Past Events

February 27, 2024
Lunch & Learn with Assistant Professor Wanzheng Hu

January 24, 2023
Student OSA/SPIE Chapter Officers Elections Lunch & Learn
February 9, 2023
Photonics Center Community Café Social
February 22, 2023
Photonics Center Community Lunch and Learn with Assistant Professor Loza Tadesse
February 28, 2023
Photonics Center Community Lunch in Recognition of the Award of Tenure for Associate Professor Keith Brown, Alex Sushkov, and Brian Walsh
March 29, 2023
Photonics Center Community Lunch and Learn with Research Assistant Professor Xiaojun Cheng
April 25, 2023
Photonics Center Community Lunch and Learn with Research Associate Noah Rubin
May 2, 2023
Research on Tap: Neuroscience to Data Science and Back, Co-Hosted by Professor Jerry Chen
May 31, 2023
Photonics Center Community Lunch and Learn with Associate Professor Alex Sushkov
June 12, 2023
Photonics Center Community Lunch and Learn with Sidney R. Cohen
June 22-23, 2023
Photonics Center Summer Checmical Imaging Workshop, hosted by Ji-Xin Cheng
October 4, 2023
Boston Photonics Day, Hosted by the SPIE/Optica Student Chapter and co-sponsored by the Photonics Center
October 4, 2023
First Neuroscience of the Everyday World Conference, in Collaboration with the Chen Institute
October 11, 2023
BU Alumni “Disruption” Series + Dinner: Featuring Ivan Hyep and David Freedman
October 27, 2023
Materials Day 2023: Cardiac Bioengineering: Approaches to Advance Study and Treatment of Cardiac Disease
October 30, 2023
Neurophotonics Center MED Symposium
October 31, 2023 | 12-1:30 p.m.
Lunch & Learn with “Nature Methods” Senior Editor Rita Strack
November 8, 2023
Andor Technology/Oxford Instruments’ Boston University Photonics Center Workshop
November 28, 2023 | 12-1:30 p.m.
Lunch & Learn with Neil Sinclair, PhD
November 30, 2023
Photonics Center Annual Symposium: “Photonic Chips in Everything: Emerging Applications and Materials in Silicon Photonics Integrated Circuits”

August 25, 2022
Photonics Forum with Balazs Rozsa, Institute of Experimental Medicine
December 1, 2022
Photonics Center Symposium on Photonics & Artificial Intelligence

April 29, 2021
OSA/SPIE Chapter Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Vadim Backman, Northwestern University

October 27, 2021
OSA/SPIE Chapter Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Seemantini K. Nadkarni, MGH

November 10, 2021
Photonics Seminar by Dr. Phil Perconti, Former Army Chief Scientist

December 7, 2020
Photonics Center Distinguished Lecture: Dr. Nimmi Ramanujam, Duke University
Event Web Page
 

March 5, 2020
Photonics Center Distinguished Lecture: Dr. Charles Lin, MGH
Photonics Forum Announcement

February 19, 2020
Photonics Center/Neurophotonics Center NRT Trainee Organized Seminar: Dr. Denise Cai, Mount Sinai

November 21, 2019
Photonics Center Symposium
Symposium Webpage 

October 30, 2019
Lab Safety Training

September 25, 2019
Photonics Forum
Professor Maria Kamenetska
Photonics Forum Announcement

September 17, 2019
Kentek Laser Safety Van
Laser Safety Van Announcement

June 5, 2019
Photonics Forum
Dr. Steven Johnson, University of Glasgow (UK)
Photonics Forum Announcement

April 10, 2019
Photonics Forum
Dr. C. Richard Schwerdtfeger, National Science Foundation
Photonics Forum Announcement

January 30, 2019
Photometrics
Photonics Forum Announcement

March 29, 2018
Professor Irene Gerogeakoudi, Tufts University
Photonics Distinguished Lecture Announcement 

November 30, 2018
Professor Curtis Menyuk, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Photonics Forum Announcement

November 29, 2018
22nd Annual Photonics Center Symposium on Frontiers of Cardiac Tissue Engineering
Symposium Webpage

November 28, 2018
Professor Chen Yang, Boston University
Photonics Forum
Photonics Forum Announcement

October 31, 2018
Photonics Center Lab Safety Training
Photonics Forum
Lab Safety Training Announcement

September 26, 2018
Professor Hui Cao, Yale University
Photonics Forum Announcement

June 15, 2018
Dr. Martin Fermann, IMRA
Photonics Forum Announcement

April 27, 2018
Professor Joseph Culver, Washington University School of Medicine
Photonics Seminar Announcement

March 28, 2018
Professor Xi Ling, Boston University
Photonics Forum Abstract and Bio

February 28, 2018
Professor Ji-Xin Cheng, Boston University
Photonics Forum Abstract and Bio

January 31, 2018
Professor Ji Yi, Boston University
Photonics Forum Abstract and Bio

November 30, 2017
21st Annual Photonics Center Neurophotonics Symposium
Symposium Webpage 

