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Program
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| 9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. | Registration and Coffee |
| 9:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. | Opening Remarks |
| 9:30 a.m. | Samantha Roberts – Nanofabrication Facility Director, ASRC |
| 9:35 a.m. | Stephen O’Brien – Interim Dean of Science, Professor, Chemical Engineering, CUNY City College of New York |
| 9:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. | Session 1: Frontiers in Photonics and Quantum Devices Session Chair: Viktoriia Rutckaia, ASRC |
| 9:45 a.m. | Andrea Alù – Distinguished Professor, City College of New York, Director, Photonics Initiative, ASRC “Tricking Light with Nanostructured Materials” |
| 10:10 a.m. | Michele Cotrufo – Assistant Professor, Institute of Optics, University of Rochester “Optical Metasurfaces for Linear and Nonlinear Control of Light” |
| 10:35 a.m. | Javad Shabani – Professor, Department of Physics, New York University “Epitaxial Superconductor-Semiconductor for Quantum Information Processing” |
| 11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. | Break |
| 11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Session 2: Collective Intelligence – AI and Community Session Chair: Samantha Roberts, ASRC |
| 11:15 a.m. | Yingli Tian – Distinguished Professor, Electrical Engineering, City College of New York, Computer Science, Graduate Center, CUNY “How Open Data Builds Stronger Scientific Communities in Computer Vision” |
| 11:40 a.m. | Samantha Roberts – Nanofabrication Facility Director, ASRC NanoKnow Community Kick-Off |
| 12:10 p.m. – 12:25 p.m. | Sponsor Remarks Elionix STS | SAMCO Inc. | Oxford Instruments | VyirTech Inc. |
| 12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. | Lunch | Dessert | Coffee |
| 1:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Session 3: Lab to Fab – Pathways to Industry Session Chair: Jacob Trevino, CNI, Columbia University |
| 1:45 p.m. | Marissa Beatty – CEO, Turnover Labs “From Research to Venture: Decision-Making in Transitioning from Academia” |
| 2:10 p.m. | Bryant Colwill – Manager, 200 mm Innovation Lab, Albany NanoTech State University of New York at Albany “Decoding the Albany NanoTech Ecosystem” |
| 2:30 p.m. | Industry Panel Discussion
James Scholtz, CEO, VyirTech Inc. |
| 3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. | Break |
| 3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Session 4: Expanding Discovery Through Nanofabrication Session Chair: Maya Narayanan Nair, ASRC |
| 3:15 p.m. | Alexander Khanikaev – Endowed Professor, College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida “Advanced Nanofabrication for Topological Photonics and Polaritonics” |
| 3:40 p.m. | Prachi Thureja – Postdoctoral Researcher, CUNY ASRC, (PI: Andrea Alù) “Wavelength-Tunable Metasurface Filters for Analog Image Processing” |
| 3:50 p.m. | Reaz Uddin Bhuiyan – Graduate Student, CUNY CCNY, (PI: Bruce Kim) “Fabrication of SiNW-based Nano Sensor Device Using Silver Metal” |
| 4:00 p.m. | Shlok Joseph Paul – Graduate Student, New York University, (PI: Ayaskanta Sahul) “There is Plenty of Room at the Bottom and the Top for Colloidal Quantum Dot Infrared Photodetectors” |
| 4:10 p.m. | Volkan Arslan – Graduate Student, Columbia University, (PI: Ken Shepard) “High Density CMOS-based Ultrasound Phased Array with Monolithically Integrated PVDF Transducers for Photoacoustic Imaging” |
| 4:30 p.m. – 4:35 p.m. | Closing Remarks |
| 4:35 p.m. | Poster Walkthrough, Cocktails, and Networking Social |
| 6:15 p.m. | Award Ceremony |
| 6:45 p.m. | End of Day |
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