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Mercedeh’ talk at Max Planck Institute for Science of Light at Erlangen can be found here: MPI khajavikhan May 2024
Mercedeh gave at colloquium at Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanies and Physics June 2024
MK presented an invited talk on Trojan Beams via Lagrange Points at ICOAM in South Africa, June 2024
MK presented an invited talk on Trojan Beams via Lagrange Points at Light Conference in ChangChun, June 2024
Will be giving a talk at LPHYS’24 The 32nd annual International Laser Physics in Sao Carlos Brazil 3-9 July, 2024
Will give a talk in META 2024 July 16 – 19 in Toyama Japan
Will be giving a talk at Metamaterials Conference in Crete 9-12 September
Abraham attended “Condensates of Light” in Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany, 12-16 May 2024
Will be giving Colloquium at Pomona College 3/5/2024.
MK is going to give a seminar at RIT on Feb. 20th.
MK gave a seminar on Lagrange Point Waveguides at the Institute of Optics in the University of Rochester on Feb. 19th, 2024
Trojan Optical Beam via Lagrange Points appeared in Nature Physics https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-023-02270-6
Please see news articles: https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2024/01/trojan-photons-trapping-light-in-nowhere-land-using-lagrange-points/
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-trojan-approach-lagrange.html
https://www.optica-opn.org/home/newsroom/2024/january/guiding_light_with_optical_lagrange_points/https://www.iflscience.com/celestial-mechanics-used-in-optics-to-trap-and-guide-light-72719
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gI_PBCVXJc
June 2022: Congratulations to Omid Hemmatyar for receiving SPIE 2022 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship
May 2022: Congratulations to Yuzhou Liu (Nathan) for receiving APS travel grant
June 2022: Hadiseh’s work highlighted in Phys.org: https://phys.org/news/2022-06-emulator-reveals-intricacies-behavior-complex.html.
June 2022: Hadiseh’s work highlighted by UCF https://creol.ucf.edu/researchers-design-new-emulator-that-reveals-the-intricacies-of-light-behavior-in-complex-evolving-systems/
Donuts and lasers: https://phys.org/news/2022-02-topology-crucial-role-laser.html
News articles about our work on Chain-driven Floquet topological insulators https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/953129, https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/05/220518113827.htm
USC’s news article about our topological tasing via exceptional state transfer https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2022/02/topological-lasing-by-encircling-an-exceptional-singularity/
USC’s news about our work on AI. https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2021/11/usc-viterbi-professor-and-undergrad-team-up-to-improve-ai/
IEEE Spectrum highlighted our work on electrically pumped topological insulator lasers https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/optoelectronics/roomtemp-topolaser
USC highlighted our work on gain induced topological response https://phys.org/news/2021-05-photonics-harnesses-power.html
Excited to be part of the MURI team to work on programmable systems with non-Hermitian quantum dynamics. https://www.cto.mil/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/FY21-MURI-press-release-03FEB21.pdf
Mercedeh has been elected as an OSA fellow.
Our group has received a DURIP grant to build a time-resolved photoluminescence measurement station at USC. We appreciate the generous support by ONR and the matching fund by USC.
Mercedeh received FY20 USC Powell Faculty Research Award
Mercedeh’s proposal was selected for DARPA Director’s Fellowship, 2020
Mercedeh is going to lead an AFOSR MURI effort on “Novel Light-Matter Interactions in Topologically Non-Trivial Weyl Semimetal Structures and Systems”. https://www.cto.mil/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/fy2020-muri-press-release.pdf
Weyl Semimetal Optoelectronics MURI website: https://sites.usc.edu/wsm-muri/
Yuzhou (Nathan) Liu received CLEO Milton Chang travel Award, 2020
Nathan’s CLEO presentation on Photonic Topological Haldane Model was upgraded to an invited talk.
Nathan, Jae, Chi, Mohammad, and Alex present their works at CLEO.
Mohammad and Alex’s work on Exceptional Point Gyroscope has been published in Nature. press release: https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2020/01/miniaturizing-optical-gyroscopes/
Jason Leshin received CLEO Milton Chang Travel Award, 2019
MK received UCF Luminary Award, 2018
MK received DARPA Young Faculty Award, 2018
Hossein Hodaei received the best paper award from SPIE Optics and Photonics Conference, San Diego 2017 https://spie.org/about-spie/press-room/spie-optics–photonics-2017-news-highlights-and-photos?SSO=1
Hossein Hodaei received Milton Chang travel Award from CLEO 2017
Hossein Hodaei was selected as the student of the year at CREOL, Spring 2017

