Past seminars 2010

Date	Speaker	Topic
23 March 2011	Dr John Barr Selex Galileo	" Simplicity in engineering: easy to say; hard to do"
1 March 2011	Professor Andrei Seryi, John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science	"Accelerators - giant or compact - for science, industry and society - future directions"
23 February 2011	Bill O'Neill, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge	"The Laser Materials Procedure Landscape- Basic Practice and Future Opportunities"
9 February 2011	Graham Leggett, Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield	"Photolithographic Fabrication of Molecular Nanostructures"
19 January 2011	Hendrik Ulbricht, Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton	" Molecule interferometry"
9 December 2010	Alexander Heidt, Laser Research Institute, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa	"Coherent and pulse preserving supercontinuum generation in all-normal dispersion fibers"
27 September	Speakers from Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd	"Higher-order dispersion controlled Silica-based highly nonlinear fibers", Tough Ultra-Bend-Insensitive Fiber Having Compressive Residual Stress at Surface of Pure-Silica Cladding" and "Crosstalk Variation of Multi-Core Fibre due to Fibre Bend"
30 September	Speakers from Furukawa	“R&D on micro-structured optical fibers in Furukawa Electric” and “Effective Space Division Multiplexing by Multi-Core Fibers”
4 October	John Canning	“Fibre and grating research at iPL University of Sydney: An overview of work in our group"
28 July 2010	Dr Tom Brown, University of St Andrews	"Light for Life - Laser Based techniques for the Biological and Medical Sciences."
7 July 2010	Dr Maria Cinta Pujol, FiCMA FiCNA, University of Rovira & Virgili	"Monoclinic double tungstates doped with rare earths for laser applications: crystal growth, physical anisotropy and laser characterization"
23 June 2010	Dr Thomas Südmeyer, ETH Zurich	"Ultrafast lasers oscillators in the thin disk geometry"
15 June 2010	Professor Peter Cochrane, Cochrane Associates Co-Founder, Chairman & Director, Business Angel & Consultant	"What do Machines Think?"
4 June 2010	Professor Steven Anlage, University of Maryland	“Superconducting Metamaterials”
12 May 2010	Professor Guenter Huber, Institute of Laser Physics, Hamburg University	“Diode pumped solid-state lasers"
26 March 2010	Professor Martin Wegener	“3D Direct-Laser-Writing Lithography for Nanophotonics and Biology "
3 March 2010	Professor Arno Rauschenbeutel, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz	“Micro- and Nanofibre-based Optical Cavities”
19 February 2010	Professor Victor Moshchalkov, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	“Fano Resonances in Reduced-Symmetry Plasmonic Nanocavities”
17 February 2010	Chris Holmes, ORC	Pre Viva Talk: “Direct UV Written Planar Devices for Sensing and Telecommunication Applications”
17 February 2010	Natasha Vukovic, ORC	Pre Viva Talk: “Optical properties of long photonic crystal fibre tapers”
13 January 2010	Dr Stojan Radic, University of California San Diego	“Distributed Mixer Engineering with Molecular-Scale Accuracy”