Black in Photonics Informal Social Hour
Monday, 16 May, 18:00 – 19:00
Original Joe's, 301 S First St, San Jose, CA
Join us for the inaugural Black in Photonics informal meetup where CLEO attendees of the African diaspora can assemble and meet each other to establish community building, encouragement and support, personal and professional growth, and potential collaboration in research. Hosted by 2021 Optica Ambassador Michael Williams and sponsored by Optica and IEEE join us for networking and fellowship – allies always welcome!
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Experiences and advice In Breaking The Glass Ceiling As A Woman In STEM
Tuesday, 17 May, 10:00 – 11:30
Room 210A
The workshop will bring together members from within and outside the CLEO community to provide a convivial, interactive, and open forum to highlight and discuss challenges, actions and advice regarding breaking through the career “glass ceiling."
Coffee and snacks will be provided.
Moderator
Jie Qiao, Rocherster Institute of Technology, USA
Organizers
Sterling Backus, Thorlabs
Tatevik Chalayan, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium
Tara Foster, NIST
Nataliia Mysko, B. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of the NAS of Ukraine, Ukraine
Panelists
Andrea Armani, University of Southern California, USA
Kristen Corwin, NIST Boulder , USA
Ursula Keller, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Michal Lipson, Columbia University, USA
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Deep Sensing and Super Resolution
Tuesday, 17 May, 18:30 – 20:00
Room 210A
This panel will focus on new and recent optical methods for deep tissue sensing. In particular, the panel will focus on deep biomedical sensing via single photon detectors. With the advances in Quantum Optics and superconductive systems during the last few years, these methods may be a breakthrough in deep tissue sensing with respect to conventional methods. In this session, super resolution methods based on quantum properties and interactions that can lead to imaging and biomedical applications will be discussed. Recent developments of single photon sensing for deep tissue imaging will be discussed as well.
Organizers
Nisan Ozana, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Zeev Zalevsky, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Invited Speakers
Megan Blackwell, MIT Lincoln Labs, USA
Anat Levin, Technion, Israel
Demetri Psaltis, EPFL, Switzerland
Tim Rambo, Quantum Opus, USA
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Opportunities and Challenges for Optical Phase-Change Materials in Foundry-Processed Photonics
Tuesday, 17 May, 18:30 – 20:00
Room 210E
Phase-change materials (PCMs), such as Ge2Sb2Te5 (“GST”), Ge2Sb2Se4Te1, VO2 and Sb2Se3, have recently emerged as a promising platform to control light on-chip due to their fast, dramatic, and reversible change in refractive index. Since their initial demonstration on integrated and free-space optical devices, significant technical progress in the field of optical PCMs has been achieved in terms of finding new alloys with superior optical transparency, controlling PCMs both optically and electrically, and moving from single devices to large-scale photonic architectures. These advances have led to exciting applications ranging from reconfigurable photonic switches and metasurfaces to high-speed photonic memory and computing. With the growing academic and industrial interest in these unique materials, a roadmap toward large-scale integration at the foundry is crucial to inform future research in this field. This panel aims to initiate a lively discussion into both the opportunities and challenges for optical PCMs within the CMOS foundry process flow. Specific questions to be addressed in this panel include: Where do phase-change photonics address a clear need that is not addressed by conventional photonic components? What steps are needed to develop a phase-change photonic PDK? What technical hurdles must be overcome before optical PCMs are ready for foundry integration?
Organizers
Carlos Rios Ocampo, University of Maryland, USA
Nathan Youngblood, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Invited Speakers
Juejun Hu, MIT, USA
Hyun Jung Kim, NASA, USA
Joyce Poon, University of Toronto, Canada
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Hybrid Quantum-Classical Technologies
Tuesday, 17 May, 18:30 – 20:00
210B
Recent years have brought unprecedented growth of quantum technologies. NISQ systems, built with superconducting, photonic, or ion-trap platforms, already allow us to develop and test algorithms solving optimization or simulation problems. Since 2020 we have been also observing a growing interest in quantum machine learning. Quantum networks, which hold the promise of unconditionally secure information exchange, are realized worldwide with optical fibers and satellites. However, many of the technically advanced projects still do not keep pace with classical solutions, which have already achieved high technology readiness levels and are used worldwide. We plan to show and compare quantum and classical solutions, their strengths, and weaknesses. We will discuss how to connect these two worlds and think about making the most profits from this marriage.
Organizers
Marco Barbieri, Roma Tre University, Italy
Magdalena Stobinska, University of Warsaw, Poland
Invited Speakers
Lily Chen, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
William Munro, NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Japan
Valentina Parigi, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Thomas Roger, Toshiba Europe, UnitedKingdom
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Optimizing Career Paths in Optics: The Guide for Young Professionals
Tuesday, 17 May, 18:30 – 20:00
Room 210F
Career planning is very important for young professionals in optics. Different career paths are available, each with its own requirements, challenges, and rewards. We invite you to hear firsthand from your young professional and more seasoned colleagues alike about their jobs and the paths they took to get there. Practical questions on how to excel in an optics-related career will be answered. What does it take to get a foot in the door at your target workplace? How to network? Who makes hiring decisions, and how? What qualities are the most sought? What does it take not to get stuck in your career? How could your typical workday look? What are the most common challenges in maintaining work-life balance?
Organizers
Mercedeh Khjavikhan, University of Southern California, USA
Tracy Northup, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Jie Qiao, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
Stephanie Tomasulo, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Panelists
Camille-Sophie Bres, EPFL
Kristan Corwin, NIST
Gloria Hoefler, Pacific Biosciences
James Joseph, ARO
Rudolph Neuhaus, Toptica
Takasumi Tanabe, Keio University
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Plenary Session II - Shaping the Wave: Achieving Success and Innovation Through a Diverse and Inclusive Workforce
Benjamin Eggleton, Director of The University of Sydney Nano Institute (Sydney Nano); Professor, The University of Sydney Australia
In this presentation, I will shine a light on the clear benefits of a diverse and inclusive workplace and give an overview of my own very positive journey of building and working in diverse and inclusive teams and organizations.
Biography: Benjamin Eggleton obtained the PhD degree in Physics from the University of Sydney. In 1996, he joined Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies. In 2000 he was promoted to Director within the Specialty Photonics Division of Bell Laboratories, focusing on forward-looking research supporting Lucent's business in optical fiber devices and optical networks. Since 2003 he has been a Professor of Physics at the University of Sydney and currently serves as the Director of the University of Sydney Nano Institute (Sydney Nano) and Co-Director of the NSW Smart Sensing Network (NSSN). Eggleton is a Fellow of The Optical Society (OSA), IEEE Photonics, SPIE, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) and the Australian Academy of Science (AAS).
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Experiences In Breaking Through The Glass Ceiling As An Ethnic Minority
Wednesday, 18 May, 11:30 – 12:30
The Hub Theater
The workshop will bring together members from within and outside the CLEO community to provide a convivial, interactive, and open forum to highlight and discuss challenges, actions and advice regarding breaking through the career “glass ceiling”.
Moderator
Michael Williams, 2021 Optica Ambassador
Organizers
Sterling Backus, Thorlabs
Tara Foster, NIST
Rohit Prasankumar, Intellectual Ventures
Michael Williams, Boston Electronics
Panelists
Arti Agrawal, University of Sydney, Australia
Mario Borunda, Oklahomas State University, USA
Charles Brown, UC Berkley, USA
Sylvester Gates, University of Maryland, USA
Willie May, Morgan State University, USA
Charles Robinson, IBM Quantum Computing, USA
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