The second canPOM conference, hosted virtually on November 4th, 2021, was a great success! Thank you to everyone who attended, presented, and sponsored the event.
| Poster Fair: The Poster Fair is a chance for participants to share their latest and greatest scientific results with a wide audience of photonics researchers from across Canada. This will be hosted online via Gather. New this year, presenters will be invited to submit a short video summary of their work, to attract people to their booth! |
| Panel Discussion: During the Panel Discussion, you will hear about the diverse career paths open to photonics students, how our panelists arrived at their careers, what is happening in their field today, and where they see the future of their field going. |
| Skills Exchange: The Skills Exchange will give you an opportunity to learn soft and technical skills relevant to photonics students via engaging long-form presentations. For this special event, we have four presenters who will share their expertise on and passion for their topics – which are relevant across sub-disciplines of photonics. |
| Schedule (all times in EDT) | Program |
|---|---|
| 12pm -12:10pm | Opening Remarks |
| 12:10pm-2:20pm | Poster Fair: We have over 40 virtual poster presentations, where you can learn about cutting-edge research and network with others in the photonics community. |
| 2:20pm-2:30pm | Coffee break |
| 2:30-3:30pm | Panel Discussion: Panelists: Sarah Lukes, CEO, Agile Focus Designs Farhad Khosravi, Scientist, 1QBit Jennifer Erskine, Scientist, Quantum Valley Ideas Lab Christian Reimer, Head of Product, HyperLight |
| 3:30pm-3:45pm | Coffee break |
| 3:45pm-5:50pm | Skills Exchange: (3:45-4:15pm) Kaustubh Vyas, Ph.D. Student, University of Ottawa Introduction to semiconductor device nanofabrication (from fab to lab) (4:15-4:45pm) Leanne Dias, R&D Engineer, Ansys Lumerical Introduction to the integrated photonics ecosystem (4:50-5:20pm) Frédéric Venne, Patent Agent, ROBIC Patenting light (5:20-5:50pm) Mikhail Kats, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison Twitter and other online adventures for scientists |
| 5:50pm-6:00pm | Closing remarks |