2018 Program
Boston Photonics Conference Schedule
Boston University, Photonics Building, February 24, 2018
8:00 – 9:00 am | Registration and Breakfast
9:00 – 9:10 am | Photonics Building 906
Welcome address
BU OSA/SPIE Executive Board and Prof. Darren Roblyer, Boston University
SESSION 1 | Photonics Building 906
9:10 – 10:10 am | Keynote presentation
Prof. Ji-Xin Cheng
Moustakas Professor in Photonics and Optoelectronics, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University
Title: Seeing the unseen in living systems through molecular fingerprints
10:10 – 10:50 am | Featured research presentations
10:10 am | Dr. Mikael Backlund, Harvard University
Title: Fourier optical processing enables new capabilities in diamond-based opto-magnetic imaging
10:30 am | Jelena Notaros, MIT
Title: Integrated Optical Phased Array Architectures and Applications
10:50 – 11:10 am | Coffee Break
SESSION 2 | Photonics Building 906
11:10 – 12:10 pm | Keynote presentation
Prof. Fiorenzo Omenetto
Frank C. Doble Professor of Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University
Title: Reshaping Silk at the Interface Between Photonics and Life Sciences
12:10 pm – 12:50 pm | Featured research presentations
12:10 pm | Prof. Amir Arbabi, UMass Amherst
Title: Planar optical components and systems based on dielectric metasurfaces
12:30 pm | Ahmet Akosman, Boston University
Title: Interlaced ultrafast pulse trains from a single fiber laser for spectroscopic applications
12:50 – 2:00 pm | Lunch
SESSIONS 3a and 3b
2:00 – 3:00 pm | Featured research presentations
SESSION 3a | Photonics Building 906
2:00 pm | Dr. Derin Sevenler, Boston University
Title: ‘Digital’ DNA microarrays: Beating fluorescence with plasmonics
2:20 pm | PuTing Dong, Boston University
Title: Drug-free annihilation of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus via staphyloxanthin photobleaching
2:40 pm | Invited speaker
Prof. Gabriela Schlau-Cohen, MIT
Title: Dynamics of light harvesting: Understanding & optimizing energy transport
SESSION 3b | Photonics Building 901
2:00 pm | Prof. Michelle Sander, Boston University
Title: Professional Career Development: Reviewing a scientific manuscript
2:20 pm | Joshua Rapp, Boston University
Title: Dither-Enhanced Lidar Imaging
2:40 pm | Invited speaker
Prof. Yongmin Liu, Northeastern University
Title: Harnessing Light by Metasurfaces
3:10 – 3:30 pm | Coffee break
SESSIONS 4a and 4b
3:30 – 5:00 pm | Featured research presentations
SESSION 4a | Photonics Building 906
3:30 pm | Invited speaker
Prof. Dirk Englund, MIT
Title: Semiconductor Quantum Technologies for Secure Communications and Scalable Quantum Networks
4:00 pm | Yu-Hsiang Cheng, MIT
Title: Two-stage dual-beam noncollinear optical parametric amplifier
4:20 pm | Prof. Edwin Marengo, Northeastern University
Title: Data-driven inverse scattering
4:40 pm | Speed Presentations
SESSION 4b | Photonics Building 901
3:30 pm | Invited speaker
Prof. Conor L. Evans, Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Title: Pharmacokinetic Tomography: Quantifying Topical Drug Uptake with Advanced Microscopy
4:00 pm | Dr. Iván Coto Hernandez, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Title: Supercritical Angle Detection STED Microscopy
4:20 pm | Dr. Matthew Applegate, Boston University
Title: Diffuse Optical B-mode Imaging (DOBI)
4:40 pm | Speed Presentations
5:00 – 7:30 pm | Poster Session & Reception
7th Floor Atrium