Participants from Montreal and surrounding areas can take advantage of the public transportation offered. Departure point in Montreal : Place Bonaventure, 800 R. de La Gauchetière W # 240, Montreal Departure time: 6:30 am * Plan to arrive at least 15 minutes before the departure

From 9:15 a.m., the COPL team will welcome you at the entrance of the Hydro-Québec room of the Alphonse-Desjardins Pavilion.

Michel J. Tremblay Vice-recteur adjoint à la recherche, à la création et à l’innovation

par Sophie LaRochelle, directrice du COPL

Prix hommage 2022 du COPL Tribute Award 2022

Jennifer E Decker, Consul and Senior Advisor to the National Research Council (NRC) in Germany. Ms. Decker has led NRC-Germany since its opening in December 2019, following a career as an emeritus physicist and metrologist and as a science and technology advisor at the Canadian Embassy in Berlin.

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Nicolas Fontaine, Member of the technical staff, Nokia Bells Labs Title: Optical Communications using Space-Division Multiplexing and fiber sensing Abstract: Experimental demonstrations of SDM have included transmission of 55 spatial modes, 19 core coupled core fiber, and numerous other uncoupled fibers. Using these modes requires new spatial multiplexing technologies such as photonic lanterns, 3-D waveguides, multiplane light conversion. Modes tend to mix and scramble as they propagate long distances which requires powerful digital signal processing or new optical techniques to undo mode mixing, much like adaptive optics corrects for aberrations in the atmosphere. Some of our experiments have used real-time DSP to undo scrambling. From the DSP, we can learn how the environment affects the modes of the fibers. Finally, I will describe some of our work in using deployed fibers to sense the environment. Biography: Nicolas K. Fontaine received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Davis, CA, USA, in 2010. In his dissertation, completed while working in the Next Generation Network Systems Laboratory, he studied how to generate and measure the amplitude and phase of broadband optical waveforms in many narrowband spectral slices. Since June 2011, he has been a Technical Staff Member with the Advanced Photonics Division, Bell Laboratories, Crawford Hill, NJ, USA. At Bell Laboratories, he develops devices for space-division multiplexing in multicore and few-mode fibers, builds wavelength cross-connects and filtering devices, and investigates spectral slice coherent receivers for THz bandwidth. He is a an Optica Fellow and associate editor of Optics Express. Dr. Fontaine is the author or co-author of more than 500 publications and 25 patents. He is an avid jazz pianist and enjoys hiking or skiing through the mountains wherever he can find them (certainly not in New Jersey).

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Heide Ibrahim, Head of scientific coordination and communication of the laboratory, ALLS - INRS Title: Of macroscopic and microscopic Roaming Biography: Heide Ibrahim received a Ph.D. degree in coherent control schemes from Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, in 2008. She continued in this field as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki, Japan, before she moved on to the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) in Québec, to work as a Banting fellow with dynamic transmission electron microscopy and ultrafast electron diffraction. She is currently a Research associate at the INRS and interested in ultrafast imaging of molecular rearrangements by Coulomb explosion imaging and on laser source development based on Fourier-domain nonlinear optics. She is part of the management team of the Advanced Laser Light Source (ALLS) and an adjunct professor at the university of Ottawa.

Come to the Espace Jardins for food.

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Anne-Sophie Poulin-Girard, System scientist - space and defense, ABB Anne-Sophie Poulin-Girard is currently a Systems Scientist in ABB's Space and Defense Division. Previously, she was Scientific Coordinator for the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Neurophotonics at the CERVO Research Centre, then Research Professional for the NSERC Industrial Chair in Optical Design at Université Laval. She is particularly interested in the design and implementation of astronomical instruments. She recently worked on the HiCIBaS, GIRMOS and NIRPS projects, for which she was mission leader for the installation of the spectograph in Chile in 2022. A senior member of Optica and SPIE, she has been a member of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada since 2021, and was recently appointed to the Council's Bureau.

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Fabrice Vaussenat, Institutional researcher, ÉTS Title (in French): Recherche et entreprenariat: ou comment développer des innovations ? Biography: Fabrice Vaussenat is a researcher, entrepreneur and consultant in health technologies with more than 25 years of experience in the sector. He is passionate about technology combining AI and embedded electronics for the relief and support of patients. He has developed and is still developing connected and intelligent medical devices. Fabrice Vaussenat has founded several innovative companies, including INOMEDIS INC, SYCOMCARE, DEVINNOVA, HEALTH2C and INNOLIFE, and has won several awards for innovation. He has held key positions such as President, Founder and CEO, Healthcare IT Manager (Europe) at Fresenius Medical Care, President, Founder and CTO of SyComCare, and Founder and CTO of INOMEDIS INC. Fabrice holds a PhD and an engineering degree in biomedical sciences from the Université de Compiègne (UTC), and studied medicine at the Université de Montpellier. He also completed a training in operational and strategic marketing at the École Supérieure de Commerce in Paris.

