Special Guest Lectures on Nanophotonics and Quantum Photonics
by Profs. Alexandra Boltasseva and Vladimir M. Shalaev
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We are pleased to announce that we will soon be welcoming distinguished Professors Alexandra Boltasseva and Vladimir M. Shalaev of Purdue University to our campus. We invite you to attend their exclusive guest lectures focusing on recent advances in nanophotonics and quantum photonics.
These lectures will offer insights into groundbreaking research at the intersection of photonic materials, quantum systems, and device engineering, fields that are driving innovations across many fields of scientific study.
Professor Alexandra Boltasseva
Professor Boltasseva’s lecture will focus on the development and application of new classes of tunable photonic materials, including transition metal nitrides, MXenes, and transparent conducting oxides. She will explore their potential in flat optics, nonlinear photonics, and quantum technologies, as well as their role in uncovering new physical phenomena in transdimensional and strongly correlated# systems.
Professor Vladimir M. Shalaev
In this lecture, Professor Shalaev will present recent progress in scalable quantum photonic systems based on room-temperature single-photon emitters in silicon nitride. He will also discuss the integration of these emitters with dielectric and plasmonic structures, and introduce a novel approach to all-optical modulation enabled by silicon avalanche photodiodes at single-photon intensities.
Alexandra Boltasseva is a Ron and Dotty Garvin Tonjes Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering with courtesy appointment in Materials Engineering at Purdue University. She received her PhD in electrical engineering at Technical University of Denmark, DTU in 2004. Boltasseva specializes in nanophotonics, quantum photonics, and optical materials. She is the 2023 recipient of the R.W. Wood Prize (Optica, formerly Optical Society of America), 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, 2018 Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists Finalist and received the 2013 Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Photonics Society Young Investigator Award, 2013 Materials Research Society (MRS) Outstanding Young Investigator Award, the 2011 MIT Technology Review Top Young Innovator (TR35), the 2009 Young Researcher Award in Advanced Optical Technologies from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, and the Young Elite-Researcher Award from the Danish Council for Independent Research (2008). She is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), MRS, IEEE, Optica, and SPIE. She served on MRS Board of Directors and is former Editor-in-Chief for Optical Materials Express journal.
Credit: Sam Barker Photography
Vladimir M. Shalaev, Scientific Director for Nanophotonics at Birck Nanotechnology Center and Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University, specializes in nanophotonics, plasmonics, optical metamaterials and quantum photonics. Prof. Shalaev is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (AAA&S). He has received several awards for his research, including the APS Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids, the Optica (formerly, Optical Society of America, OSA) Max Born Award for his pioneering contributions to the field of optical metamaterials, the Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics, IEEE Photonics Society William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award, Rolf Landauer medal of the ETOPIM (Electrical, Transport and Optical Properties of Inhomogeneous Media) International Association, the UNESCO Medal for the development of nanosciences and nanotechnologies, and the OSA and SPIE Goodman Book Writing Award. Prof. Shalaev is recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher in physics by the Web of Science Group for 8 consecutive years, in 2017-2024. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, APS, SPIE, MRS and Optica.
