Past Events

Last updated: April 2024

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Past seminars:

Event InfoTime & LocationEvent Type
Computational Imaging Lunch Seminar
How to have more fun and be more useful as a scientist, by immersing yourself in other people’s problems
Speaker: Andrew York
Principal Investigator and Head of Microscopy at Calico Life Sciences
Mar 14th, 2024
12:00pm-1:00pm
510 Soda
Academic Seminar
Computational Imaging Lunch Seminar
NIR light sheet co-illumination reduces photobleaching in green fluorescent proteins
Speaker: Tanner Fadero
Altos Labs
Feb 12th, 2024
12:00pm-1:00pm
510 Soda
Academic Seminar
Computational Imaging Lunch Seminar
Holographic Tomography – Techniques and Biomedical Applications
Speaker: Vinoth Balasubramani
Senior researcher at KAUST
Feb 6th, 2024
12:00pm-1:00pm
510 Soda
Academic Seminar
Computational Imaging Lunch Seminar
White-Box Computational Imaging: Measurements to Images to Insights
Speaker: Sara Fridovich-Keil
Stanford
Jan 29th, 2024
12:00pm-1:00pm
510 Soda
Academic Seminar
Computational Imaging Lunch Seminar
Spatio-Angular Microscopy
Speaker: Talon Chandler
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
Jan 16th, 2024
12:00pm-1:00pm
510 Soda
Academic Seminar
Computational Imaging Lunch Seminar
Computational microscopy and motion modeling
Speaker: Ruiming Cao
UC Berkeley
Nov 7th, 2023
12:30pm-1:30pm
510 Soda
Academic Seminar
Computational Imaging Lunch Seminar
Beat Pilot Tone: A System Exploitation for Simultaneous Radio-Frequency Motion Sensing and Imaging at Arbitrary Frequencies in MRI
Speaker: Suma Anand
UC Berkeley
Oct 12th, 2023
12pm-1pm
531 Cory
Academic Seminar
Optoelectronics Mock Prelim Exam
Speaker: Photobears Community
UC Berkeley
Aug 10th, 2023
12:30pm-2:30pm
253M Cory
Mock Prelim
Computational microscopy methods for correlative imaging of biological dynamics
Speaker: Ivan Ivanov
Senior R&D Engineer, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
Jul 20th, 2023
11am-12pm
531 Cory
Academic Seminar
Neural Cameras and Displays: Building Machine Learning Frameworks for Optical System Design
Speaker: Ethan Tseng
Princeton Computational Imaging Lab, Princeton University
Jul 6th, 2023
11am-12pm
531 Cory
Academic Seminar
Mapping Synaptic Inputs in Large Population with Engineered Bessel-Beam Two-Photon Microscope
Speaker: Dr. Wei Chen
UC Berkeley
Apr 20th, 2023
10am-11am
531 Cory
Academic Seminar
Multimodal 3D Vision
Speaker: Philip Jacobson
UC Berkeley
Mar 16th, 2023
11am-12pm
531 Cory
Academic Seminar
Novel lensless multicore fiber endoscopy for biomedicine
Speaker: Juergen Czarske
TU Dresden, Germany
Jan 27th, 2023
11am-12pm
299 Cory
Academic Seminar
Analyzing biological architecture at scale with computational imaging and deep learning
Speaker: Dr. Shalin Mehta
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
Nov 4th, 2022
11:30am-12:30pm
521 Cory
Academic Seminar
Putting a DSLR in your pocket: Computational Imaging for Next-Gen Smartphone Cameras
Speaker: Tom Bishop
CTO of Glass Imaging
Oct 27th, 2022
11:30am-12:30pm
299 Cory
Academic Seminar
High-throughput computational 3D imaging with a camera array
Speaker: Dr. Kevin Zhou
UC Berkeley
Simultaneous holographic image reconstruction and blind source spectrum estimation using an untrained neural network
Speaker: Dr. Iksung Kang
UC Berkeley
Sep 30th, 2022
11:30am-12:30pm
521 Cory
Lightning Talks
Rapid Bacterial Identification and Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing using Raman Spectroscopy and Machine Learning
Speaker: Dr. Loza Tadesse
UC Berkeley
Apr 6th, 2022
11:30am-
12:30 pm
510 Soda
Academic Seminar
A nanophotonic interface for atoms in optical tweezers
Speaker: Dr. Polnop Samutpraphoot
UC Berkeley
Nov 30th, 2021
12pm-1pm
253M Cory Hall
Academic Seminar
Color Center in Silicon: From Ensembles to Single Qubit
Speaker: Dr. Walid Redjem
UC Berkeley
Oct 26th, 2021
12pm-1pm
253M Cory Hall
Academic Seminar
Optoelectronics Mock Prelim Exam
Speaker: Photobears Community
UC Berkeley
Aug 12th, 2021
4pm-6pm
Online
Mock Prelim
Infrared Detector Applications for Safe and Healthy Living
Speaker: Prof. Unil Perera
Georgia State University, Atlanta
Nov 5th, 2020
12pm-1pm
Online
Academic Seminar
Breaking the bounds of imaging inlabel-free nanoscopy, micro-endoscopy and ophthalmology
Speaker: Prof. Zeev Zalevsky
Engineering and the Nanotechnology Center, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Oct 13th, 2020
9am-10am,
Online
Academic Seminar
Compressive snapshot hyperspectral Imaging using a diffuser and a spectral filter array
Speaker: Kristina Monakhova
UC Berkeley
Oct 2nd, 2020
12pm-12:30pm
Online
Academic Seminar
Ultraviolet Optoelectronics for a Better Living
Speaker: Prof. Zetian Mi
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Aug 20th, 2020
12pm-1pm
Online
Academic Seminar
Optoelectronics Mock Prelim Exam
Speaker: Photobears Community
UC Berkeley
Aug 18th, 2020
1pm-2:30 pm
Online
Mock Prelim
Multifunctional Materials for Emerging Technologies
Speaker: Prof. Frederico Rosei
Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Canada
Aug 12th, 2020
4pm-5:30 pm,
Online
Academic Seminar
Seminar by Zachary Penrod from Aerotech
Speaker: Zachary Penrod
Aerotech
Mar 5th, 2020
11:30am-12:30pm
320 Soda
Industry Seminar
Nanoscale Engineered Silicon Imagers Reaching Theoretical Limit Performance and their Application in Space Exploration and Synergistic Fields
Speaker: Dr. Shouleh Nikzad
Caltech / NASA JPL
Mar 4th 2020
11am-12pm
521 Cory Hall, Berkeley
Industry Seminar
Changing Paradigms in Optics Through Engineered Nanostructures
Speaker: Dr. Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali, UC Berkeley
Feb 24th, 2020
1 pm-1pm
253M Cory Hall
Academic Seminar
Photobears lightning talks #11
Speaker: Sidney Buchbinder and Maruf Ahmed, UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley
Dec 11th, 2019
12pm-1pm,
253 Cory Hall
Academic Seminar
Brillouin Microscopy and Endoscopy
Speaker: Prof. Peter Török
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Oct 29th, 2019
12pm-1 pm,
293
Cory Hall
Academic Seminar
Coded Illumination for Multidimensional Quantitative Phase Microscopy
Speaker: Michael Chen
UC Berkeley
May 8th, 2019
12:30-1:30pm,
510 Soda hall.
Dissertation Talk
Nanophotonics by Design: Reaching the Limits of Light-Matter Interactions
Speaker: Prof. Owen D. Miller
Yale University.
May 8th, 2019
3pm-4pm,
212
Cory Hall
Academic Seminar
Computational speckle structured illumination for high-content microscopy
Speaker: Li-Hao Yeh
UC Berkeley
May 9th, 2019
9am-10am,
540 A/B Cory Hall
Dissertation Talk
A Hierarchical Approach to the Design and Optimization of Silicon Photonics
Speaker: Andrew Michaels
UC Berkeley
May 13th, 2019
3pm-4pm,
540 A/B Cory Hall.
Dissertation Talk
Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenide NanoLEDs: Towards High Speed and High Efficiency
Speaker: Kevin Han
UC Berkeley
May 14th, 2019
2:30pm-3:30pm,
540AB Cory Hall.
Dissertation Talk
Design and Physics of VCSELs for Emerging Applications
Speaker: Jonas Kapraun
UC Berkeley
May 14th, 2019
2:30pm-3:30pm,
400 Cory hall.
Dissertation Talk
Optoelectronics for refrigeration and analog circuits for combinatorial optimization
Speaker: T. Patrick Xiao
UC Berkeley
Apr 29th, 2019
1pm-2pm,
540 Cory hall.
Dissertation Talk
Quantum photonics in the frequency domain
Speaker: Prof. Alexander Gaeta
Columbia University.
Apr 8th, 2019
11am-12pm,
531 Cory Hall
Academic Seminar

