Title: Advances in Heterogeneous Integrated Photonics for Scalable Quantum TechnologiesAbstract: Integrated photonics is revolutionizing how we generate, manipulate, and transmit quantum information. While the scalability and manufacturability of silicon photonics has been a driver of many quantum photonic technologies over the past two decades, future progress requires hybrid and heterogeneous integration strategies that can take advantage of different materials. In this presentation, I'll focus on AlGaAs and InGaP--two III-V semiconductor platforms that combine mature fabrication, a direct bandgap for electrical injection, low-loss operation, and large optical nonlinearities for efficient quantum light generation and conversion. After a brief introduction to the field, I'll discuss how we fabricate III-V photonic devices heterogeneously integrated with ultra-low-loss silicon nitride at wafer-scale, which we have utilized for high-rate entangled-photon pair generation and squeezing with performance that rivals bulk optics but with orders-of-magnitude smaller footprint and power requirements. I'll highlight some emerging applications, including: (1) multiplexing arrays of quantum sources for reconfigurable multi-user quantum networking, cryptography, and clock synchronization, (2) development and integration of tunable chip-scale lasers for turnkey and compact quantum modules, and (3) chip-scale squeezed microcombs for quantum-enhanced detectors and sensors. I'll conclude with exciting future directions envisioned for engineering quantum photonic systems in the next 5-10 years.About the Speaker: Galan Moody is a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of California Santa Barbara. Prior to this, he was a Research Scientist (2015-2019) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow at NIST (2013-2015). He received a PhD in Physics (2013) and a BSc in Engineering Physics (2008) from CU-Boulder. He is a recipient of a US Air Force Young Investigator Program award (2020), an NSF CAREER award (2021), an ACS Rising Star in Photonics Award (2024), and the UCSB College of Engineering outstanding faculty award (2024). He serves as a thrust co-lead and on the executive committee for UCSB's NSF Quantum Foundry, chairs program committees for several conferences including FiOLS and CLEO, and he is on the editorial board for PRX Quantum and IOP's Journal of Physics: Photonics.Virtual Location URL: https://ucf.zoom.us/j/94633387918?from=addon

Title: Meta-Optics for Edge ComputingAbstract: With the proliferation of networked sensors and artificial intelligence, there is an increasing need for edge computing where data is processed at the sensor level to reduce bandwidth and latency while still preserving energy efficiency. In this talk, I will discuss how meta-optics can be used to implement computation for optical edge sensors, serving to off-load computationally expensive convolutional operations from the digital platform, reducing both latency and power consumption. Meta-optics can also take advantage of additional information channels, such as polarization, spectral composition, and angle of incidence, to process information not recorded on conventional cameras. I will discuss how this increased freedom in design allows meta-optics to augment, or replace, conventional imaging optics in achieving parallel optical processing across multiple independent channels. The meta-optic frontend is demonstrated to enable segmenting and classifying objects with minimal computational resources as well as allow for spectral discrimination in classifying objects based on their emission characteristics. About the Speaker: Professor Valentine received a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Purdue University in 2004 and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from UC Berkeley in 2010. At Vanderbilt he is currently a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Deputy Director of the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE). Prof. Valentine researches the optical properties of nanostructured metamaterials for imaging and image processing, photodetection, and dynamically reconfigurable optics for wavefront control. He has received an NSF CAREER Award, the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, and a Chancellor's Award for Research.Virtual Location URL: https://ucf.zoom.us/j/93234347765?from=addon

Virtual webinarThis event is sponsored by Orange County Government as part of the Florida SBDC at UCF's Orange County Strategic Series.Make your future happen; don't let it happen to you. With a strategic plan, you will be able to establish your company's direction, make better business decisions and have a source of increased market share and profitability. Strategic planning is a series of building blocks including:• Financial Plan• Marketing Plan• Business Plan• Strategic PlanWhile most planning workshops address these plans separately, this two (2) part webinar series (Part I: Thursday, October 16th and Part II: Thursday, October 23) will present these four complementary planning events (two per webinar) as a series of activities that build on each other to create an effective, long-term strategic plan for your business that enables you to design your company's future and supports its sustainable growth and success. Includes multiple user-friendly tools and templates to be distributed.Virtual Location URL: https://events.blackthorn.io/en/6g3Q8Wa7/success-is-no-accident-strategic-planning-for-small-businesses-part-i-5a1eVO9p3GR/overview Registration Link: https://events.blackthorn.io/en/6g3Q8Wa7/success-is-no-accident-strategic-planning-for-small-businesses-part-i-5a1eVO9p3GR/overview

