Events for the College of Optics & Photonics

Upcoming Events

  • CREOL Spring Colloquium: Alexander Cerjan, Sandia National Laboratories

    CREOL: CROL-103 and Virtual

    Title: An operator-based approach to classifying topology in open and nonlinear systems Abstract: In this talk, I will provide an overview of some of the outstanding problems in the classification of topological materials in physical systems, and I will discuss how many of these problems can be addressed through the spectral localizer framework. For example, the chiral edge states that are guaranteed …

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  • 2026 CREOL Industrial Affiliates Symposium

    FAIRWINDS Alumni Center

    CREOL's annual Industrial Affiliates Symposium brings together members of the CREOL Industrial Affiliates (IA) program in an intentional fusion of academia, industry, and government. Students and faculty are encouraged to take advantage of the many networking opportunities the program creates. Thursday 3/5 (CREOL Building) Spring Optics and Photonics Career Fair hosted by CREOL. Separate Registration - sign up on Handshake: https://ucf.joinhandshake.com/edu/career_fairs/64073/ …

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  • Spring Optics and Photonics Career Fair

    CREOL: CROL-103

    Get your resume ready for the Spring Optics and Photonics Career Fair, hosted by CREOL. Open to students studying optics and photonics, engineering, and physics. Thanks to CREOL’s stellar international reputation, optics and photonics companies and national labs are hiring UCF students and alumni across all science, math, and engineering majors. If you want to help create the future of …

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  • CREOL Spring Colloquium: Minjoo Lee, University of Illinois

    CREOL: CROL-103 and Virtual

    Title: A study in contrasts: epitaxial integration of III-Vs with dielectrics for novel lasers Abstract: This talk will highlight our recent progress in molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) regrowth of laser structures that harness the contrasting properties of III–V semiconductors and dielectric materials to realize new device architectures. In the first part of the talk, I will describe efforts to integrate …

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  • CREOL Spring Colloquium: Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University

    CREOL: CROL-103 and Virtual

    Title: Inverse designed, densely integrated classical and quantum photonics Abstract: Recent breakthroughs in photonics design, along with new nanofabrication approaches and heterogeneous integration play crucial roles in building photonics for applications including optical interconnects and quantum technologies. This design breakthrough is named photonic inverse design, and refers to efficiently searching through the space of all possible photonic device geometries, within fabrication …

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  • CREOL Spring Colloquium: Laura Sinclair, NIST

    CREOL: CROL-103 and Virtual

    Title: Frequency-Comb-Based Optical Timing Networks Abstract: The optical frequency comb has enabled a wide range of frequency, time and distance metrology applications due to its precise, rigid, and referenced optical output. However, the very rigidity which makes the frequency comb an excellent time-frequency ruler places limits on its applicability for comb-based sensing applications with many operating far from quantum-limited sensitivity. For instance, …

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