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Welcome to COSI, an exciting interdisciplinary program for graduate education and research, located at the University of Colorado at Boulder and funded by a National Science Foundation Grant.

Whether you are a prospective student interested in joining our program or a representative from a company that would like to partner with us, this site is an excellent source of information to help you get started. For additional information or to learn more about our activities please contact us at cosi@colorado.edu.

Upcoming Events






May 10 and 11 2012, 9am
Engineering Building - ECEE conference room EE1B55
COSI Workshop on
Intelectual Property and Technology Transfer
Program of the Workshop



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News


The Second COSI Industrial Advisory Board Meeting and the First COSI Retreat, was held together on March 25 and 26 in Breckenridge, CO.

One more COSI Trainee graduated. On Tuesday February 7 2012, COSI Fellow Sean Quirin successfully defended his PhD thesis: "Quantitative Optical Imaging and Sensing by Joint Design of Point Spread Functions and Estimation Algorithms".

Margaret Murnane, a Distinguished Professor at the Physics Department and one of the COSI-IEGRT co-PI, has been chosen by President Obama to be chairwoman of the President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science. Click here to read the announcement published by the University of Colorado.

Research by COSI fellow Sean Quirin, former COSI associate Prasanna Pavani, and COSI faculty advisor Rafael Piestun on "Optimal 3D single-molecule localization for superresolution microscopy" appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.


Research by COSI fellow Don Conkey and COSI faculty advisor Rafael Piestun on "High-speed scattering medium characterization" appears in Optics Express.