Each year the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics holds an annual symposium that is designed to bring together scientists, engineers and practitioners from multiple disciplines, and provide a forum for presentations and discussions of research, application and development of state-of-the-art instrumentation in photonics.   The annual meeting includes outside speakers, Duke speakers, poster sessions, themed lab tours, industry booths and special panel sessions. 

The previous annual symposiums are listed below (some of the recent meetings may have links to view the program – click on the link for available program).

Keynote Speaker:  John H. Marburger, III, Science Advisor to the President, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President of the United States of America

Plenary Speaker:  Sir John B. Pendry, Chair, Theoretical Solid State Physics, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Special Panel Session Chair:  Peter Agre, Nobel Laureate of Chemistry, Vice Chancellor of Science and Technology, Duke Medical Center.   The annual meeting includes outside speakers, Duke speakers, poster sessions, themed lab tours, industry booths and special panel sessions. 

*Note: Event Podcasts available.

Link to the Program.

Keynote Speakers:
Charles H. Townes, Nobel Laureate in Physics (1964), Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley
Watt W. Webb, School of applies and Engineering Physics, Cornell University

 
Plenary Speakers:
Mostafa El-Sayed, School of Chemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology
Michael S. Feld, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Special Panel Session Chair:  Peter Agre, Nobel Laureate of Chemistry, Vice Chancellor of Science and Technology, Duke Medical Center. 

Link to the Program.