2008 Members Only Annual Workshop

 

Monday, March 3 through Wednesday, March 5

 

Agenda

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Monday, March 3

4:00 - 7:30 p.m.

Affiliates Table Top Showcase List of exhibitors

Four Points Sheraton Hotel

   

Tuesday, March 4 

7:45 a.m.

Coffee, Registration and Group Photo

Lobby

8:30 a.m.

Welcome

307

 
  • Jim Wyant, Dean

  • Steve McCarthy, VP External Relations

  • Carl Maes, Associate Dean, Academics

9:00 a.m.

Faculty and Student Presentations

307

 

  • Tom Milster:  The UA Maskless Lighography Tool

  • Jun Zhang:  Extreme Numerical Aperture

  • Paula Smith:  Breakthroughs in Characterizing Anistropic Films

  • Meredith Aronson and Scott Tyo:  Capstone Program Overview

10:15 a.m.

Coffee Break

Lobby

10:30 a.m.

Senior Optical Design Project Presentations

307

11:30 a.m. Faculty Presentations 307
 
  • Scott Tyo:  Advanced Infrared Remote Sensing Methods
  • Stanley Pau:  Colloquium Overview
 

Noon

Affiliates Lunch

  • Affiliates, Faculty and Presenters Invited

UA Library Staff Lounge,  5th Floor

1:00 p.m.

Faculty and Student Presentations

307

 

  • Masud Mansuripur:  Momentum of Light in Dielectric Media: Applications iin Optical Trapping and Binding

  • Stacie Hvisc:  Optical Testing and Alignment for Large Telescopes

  • Brian Miller:  CCD-Based Gamma-Ray Detectors

 

2:15 p.m.

Coffee Break

Lobby

2:30 p.m.

Laboratory Visits:  List of open labs

4:00 p.m.

Special Presentation

307

 

  • Peter Smith:  UA Optics Goes to Mars

5:00 p.m.

Mixer and Poster Session  List of posters

UA Hall of Champions

6:30 p.m.

No organized dinner event

     

Wednesday, March 5

8:00 a.m.

Coffee

Lobby

8:30 a.m.

Faculty and Student Presentations

307

 

  • Brian Anderson:  Quantum Group Overview

  • Souma Chaudhury:  Quantum Control of Atomic Spins with Light

  • Robin Richards:  UA Office of Technology Transfer-Overview

 

9:30 a.m.

 

Concurrent Sessions

 

Panel Discussion:  Carl Maes, Moderator

  • Do You Have the Right Stuff?  The Corporate Hiring Process

307

Fabrication Capabilities Presentation:

Jim Burge and Marty Valente

  • Opportunities in Optomechanical Engineering

305

10:30 a.m.

Coffee Break

8th Floor

10:45 a.m.

Program Review

8th Floor

 

  • Jim Wyant:  Industrial Affiliates

  • Carl Maes:  Academic Programs/Outreach

  • Robert Edmund:  Development Board/Giving Summary

Noon

Affiliates Lunch -- RSVP Required

Sam Hughes Restaurant

1:00 p.m.

End of Formal Workshop

1:30 p.m.

Development Board Meeting

8th Floor

 

For more information or to join, please contact

Mr. Will Rivera  520-626-8754 or wrivera@optics.arizona.edu