OpTeC sponsors a colloquium throughout the academic year. This is a forum where a wide range of optical science and engineering topics are discussed at a level that can be understood by a broad spectrum of optics students, staff, and faculty. The primary purposes are to train students to give effective scientific talks and to promote cross-disciplinary interactions of students, staff, faculty, and local industry employees. Speakers include MSU students, staff, and faculty, and visitors from external universities, research labs, and companies.

Join our colloquium held weekly during academic semesters on Thursday at 4:10 pm.

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Upcoming Speakers 

TBD                                 Musaddeque Syed, Erica Venkatesulu and Joseph A. Shaw
                                         Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept., Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
                                         Characterization of a division-of-focal-plane polarization imager

TBD                                 Riley D. Logan, Elizabeth Rehbein, and Joseph A. Shaw
                                         Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept., Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 
                                         Drone-based hyperspectral imaging for river ecology
                                         Shannon Hamp, Riley Logan, and Joseph A. Shaw
                                         Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept., Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
                                         VIS-SWIR optical transmittance measurements of 3D printing materials  

Past Speakers

Date Speaker Group Summary
2/25/21

Jim Webb1 & Scott Wohlstein2 

1 G.L. Services, Hertfordshire, England
2 The Photonics Group,West Chester, OH

Using the LaserSafePC software for laser safety calculations 

Video
2/4/21

Brian D'Urso 

 MSU Physics Department

Towards precision pulsed levitated optomechanics in a magneto-gravitational trap
1/21/21

Wataru Nakagawa

 MSU ECE Department

Nanophotonics Applications and Sabbatical Exploration

Video
1/14/21

Nathan Kuehl

Bryan Scherrer

 MSU Physics and ECE Dep'ts Kuehl: Troubleshooting, repair and calibration of Burleigh WA-1500 Wavemeter.

Scherrer: Model and simulation of wing-beat modulation lidar for making 3D maps of flying insects .

VIDEO
11/19/20 Dr. Charles Kankelborg MSU Physics Department

Desiging a far ultraviolet spectrometer for the sun as a starAbstract
Video
11/12/20 Dr. Ioannis Roudis MSU ECE Department  Nonlinear noise in coherent optical communications systems    Abstract
4/09/15 Dr. James G. Wessel Seagate Corporation Hard Disc-Drive Recording
3/19/15 Dr. Jake Jacobsen Synopsys, Optical Solution Group A review of optical design software at Synopsys
2/05/15 Dr. Mark A. Wistey ECE Department, University of Notre Dame Paths to record lasers and solar cells--and on cheap silicon
11/24/14 Dr. Olav Solgaard ECE Department, Stanford University Miniaturized endoscopes and implantable sensors for in-vivo studies of cancer biology
11/6/14 Dr. Kirk Knobelspiesse NASA Ames Research Center Cloud thermodynamic phase detection with polarimetrically sensitive passive sky radiometers.
10/30/14 Dr. Kris Merkel President & CEO S2 Corporation, Bozeman, MT S2 Extreme Bandwidth Analyzer and Correlator (EBAC):Updates on Improvements and Demonstrations
11/14/13 Dr. Upendra Singh NASA Langley Research Center Development of a pulsed 2-micron integrated-path differential absorption lidar for CO2 measurements
10/31/13 Qing Gu University of California - San Diego Semiconductor nanolasers for dense chip-scale integration
9/16/13 Dr. Jim Schwiegerling College of Optical Sciences - University of Arizona Leading edge optics for optimizing vision
5/14/13 Dr. John Egan Advanced Photonic Crystals The benefits of low temperature hydrothermal crystal growth
4/25/13 Dr. Edwin ("Ted") Heilweil National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Time-resolved terahertz studies of carrier dynamics in P3HT and zinc-phthalocyanine/C60 nanolayered thin films
2/26/13 Dr. Larry Johnson and Dr. Mark Carroll Newport Corporation Part 1. Overview of laser diode technology and applications; Part 2. Job opportunities and desired skills for graduates at Newport/ILX Lightwave
2/8/13 Dr. Toralf Scharf Institute of Microtechnology, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland From achromatic microlenses to submicron focusing: physical optics at the micro-scale