October 25, 2017
Dr. Jeffrey Peterson, Perkin Elmer
Photonics Forum Bio and Abstract

October 13, 2017
Professor Govind Agrawal, Optics Institute
Photonics Center/ECE Distinguished Seminar Announcement

September 28, 2017
Professor Shaochen Chen, UCSD
Photonics Center Distinguished Seminar Announcement

September 7, 2017
Professor Scott Diddams, University of Colorado
Photonics Distinguished Seminar Abstract and Bio

April 27, 2017
Professor Peter So, MIT
Photonics Forum Abstract and Bio

March 29, 2017
Dr. David Boas, Boston University
Photonics Forum Abstract and Bio

February 22, 2017
Professor Alexander Sushkov, Boston University
Photonics Forum Abstract and Bio

January 25, 2017
Professor Lei Tian, Boston University
Photonics Forum Abstract and Bio

January 29, 2016
Professor Brian Walsh, Boston University
Photonics Forum Announcement

February 23, 2016
Professor Allison Dennis, Boston University
Photonics Forum Announcement

March 30, 2016
Professor Keith Brown, Boston University
Photonics Forum Announcement

March 31, 2016
Professor Cesare Barbieri, University of Padova
Photonics Seminar Announcement

April 27, 2016
Professor Jason Fleischer, Princeton University
Photonics Forum Announcement

October 6, 2016
Dr. David Stork, Rambus Labs
Photonics Seminar Announcement

December 7, 2016
20th Annual Photonics Center Symposium
Optics for Cancer Imaging
Symposium Web page

January 15, 2015
Professor Bahram Javidi, University of Connecticut
Photonics Seminar Announcement

January 29, 2015
Professor John Connor, Boston University
Photonics Forum Announcement

March 2, 2015
Professor Frank Vollmer, Max Planck Institute
Photonics Seminar Announcement

March 4, 2015
Professor Demetrios Christodoulides, University of Central Florida
Photonics Seminar Announcement

April 3, 2015
Professor Randy Giles, Bell Labs
Photonics Seminar Announcement

April 22, 2015
Professor Soumendra Basu, Boston University
Photonics Forum Announcement

July 23, 2015
RET Photonics Forum
Photonics Forum Announcement

August 7, 2015
RET/REU Poster Session
Poster Session Announcement

November 18, 2015
Photonics Innovation Center Company: SPR Advanced Technologies
Photonics Forum Announcement

December 3, 2015
Photonics Symposium on Plasmonics
Symposium Web page

January 29, 2014
Professor Sajeev John, University of Toronto
Distinguished Lecture Announcement

March 26, 2014
Professor Joshua Semeter, Boston University
Photonics Forum Announcement

April 11, 2015
Professor Bob Boyd, University of Ottawa
Photonics Distinguished Lecture Announcement

April 30, 2014
Professor Scott Bunch, Boston University
Photonics Forum Announcement

May 15, 2014
Professor Ji-Xin Cheng, Purdue University
Photonics Seminar Announcement

Septembet 18, 2014
Professor Hui Cao, Yale University
Photonics Seminar Announcement

September 24, 2014
Optofludics
Photonics Forum Announcement

October 1, 2014
Professor Brian Cunningham, University of Illinois
Photonics Seminar Announcement

October 9, 2014
Professor Sunil Bhave, Cornell University
Photonics Seminar Announcement

November 18, 2014
Ocean Optics
Photonics Forum Announcement

December 4, 2014
Photonics Center Symposium on Advanced Materials by Design for the 21st Century
Symposium Web page

December 15, 2014
Professor Aydogan Ozcan, UCLA
Photonics Seminar Announcement

February 22, 2013
Photonics Town Hall
Town Hall Video

March 26, 2013
Professor Darren Roblyer, Boston University
Photonics Forum Announcement

April 3, 2013
Dr. Minibao Ji, Harvard University
Photonics Seminar Announcement

April 24, 2013
Professor Michelle Sander, Boston University
Photonics Forum Announcement

May 5, 2013
Professor Andy Weiner, Purdue University
Photonics Seminar Announcement

May 22, 2013
Professor Govind Agrawal, University of Rochester
Photonics Seminar Announcement

May 29, 2013
Professor Jonathan Klamkin, Boston University
Photonics Forum Announcment

June 5, 2013
Professor Eric Betzig, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Photonics Seminar Announcement

September 24, 2013
Block Engineering
Photonics Forum Announcement

September 26, 2013
Professor David Brady
Photonics Seminar Announcement

October 31, 2013
Professor Wolfgang Schade
Photonics Seminar Announcement

November 7, 2013
Professor Nader Engheta
Photonics Seminar Announcement

November 13, 2013
Professor Marcos Dantus, Michigan State University
Photonics Seminar Announcement

December 5, 2013
Photonics Symposium on Innovations at the Intersections of Micro/nanofabrication Technology, Biology, and Biomedicine
Sympsoium Web page