for all workshop activities unless noted otherwise.
Guests arriving Wednesday afternoon will have a chance to relax and enjoy a reception with hors d'oeuvres and drinks being held from 7pm to 9pm in the Witherspoon Residence Hall lounge area. The conference will begin officially the following morning and will occupy two full days, Thursday and Friday, and include a wrap up session Saturday morning followed by a lunch outing on the Catawba Queen Riverboat.
After the first full day of meetings, a special dinner is being held Thursday evening at the Duke Mansion in uptown Charlotte. Transportation will be provided to and from the Mansion; indeed, once guests arrive on campus for the workshop, all food, accommodation and transportation is taken care of by the Charlotte Research Institute. The only thing you need to bring is your enthusiasm and a thirst to share in a community for the expansion of knowledge on The Physics of Microresonators.
We look forward to seeing everyone there!
Agenda
| Wednesday, June 6th | ||
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| 7pm - 9pm |
Reception at Witherspoon Residence Hall |
Horsd'oeuvres and Drinks Buffet |
| Thursday, June 7th | ||
| 7:30 - 8:30am |
Breakfast |
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| 8:30 - 9am | Robert Wilhelm, UNC Charlotte | Opening Remarks |
| 8:30 - 9am | Mike Fiddy, UNC Charlotte | Opening Remarks |
| 8:30 - 9am | Vasily Astratov, UNC Charlotte | Opening Remarks |
| 9 - 9:30am | Andrey B. Matsko, Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Applications of crystalline WGM resonators in microwave photonics |
| 9:30 - 10am | Shayan Mookherjea, University of California San Diego | Slow Wave Structures in Micro and Nano Photonics |
| 10 - 10:15am |
Break |
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| 10:15 - 11am | Kerry Vahala, Caltech | Nonlinear Optics and Optomechanics using High-Q Micro-resonators |
| 11 - 11:45am | Jeremy J. Baumberg, University of Southampton, UK | Excitonic and Plasmonic Strong-coupling in Microcavities |
| 11:45 - 12 | Rongqing Hui, National Science Foundation | NSF and its photonics program overview |
| 12pm - 1pm |
Lunch |
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| 1 - 1:45pm | Michal Lipson, Cornell University | Ultra-fast modulation of high confinement structures on a silicon chip |
| 1:45 - 2:15pm | Misha Sumetsky, OFS Laboratories | Micro/nanofibers and microfiber coil resonators |
| 2:15 - 2:45pm | David D. Smith, NASA | Coherence Phenomena in Coupled Optical Resonators |
| 2:45 - 3pm | John T. Prater, Army Research Office | Multifunctional Materials Research Interests |
| 3 - 3:15pm |
Break |
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| 3:15 - 4pm | Allen Taflove, Northwestern University | Photonic Nanojets |
| 4 - 4:30pm | Vasily Astratov, UNC Charlotte | Optical transport phenomena in coupled spherical cavities |
| 4:30 - 5pm | Alexander L. Burin, Tulane University | Bound Modes in Arrays of Spherical Particles |
| 6pm |
Depart for Duke Mansion |
(transportation provided) Information |
| 6:45pm |
Cocktails at Duke Mansion |
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| 7:30pm |
Dinner at Duke Mansion |
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| Friday, June 8th | ||
| 7:30 - 8:30am |
Breakfast |
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| 8:30 - 9:15am | Yurii A. Vlasov, IBM | Silicon integrated nanophotonics for on-chip optical interconnects |
| 9:15 - 9:45am | Tomoyuki Yoshie, Duke University | Photonic crystal microcavity: from weak to strong coupling |
| 9:45 - 10:15am | Ilya Fushman, Stanford University | Photonic Crystals for Quantum and Classical Information Processing |
| 10:15 - 10:30 |
Break |
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| 10:30 - 11am | Ali Adibi, Georgia Tech | Ultra-high Q Resonators for On-Chip Si Photonics Applications |
| 11 - 11:30am | Frank Vollmer, Harvard University | High-Q Microcavities for Biosensing and Light Manipulation |
| 11:30 - 12 | Michelle L. Povinelli, Stanford University | Optical Forces and Slow Light in Microresonators |
| 12 - 1pm |
Lunch |
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| 1 - 1:45pm | L. Jay Guo, University of Michigan | Polymer Microring and Glass Microtube Resonators and Their Sensor Applications |
| 1:45 - 2:15pm | Xudong (Sherman) Fan, University of Missour-Columbia | Optofluidic ring resonators: properties, characterization, and applications |
| 2:15 - 2:45pm | Eric G. Johnson, UNC Charlotte | Spectral and spatial filters for passive and active devices |
| 2:45 - 3pm | Kirankumar R. Hiremath, UNC Charlotte | Perturbations of WGMs in microcavities caused by embedded nanoparticles |
| 3 - 3:15pm |
Break |
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| 3:15 - 4pm | Albert T. Rosenberger, Oklahoma State University | Whispering-Gallery Chemical Sensors and Quantum-Dot Microlasers |
| 4 - 4:30pm | Mikhail A. Noginov, Norfolk State University | Feedback in random lasers |
| 4:30 - 5pm | Marco Liscidini, University of Toronto | Nonlinear optical properties of planar microcavities and 1D photonic crystals |
| 5 - 5:30pm | Markus Testorf, Dartmouth College | Resonating Microstructures: a Fourier optics perspective |
| 5:30 - 5:45pm | Seungmoo Yang, UNC Charlotte | Whispering gallery resonances in semiconductor micropillars |
| 7pm |
Dinner in Courtyard on Campus |
"Beach Party" Theme (Catered) |
| Saturday, June 9th | ||
| 7:30 - 8:30am |
Breakfast |
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| 8:30 - 10:30am | Wrap Up | |
| 11:30am |
Depart for Catawba Queen |
(Transportation Provided) Information |
| 12:30 2:30pm |
Lunch on the Catawba Queen |
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| 2:30pm |
Disembark and Depart for Campus |
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| 3pm |
Arrive on Campus |
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