Professor David A. B. Miller, the W. M. Keck Foundation Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, will deliver the 2014 Hermann Anton Haus Lecture Wednesday, April 30, 2014, 4:00 pm in the RLE conference facility, 36–428–462. A reception will follow the lecture.
David Miller is the W. M. Keck Foundation Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering, and Co-Director of the Stanford Photonics Research Center, at Stanford University. His research interests include the use of optics in switching, interconnection, communications, computing, and sensing systems, physics and applications of quantum well optics and optoelectronics, and fundamental features and limits for optics and nanophotonics in communications and information processing.
Prof. Miller received a B. Sc. in Physics from St. Andrews University and performed his graduate studies at Heriot-Watt University where he was a Carnegie Research Scholar. After receiving the Ph. D. degree in 1979, he continued to work at Heriot-Watt University, latterly as a Lecturer in the Department of Physics. He moved to AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1981 as a Member of Technical Staff, and from 1987 to 1996 was a Department Head, latterly of the Advanced Photonics Research Department. In addition to his current positions at Stanford, he served as the Director of the E. L. Ginzton Laboratory from 1997–2006.
Prof. Miller has published over 250 technical papers including 13 book chapters, a text book Quantum Mechanics for Scientists and Engineers, delivered over 160 conference invited talks and over 40 short courses, and holds 69 patents. He has been elected to the Boards of both the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) and the Optical Society of America (OSA), was a member of the Defense Sciences Research Council for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency from 1991–2005, and has served on boards for several photonics companies. He was President of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society in 1995.
Prof. Miller is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the IEEE, the Optical Society of America and the American Physical Society. He was awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and an honorary Doctor of Engineering from Heriot-Watt University. For his work on semiconductor nonlinear optics, quantum well optical properties, and novel devices, he was awarded the 1986 Adolph Lomb Medal of the OSA, was co-recipient of the 1988 R. W. Wood Prize of the OSA, and received the 1991 Prize of the International Commission for Optics. He was an IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Traveling Lecturer in 1986–87, an IEEE Third Millennium Medalist in 2000, and recipient of the Carnegie Centenary Professorship in 2013.
The Hermann Anton Haus Lecture is RLE’s visiting lecturer program designed to bring the leading world researchers in fields congruent with RLE interests to RLE to share their thoughts and perspectives with the MIT community. The lecture honors the memory of Professor Haus, and continues the process of collaborative dialogue that he promoted throughout his lifetime.
The lecture is open to all interested members of the RLE and MIT communities.
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