The 26th Mini-Conference Sponsored by the Coherent/II-VI Foundation
Hosted Virtually by The University of Rochester
November 10, 2025
Conference Moderators – Andy Souzis and Tim Murray, Coherent/II-VI Foundation
8:00 am Welcome and Introduction:
Thomas Anderson, Executive Director Coherent/II-VI Foundation
Opening Remarks: Marc Pelaez, Chairman Coherent/II-VI Foundation
8:15 am Electrically Tunable On-Chip Quantum Entanglement in Silicon Carbide Photonics
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, PI Christopher Anderson
8:20 am Nathaniel Irwin
8:55 am Santiago Vargas Daniels
9:30 am Personal Break
9:35 am Long-Wavelength 1550nm VCSELs for Optical Communication and FMCW LiDAR Applications
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, PI John Dallesasse
9:45 am Emily Belcher
10:20 am Jason Flanagan
10:55 am Personal Break
11:15 am Site-controlled and Size-controlled Synthesis of Quantum Dots
Penn State University, PI Stephanie Law
11:20 am Ryan Trice
12:00 pm Madison Ramsey
12:20 pm Personal Break
12:25 pm Photonics-Electronics Codesign and Copackaging for Computing and Networking
University of California, Berkeley, PIs Mengjie Yu and Zaijun Chen
12:30 pm Kaiwen Xue
1:05 pm Ran Yin
1:40 pm Personal Break
1:50 pm Establishing and Verifying the Fundamental Optical and Material Capabilities and Limitations of Metasurfaces
University of Rochester, PIs Jannick Rolland and Nick Vamivakas
1:55 pm Matthew Ferguson
2:55 pm Concluding Remarks: Alan Hedges, Marc Pelaez
Conference Close and Evaluation Instructions
Conference times are Eastern Time Zone.