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CREOL Colloquium Series: Mordechai (Moti) Segev "Anderson Localization of Light"
Friday, February 08, 2008 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM CREOL Room 102
The universal phenomenon of localization of waves will be reviewed, in thecontext of our recent experiments demonstrating the first observation ofAnderson localization in a (any) periodic potential containing disorder.Some new ideas will be discussed, among them localization in the presence ofboth disorder and nonlinearity, and localization in special potentials, suchas honeycomb lattices and quasi-crystals.
Mordechai (Moti) Segev is the Trudy and Norman Louis Professor of Physics, at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel. He has received his B.Sc. and D.Sc. from the Technion, Israel, in 1985 and 1990, respectively. Moti Segev has spent one year at Caltech as a post-doctoral fellow and two more years as a Senior Research Fellow. He joined Princeton in September of 1994 as an Assistant Professor, becoming an Associate Professor in 1997, and a Professor in 1999. In the summer of 1998, Moti Segev went back to his home country, Israel, and joined the Technion, eventually resigning from Princeton in 2001.
Moti Segev's research interests are mainly in Nonlinear Optics, Solitons, and Quantum Electronics, although he finds some entertainment in Thermodynamics, Nonlinear Dynamics, and more demanding fields such as basketball and hiking. He has more than 220 publications in refereed journals, 10 book chapters, and has given more than 80 invited, keynote, and plenary presentations at conferences. His over all H-Factor is 48, per ISI Web of Knowledge.
Among his most significant contributions are the discoveries of photorefractive spatial solitons, of random-phase solitons (also called incoherent solitons, or self-trapping of solitons made of incoherent white light from an incandescent light bulb), and the first observation of 2D lattice solitons, as well as the first experimental demonstration of Anderson localization in a disordered periodic system.
Moti Segev is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (1997), a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2000). He has won several awards, among them the Sloan Research Award in Physics (USA, 1995), the Braun-Roger-Siegl Research Award of the Israeli Science Foundation (2002), and the Taub Prize (2003) and the Hershel Rich Innovation Award (2007) of the Technion, and the EPS Quantum Electronics Prize 2007. He has served as the General Chair and Program Chair of several international conferences, is currently serving as the Topical Editor on Nonlinear Optics in the premiere optics magazine Optics Letters. However, above all his personal achievements Moti Segev takes pride in the success of the graduate students and post-doctoral fellows that have worked with him over the years. Among those are currently 10 university professors in the United States (MIT, Princeton, University of Michigan, University of Florida, and California State University at San Francisco), Germany (University of Clausthal), Taiwan (National Taiwan University at Taipei), Croatia (University of Zagreb), Italy (University of L’Aquila), and Israel (Technion).
CREOL Colloquium SeriesContact: Aristide DogariuPresentation starts at 11:00 AM preceded by mingling & refreshments from 10:30.
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