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Professor Marty Baylor, Carleton College will present "A Random Walk into Optical Signal Processing & Integrated Optofluidic Devices."

"Light not only has the power to help us learn about the physical world, but it can also help us solve problems that are hard to solve in other ways. I fell into optics through what felt like a winding path to me. As I share about my path from my childhood dreams of being a paleontologist to my current work using photopolymers for integrated optofluidic devices, I will periodically pause to describe the varied optics work I have done along the way at Kenyon College, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and CU Boulder. During this talk, I invite the audience to consider the role of power and privilege in helping me arrive at where I am today.