Mercedeh’ talk at Max Planck Institute for Science of Light at Erlangen can be found here: MPI khajavikhan May 2024

Mercedeh gave at colloquium at Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanies and Physics June 2024

MK presented an invited talk on Trojan Beams via Lagrange Points at ICOAM in South Africa, June 2024

MK presented an invited talk on Trojan Beams via Lagrange Points at Light Conference in ChangChun, June 2024

Will be giving a talk at LPHYS’24 The 32nd annual International Laser Physics in Sao Carlos Brazil 3-9 July, 2024

Will give a talk in META 2024 July 16 – 19 in Toyama Japan

Will be giving a talk at Metamaterials Conference in Crete 9-12 September

Abraham attended “Condensates of Light” in Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany, 12-16 May 2024

Will be giving Colloquium at Pomona College 3/5/2024.

MK is going to give a seminar at RIT on Feb. 20th.

MK gave a seminar on Lagrange Point Waveguides at the Institute of Optics in the University of Rochester on Feb. 19th, 2024

June 2022: Congratulations to Omid Hemmatyar for receiving SPIE 2022 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship

May 2022: Congratulations to Yuzhou Liu (Nathan) for receiving APS travel grant

June 2022: Hadiseh’s work highlighted in Phys.org: https://phys.org/news/2022-06-emulator-reveals-intricacies-behavior-complex.html.

June 2022: Hadiseh’s work highlighted by UCF https://creol.ucf.edu/researchers-design-new-emulator-that-reveals-the-intricacies-of-light-behavior-in-complex-evolving-systems/

Donuts and lasers: https://phys.org/news/2022-02-topology-crucial-role-laser.html

News articles about our work on Chain-driven Floquet topological insulators https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/953129, https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/05/220518113827.htm

USC’s news article about our topological tasing via exceptional state transfer https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2022/02/topological-lasing-by-encircling-an-exceptional-singularity/

USC’s news about our work on AI. https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2021/11/usc-viterbi-professor-and-undergrad-team-up-to-improve-ai/

IEEE Spectrum highlighted our work on electrically pumped topological insulator lasers https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/optoelectronics/roomtemp-topolaser

USC highlighted our work on gain induced topological response https://phys.org/news/2021-05-photonics-harnesses-power.html

Excited to be part of the MURI team to work on programmable systems with non-Hermitian quantum dynamics. https://www.cto.mil/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/FY21-MURI-press-release-03FEB21.pdf

Mercedeh has been elected as an OSA fellow.

Our group has received a DURIP grant to build a time-resolved photoluminescence measurement station at USC. We appreciate the generous support by ONR and the matching fund by USC.

Mercedeh received FY20 USC Powell Faculty Research Award

Mercedeh’s proposal was selected for DARPA Director’s Fellowship, 2020

Mercedeh is going to lead an AFOSR MURI effort on “Novel Light-Matter Interactions in Topologically Non-Trivial Weyl Semimetal Structures and Systems”. https://www.cto.mil/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/fy2020-muri-press-release.pdf

Weyl Semimetal Optoelectronics MURI website: https://sites.usc.edu/wsm-muri/

Yuzhou (Nathan) Liu received CLEO Milton Chang travel Award, 2020

Nathan’s CLEO presentation on Photonic Topological Haldane Model was upgraded to an invited talk.

Nathan, Jae, Chi, Mohammad, and Alex present their works at CLEO.

Mohammad and Alex’s work on Exceptional Point Gyroscope has been published in Nature. press release: https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2020/01/miniaturizing-optical-gyroscopes/

Jason Leshin received CLEO Milton Chang Travel Award, 2019

MK received UCF Luminary Award, 2018

MK received DARPA Young Faculty Award, 2018

Hossein Hodaei received the best paper award from SPIE Optics and Photonics Conference, San Diego 2017 https://spie.org/about-spie/press-room/spie-optics–photonics-2017-news-highlights-and-photos?SSO=1

Hossein Hodaei received Milton Chang travel Award from CLEO 2017

Hossein Hodaei was selected as the student of the year at CREOL, Spring 2017