Tuesday, December 02, 2008
4:00 PM -
5:00 PM
Watson 104
Applied Physics Seminar
Series: Applied Physics Seminar Series
Trapping Light in Optical Microcavities via Dynamic Tuning
Michelle L. Povinelli,
assistant professor of electrical engineering,
USC,
Speaker's Bio:
Michelle Povinelli joined the faculty of the University of Southern California as an assistant professor of Electrical Engineering in Fall 2008. Her research focuses on computational modeling and design of nanophotonic devices including photonic crystals and microresonators. Prior to joining USC, she was a postdoctoral researcher in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. She received a PhD from MIT in 2004, an M. Phil. from the University of Cambridge in 1998, and a BA with Honors from the University of Chicago in 1997, all in Physics. She was awarded several graduate fellowships for her doctoral work, including the Lucent Technologies GRPW Fellowship, the NSF Graduate Fellowship, the MIT Karl Taylor Compton Fellowship, and the Churchill Fellowship. In 2006, she was selected as one of five national recipients of a $20,000 L'Oréal For Women in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship grant. She has co-authored over twenty refereed journal articles and two book chapters and holds two US Patents.
Michelle Povinelli joined the faculty of the University of Southern California as an assistant professor of Electrical Engineering in Fall 2008. Her research focuses on computational modeling and design of nanophotonic devices including photonic crystals and microresonators. Prior to joining USC, she was a postdoctoral researcher in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. She received a PhD from MIT in 2004, an M. Phil. from the University of Cambridge in 1998, and a BA with Honors from the University of Chicago in 1997, all in Physics. She was awarded several graduate fellowships for her doctoral work, including the Lucent Technologies GRPW Fellowship, the NSF Graduate Fellowship, the MIT Karl Taylor Compton Fellowship, and the Churchill Fellowship. In 2006, she was selected as one of five national recipients of a $20,000 L'Oréal For Women in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship grant. She has co-authored over twenty refereed journal articles and two book chapters and holds two US Patents.
"Trapping Light in Optical Microcavities via Dynamic Tuning" Michelle L. Povinelli, Professor, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California.
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