How to Attend a Conference
Christina Willis, Virtuous Cycles LLC
18:00 - 19:00 ET

*This is the second of three time slots provided to Student Leadership and Amplify attendees.  This session will be held on Zoom and a link will be provided to you by 15 August. 

Conferences can be overwhelming, with so many people and so many events happening simultaneously. What’s the best way to navigate a conference? In this workshop, participants will develop their own system for planning and optimizing their conference attendance. This ranges from how to draft and execute a conference schedule to how to plan for and practice self-care. Concepts include:

• Advance mapping and scouting of the conference center and surrounding area to be efficient in your movements and identify good places for meetings, coffees, and meals
• Business cards: to have or not to have and how to use them
• Planning personal meetings in advance
• Reviewing the conference schedule and building out a plan for talk, exhibit, and reception attendance (including where those are physically and cross-referencing with the mapping/scouting step)
• Identifying desired new connections (particularly authors/presenters that can be found at a conference) and how to meet famous people
• Identifying desired educational courses and professional development opportunities
• Scheduling in self-care: diet, exercise, and recovery
• Executing the planning:
  • Navigating poster sessions
  • Navigating receptions
  • Navigating the exhibition
  • Asking questions at presentations and meeting authors
  • Serendipitous encounters
• Following up

Afternoon                        Arrivals & Hotel Check-In, Sonesta Denver Downtown

17:30 – 19:00                    Welcome Reception, Lockwood, Sonesta Denver Downtown

07:30 – 08:30                Breakfast, Bluebird Prefunction, Colorado Convention Center

08:45 – 09:00                Welcome,  Room 3G-H

                                                            Elizabeth Nolan, Interim CEO, Optica, USA

                                                            Marcia Lesky, Sr. Director Diversity & Foundation Programs,  Optica, USA                  

09:00 – 09:30                Introductions & Kick-off with Master of Ceremonies

         Kenneth Barber, Edmund Optics, USA

09:30 – 10:30                  Enabled By Optics

Biomedical Optics – Caroline Boudoux, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada

Fabrication Design & Instr. Div Chair: Jannick Rolland

Info Acquisition Processing and Display Division Chair: Hong Hua

Optical Interaction Science Division Chair: Balázs Major

Photonics & Opto-electronics Division Chair: Alexey Turukhin

Vision & Color Chair: Brian Vohnsen

Sensing Division Chair: Adam Fleisher

10:30 – 11:00                   Break

11:00 – 12:00              Navigating Quantum/Nano Spaces: Driving advanced technologies in

NexGen Electronics and Photonics

William Wilson, Harvard University, USA

12:00 – 13:00                  Keynote 2

                                                            Julianne M. Pollard-Larkin, University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, USA

12:30 – 14:00                   Networking Lunch 

14:00 – 15:00             Opportunities in Optics

Room 3G-H                           Anoopoma Bhowmik, Edmund Optics, USA

Mamadou Dio, Lawson Health Research Institute, Canada

Marla L. Dowell, NIST Boulder, USA

Jhonattan Cordoba Ramirez, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

Erin Walter, Corning, Inc. USA

Getasew Admasu Wubetu, Oregon State University, USA

15:00 – 16:00              Illuminating the Path: From Ghana to Global Impact in Optics & Photonics

Herbert Winful, Univesity of Michigan, USA

16:00 – 16:30             Break

16:30 – 17:30              Being Black in STEM

George Okyere Dwapanyin, University of St Andrews, UK

Timothy Oshiobughie Imogore, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany

Joshua Burrow, Brown University, USA

Ivy Krystal Jones, Hampton University, USA

Jhonattan Cordoba Ramirez, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

17:30 – 18:00              Small Group Project Overview & Assignments

                                                George Okyere Dwapanyin, University of St Andrews, UK

18:00 – 18:30             What’s Next?

Kenneth Barber, Edmund Optics, USA

18:30                          Joint Student Leadership Dinner

07:30 – 08:30                Breakfast, Bluebird Prefunction

08:00 – 8:30                   Breakfast Talk: A Word About Frontiers in Optics from the Chair

                                                            Andrew Forbes, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

                                                                   Alexey Turukhin, Cisco Systems, USA

08:30 – 12:00                  Small Group Project Work Time – see the project page for details

12:00 – 13:00                    DLS Symposium on Undergraduate Research Joint Lunch & Programming, Room TBD             

13:00 – 16:30                    Small Group Project Work Time – see the project page for details

16:30-18:00                      Small Group Project Report Out, Room 3G-3H

18:30 – 19:30                   Joint Dinner DLS Symposium, Ace Eat Serve, Ping Pong Room, 501 East 17th F Street

07:30 – 08:30                Breakfast, Bluebird Prefunction

08:00 – 8:30                   Breakfast talk:

TBD

09:15 - 10:00              FiO Virtual Reality and Augmented Vision Visionary Session, Room 3A

The Transforming Landscape of Augmented Reality

Presenter: Matthew Colburn, Meta Tech - Reality Labs Research

10:00 – 11:30             FiO Plenary Talk: Using Light Absorption and Laser Speckle Dynamics

to Measure Human Brain Function, Plenary Stage Exhibition Floor

David Boas, Boston University, USA

11:30 – 13:00              FiO Poster Session 1, Exhibit Floor

Afternoon                  Departures – note hotel check out is 11:00