ASPE 36th Annual Meeting Schedule
| Wednesday, October 27 | Session Type | Title | Speaker |
| 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM | Virtual Tutorial | Emerging Nanofabrication Technologies | Dr. S.V. Sreenivasan |
| 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM | Virtual Tutorial | Linear Motors | Dr. Renato Lyra |
| 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM | Virtual Tutorial | System Identification | Dr. Stephen Ludwick |
| Thursday, October 28 | |||
| 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM | Virtual Tutorial | Precision Balancing, Static Balance in Precision Engineering | Dr. Jan de Jong |
| 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM | Virtual Tutorial | Scrum for Hardware Design | Dr. David Ullman & Dr. Joshua Tarbutton |
| 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM | Virtual Tutorial | Angle Metrology | Bryon Faust |
| Friday, October 29 | |||
| 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM | Virtual Tutorial | Diamond Turning of Freeform Optics | Dr. Matt Davies |
| 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM | Virtual Tutorial | Vibrometry | Tobias Ban |
| Monday, November 1 | |||
| 7:30 AM – 6:00 PM | Registration | ||
| 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM | Student Challenge | ||
| 8:30 AM -12:30 PM | Virtual Tutorial | Principles of Precision Machine Tool Design – 1 | Mark Stocker |
| 8:30 AM -12:30 PM | Virtual Tutorial | Modern Optical Fabrication | Dr. Jessica DeGroote-Nelson |
| 8:30 AM -12:30 PM | Virtual Tutorial | Vibration Isolation | Ronald Kappel & Hans Hartgers |
| 9:45 AM – 10:15 AM | Coffee Break | ||
| 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM | Student Challenge Luncheon | ||
| 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM | Virtual Tutorial | Principles of Precision Machine Tool Design – 2 | Mark Stocker |
| 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM | Coffee Break | ||
| 5:30 PM – 11:00 PM | Student Challenge Dinner | ||
| Tuesday, November 2 | |||
| 7:30 AM – 6:00 PM | Registration | ||
| 8:00 AM -12:00 PM | Student Challenge | ||
| 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM | Exhibit Hall set up by Vendors | ||
| TBA | Board of Directors Breakfast | ||
| 8:30 AM -12:30 PM | Hybrid Tutorial | Introduction to Lens Design | Dr. Julie Bentley |
| 8:30 AM -12:30 PM | Hybrid Tutorial | Flexures – 1 | Dr. Stuart Smith, Dr. Kumar Arumugam, & Dr. Marijn Nijenhuis |
| 8:30 AM -12:30 PM | Virtual Tutorial | Thermal Effects – 1 | Dr. Theo Ruijl |
| 9:45 AM – 10:15 AM | Coffee Break | ||
| 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM | Student Challenge Judging/Presentations | ||
| 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM | Virtual Tutorial | Automated Surface Defect Inspection | Drew Schlitz |
| 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM | Hybrid Tutorial | Flexures – 2 | Dr. Stuart Smith, Dr. Kumar Arumugam, & Dr. Marijn Nijenhuis |
| 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM | Hybrid Tutorial | Optical Alignment Techniques | Robert Parks |
| 1:30 PM – 5:30 PM | Virtual Tutorial | Thermal Effects – 2 | Dr. Theo Ruijl |
| 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM | Coffee Break | ||
| 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM | Keynote Address | The Beginning of Gravitational Wave Astronomy: Current State and Future | Dr. Rainer Weiss, MIT |
| 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM | Welcome Reception | ||
| Wednesday, November 3 | |||
| 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM | Speaker’s Breakfast | ||
| 7:30 AM – 5:00 PM | Registration | ||
| 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Oral Session 1 | Optomechanical sensing for Gravity, Acceleration, and Optical Power | |
| 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM | Exhibit Hall Open | ||
| 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM | Coffee Break with Exhibitors | ||
| 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Oral Session 2 | Precision Design | |
| 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM | Lunch (Committees) | ||
| 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Commercial Session | ||
| 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM | Coffee Break with Exhibitors | ||
| 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM | Poster Session | **Full poster listing to be announced** | |
| 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM | Hospitality Hour | ||
| 5:30 PM | Transportation to Topgolf | ||
| 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM | Off-site event: Topgolf | ||
| Thursday, November 4 | |||
| 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM | Speaker’s Breakfast | ||
| 7:30 AM – 6:00 PM | Registration | ||
| 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Oral Session 3 | Micro Nano | |
| 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM | Exhibit Hall Open | ||
| 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM | Coffee Break with Exhibitors | ||
| 10:15 AM – 12:00 PM | Oral Session 4 | Controls & Mechatronics | |
| 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM | Business Meeting and Awards Lunch | ||
| 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Oral Session 5 | Replicated Optics | |
| 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM | Coffee Break with Exhibitors | ||
| 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM | Poster Session | ||
| 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM | Hospitality Hour | ||
| 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM | UNCC Alumni Reception | ||
| 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM | Open Mic Remembrance of Bob Hocken | ||
| 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM | Precision Olympics | ||
| Friday, November 5 | |||
| 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM | Speaker’s Breakfast | ||
| 7:30 AM – 6:00 PM | Registration | ||
| 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Oral Session 6 | Metrology & Characterization | |
| 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM | Exhibit Hall Open | ||
| 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM | Coffee Break with Exhibitors | ||
| 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Oral Session 7 | Precision Manufacturing | |
| 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM | Lunch – Boxed | ||
| 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM | Exhibit Hall Dismantle | ||
| 12:30 PM – 6:00 PM | Tours: Tru-Stone, Zeiss, U of MN Nanocenter |