SUNLAB at Photonics West

SUNLAB students and professors attended the SPIE Photonics West Conference in San Francisco, which ran from January 27 to February 1, 2024. Professors Karin Hinzer and Jacob Krich, postdoctoral fellows Meghan Beattie and Paige Wilson, and PhD physics candidate Sebastian Schaefer gave oral presentations, as did our friend PhD physics candidate Gavin Frodsham from the Krich Lab. Professor Krich also gave an invited presentation. For a full list of SUNLAB presentations, see our Conference Presentations page.

Congratulations to PhD electrical engineering candidate Idriss Amadou Ali who won the SPIE Sustainability Best Paper Award for the LASE symposium! This prize recognizes papers that highlight the use of optics and photonics for renewable energy, natural resource management, sustainable manufacturing, and greenhouse gas mitigation in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

From left to right: Meghan Beattie and Paige Wilson presenting Idriss Amadou Ali’s poster. Inset: Idriss Amadou Ali.

From left to right: Meghan Beattie, Paige Wilson, Karin Hinzer, and Sebastian Schaefer

Certificate for Idriss Amadou Ali’s SPIE Sustainability Best Paper Award.