The International Year of the Light
October 8th, 2015
Corwin Pavilion
1:00PM Welcome
Henry Yang
Chancellor & Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UC Santa Barbara
Rod Alferness
Richard A. Auhll Professor & Dean, College of Engineering, UC Santa Barbara
Alan Willner
USC, President-Elect of The Optical Society of America (OSA)
Session 1 Chair: Rod Alferness Richard A. Auhll Professor & Dean, College of Engineering, UCSB
A Double-Heterostructure Concept: How it Got Started
Herbert Kroemer
Professor of Electrical Engineering & Materials, UC Santa Barbara & Nobel Laureate
Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits
John Bowers
Director of the Institute for Energy Efficiency & AIM Photonics West Coast Hub, UC Santa Barbara
Light, Noise, and Darkness
Amnon Yariv
Martin & Eileen Summerfield Professor of Applied Physics & Professor of Electrical Engineering, Caltech
2:05PM Session 2 Chair: Gui Bazan Professor of Chemistry & Materials, Director of CPOS, UCSB
“Plastic” Solar Cells
Alan Heeger
Professor of Physics & Materials, UC Santa Barbara & Nobel Laureate
First Light: the Cosmic Microwave Background and Early Universe Physics
Eva Silverstein
Professor of Physics, Stanford University & SLAC
Energy Awareness: Seeing Energy to Save Energy
Bill Parrish
Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Seek Thermal
2:55PM Break
3:15PM Session 3 Chair: Robert Leheny Adjunct Research Staff Member, Inst. for Defense Analyses
Blue LED and Prospects for the Lighting Industry
Shuji Nakamura
Professor of Materials, Co-Director of the Solid-State Lighting & Energy Electronics Center, UCSB & Nobel Laureate
Energy Savings and Future Directions in Solid State Lighting
Steve DenBaars
Professor of Materials, Co-Director of the Solid-State Lighting & Energy Electronics Center, UC Santa Barbara
Semiconductor Lasers: Vertical, Tunable, Enabling Photonic ICs
Larry Coldren
Kavli Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Professor of ECE & Materials, UC Santa Barbara
4:10PM Session 4 Chair: Pierre Wiltzius Susan & Bruce Worster Dean of Science & Prof. of Physics, UCSB
Lightwave Technologies Are Key To: Good Health, Good Communications & Good
Entertainment
Waguih Ishak
Division Vice President & Director, Corning West Technology Center
Quantum Sensing and Imaging with Photoluminescent Single Spins
Ania Jayich
Assistant Professor of Physics, UC Santa Barbara
Tunable Biophotonics
Dan Morse
Professor Emeritus of Molecular Genetics & Biochemistry, UC Santa Barbara
5:00PM Poster Session & Reception
6:30PM Keynote Chair: Rod Alferness Richard A. Auhll Professor & Dean, College of Engineering, UCSB
In Celebration of Light
Steve Chu
Professor of Physics & Molecular & Cell Biology, Stanford University & Nobel Laureate