Upcoming Seminars

Wednesday, September 28, 2016
"The Light Works: Non-invasive 3D optical imaging of tissue morphology and microcirculations in vivo"
Ruikang (Ricky) K Wang
University of Washington
12:00pm | Hudson 125
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Developing small-molecule based probes and methods to understand the cause of disease
Qiu Wang
Duke University
12:00pm | Schiciano Auditorium - Side B
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Next generation 2-photon imaging
Dr. Spencer Smith
University of North Carolina
12:00pm | Hudson 125
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Title TBD
Regine Choe
University of Rochester
12:00pm | Schiciano Auditorium - Side B
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Title TBD
Dirk M. Guldi
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
12:00pm | Schiciano Auditorium - Side B
Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Title TBD
Katherine (Kallie) Willets
Temple University
12:00pm | Hudson 125
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
(Co-hosting with MITP) in vivo intravital multiphoton imaging
Guillermo (Gary) Tearney
Harvard Medical School and Wellman Center for Photomedicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital
12:00pm | Schiciano Auditorium - Side B
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Title TBD
John S. Condeelis
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Location TBD
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Title TBD
Dr. Ruben Gonzalez
Columbia University
Location TBD

Past Seminars

Wednesday, September 21, 2016
"Real-time 3D microsopy methods"
Kevin D. Welsher
12:00pm | 125 Hudson Hall
Wednesday, September 14, 2016
"Development of high force optical trapping methods to study complex biological systems"
Megan T. Valentine
12:00pm | 125 Hudson Hall
Wednesday, September 7, 2016
"Image-guided ultrafast laser scalpels as the next generation precise and minimally invasive clinical surgery tools"
Adela Ben-Yakar
12:00pm | Schiciano Auditorium - Side B
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Running the Race for Better Diagnostics: It’s a Photon Finish!
Dr. Audrey K. (Ellerbee) Bowden
12:00pm | 125 Hudson Hall
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
**Co-hosted with Medical Imaging Training Program** Biophotonics and The Future of Personal Health Care
Dr. Bruce J. Tromberg
12:00pm | 125 Hudson Hall
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Design and Validation of a Novel Low Cost Point of Care Tampon (POCkeT) Colposcope for Use in Resource Limited Settings
Dr. Jenna Mueller
12:00pm | 125 Hudson Hall
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Nano-plasmonic biosensors and an analysis of surface plasmon resonance towards an optimal nano-optofluidic device
Dr. Jianjun Wei
12:00pm | 125 Hudson Hall
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Single Photon Operations
Dr. Myungshik Kim
12:00pm | 125 Hudson Hall
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
CANCELLED**Self-assembly and Accelerating Stochastic Algorithms
Chris Dwyer
12:00pm | 125 Hudson Hall
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Identification of organic materials in Modern and Contemporary Paintings
Dr. Maria Perla Colombini
12:00pm | 125 Hudson Hall
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
DNA uptake and transport in cells exposed to pulsed electric field
Dr. Fan Yuan
12:00pm | 125 Hudson Hall
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Cavity QED Lattices: A platform to study many-body physics with photons
Dr. Hakan E. Tureci
12:00pm | 125 Hudson Hall
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
A multi-modal approach to image dynamical interactions with the root-microbe system
Dr. Kenneth M. Kemner
12:00pm | 330 Gross Hall
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Magnetic circuits for large scale single cell analysis
Benjamin Yellen
12:00pm | Schiciano Auditorium - Side A
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Diagnosis of materials and effectiveness of Er:YAG Laser cleaning in a Borrassa’s Panel Painting (15th Century)
Dr. Adele De Cruz and William P. Brown
12:00 pm | Schiciano Auditorium - Side A
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Ultraviolet Plasmonics
Henry O. Everitt
12:00 pm| Hudson 125
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Designing and developing simple and easy to use diagnostic systems
Dr. Scott Bornheimer
12:00 pm | Gross Hall Room 330
Friday, October 16, 2015
The Spark of Life: Understanding Nature’s Ion Channel Design via Computation (Co-hosted with Chemistry)
Dr. Michael L. Klein
1:00pm | French Family Science Center 2231
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Molecular Engineering for Imaging and Reprogramming in Live Cells
Dr. Peter Yingxiao Wang
12:00 pm | Schiciano Auditorium - Side B
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Emulating Layered Materials with Ultra-cold Fermi Gases
Dr. John E. Thomas
12:00pm | Schiciano Auditorium - Side A
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Fractal organization of tissue: quantifying tissue scattering properties at the nanoscale
Dr. Jeremy D. Rogers
12:00 pm | Hudson 125
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Antimonide Materials and Devices for 4th Generation Infrared Detectors and Imagers
Dr. Sanjay Krishna
12:00 pm | Hudson 208
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Materials: Towards Atomic-scale Photonics
Dr. Linyou Cao
12:00 pm | Hudson 208
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Colloidal Photonic Crystals: A convenient bottom-up platform for photonic bandgap engineering
Dr. Koen Clays
12:00 pm | Hudson 208
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Light-Matter Interactions in Solid, Gaseous, and Colloidal Engineered Media
Dr. Natalia Litchinitser
12:00pm | Hudson 208
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Ten Years of Active Optical Clocks
Dr. Jingbiao Chen
12:00pm | Physics 128
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
A classical model for depolarization through decoherent superposition of dipoles **Co-hosted with CMIP**
Dr. Kurt Hingerl
12:00 pm | Physics 128
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Integrated Photonics for Tomorrow’s Needs on Today’s Silicon Platforms
Dr. Shayan Mookherjea
12:00 pm | Physics 128
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Synthetic Optical Holography
Dr. P. Scott Carney
12:00 pm | Physics 128
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Many-body quantum optics in coupled cavity QED arrays
Dr. Andrew Houck
12:00 pm | Physics 128
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Inverse Scattering and Superresolution
Dr. Michael A. Fiddy
12:00 pm | Physics 128
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Engineering Proteins for Cancer Imaging and Therapy
Dr. Sarah J. Moore
12:00pm | Physics 128
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Multimodal Imaging Strategies for Biological Imaging and Diagnostics
Dr. Tomasz S. Tkaczyk
12:00 pm | Physics 128
Friday, February 20, 2015
**CANCELLED**Quanta Image Sensor (QIS) Concept and Progress
Dr. Eric R. Fossum
12:00pm | Schiciano Auditorium - Side A
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Metamaterials: toward designer optical materials
Dr. Stéphane Larouche
12:00 pm | Physics 128
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Looking into Skin and Artwork - Applications of Nonlinear Optical Microscopy in Biomedicine and Art Conservation
Martin Fischer
12:00pm | Physics 128
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Imaging Lightning and Related Phenomena
Dr. Steven A. Cummer
12:00 pm | Physics 128
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Nano-photonic phenomena in van der Waals heterostructures (Co-Hosted with CMIP)
Dr. Dimitri N. Basov
12:00pm | Physics 128
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Imaging Multiple Contrast Mechanisms in Deep-Tissue using Diffuse Optical Tomography
Dr. Xiaofeng (Steve) Zhang
12:00pm | Physics 128
Monday, November 24, 2014
Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering From Cells and Tissues for Cancer Diagnosis
Mustafa Culha
3:00 pm | Schiciano Auditorium - Side A
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Random Photonics
Dr. Hui Cao
12:15pm | Hudson Hall - Room 208
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Compression and Adaptation in Imaging
Dr. Amit Ashok
12:15 pm | Hudson Hall - Room 208
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Harnessing the Power of Small Molecules to Target Nucleic Acids
Dr. Amanda Hargrove
12:15pm | Hudson Hall - Room 208
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
**Pratt New Faculty Lecture Series Co-host** Solution Processing of Thin-Film Solar Cells: Opportunities and Challenges
Dr. David Mitzi
12:00pm | Gross Hall - Room 103
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Practical table-top X-ray scatter tomography
Dr. Joel Greenberg
12:15pm | Hudson Hall - Room 208
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
**Fitzpatrick Distinguished Lecture** Democratization of Next-Generation Imaging, Diagnostics and Measurement Tools Through Computational Photonics
Dr. Aydogan Ozcan
12:00pm | Schiciano Auditorium - Side A
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Composite Pulse Sequences For Ion Trap Quantum Computation
Dr. Kenneth Brown
12:15pm | Hudson Hall - Room 208
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Functional Intravital Imaging Using Hyperspectral Fluorescence Microscopy to Characterize Tumor Physiology and Therapeutic Response
Dr. Greg Palmer
12:15pm | Hudson Hall - Room 208
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Optical measurements of electron and nuclear spin polarization in semiconductors
Dr. Vanessa Sih
12:15pm | Hudson Hall - Room 208
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Development of an Erasable Tattoo Ink: Easy Come, Easy Go, an Adventure into Entrepreneurship
Dr. Bruce Klitzman
12:15pm | Hudson Hall - Room 208
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Gas-Cell Referenced Swept-Source Phase-Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography:  Towards continuous glucose monitoring in Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
Roman Kuranov, Ph.D.
12:15pm | Hudson Hall - Room 208
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Introduction to the FIP Programs and Activities
Dr. Adam Wax (co-hosted with Dr. Tuan Vo-Dinh)
1:00pm | Hudson Hall Room 208
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Introduction to the FIP Programs and Activities
Dr. Tuan Vo-Dinh (co-hosted with Dr. Adam Wax)
1:00pm | Hudson Hall Room 208
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Laser Processing of Microstructured and Nanostructured Medical Devices
Dr. Roger Narayan
1:30pm | 0014 Westbrook
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Biomimetic Plasmonic Quasi-NanoCrystals
Dr. Wei-Chuan Shih
1:30pm | 0014 Westbrook
Friday, February 7, 2014
Customized diode lasers for spectroscopic applications
Dr. Bernd Sumpf
12:00 pm | Schiciano Auditorium - Side A
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Optical Coherence In All the Right (and Wrong) Places (hosted by FIP Faculty Dr. Adam Wax)
Michael Choma
1:30pm | Schiciano Auditorium - Side B
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
PhotoPlethysmoGraphy: Beyond oxygen saturation and heart rate determination..
Kirk Shelley, MD, PhD
4:00pm | Duke North - 2203 Lecture Hall
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Soft Matter Nanoscale Agents for Optical Imaging (hosted by FIP Faculty Dr. Adam Wax)
Michael Therien
1:30pm | 125 Hudson Hall
Friday, October 18, 2013
Atypical Photonic Solids as Band Gap and Negative Refraction Media
Chekesha Liddell Watson
1:30pm | 125 Hudson Hall
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
**Fitzpatrick Distinguished Lecture** High Impact Alternative Energy R&D at a University
Jerry M. Woodall
1:30pm | Schiciano Auditorium - Side B
Friday, April 26, 2013
The Optical Solution in Biosensing
Francesco Baldini
1:30pm | 115 Teer
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Spin and Spin Polarization Effects in Electron and Energy Transfer Processes
James McCusker
1:15pm | 125 Hudson Hall
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Multifunctional nanoparticles for tumor imaging and treatment
Xiaohu Gao
1:15pm | 125 Hudson Hall
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Engineering near-infrared fluorescence optical instrumentation and designing "first-in-humans" imaging agents for translational studies
Eva M. Sevick
1:30pm | Schiciano Auditorium - Side B
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Silicon Photonics
Michal Lipson
12:00pm | Schiciano Auditorium - Side A
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Intrinsic-contrast optical microscopy of oxygen metabolism
Hao F. Zhang
1:30pm | Schiciano Auditorium - Side B
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
***CANCELLED***Light Harvesting with Nanoparticles: From Quantum Dot Solar Cells to Plasmonic Metachromophores
David Ginger
1:15pm | Schiciano Auditorium - Side A
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Single-molecule Studies of ClpXP Machinery Fully Loaded
Matthew Lang
1:15pm | Schiciano Auditorium - Side A
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Endoscopic optical imaging to study early cancer development
Jennifer Barton
1:15pm | Schiciano Auditorium - Side A
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Quantitative Multicolor Single Cell Imaging Cytometry for High-content Drug Screening Based on Nanoprobes
Joon Myong Song
1:15pm | Schiciano Auditorium - Side A
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Ultrafast Spatially Resolved Carrier Dynamics in Individual ZnO Rods
John Papanikolas
4:30pm | 203 Teer Building
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
**CANCELLED** Light Harvesting with Nanoparticles: From Quantum Dot Solar Cells to Plasmonic Metachromophores
David S. Ginger
4:30pm | 203 Teer Building
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Multiphoton Imaging for Deep Tissue Penetration
Chris Xu
4:30pm | 203 Teer Building
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
**Distinguished FIP Seminar Series** Unpredictability and Chance in Science & Technology
Sir John Meurig Thomas
4:30pm | 203 Teer Building
Friday, June 17, 2011
Self-assembly of nanoscale optical devices using DNA nanotechnology
Dr. Bernard Yurke
2:00pm | Schiciano Auditorium - Side B