SU2P Integrated Photonics Theme Workshop

8th March, 9.30 - 15.00
Scottish Microelectronics Centre,
The King's Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JF

Download the call for papers here

By placing the photonic components on a common chip or a device, the goal of Integrated Photonics is to establish miniaturized and integrated photonic systems with various functions and with applications in: optical communications, imaging, quantum information processing, instrumentation, sensing, etc.

Call for Papers

Taking the format of short, high-impact talks, this workshop aims to identify critical problems in the area of Integrated Photonics which could be addressed by collaborations between SU2P partners and others. All registrants are expected to give a talk or present a poster. Two forms of contribution are invited:

• Academic staff and industrial researchers are invited to deliver 5-minute presentations, with an additional 2-minutes provided for questions. Presentations should highlight a promising scientific or technical capability, or alternatively should define an important unsolved problem in the theme area.
• Students and post-doctoral researchers are invited to submit posters for display during the coffee and lunch breaks

Places are strictly limited (at 25) and early registration is essential. Registration including coffee breaks and a buffet lunch is free for SU2P partner organisations.

REGISTER HERE

The registration deadline is 5pm, 17th February (but will close when all places filled)

. Participants will receive email confirmation.
 

Advance Notice - SU2P Symposium 2012

The SU2P Annual Symposium will be held at Heriot Watt University on the 23rd and 24th April 2012. Please note this in your dairy. Registration will open in the New Year.

SU2P Fellowships

4 SU2P Entreprenuerial Fellows have made the trip over to Stanford for a year of entrpereneurial based research actviity. Click here to find out more about these fellows.

The Universities of Strathclyde, St Andrews, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow, together with Stanford University and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), are collaborating in a project which has won funding worth £1.6 million over three years from the Science Bridges awards, announced by Research Councils UK (RCUK).

Watch our short video on SU2P

The project, SU2P, is designed to capitalise on leading research in the photonics sector, in fields including life sciences and renewable energy, and the commercial opportunities the research offers.

It will also bolster existing links between universities and businesses in Scotland and the US.

The three-year venture between the six institutions focuses on:

• Biophotonics, including stem cell imaging and neuroscience photonics
• Solar cell devices and characterisation
• Integrated photonics
• Solid-state laser engineering and nonlinear optics
• Photonics sensors, including atom and quantum optic sensors and environmental science and technology

The project gives talented young researchers the opportunity to experience working in laboratories in California. It also enables businesses in the US and the UK to share ideas and expertise with academics in both countries.

Professor Allister Ferguson, Deputy Principal of Strathclyde and Principal Investigator in the Collaboration, said: "This is an ambitious and inventive programme aimed at delivering huge social and economic benefits. We are pleased to have secured funding from RCUK Science Bridges to work towards this goal.

"Photonics is a sector with vast capacity for innovation in research and for commercial opportunities. It is dominated in the UK by small companies, and we aim to build on that capacity through this venture, by broadening and strengthening the links in photonics between Scotland and California.

"Through this project, we intend to build enduring relationships which will form the basis of a network with sustainable economic impact."