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A Solution to the Cocktail Party Problem––Hidden in the Brain
BOTLAB – On a Winning Streak
A Banner Year for Darren Roblyer’s Lab, with 3 NIH Awards
Photonics Center Community Featured Across SPIE’s Photonics West 2026 Conference
Last week, SPIE held it's annual "Photonics West" conference, bringing together researchers and experts across the varying fields of optics and photonics research. With over a hundred conferences, plenary events, and presentations, several Boston University Photonics and Neurophotonics Center faculty––and graduate students––were not only in attendance, but led several key talks. Plenary Events: Irving Bigio […]
Irving Bigio: The 2026 SPIE Britton Chance Biomedical Optics Award
For pioneering elastic scattering spectroscopy and translating it into a clinically impactful diagnostic tool, and for mentoring a generation of leaders in translational biomedical optics
Siddharth Ramachandran: The 2026 SPIE G.G. Stokes Award in Optical Polarization
For seminal contributions in the area of spatially and vectorially structured light in optical fibers.
Asking the BIG Questions in Kirit Karkare’s Cosmology Lab
Karkare's group works with laboratories across the country on macro telescopes in the South Pole to create a 3D map of the universe. by Danny Giancioppo, Photos by Kelly Peña “How did the universe begin? Why are we here? To Assistant Professor Kirit Karkare (PHYS), this is the most fundamental scientific question one can ask. […]
Xin Zhang, Irving Bigio, and More Featured in “Best of The Brink 2025” Inventions List
From soft robots that could make cancer surgery safer to an algorithm that boosts hearing aid performance, how BU research made a difference this year
The 27th Annual Photonics Center Symposium: Photonics In Space
This symposium will feature talks from premier astronomy researchers across academia and industry discussing developments in imaging and spectroscopic technologies, superconducting techniques with South Pole telescopes, and usages of the EM spectrum for research on Mars, among other topics.
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The Photonics Center's 27th Annual Symposium: "Photonics in Space"
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