Past social & outreach events:

Event InfoTime & LocationEvent Type
Spring Social LunchMar 21st, 2024
12:00-1:00pm
Cory Courtyard
Social
CRS Day of ScienceMar 15th, 2024
9:00am-2:30pm
Reach Academy, Oakland
Outreach
Holiday SocialDec 5th, 2023
4:00-5:00pm
Cory Courtyard
Social
Fall Welcome LunchAug 24th, 2023
12:00-1:00pm
Cory Courtyard
Social
Photobears @ Exploratorium After DarkApr 27th, 2023
6:00-10:00 pm
Exploratorium, San Francisco
Social
Spring Welcome LunchFeb 23rd, 2023
12:30-1:30 pm
Cory Courtyard
Social
Fall Welcome LunchThurs Aug 25th, 2022
11:30am- 12:30 pm
Cory Courtyard
Social
Tea TimeAlternating Thurs 4-5pm
Summer 2022
Cory Courtyard
Social
Photobears Summer 2019 BBQ: Welcome reception of Prof Boubacar Kante and his group to UC BerkeleyMay 18, 2019
5-8pm
Social
NightLife at the California Academy of SciencesNov 29, 2018
6-10pm
Golden Gate Park, SF
Social
Cal Day 2018 Optics DemonstrationsApril 21, 2018
9am-3pm, Upper Sproul Plaza
Outreach
Exploratorium After Dark: GLOWDec 7, 2017
6:30-10:00pm,
The Exploratorium, SF
Social
Star-gazing at Chabot ObservatoryApril 28, 2017
8:30-10:30pm, Chabot Observatory, Oakland
Social