Schedule
The goal is to introduce 25 underrepresented physics and engineering students annually to the research and career opportunities in optics and photonics and to the Optica community.
Following is a general overview of the program timeline and description.
Program Timeline
The program will run 26-29 September (4 days and 3 nights) co-located with the Optica annual meeting Frontiers in Optics:
- Saturday, 26 September – Arrival and networking event
- Sunday, 27 September – Immersion programming, Student Leadership plenary and party
- Monday, 28 September – FiO/Student Leadership programming, DLS Symposium on Undergraduate Research
- Tuesday, 29 September – Plenary and departure
Program Description
Time will be split between programming designed specifically for this group, joint activities with the Optica Student Leadership program, and attending FiO talks and programming. The activities for the Immersion attendees will include:
- Overview of optics and photonics research, technologies and career opportunities.
- Introduction to Optica and of FiO technical program and special events with programming on getting the most out of the experience.
- Participation in the DLS Symposium on Undergraduate Research
- Participation in FiO activities including small group guided tours of FiO exhibit floor and the opening Plenary talk.
- Informal networking activities and meals
Schedule and speakers subject to change.
Afternoon Arrivals & Hotel Check-In
17:30 – 19:00 Welcome Reception
07:30 – 08:30 Breakfast
08:30 – 08:45 Welcome
08:45 – 09:15 Introductions & Kick-off with Master of Ceremonies
09:15 – 10:00 Enabled By Optics: The Landscape of Optics and Photonics
Fabrication, Design and Instrumentation Division Chair
Image Acquisition Processing and Display Division Chair
Optical Interaction Science Division Chair
Photonics & Opto-electronics Division Chair
10:00 – 10:30 Enabled by Optics: Photonics for a Better World
Bio-Medical Optics Division Chair
Quantum Division Chair
Sensing Division Chair
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:45 All About Optics
Kimani Toussaint, Brown University, USA
11:45 – 12:00 Group Project Overview
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch with Student Leadership
13:00 – 14:00 Nanophotonic Advances and Reflections from a Black Scientist in Optics
Jhonattan Cordoba Ramirez, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
14:00 - 14:30 Industry Career Insights
Anoopoma Bhowmik, Edmund Optics, USA
Jim Kafka, Spectra-Physics / MKS, Emeritus Fellow, USA
14:45 – 15:00 Break
15:00 – 16:00 Doing Cool S#!* With Optics
Benjamin Cromey, BAE Systems, Inc., USA
Ivy Krystal Jones, Norfolk State University, USA
Deja Scott, Edmund Optics, USA
16:00 – 17:00 Being Black in STEM
Kenneth Barber, Edmund Optics, USA
Jhonattan Cordoba Ramirez, UFMG, Brazil
Ivy Krystal Jones, Norfolk State University, USA
Deja Scott, Edmund Optics, USA
17:00 – 17:15 Debrief & Closing
18:00 Student Party at Mueller Restaurant
08:00 – 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 – 12:00 Group Project Work Time
12:00 – 13:30 DLS Symposium on Undergraduate Research Joint Lunch
13:30 – 15:45 Group Project Work Time
16:00 – 17:00 Group Project Presentations
18:30 – 19:30 Joint DLS Symposium Dinner at Christopher's Restaurant & Custom Catering
08:00 – 09:00 Breakfast
FiO Programming and Afternoon departures
