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IV School – Summer 2012

Official Picture of The IV Summer School

The Fourth Summer School on Optics and Photonics will be held at the Engineering Faculty in The Universidad de Concepción, in Concepción, Chile, from January 9th to 13th, 2012.
The IV Summer School will consist in a series of short-courses and some seminars whose main topic is “Optoelectronics”. In particular, subtopics such as avalanche photodiods, hyperspectral imaging, optical sensors, low-power and high-performance VLSI for imagers, and integrated computational optical sensing will be covered during the seminars and the short-courses.
Each short-course will have an approximate duration of four hours. The short-courses are intended for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and researchers with background on Physics and Electrical Engineering, which are interested in optoelectronics and their applications.
The organizing committee will bring together well-known researchers with a vast experience in optoelectronics, which undoubtedly provide an enormous contribution to our effort on creating synergy and sharing knowledge and research experiences.

The key speakers and course lecturers invited to the IV Summer School are:

  1. Dr. Michael Gehm. Dr. Gehm is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with a joint appointment in the College of Optical Sciences, at The University of Arizona, in Tucson, AZ, USA.  Dr. Gehm directs the Laboratory for Engineering Non-traditional Sensors (LENS) and his research activities are in computational sensing, compressive sensing, optical sensors, spectroscopy, imaging, spectral imaging, Terahertz technology, volumetric optical components, and optical physics.
  2. Dr. Joseph Haus. Dr. Haus is the Director and Professor with The Electro-Optics Graduate Program, at The University of Dayton, in Dayton, OH, USA. His research activities are in nonlinear optics (heterogeneous materials, photonic crystals, metamaterials and crystals), parametric down-conversion and THz generation, harmonic generation, and modulation instabilities, fiber lasers (mode-locked, cylindrically polarized and tunable), and metallodielectrics for super-resolution and nonlinear applications.
  3. Dr. James Wyant. Dr. Wyant is the Dean of the College of Optical Sciences, a Professor of the Optical Sciences and a Professor of the Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona, in Tucson, AZ, USA. His research and development interests involve using old technology, interferometry, and new technology, computers and modern electronics, to produce “state of the art” instruments for solving metrology problems in many industries including: Data Storage, Semiconductor, Machine Tool, Optical Fabrication, Fiber Optics, Biomedical, and Printing, among others.
  4. Dr. Payman Zarkesh-Ha. Dr. Zarkesh-Ha is an assistant Professor of The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, at the University of New Mexico, in Albuquerque, NM, USA. His research interests are Statistical modeling of VLSI systems, design for manufacturability and reliability, low-power and high-performance VLSI design.

Organizing committee

Video presentation (spanish audio only):