6th Annual Optoelectronics and Optical Communications Symposium

Title: 6th Annual Optoelectronics and Optical Communications Symposium
Date: October 31-November 1, 2007
Location: Charlotte, NC on the UNC-Charlotte Campus
Event Type: Syposium & Exhibition
Event Website: http://www.optoresearch.com/

Event Description:
Key events at the 6th Annual Optoelectronics and Optical Communications Symposium are:

• Exhibition booths from leading optical companies including Tessera North America.
• Tessera's CTO, Michael Feldman will present on "Photonics Start-ups: the story of DOC" at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, November 1.
• A seminar from Dr. Michael Lebby, President of the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association. Lebby will provide information about global trends in optoelectronics and the many markets enabled by it (6:00 p.m. Thursday Oct 31st).
• Dr. William Philips, 1997 Nobel Laureate, will present a seminar entitled “Optics with Laser-like Atom Waves” on November 1. (Note: In addition, he will also deliver a public lecture, “Time, Einstein, and the coolest stuff in the universe” on Friday, November 2nd.)
• Other speakers: Dr. Robert McMahon, North Carolina Governor’s Senior Science Advisor; Dr. Michael Feldman, CTO of Tessera Corporation; Dr. George Simonis, Photonics Division Chief, Army Research Labs; and Dr. George Stegeman, Cobb Family Professor of Optics at CREOL.
• Faculty will present current research initiatives in photonics.
• Industry vendor exhibit and product demonstrations will run throughout the symposium.