Symposium Agenda

The 10th Annual Boston University Photonics Center Symposium: Illuminating the Future of Light

Friday, June 8, 2007

For the past 10 years the Boston University Photonics Center has been a pioneer in integrating light-based research and development. This Conference will celebrate the Boston University Photonics Center’s achievements in photonics research, education, technology development, and incubation in the last decade.

This year’s technically focused agenda will feature presentations by Photonics Center faculty, as well as leading photonics researchers from outside institutions and industrial development partners. We will explore the Photonics Center’s role in the continuing evolution of the field by focusing on key areas including bioimaging, biophotonics, nanophotonics, and photonics materials.

Agenda

8:00 - 9:00 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast 2nd floor

Session I: Reflection and Projection: Celebrating a Decade of Light and Beyond – Session/Conference Chairman Lawrence Ziegler, Boston University, Chemistry Department

9:00 - 9:10 AM Welcome to the 10th Annual Symposium

9:10 - 9:25 AM Boston University President Robert A. Brown: The Importance and Impact of Photonics at Boston University

9:25 - 9:45 AM Thomas Bifano, Photonics Center Director: 40,000 ft Looking Down

9:45 - 10:10 AM Guest Speaker: Celia Merzbacher, Assistant Director for Technology R&D, Office of Science and Technology Policy: Research to Innovation: A Federal Policymaker's Perspective

10:10 - 10:30 AM BREAK AND STUDENT POSTER VIEWING: 2nd floor outside PHO206

Session II: From the Laboratory to Industry - Session Chair Allyn Hubbard, Boston University, Electrical Computer Engineering (ECE) Department

10:30 - 10:55 AM Doug Adams, SOLX/Occulogix: External Company Incubation at Boston University

11:00 - 11:20 AM Socrates Deligeorges, BioMimetic Systems: The Long Road from Lab to Product: Innovation, Incubation, Industry

11:25 - 11:45 AM Guest Speaker: Richard Clarke, Raman Systems: The Journey from Photonics Center to Marketplace

12:00 - 1:30 PM LUNCH: Colloquium Room: Invited Guest Speaker: David AB Miller, Co-Director of Stanford Photonics Research Center: Directions in Photonics

STUDENT POSTER VIEWING

Session III: BioImaging – Session Chair Anna Swan, Boston University, ECE Department

1:30 - 1:55 PM Guest Speaker: Sunney Xie, Harvard University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology: Single Molecule and CARS Imaging

2:00 - 2:20 PM Irving Bigio, Boston University, BME Department: Elastic light scattering spectroscopy for the detection of early cancer and pre-cancer

2:25 - 2:45 PM Jerome Mertz, Boston University, BME Department: New approaches to fluorescence background rejection

2:50 - 3:10 PM Amit Meller, Boston University, Biomedical Engineering (BME) Department: Developing ultra fast DNA sequencing method using nanopore arrays and optical readout

3:10 - 3:30 PM BREAK AND STUDENT POSTER VIEWING: 2nd floor outside PHO206

Session IV: Leading Edge Photonics Materials and Future Directions Session Chair: Hatice Altug, Boston University, ECE Department

3:30 - 3:55 PM Theodore Moustakas, Boston University, ECE Department: GaN R&D at Boston University with emphasis on Solid State Lighting

4:00 - 4:20 PM Alexander Sergienko, Boston University ECE Department: Secure Communication and Quantum Cryptography

4:25 - 4:45 PM Guest Speaker: Ching W. Tang, University of Rochester, Chemical Engineering Department: Organic Light Emitting Diodes

4:50 - 5:00 PM Thomas Bifano, Photonics Center Director: Conference Conclusions

Reception 9th floor – Colloquium Room