Virtual webinarThis event is sponsored by Orange County Government as part of the Florida SBDC at UCF's Orange County Strategic Series.Make your future happen; don't let it happen to you. With a strategic plan, you will be able to establish your company's direction, make better business decisions and have a source of increased market share and profitability. Strategic planning is a series of building blocks including:• Financial Plan• Marketing Plan• Business Plan• Strategic PlanWhile most planning workshops address these plans separately, this two (2) part webinar series (Part I: Thursday, October 16th and Part II: Thursday, October 23) will present these four complementary planning events (two per webinar) as a series of activities that build on each other to create an effective, long-term strategic plan for your business that enables you to design your company's future and supports its sustainable growth and success. Includes multiple user-friendly tools and templates to be distributed.Virtual Location URL: https://events.blackthorn.io/en/6g3Q8Wa7/success-is-no-accident-strategic-planning-for-small-businesses-part-ii-5a1eVO9p9P3/overview Registration Link: https://events.blackthorn.io/en/6g3Q8Wa7/success-is-no-accident-strategic-planning-for-small-businesses-part-ii-5a1eVO9p9P3/overview

Title: Optics a la mode - a new way of making, using and understanding optics Abstract: Modern micro and nano fabrication now let us make complex and highly functional optics. Examples include sophisticated metasurfaces and highly programmable and even self-configuring silicon photonic interferometer meshes, with many potential applications in areas such as imaging, sensing and communications. Such systems are, however, quite unlike the previous optics of lenses, mirrors and prisms, so we also need new ways to think about them, physically and mathematically. Fortunately, there is a very powerful new "modal" approach for these and other complex wave systems, one that is both mathematically straightforward and physically directly meaningful. It leads to new fundamental physical laws and limits, gives new understanding of old optics, such as why your mobile phone camera needs thickness and where diffraction limits really come from, correctly counts channels for communication and sensing, and opens new design approaches and classes of optical systems and applications. Programmable circuits based on such ideas can also exploit convenient new architectures, topologies and algorithms that allow simple control and even direct optical solution of difficult problems in real time. The talk will introduce these ideas, showing how these lead to new systems, applications, understanding, and limits in optics and waves generally. About the Speaker: David Miller is the W. M. Keck Professor of Electrical Engineering Emeritus at Stanford University. He received his Ph. D in Physics from Heriot-Watt University in 1979, and before Stanford was with Bell Laboratories from 1981 to 1996, as a department head from 1987. His interests include nanophotonics, quantum-well optoelectronics, and optics in information sensing, interconnects, and processing. He has published more than 300 scientific papers, a quantum mechanics text, and over 75 patents, and has a Google h-index > 110. He was President of IEEE LEOS (now Photonics Society) in 1995. He has also taught open online quantum mechanics classes to over 80,000 students. He has received several awards, is a Fellow of AAAS, APS, OSA, IEEE, the Electromagnetics Academy, the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh, holds two Honorary Doctorates, and is a Member of the US National Academies of Sciences and of Engineering.Virtual Location URL: https://ucf.zoom.us/j/94659261515?from=addon

This is a 2.5 to 3 hour virtual training session designed to help two groups of business: (1) those just exploring or brand new to government contracting and (2) those down the path a bit looking to backfill some gaps. You can join late or leave early and still learn something about government contracting, but those that stick around for the whole program will receive a practical, frank, overview of the government contracting process.This webinar covers the following areas:* Introduction to the Government Contracting Process * Components of a "GIB Ready" Business * Suggestions for an Initial Marketing Tool Kit * Reactive Business Development Strategies * Proactive Business Development Strategies * Introduction to the SBA's Dynamic Small Business Search (DSBS) database * Potential Next StepsIn addition to the instruction, attendees will have the opportunity to receive handouts that are practical tools in helping develop your government contracting programs. The handouts will also include the slide deck of the presentation which will include a number of live links to research resources, registration sites, and certification programs.This class will be delivered by one of the Florida APEX Accelerator Consultants at UCF. The Florida APEX Accelerator provides no cost government contracting consulting to small businesses.This event is sponsored by the Florida SBDC at UCF.Virtual Location URL: https://events.blackthorn.io/en/6g3Q8Wa7/g/x4W8BcsAj4/government-contracting-overview-5a1eVO8U07d Registration Link: https://sbdcorlando.com/upcoming-seminars/