Convening meetings, workshops, seminars, and public programs is a key part of the mission at the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center promoting collaboration between campus-based faculty, ASRC faculty, theorists, and experimentalists across New York City.
The ASRC offers event and meeting spaces that can accommodate up to 100 guests for your next conference, reception, meeting, workshop, film shoot, or private event.
Non-Hermitian Photonics: Optics at an Exceptional Point
Phase Changing Semiconductors
Nonreciprocal Photonics Without Magnetic Biasing
Scalable Nanophotonics For Quantum And Classical Information Processing
Manipulating Exciton Dynamics For Energy Conversion Applications
Paradigm Shift in Mems/Nems Toward Multi-functional and Near-zero Power Integrated Microsystems
Near-Quantum-Limited Microwave Amplification and Nonreciprocal Transmission Using Engineered Mechanical Dissipation
Quantum Optics with Two-dimensional Materials from Many-body Physics to Quantum Information
Topological Insulator Lasers
Manipulating Matter with Strong Coupling: Harvesting Triplet Excitons in Organic Exciton Microcavities
Nanowires and Nano-oxides as Building Blocks for Nonlinear Photonics
Quantum Experiments with Massive, Mechanical Oscillators
Pushing the Limits of Nanophotonic Control Via Inverse Design
Developments in the Science and Application of Metamaterials at the University of Alberta
Coupling of Photonic Fano Resonances with 2D Excitons
3D Plasmonic Nanostructures for Biology and Medicine
Steering Photons: From Detectors and Smart Windows to Space Propulsion and Quantum Forces
Enhanced Sensitivity in Non-Hermitian RF and Optical Sensors
On-chip Integration of Single-Photon Sources and Detectors
All-Dielectric Optical Antennas as Enablers of Chiral and Topological Applications
From Maxwell’s Demon to Einstein’s Speed Demon
Nanoscale Optical Modulators: Performance Metrics
Gradient Metasurface for Surface Wave Control
Inherently Matched Self-Dual Structures
Dynamics of Topological Metastructures: Nonlinearities and Quasi-periodicity
Half-harmonic generation: enabling photonic solutions for molecular sensing and non-classical computing
Silicon Mie-resonators with Embedded Ge Quantum Dots for NIR Light Control
New designer materials: Sculpting electromagnetic fields on the atomic scale
Quantum measurement and metrology with a mechanical oscillator
Room-temperature high-speed control of quantum emitters with plasmonic nanostructures
3D Metamaterials
Quantum Acoustics Experiments
Colorful Organic Solar Cells Employing Förster Resonance Energy Transfer
Time-Reversal Symmetry and its Applications to Waveform Shaping and System Protection
Theory of Thermal Relaxation of Electrons in Semiconductors and Two-Dimensional Materials
Nanoscale Quantum Sensing Guest Speaker Jörg Wrachtrup Institute for Quantum Science and Technology (IQST) and Center for Applied Quantum Technologies University of Stuttgart, Germany Abstract The accuracy of measurements is limited by quantum mechanics. Ingenious demonstrations, like measuring gravitational fields or time have explored accuracy limits and reached fundamental obstructions. Yet, precision measurements so far
Higher symmetries: a new degree of freedom for the design of periodic structures
Stimuli-Directing Liquid Crystalline Nanostructures: From Dynamic Photonics to Renewable Energy
Suppression of Disorder-Induced Scattering in Optomechanical Systems
Speaker Professor Gabriele Grosso, Physics Photonics Initiative, Advanced Science Research Center The Graduate Center, CUNY This is an intensive workshop on the physics of two-dimensional materials with particular emphasis to their electronic and optical properties. The most important classes of materials and functionalities will be covered, including graphene, semiconductor transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and insulator
Topological edge states of interacting photon pairs: topolectrical circuit realization
Multivariate Optical Wavefronts Generated by Dielectric Metasurfaces
Want to Become a Science Influencer? Then please join Graduate Center Social Media Coordinator Coralie Carlson for an hour-long brown bag lunch & learn where she’ll cover how you can effectively use social media to promote science! This workshop is for ASRC faculty, students and staff who want to quickly bone up on best practices
Hybrid metallo-dielectric nanophotonic platforms: how can we benefit from coupling plasmonic antennas and dielectric cavities?
Lab safety training for ASRC researchers and core facility users. Contact: Aldo Orlando, aldo.orlando@asrc.cuny.edu
Principal Investigators (PIs), Co-PIs, postdocs and students will present and review findings of the first year of research activities for the AFOSR MURI project.
Professor Jon Spanier from Drexel will give a combined ASRC/City College seminar hosted by Andre Alu and Stephen O'Brien.
Lab safety training for ASRC researchers and core facility users. Contact: Aldo Orlando, aldo.orlando@asrc.cuny.edu
Lab safety training for ASRC researchers and core facility users. Contact: Aldo Orlando, aldo.orlando@asrc.cuny.edu
Devices emerging from controlling organic and metal halide perovskite energetics and morphology
The CUNY ASRC is designed to inspire and enable interdisciplinary research that brings together scientists from across CUNY’s 25 campuses and beyond to create solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges. As we mark our fifth year of work, we invite fellow faculty, staff, and students from across CUNY and beyond to join
