Category: Events

Photonics Center 2024 Symposium “Lighting the Brain” Highlights Six Neurophotonics Experts as well as Student Presenters

On November 21, 2024, Professor Chen Yang gathered speakers across industry and academia for her organized symposium “Lighting the Brain,” the topic of the 26th annual Photonics Center Symposium. With a blend of Boston University and external presenters, an audience of graduate students, faculty, staff, and international colleagues were invited to learn about the recent […]

“Photonic Chips in Everything” Draws Hundreds of International Guests

November 30th marked the 25th annual Photonics Center symposium, which every year invites members of the photonics and optics fields to learn, present, and connect with colleagues from around the educational and industrial world. This year, Associate Professor Miloš Popović (ECE) hosted the event, with an industry focus on “Photonic Chips in Everything: Emerging Applications […]

Understanding the Heart from Disease to Treatments | CELL-MET Materials Day 2023

Following two days of previous CELL-MET events, “Industry Day” and “Community Day,” the Boston University College of Engineering and Photonics Center hosted “Materials Day 2023, Cardiac Bioengineering: Approaches to Advance Study and Treatment of Cardiac Diseases.” Beginning with an welcome speech by Dean Elise Morgan and opening statement by event chair Professor Chris Chen, the […]

Register for the Boston University Photonics Center Workshop (11/8), hosted by Oxford Instruments & Andor Technologies

Be sure to register for the Boston University Photonics Center Workshop hosted by Andor Technologies and Oxford Instruments, held on November 8th at the Photonics Center! This workshop aims to introduce Boston University and Boston College’s PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, principal investigators (PIs), lab managers, and professors to the latest advancements in spectroscopy, detectors, and imaging cameras for physical science […]

Ji-Xin Cheng to Present at BioPhotonics Conference 2023

Professor Ji-Xin Cheng will be a featured speaker later this month at the BioPhotonics Conference. Learn more below. Join Photonics Media online Oct. 24-26 for the BioPhotonics Conference, a virtual event highlighting innovation in the life sciences and biomedical optics. The conference will feature three keynotes and 38 presentations across three days promoting microscopy, spectroscopy, and imaging. Read more here: https://events.photonics.com/Event.aspx?EID=12&OC=OM

REU/RET Summer Program ’23 Concludes with Packed Poster Session

Last Thursday (8/10), the 2023 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) and Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) summer programs came to a successful close with the annual poster session, in which each REU––ranging from rising sophomore to rising senior students–– and RET was able to display and demonstrate their last few months worth of research and […]

NRT Bootcamp a Three-Day Success

Last week, 20 NRT trainees were given a “bootcamp” training of three days, ingratiating them into world of Neurophotonics research at Boston University. On the first day, our trainees were introduced to the program with a talk from NPC Director David Boas, whereafter they performed an introductory exercise to learn about one another’s research, as well […]