Optics, Photonics, Imaging, & Wireless AT&T 100 Years of Research & Innovation: Careers in Technology

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Celebrate A Day at the Museum at AT&T Labs Auditorium and the Science and Technology Innovation Center Museum with an extensive Technical Program open to Everybody: the program includes Technical Leaders, Mentors, Students, Mentors, Teachers, Community Influencers.

STEM Students are invited to participate; there will be a hands-on demo by Thorlabs; Teachers; Mentors; Celebrants; Technical Attendees. 

Beginning in the Auditorium at 10am, Lunch with Leaders and Luminaries 12:30pm, History Talk 1pm, Museum Tours 2-3pm.

Students can come early to see the Museum between 9 and 10am.

 

Celebrating achievements of AT&T 100 Years of Research & Innovation including but not limited to:

Nobel Prize winning Optical Tweezers, Super Resolved Microscopy, Karl Jansky and Radio Astronomy, BLAST MIMO, Daubechies Wavelets,

Remote Sensing 1998 (Shelf Tag Technology), Shepp Filtered Backprojection, 1972, Discovery of Interstellar Carbon Monoxide, 1970,

Algorithmic Composition, Audio and Video Perceptual Coding, and more. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Celebrate A Day at the Museum at AT&T Labs Auditorium and the Science and Technology Innovation Center Museum with an extensive Technical Program open to Everybody: Students, Mentors, Teachers, Technical Leaders.

Students are invited. Everyone is welcome to a hands-on demo by Thorlabs; Teachers; Mentors; Celebrants; Technical Attendees; Students; Community. 

Beginning with an Introduction to Optics and Photonics at 10am.

10am Lynn Nelson, PhD AT&T Labs Director

10:30am Mathini Sellathurai, PhD BLAST MIMO,

11am Rene-Jean Essiambre, PhD, Nokia Bell Labs

"Arthur Ashkin: Nobel Lecture, personal recollections and contagious enthusiasm for science" 

and Update on Quantum Communication

11:30am Christine Galib, Director, Princeton University:

"Update on Advancing Photonics Technologies (APT)"

11:45am Tod Sizer, PhD EVP Nokia Bell Labs

 to 12pm Bill Warger, PhD Thorlabs Director of Photonics Education

Live Interactive Demos of Optical Tweezers 

12:30-1pm Lunch with Leaders and Luminaries.

1-2pm History: Featuring Irwin Gerszberg, AT&T Fellow, Distinguished Inventive Scientist Advanced RF Access Technologies and

 TBD Melissa Knoll, CA AT&T Archives Manager NJ, AT&T Archives and History Center.

Celebrating achievements of AT&T 100 Years of Research & Innovation including but not limited to:

Nobel Prize winning Optical Tweezers, Super Resolved Microscopy, Karl Jansky and Radio Astronomy, BLAST MIMO, Daubechies Wavelets,

Remote Sensing 1998 (Shelf Tag Technology), Shepp Filtered Backprojection, 1972, Discovery of Interstellar Carbon Monoxide, 1970,

Algorithmic Composition, Audio and Video Perceptual Coding, and more. 

Many of you will be interested because of the incredible speakers who are top in their fields, with
Moderator Tod Sizer, PhD Nokia Bell Labs EVP, Lynn Nelson, PhD AT&T Labs Director on Optical
Communication and the network of the future, the live hands on demo by Bill Warger, PhD Thorlabs Director of
Photonics Education of the Optical Tweezers with a talk by Rene-Jean Essiambre PhD Nokia Bell Labs
about Arthur Ashkin, PhD Nobel Laureate, the inspiration, and recent topics in Quantum Communication;
Mathini Sellathurai, PhD Dean Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh about BLAST MIMO; Irwin Gerszberg
AT&T Fellow, Distinguished Inventive Scientist Advanced RF Access Technologies; and recognition of some of the many achievements and the many people involved over that AT&T 100 Years of Research & Innovation. The Event offers the opportunities to celebrate and reflect upon a selected group of the achievements 
and some of the many people involved presented by speakers including a slice across time and topics
about: Birth of Radio Astronomy Karl G Jansky; Optical Tweezers, Arthur Ashkin, PhD Nobel Laureate; Microscopy;
BLAST MIMO including but not limited to: Gerard Foschini, PhD, Jack Winters, PhD, Peter Wolniansky,
Reinaldo A Valenzuela, PhD, and others from Wireless including Giovanni Vannucci, PhD, Thomas M Willis, PhD, Irwin Gerszberg; 
Filtered Backprojection Lawrence Shepp; Daubechies Wavelets Ingrid Daubechies, PhD; Remote Sensing; 
Interstellar Carbon Monoxide Keith B Jefferts, PhD, Arno Alan Penzias, PhD, Robert Woodrow Wilson, PhD;
Algorithmic Composition, Digital Art,  Perceptual Audio Coding, Video Compression, Multimedia Security, 
and Digital Watermarking  Contributions by artists and scientists—including but not limited to: Laurie Spiegel, Lillian Schwartz, 
Michael Noll, James Johnston, Anibal Ferreira, Victor B. Lawrence, Arun Netravali, JJ Werner, Nikil Jayant, 
Paul Wilford, Reinaldo Valenzuela, Jakub Segen, Steven Herbst, Theodore Sizer, Robert Henrick, 
Charles Caldwell, Katherine August,; and other Research & Innovations and the many more people involved. 
We will celebrate the History and tie the research & innovation into the goals for the future and the K through Industry STEM
Pipeline with PhotonicsNJ, Jersey Shore STEM Ecosystem, NJ Pathways, Advancing Photonics Technologies, educators, industry connections,
IEEE ComSoc History Committee, Computer Society, Careers in Technology, Life Members, Antennas and Propagation
Society, Future Networks, Women in Engineering, Nokia Bell Labs, and our host, AT&T Labs, recently recognized to be
NJ Pathways Industry STEM Champion.
There will be Lunch with Leaders and Luminaries with lively discussion of the topics of the day, networking, and
mentoring.
The format of the day is exciting for those working in the field, alumni, experienced researchers, scientists, and engineers, 
teachers, professors, students, STEM, community college, college, university students, graduate students, Young Professionals,
mentors, innovators, people interested in technology history, and lifelong learners. 
Kindly register for the Event and share the announcement with your friends and colleagues who will be
interested. 

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Optics, Photonics, Imaging & Wireless AT&T 100 Years of Research & Innovation

Celebrating A Day at the Museum at AT&T Labs Auditorium and Science and Technology Innovation Center Museum with a Complete Technical Program, Demo, Panel, History, with STEM experience.

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