Microphotonics Center Industry Consortium

The Microphotonics Center Industry Consortium provides a proactive forum where scientists, engineers, and strategists from industry and MIT can work as partners to explore and create innovative microphotonics research and development activities and opportunities. The Consortium expands upon MIT's traditionally close collaboration with industry by providing a direct link between the short-, medium-, and long-term technology needs of your company and the basic science, engineering, and processing research underway at MIT. When your company joins the Consortium, you support the continued growth and development of our microphotonics community, and access the full scope of our knowledge-base developed since 1992.

As a Consortium member, your company will participate in two annual review meetings. The autumn meeting will focus on the state of microphotonics research, while the spring meeting will address ongoing roadmapping activities. Poster sessions at both will provide direct access to the faculty, graduate students, and post-docs, thereby allowing you to follow the professional development of undergraduate and graduate students --the future experts-- in the rapidly evolving microphotonics field. You and your colleagues may also request detailed one-on-one company briefings, and you are always welcome on campus. Preferred access is also available to our Microphotonics Center website and any special reports and publications. An open invitation is extended to all workshops, seminars, and symposia, where you can either attend in person or via e-meeting.

Each member company also serves on the Consortium Advisory Board which assists in setting the priorities and agenda for the Consortium. A major activity of the Microphotonics Center Consortium is the identification and development of parallel research projects and alliances that may be independently supported by an individual member company or subset of member companies. These research projects and programs may include joint proposals for federal support of these collaborative efforts with member companies.

The Consortium provides both a gateway to the broad microphotonics research community at MIT and a range of outreach mechanisms that allow your company to derive substantial value from its collaborations at MIT.