Matt Eichenfield
SPIE Endowed Chair in University of Arizona’s Wyant College of Optical Sciences and a Distinguished Faculty Joint Appointee at Sandia National Laboratories

In this talk, Professor Eichenfield will discuss his groups’ work in using this property in specially designed microsystems to radically enhance the  performance of and enable completely novel functionalities in two very different classes of microsystems.

The Wyant College of Optical Sciences is pleased to welcome three new faculty hires for Fall 2023, and one new faculty hire for Spring 2024. Wyant College of Optical Sciences Dean and Professor Thomas L. Koch welcomed the new faculty saying, “We are thrilled to have Dr. ElKabbash, Dr. Seyler, Dr. Soh and Dr. Sinha joining us at Wyant College of Optical Sciences. These extraordinary individuals will bring exciting new dimensions to our research program and curriculum, providing new opportunities and insights to both our students and external stakeholders.”

Congratulations to Joshua Follansbee on his selection to receive the Dr. Jack Slater Award funded by the Joint Directed Energy Transition Office (JDETO). The $10,000 award is granted annually to the highest scoring student focusing their research efforts on high energy lasers (HEL). Joshua is advised by Prof. Ron Driggers.

University College Cork in collaboration with Wyant College of Optical Sciences recently completed the Cork Summer School 2023: Extreme Nonlinear Optics in Solids. The school took place at University College Cork, Ireland from Aug. 13 - 18, 2023. The Cork Summer School was formally dedicated in memory of Prof. Stephan W. Koch.

Congratulations to Prof. Judy Su on her recognition as an Arizona Champion. Prof. Su will be recognized at the upcoming NAU vs. UArizona President's Tailgae and football game. Additionally, Prof. Su was recently featured by the Office for Research, Innovation & Impact's series, "Conversations with Women of Impact". Congratulations, Prof. Su!

Congratulations to PhD student, Gabe Richardson, for receiving the NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities (NSTGRO) Fellowship. Gabe was selected for his project, "Toward Universal Quantum Optimal Photonic Processing Using Quantum Computation." Gabe is advised by Prof. Saikat Guha, Director of the NSF-ERC Center for Quantum Networks. 

We are pleased to welcome Isabella Briant as a new Wyant College accountant. Find Isabella in Meinel 619 or call her up at 520-626-0432 to say hi!