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Caroline Viger, Professor, John Abbott College Title (in French): Les métiers de l’enseignement collégial : plus variés que vous ne le croyez What does a CEGEP teacher do? This conference will focus on the many facets of the teaching profession at the college level: teaching, of course, but also research in pedagogy, technology transfer center, department management, program development and more... Biography: Caroline Viger completed a Master's degree in Applied Sciences at COPL in Sophie Larochelle's laboratory in 2004. While waiting for her thesis to be corrected, she enrolled in the College Teaching Certificate, which led her to teach physics at CEGEP. Throughout her career, she has been involved in numerous research projects in physics education, has been a department coordinator and has participated in the development of the pre-university program in Natural Sciences. She is now in charge of implementing this new program at John Abbott College.

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Stefania Sciara, Postdoctoral fellow in the team of Roberto Morandotti, INRS Title: “My studies at INRS-EMT: from fundamental quantum optics to its application for quantum secure communication technologies” Summary: Stefania Sciara dedicated her doctoral studies to the theoretical investigation of complex entangled photon states, specifically focusing on high-dimensional frequency entangled photon pairs and photonic cluster states simultaneously entangled in time and frequency. She explored and derived a theoretical approach enabling the characterization of complex entanglement through experimentally feasible techniques, which means, through easily implementable single-photon projection measurements. The target of her doctoral studies was in fact to boost the use of complex entangled photon states for a variety of practical quantum applications, ranging from quantum communications to quantum computing. For this reason, she based her theory by considering realistic scenarios that can occur in experiments, such as device imperfections. Her work, combined with the experiments performed by the other team members, resulted in the publications Nature 546, 622-626 (2017), Nature Physics 15, 148-153 (2018), and Physical Review Letters 122, 120501 (2019). In continuity with and motivated by this research, Stefania has continued her career as a postdoctoral fellow at INRS-EMT by also gaining experimental skills. She has been focusing on the experimental implementation of quantum communication and cryptography protocols, such as entanglement propagation and quantum key distribution, based on high-dimensional time-entangled photon states. This works is part of a Mitacs Elevate Thematic two-year fellowship in Quantum science that Stefania received in June 2022, in collaboration with the company Ki3 Photonics Technologies.

Atelier pour les membres des milieux académiques et industriels/ Workshop for members of academia and industry

Title: Welcoming and including international students and employees: a shared responsibility. By Suzie Yeo, URELLES About the trainer: Suzie Yeo has been driven by issues of inclusion and diversity since childhood. Even as a young child, she wanted to help create more solidarity and justice for people from underrepresented groups. She is passionate about human relations and has several university degrees in the fields of education, adult education in the workplace, intercultural cooperation, psychosocial intervention and intervention in multi-ethnic environments. With a heart for cultural rapprochement and healthy relationships in diverse environments, she founded Autrement d'ici, whose mission is to develop the intercultural competencies of Quebec‧le‧s professionals and citizens‧es from various sectors. Suzie is not only driven by an inclusive vision of tomorrow's world by leading Autrement d'ici, but she is also involved in her community to foster reflection and openness towards people from ethnocultural and First Nations diversity.

Atelier pour les membres étudiants/ Workshop for student members

Best practices in the establishment of a pan-Quebec student group in photonic optics Panel discussion dedicated to the student members of the COPL. Moderated by Madison Rilling, Executive Director at Optonique. The three student committee leaders of INTRIQ ( Sophie Berthelette), RQMP ( Gabriel Demontigny) and REPOL ( Alexandre Ouellet) will discuss their experience and share their vision of a Quebec student group affiliated with COPL.

Séance d'affiches scientifiques/ Science Poster Session

Learn about the evolution of our student members' research projects. Competition for the best poster by research axis and special mention for the poster that distinguishes itself by the integration of artificial intelligence. - 7 research axis represented- Artificial intelligence, a transversal approach

Special thanks and awards for the best poster in each category

For participants returning to Montreal with the chartered bus: Meeting at 5:25 pm at the South Gate of the Alphonse-Desjardins Pavilion. Departure from Quebec City: 5:30 pmExpected arrival in Montreal: 8:30 pm * Please note that there will be no stops between Quebec City and Montreal. You must bring your own supplies (food & beverages) for the duration of the trip.