The Detector Virtual Workshop

List of Talks

Date	Room	Time	Speaker	Institution	Title	File	Video
Sep 28	76-1275	1pm-2pm EDT (UTC-4)	Robert Hadfield	Heriot-Watt	Infrared Superconducting Single-Photon Detectors Announcement	PPT	Adobe Connect .wmv
Oct 24	CIMS 2240	11am-12pm EDT (UTC-4)	Andy Shearer	Nat'l U. of Ireland	High Time Resolution Astrophysics Announcement	PDF	Adobe Connect
Nov 14	CSI-1600	12:30-1:30pm EST (UTC-5)	Karl Berggren	MIT	Superconducting Single Photon Detectors Annoucement	PDF	Adobe Connect .mov
Nov 28	CSI-1600	11am-12pm EST (UTC-5)	Alan Migdall	NIST	Metrology of and Metrology using Single Photon Detectors Announcement	PPT AVI1 AVI2	Adobe Connect .mov
Dec 5	CSI-1600	11am-12pm EST (UTC-5)	Craig Mackay	Cambridge	EMCCDs Announcement	PDF	Adobe Connect
Feb 6	CSI-1600	11am-12pm EST (UTC-5)	Bernard Rauscher	NASA	Reducing Read Noise of JWST Detectors Announcement	PPT	Adobe Connect
Feb 27	CSI-1600	11am-12pm EST (UTC-5)	Kieran O'Brien	University of California	Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors for optical and near-IR astronomy Announcement	PPT ARCONS Binary	Adobe Connect .mov
Mar 12	CSI-1600	11am-12pm EDT (UTC-4)	Mark Itzler	Princeton Lightwave	Photon Counting with InGaAsP Single Photon Avalanche Diodes Announcement	PDF	Adobe Connect .mov
Mar 26	CSI-1600	11am-12pm EDT (UTC-4)	Jim Beletic	Teledyne	The Fantastical Discoveries of Astronomy made possible by the Wonderful Properties of II-VI Materials Announcement	PDF AO Animation	Adobe Connect .mov
Apr 23	CSI-1600	11am-12pm EDT (UTC-4)	Michael Krainak	NASA	Candidate detectors for space-qualified time-resolved photon counting Announcement	PDF	Adobe Connect
May 14	CSI-1600	11am-12pm EDT (UTC-4)	Sanjay Krishna	U. New Mexico	The Infrared Retina: Ushering in the Fourth Generation of Infrared Detectors Announcement	PDF	Adobe Connect
June 4	CSI-1600	11am-12pm EDT (UTC-4)	James Bangs	Raytheon	Single and Dual Band HgCdTe Detectors Announcement	PPT	Adobe Connect .mov
Jul 13	CSI-1600	4pm-5pm EDT (UTC-4)	Hooman Mohseni	Northwestern University	New generation of isolated nano-injection detectors and imagers		Adobe Connect .mov
Jul 23	CSI-1600	11am-12pm EDT (UTC-4)

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4. To play archived talks, click on the links on the DVW page here: http://ridl.cfd.rit.edu/

Introduction
The Center for Detectors at the Rochester Institute of Technology presents the “Detector Virtual Workshop,” a year-long program dedicated to the advancement of UV/O/IR detectors. The objective of the workshop is to enable future detector capabilities by disseminating knowledge, increasing interdisciplinary opportunities, enhancing interactions between academia, industry, and government, and providing student and professional training opportunities. There will be a particular emphasis on informing the scientific community of potential detector developments in the next ten years for next-generation observing platforms. The workshop will include avenues for brainstorming by all participants, and it will culminate in a report that summarizes promising detector developments. The workshop will start in September, 2011.

An organizing committee will select speakers who can deliver material to support the objective of the workshop, especially those with the ability to present the most promising detector technology developments. A subset of invitations will be reserved specifically for talks that primarily present grand challenges and breakthroughs. The talks will be given twice per month, one at RIT and the other at the speaker’s home institution. The talks will be delivered to audiences around the world through RIT’s Adobe Connect streaming audio/video facility, and they will be recorded and archived for later public use. Talks will be advertised through community newsletters and email exploders.

The objectives of the Detector Virtual Workshop are to:
a) produce a summary report that describes the grand challenges, potential breakthroughs, and the most promising detector technologies for astronomy over the next ten years
b) enable future scientific breakthroughs through better understanding of detectors
c) disseminate knowledge of new detector concepts, existing detector performance, and detector applications
d) increase interdisciplinary opportunities
e) train undergraduate and graduate students
f) connect students with potential future employers
g) increase interactions between academia, industry, and government

To be put on the distribution list for talk announcements or to propose a talk, contact Don Figer (figer@cfd.rit.edu). This workshop is funded by a grant from NSF.