Caroline Lai received a IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Fellowship at the IEEE Photonics Society 2010 Annual Meeting, held in Denver, CO, for her work on optical cross-layer communications.
The IEEE Photonics Society established the Graduate Student Fellowship Program to provide Graduate Fellowships to outstanding Society student members pursuing graduate education within the Society field of interest (electro-optics, lasers, photonics, optics, or closely related fields).
Aleksandr Biberman will receive the Marconi Society Young Scholar Award for his work in silicon photonics. The award will be presented at the Marconi Awards Dinner in Menlo Parkon October 15th. Now in its third year, the Marconi Young Scholar Awards Program recognizes outstanding young researchers in the fields of communications and the Internet.
Biberman is one of three students chosen this year from an international slate of candidates. Born in up-state New York, he received his B.S. degree in electrical, computer and systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, in…
Noam Ophir has been selected as a semi-finalist in the 2010 Maiman Outstanding Student Paper Competition for his submission to the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)entitled "Broadband Continuous Wavelength Conversion of 10-Gb/s Data in Silicon Waveguides Spanning S-, C-, and L-Bands".
The Maiman Student Paper Competition honors Theodore Maiman for his amazing invention, the first working laser, and his other outstanding contributions to optics and photonics, and recognizes the innovation, research excellence and presentation skills in the areas of laser technology and electro-optics…
The Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) is held in conjunction with the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS). CLEO/QELS attracts leaders in the fields of lasers, optical devices, optical fibers, photonics and innovative approaches in such fields as: laser spectroscopy, ultrafast optics, nonlinear optics, optical detectors, optical modulators, optical pulses, and quantum mechanics.
CLEO/QELS has always been known as the leading event for early stage lasers…
Johnnie Chan has been selected as a semi-finalist in the 2010 Corning Outstanding Student Paper Competition for his submission to the Optical Fiber Communication (OFC) conference entitled "Architectural Design Exploration of Chip-Scale Photonic Interconnection Networks through Physical-Layer Analysis".
The Corning Outstanding Student Paper Competition recognizes innovation, research excellence and presentation abilities skills in optical communications. The award is endowed by a grant from Corning and administered by the OSA Foundation.
Nature Publishing Group: Nature News Feature; Networking: Four ways to reinvent the Internet
Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI)
Center for Integrated Access Networks (CIAN)
Professor Keren Bergman's work was highlighted in the February 4, 2010 issue of Nature, in the News Feature entitled "Networking: Four ways to reinvent the Internet." The article focuses ways to fix the Internet as it struggles to keep up with the ever-increasing demands placed on it. With applications such as cloud computing, streaming audio and video, and ubiquitous mobile devices, the…
The Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science of Columbia University News
Electrical Engineering Professor Keren Bergman will chair a national conference that for the first time will be hosted outside California's Silicon Valley.
The Hot Interconnects conference will be held in Lower Manhattan Aug. 25-27. Bergman said there is a good rationale for the move to Wall Street after spending its first 16 years on the Stanford University campus.
"The main reason is that the technology we cover at this conference related to high-performance networking is…
Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) News
Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) Front Page
Columbia University Department of Electrical Engineering News & Events
The GENI ERM team at Columbia University, led by Prof. Keren Bergman, Director of the Lightwave Research Laboratory, is creating innovative cross-layer measurement capabilities that will help free GENI researchers from the constraints of today's strictly layered…
About CLEO/IQEC: Global Premier Event
The Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and The International Quantum Electronics Conference (IQEC) is the premier forum for scientific and technical optics in the world today. The 5-day event features high-quality, cutting-edge optics and photonics programming, tutorials, special symposia, Short Courses and a full program of networking and social events. PhotonXpoÂThe Exhibit at CLEO, also debuting this year, will feature…
New Routers Marry Light and Silicon to Cut Down on Power and Ramp Up Speed
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) EurekAlert! Press Release
Tomorrow's ultra-fast broadband may be limited not by the speed at which data can be sent, but by the electrical power needed to route data to millions of users. A new technology that weds light and silicon hopes to keep up the massive connectivity of a faster Internet by cutting down on its power…
Aleksandr Biberman and Benjamin Lee have both been selected as semi-finalists in the 2009 Corning Outstanding Student Paper Competition for their submissions to the Optical Fiber Communication (OFC) conference entitled "First Demonstration of On-Chip Wavelength Multicasting" and "Multi-Wavelength Message Routing in a Non-Blocking Four-Port Bidirectional Switch Fabric for Silicon Photonic Networks-on-Chip", respectively.
The Corning Outstanding Student Paper Competition recognizes innovation, research excellence and presentation abilities skills in optical communications. The award…
Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (JOCN)
OSA and IEEE are pleased to announce a copublishing partnership that merges JON with ComSoc's Supplement on Optical Networking and Communications, which is published with the Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. The new journal is called the Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (JOCN) ISSN: 1943-0620 and is accessible through OSA's Optics InfoBase as well as IEEE Xplore and ComSoc's Digital Library, thus providing expanded exposure for JOCN authors.