News & Events
2015
- Summer 2015: IGERT trainee David Calhoun has the opportunity to mentor and train an undergraduate student in multidisciplinary research pertaining to optical networks.
- Summer 2015: REU students David Alvarez and Kathleen Kennedy join the IGERT Program for the summer.
- May 2015: Former IGERT trainee Xiaoliang Zhu defends his PhD thesis titled "Systems Engineering for Silicon Photonic Devices." Congratulations!
- 2015: Former IGERT trainee Xiaoliang Zhu mentors an underrepresented minority 9th grade high school student at the Marble Hill School for Int'l. Studies in Manhattan through iMentor.
- May 2015: IGERT trainees attend Professor Herman's "Research and Professional Ethics" seminar.
- 2015: IGERT trainees David Calhoun and Xiaoliang Zhu's initial work with silicon photonics for optical networks fosters the collaboration with Micron Technology, Inc.
- February 2015: Former IGERT trainee Iva Vukicevic defends her thesis, "Bifurcation of localized eigenstates of perturbed periodic Schroedinger Operators." Congratulations!
- January 2015: The new IGERT lunchtime seminars series is launched!
- January 2015: Svitlana Samoilina becomes a new IGERT Program Coordinator.
- January 2015: Professor Irving Herman becomes a new Director of the IGERT Optics Program at Columbia University.
2014
- November 2014: IGERT trainees demonstrate optics to 30 middle school girls at the SWE Engineering Exploration.
- November 2014: IGERT trainees attend Professor Herman's "Engineering and Professional Ethics" seminar.
- Summer 2014: IGERT trainee Geoffrey Iwata and Mickey McDonald, make cutting-edge discoveries at the boundary between molecular, atomic, and optical physics.
- 2014: IGERT trainee Dennis Zi-Ren Wang uses an optical probe, photoluminescence, to probe the size of the cores of CdSe quantum dots (QDs) as they decreased during long-term oxidation in the ambient.
- 2014: The work by current IGERT trainee Heather Hill and collaboration with theorists in Columbia Chemistry and Brookhaven National Laboratory provides the first direct experimental determination of the exciton binding energy in the atomically thin 2-dimensional semiconductor WS2 at monolayer thickness.
- 2014: Former IGERT trainee Xiaoliang Zhu completes an interdisciplinary research investigation between primary advisor Prof. Keren Bergman in Electrical Engineering and secondary advisor Prof. Chee-Wei Wong in the Mechanical Engineering on the electro-optical properties of graphene.
- May 2014: IGERT trainee Richard Grote defends his thesis, "Nanophotonics for Optoelectronic Devices: Extrinsic Silicon Photonic Receivers and Organic Photovoltaics;" becomes a postdoc in Lee Bassett Research Group, University of Pennsylvania.
2013
- July 2013: The joint work on dephasing and prolonged lifetime measurements of single nanotubes between Stevens Institute and Columbia is published in Nature Communications. Congrats!
- June 2013: Xiaoliang Zhu and Tingyi Gu's NSF IGERT 2013 video and poster competition is recognized by the IGERT community. It is posted at: http://posterhall.org/igert2013/posters/449 .
- May 2013: The observations of the Hofstadter's butterfly and the fractal quantum hall effect in moire superlattices is published in Nature. Congrats!
- May 2013: The studies of light scattering and localization in highly oscillatory potentials is published in Communications of Pure and Applied Mathematics. Congrats!
- April 2013: The annual IGERT poster symposium is held on April 26th 2013, with good interdisciplinary discussions and turnout.
- April 2013: The theoretical work of laser cooling of nanoscale optomechanical resonators to the quantum mechanical ground state is published in Physical Review Letters. Congrats!
- January 2013: The 10-Gb/s studies on integrated all-silicon photodiodes at 1.55-um is published in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. Congrats!
2012
- September 2012: Studies on production of stable ultracold 88Sr2 molecules is published in Physical Review Letters. Congrats.
- September 2012: Studies on 4x44 Gb/s packet-level switching in second-order microrings is published in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. Congrats!
- May 2012: The measurements on parametric RF generation in laser-driven osclliators in Applied Physics Letters. Congrats.
- February 2012: Our News & Views articles on chip-scale quantum correlations in published in Nature Photonics.
- January 2012: The new Columbia Optics and Quantum Electronics IGERT is formally launched!
- November 2011: Beta version website of the new Columbia Optics and Quantum Electronics IGERT is created!
"The IGERT Center provides a unique multi-disciplinary multi-departmental approach for the best training of our PhD students. It draws from Columbia's leadership in optics and quantum electronics, along with nanoscience and technology, to realize applications in communications and next-generation photovoltaics. The intellectual diversity is supported by this team's fundamental breakthroughs" — Former Dean Feniosky Pena-Mora