M. Alten Gilleo Distinguished Lectureship
The M. Alten Gilleo Distinguished Lectureship in Optical Sciences and Optoelectronics brings the world’s top researchers in the field of optics and optoelectronics to Michigan. The Lectureship was established by Anita Gilleo (BS Lit ‘44) in honor of her brother, Mathias Alten Gilleo (BSE EE ‘44). Alten Gilleo made significant contributions to optics and solid state physics throughout his career, and worked in some of the most advanced research labs of his time.
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Past Lectures
MAR
07
2025
CUOS Seminar | ECE Seminar | Optics Seminar
CUOS Seminar: Relativistic optics and multi-GeV laser-driven particle accelerators
Howard Milchberg, Distinguished Professor, University of Maryland
NOV
15
2024
CUOS Seminar | Optics Seminar
CUOS Seminar: Modern tests of Quantum Electrodynamics in the strong-field regime
Prof. Antonino Di Piazza, Professor of Physics, Distinguished Scientist, LLE, University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy
OCT
03
2024
CUOS Seminar | Optics Seminar
CUOS Seminar: Momentum and absorption, Phase transitions, and Transparency
Nick Ernst, GSRA
André Antoine, GSRA
Brendan Stassel, GSRA
JUN
17
2024
CUOS Seminar | Optics Seminar
CUOS Noon Seminar: Do Graph Neural Networks dream of Landau Damping?
Diogo Carvalho, GoLP/IPFN, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa UCLA Physics & Astronomy Dept
APR
23
2024
CUOS Seminar | Optics Seminar
Noon Seminar Dr. Erik Power LLE: Flow-Cell concept
Dr. Erik Power, Lab for Laser Engineering (LLE) at the University of Rochester
FEB
07
2024
CUOS Seminar | Optics Seminar
RESCHEDULED from Monday! CUOS Noon Seminar: Femtosecond Laser Microfabrication/In-Cavity Photonics
Dr. Darius Gailevičius, Prof. of Physics, Laser Research Center, Faculty of Physics, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
FEB
02
2024
CUOS Seminar | Optics Seminar
CUOS 12:30 PM Seminar: Prof. Yuki Kobayashi Coherent electronic phenomena in atoms, molecules, and two-dimensional materials
Prof. Yuki Kobayashi, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Department of Chemistry
NOV
17
2023
CUOS Seminar | Optics Seminar
CUOS Noon Seminar: High intensity lasers and solids, with pizza!
Aparajit Chandrasekaran , Research Scholar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
NOV
14
2023
CUOS Seminar | Optics Seminar
CUOS Noon Seminar: Dr. Marko von der Leyen
Dr. Marko von der Leyen, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oxford, UK
NOV
02
2023
Optics Seminar | Quantum Science Seminar
Emerging Materials for Quantum Technologies
Yong Chen, KARL LARK-HOROVITZ PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY, Purdue University
OCT
27
2023
CUOS Seminar | ECE Seminar | Optics Seminar
CUOS Noon Seminar: Spin Polarization, Plasma Density Gradient, Electron Injection, Two color X-ray, and Pizza!
OCT
26
2023
Optics Seminar | Quantum Science Seminar
Emergent Molecular Properties In The Strong Light-Matter Coupling Regime
Chris Giebink , Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
OCT
19
2023
Optics Seminar | Quantum Science Seminar
Hybrid Integrated Photonics for Quantum Information Processing
Dr. Linran Fan , Assistant Professor in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
OCT
16
2023
CUOS Seminar | Division Event | Optics Seminar | Other Event | Symposium
ZEUS Laser Grand Opening Celebration and Symposium
JUN
22
2023
CUOS Seminar | Optics Seminar
CUOS Noon Seminar: Jon Murphy and Hongmei Tang
Jon Murphy,
Applied Physics, UM
Applied Physics, UM
Hongmei Tang, ECE
APR
10
2023
Distinguished Lecture | Gilleo Lectureship
Launching the Webb Telescope: Managing Global Teams In Turbulent Times
Gregory Robinson, 33-Year Veteran of NASA, Former Director, James Webb Space Telescope, TIME Magazine 100 Most Influential People of 2022, Columbia University Faculty
APR
03
2023
Dr. Chan Joshi – UCLA: Exploring the suitability of ZEUS for generating coherent radiation
Dr. Chan Joshi, Distinguished Professor- UCLA
OCT
14
2022
CUOS Seminar | ECE Seminar | Optics Seminar
CUOS Noon Seminar: QED laser-plasma, Relativistic laser perturbation, and Laser Pulses in the Bubble Regime
Qian Qian, Joshua Latham, and Nick Ernst, Graduate Student Research Assistants
AUG
19
2022
CUOS Seminar | Optics Seminar
CUOS Noon Seminar: TOPIC UPDATED! “Dynamic X-ray Imaging of Shock Generation and Plasma Instability Formation Using a Laser Wakefield Accelerator” presented by Mario Balcazar
Mario Balcazar, GSRA, NERS
AUG
05
2022
CUOS Seminar | Optics Seminar
CUOS Noon Seminar: Flow Visualization at Ultrahigh Pressure
Dr. Philip Nilson , Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics at the University of Rochester
JUN
10
2022
CUOS Seminar | Optics Seminar
Optics Noon Seminar
Brandon Russell and Nicholas Peskosky, Graduate Student Research Assistants, Center for Ultrafast Optical Science
MAY
13
2022
CUOS Seminar | Optics Seminar
Noon Seminar Series: Four misconceptions about electron physics in plasmas
Guest Presenter: Prof. Pierre Gourdain, Professor of Physics, University of Rochester School of Arts and Sciences, ABSTRACT: For years, electron physics has been regarded as irrelevant in many plasma regimes. While scaling arguments are often used to show that electron effects are negligible, these arguments are there more to hide numerical code shortcomings rather than justify real physical situations. Going through the generalized Ohm’s law term by term, this talk will show how electron physics plays a role in astrophysical jet stability, in tokamak H-modes, in non-linear magnetic field diffusion and in laser-plasma interactions.
MAR
04
2021
Distinguished Lecture
Optical Frequency Combs
Steven Cundiff, Harrison M. Randall Collegiate Professorship in Physics, Department of Physics, University of Michigan
OCT
26
2019
Optics Seminar | Other Event
The Birth and Amazing Life of Nonlinear Optics
Herbet Winful, Joseph E. and Anne P. Rowe Professor of Electrical Engineering and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
DEC
04
2018
Distinguished Lecture | Gilleo Lectureship
Gravitational Waves: A New Window to the Universe
Nergis Mavalvala, Curtis and Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics; Assoc. Dept. Head of Physics, MIT