Demetrios Christodoulides
10 - 14 November, 2024
Sunscape Puerto Vallarta Resort & Spa
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Events
Demetrios Christodoulides
University of Southern California
Optical Thermodynamics of Nonlinear Multimode Systems
In this plenary presentation, we will provide an overview of recent developments in the field of optical thermodynamics of nonlinear multimode systems.
About the Speaker
Demetri Christodoulides is an Endowed Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California. He received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1986. After earning his doctorate degree, he joined Bellcore as a postdoctoral research fellow, and was a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Lehigh University from 1988 to 2002. Between 2002 and 2022 he was a Pegasus Professor and the Cobb Family Endowed Chair at CREOL–The College of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central Florida. He has served as an associate editor for the IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics and JOSA B. He is a Fellow of APS and Optica. He is the recipient of the Optica’s 2011 R.W. Wood Prize and 2018 Max Born Award and of the 2023 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science of APS.
