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Welcome to our first Industrial Affiliate ‘Monthly Update.’ We hope it serves to keep you informed about what is happening at the College and in the Optical Sciences community. Most of the following information can also be found in our weekly e-newsletter, Watt’s Up. For more information on receiving Watt’s Up, please contact Cathy Alexander at cathyalexander@optics.arizona.edu.
March was a busy month for OSC with our first Industrial Affiliates Company Showcase and our Annual Industrial Affiliates Workshop taking place the first week of the month. We would like to thank everyone who participated in the events, especially our Showcase sponsor, Melles Griot. We encourage you to fill out all surveys and return them as soon as possible so future workshops continue improving to meet your needs and wishes. We hope to see you all next time.
April kicks off the last part of the academic year for our students. Many are graduating and entering the workforce via your company. Others are continuing their education here at OSC. Regardless of their paths, OSC’s students remain top-quality, both academically and professionally.
INDUSTRIAL AFFILIATES
Colloquium: As Industrial Affiliates you are invited to attend our Thursday Colloquium at 3:30 p.m. at OSC. Upcoming speakers and topics are:
Short Courses: As busy professionals, you have the opportunity for professional development with our self-paced short courses on DVD. Our collection consists of:
· Applications of Zernike Polynomials · Exploring Optical Aberrations · Introduction to Interferometric Optical Testing · Holographic Techniques for Advanced Photonic Systems · Solid State Lasers 1: Fundamental Physics · Solid State Lasers 2: Specific Systems · Illumination Engineering: Basics, Sampling, and Sources · