Invited speakers
Keynote Talks
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Dr. Douglas Hall Portfolio Manager, PV Manufacturing Initiative, Sunshot Initiative, U.S. Department of Energy (2011-) Director, Product Technology, Corning (2005-2010)
In June 2011, Doug joined the Department of Energy in June, 2011 as Portfolio Manager of the SunShot Initiative’s Photovoltaic Manufacturing Initiative. He is responsible for the oversight of three programs that are creating multi-user PV pilot lines and consortia to increase the velocity of innovation... Read more... |
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Dr. Ray Beausoleil HP Fellow Leader, Large-Scale Integrated Photonics Group, HP Labs Ray Beausoleil is an HP Fellow in the Intelligent Infrastructure Lab (IIL) at HP Laboratories. There he leads the Large-Scale Integrated Photonics research group, and is responsible for research on the applications of optics at the micro/nanoscale to high-performance classical and quantum information processing. Read more...
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Faculty Talks
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Prof. Philip H. Bucksbaum Professor of Photon Sciences, Physics, and Applied Physics OSA Vice-President Phil Bucksbaum received his A.B. degree in physics from Harvard University in 1975, and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1980. Following a postdoctoral year at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, he joined the staff of Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey, first as a postdoc at Holmdel Read more... |
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Prof. David A. B. Miller W. M. Keck Foundation Professor of Electrical Engineering His research interests include the use of optics in switching, interconnection, communications, computing, and sensing systems, physics and applications of quantum well optics and optoelectronics, and fundamental features and limits for optics and nanophotonics in communications and information processing. Read more... |
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Prof. Daniel Palanker Associate Professor, Dept. of Opthalmology, School of Medicine Daniel Palanker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and in Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory at Stanford University. He studies interactions of electric field and light with biological cells and tissues, and develops their diagnostic, therapeutic and prosthetic applications. Read more... |
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Prof. Sindy K. Y. Tang Assistant Professor Sindy K.Y. Tang joined the faculty of Stanford University in September 2011 as an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. She received her B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from California Institute of Technology in 2003, M.S. from Stanford University in 2004, and Ph.D. from Harvard University in Engineering Sciences in 2010. Read more... |
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Workshop Speaker
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Linda Chao Senior Licensing Associate Linda Chao is a senior licensing associate at the Stanford University Office of Technology Transfer (OTL). Her areas of responsibility at OTL include photonics, nanotechnology, semiconductors, communications, and bio-engineering technologies. She is a registered patent agent with BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering, as well as an MBA, from MIT. Read more... |
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Panel Discussion Moderator
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Professor Robert L. Byer William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences Professor, Department of Applied Physics Co-Director, Stanford Photonics Research Center Professor Robert L. Byer is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University. He has conducted research and taught classes in lasers and nonlinear optics at Stanford University since 1969. Read more... |
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Alumni Panelists
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Prof. Seth Bank Assistant Professor Advisor: Prof. Jim Harris Seth Bank is currently an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin working on novel heterostructures and nanocomposites along with their application to electronic and photonic devices. He is the recipient of many young investigator awards, including those from NSF, ONR, DARPA, AFOSR, and PECASE. Read more... |
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Dr. Amber Bullington Physicist, Photon Science Division, NIF Advisor: Prof. Bob Byer
Amber Bullington is a technical staff member in the Photon Science division of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). For the Laser Inertial Fusion Energy (LIFE) project, she is investigating thermally induced birefringence in glass slab amplifiers and nonlinear optical materials for electro-optic switches and frequency conversion. Read more... |
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Dr. Geoff Fanning Director of Product Development Advisor: Prof. Tony Siegman
Geoff Fanning is Director of Product Development at nLight. He received Bachelor of Science degrees in Physics and Mathematics from Oregon State University in 1988. In 1990 he helped start Photonic Packaging Technologies before attending graduate school. In 1991 Geoff joined Tony Siegman’s group at Stanford University as an electrical engineering student and received the Master of Science degree in 1993 and Ph.D. in 1999, with a thesis on diode-pumped solid-state lasers with nonorthogonal eigenmodes. Read more... |
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Dr. Thomas Lee Strategic Marketing Manager Previously: Energy Policy Associate, Greenstart; Associate, McKinsey; IEEE-USA Congressional Fellow Advisor: Prof. Jim Harris |
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