BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Memento EPFL// BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Photonics Day 2021 DTSTART:20211202T090000 DTEND:20211202T180000 DTSTAMP:20260410T094922Z UID:5cbb7130c208d17f7cf4781b2f1e271ddf4a3a4b2fe31db05fda1f53 CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars DESCRIPTION:The Photonics Day is a yearly event that aims at promoting re search discussions and networking among members of the EPFL photonic com munity as well as researchers and industry players in the Photonic sector. The program includes invited talks from world-leaders in the field\, pre sentations from the best EPFL PhD thesis awards and posters from students in the doctoral program. Our sponsors will also be present with a small e xhibition.\n\nThis year the Photonics Day will take place in-person (regis tration and covid-pass required\, see below) on the 2nd December 2021 at t he Forum Rolex. We will hear about cutting edge research in nano-optics\, optical nano-materials\, metasurfaces and electro-optical systems from our speakers (see their complete biographies below):\n\n Prof. Vahid Sandoghd ar\, Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Light.\n \n Coherent and eff icient coupling of single molecules to light: from quantum optics to bioph otonics\n \n \n Prof. Rachel Grange\, ETHZ.\n \n Nonlinear and Electro-Op tic Metal-Oxides for Telecom and Sensing Devices\n \n \n Prof. Patrice Gen evet\, CNRS and Univ. Côte Azur. \n \n Fundamentals & Applications of Op tical Metasurfaces\n \n \n Prof. Cristina Benea-Chelmus\, EPFL. \n \n Ele ctro-optic transducers for free-space and on-chip applications\n \n \n\nPl ease register here.\n\nFull program here.\n\n\nBiographies:\n\nProf. Vahid Sandoghdar\, Max-Plank Institute for the Science of Light\, Erlangen - Va hid Sandoghdar is one of the pioneers of the field of Nano-Optics\, which merges various methods and research areas to investigate fundamental issue s in the interaction between light and matter at the nanometer scale. His current research ranges from quantum optics\, plasmonics and ultrahigh res olution microscopy to nanobiophysics. Sandoghdar obtained his B.S. in phys ics from the University of California at Davis in 1987 and Ph.D. in physic s from Yale University in 1993. After a postdoctoral stay at the Ecole Nor male Supérieure in Paris\, he moved to the University of Konstanz in Germ any\, where he started a new line of research to combine single molecule s pectroscopy\, scanning probe microscopy and quantum optics. In 2001\, he b ecame full professor at the Laboratory of Physical Chemistry at ETH in Zur ich\, Switzerland. In 2011\, he became director at the Max Planck Institut e for the Science of Light in Erlangen and Alexander von Humboldt Professo r at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. Vahid Sandoghdar is the founder and spokesperson of the newly established Max-Planck-Zentrum f ür Physik und Medizin\, a joint research center that addresses questions in fundamental medical research with physical and mathematical methods.\n\ nProf. Rachel Grange\, ETHZ - Rachel Grange is an associate professor in i ntegrated optics and nanophotonics in the Department of Physics at ETH Zur ich and head of the Optical Nanomaterial Group. She has been assistant pro fessor at ETH Zurich since 2015. From 2011 to 2014\, she was junior group leader at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena\, Germany. Her researc h covers top-down and bottom-up fabricated nanostructures with metal-oxide s.\n\nProf. Patrice Genevet\, CNRS and Universite Côte d’Azur -  Patri ce Genevet obtained his PhD at University of Nice Sophia Antipolis in Fran ce. He did two years of postdoctorate fellowship (2009-2011) in the Capass o group (SEAS\, Harvard University) in collaboration with Prof. Marlan Scu lly followed by three years of Research Associate at Harvard University Sc hool of Applied Science and Engineering  (2011- 2014\, SEAS\, Harvard Uni versity). In 2014\, he obtained the position of senior research scientist at SIMTech –Singapore Institute for Manufacturing Technologies. In 2015\ , He joined the CNRS at the "Centre de Recherche sur l'hétéro-épitaxie et ses applications" as ‘Chargé de Recherche’. He is the recipient of the ERC starting Grant 2015 on Functional flat optical components and app lications\, the 2019 ERC PoC and the 2017 Aimé-Cotton price from the Fren ch Physical Society. He authored 90 peer-review manuscripts and 6 internat ional patents (H-factor 42\, Citations 17909).\n\nProf. Cristina Benea-Che lmus\, EPFL - She is an incoming tenure-track assistant professor at EPFL and head of the Hybrid Photonics Laboratory (HYLAB). Her group researches the physics of hybrid integrated devices that link the microwave and terah ertz domain with the optical domain. She investigates fundamental limits i n efficiency\, frequency and resolution for applications in metrology\, ul trafast wave synthesis and optoelectronic control of optical systems. Prio r to that\, she was a postdoctoral scientist at Harvard University\, suppo rted by an independent grant from the Hans-Eggenberger Foundation and a vi siting scholar at Regensburg University. She obtained her PhD in 2018 from ETH Zurich. Among other recognitions\, she has been awarded a PRIMA grant in 2021.\n\n\n\n\n  LOCATION:Forum Rolex https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==RLC%20E1%20240 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR