CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics at the 海角直播, will celebrate its 25th聽anniversary this week with a symposium featuring exhibits, tours, and several speakers from around the world, including two physicists that have won the Nobel Prize. 聽The college was founded in 1987 as聽The Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL).
The two-day symposium will be opened at 8:30 a.m. Thursday in the FAIRWINDS Alumni Center by Tony Waldrop, UCF鈥檚 provost and executive vice president, and Bahaa Saleh, dean of the college and director of CREOL.
Thursday鈥檚 plenary talk will be presented at 9:30 a.m. by John Hall, the 2005 Nobel Prize winner in Physics. He will discuss lasers and a proposed space experiment to test Albert Einstein鈥檚 assumptions of physics.聽Hall currently works with JILA (formerly known as the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics) operated by the 海角直播 of Colorado and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Nicolaas Bloembergen, the recipient of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics, will present Friday鈥檚 plenary talk at 9 a.m.聽Bloembergen, a member of the 海角直播 of Arizona faculty, will talk about the origin of nonlinear optics.
A third Nobel Prize winner, Charles Townes, inventor of the laser and namesake of the college’s Townes Laser Institute, also will be in attendance. CREOL鈥檚 Martin Richardson, director of the institute, will discuss future projects of the research facility at 1 p.m. Thursday.
Dean Saleh will talk about the future of optics and photonics at 8:30 a.m. Friday, and additional presentations will be made during both days by speakers from Stanford, Cornell, Southampton, UCF and other universities.
For a complete schedule of sessions, tours, presentations and venues, click.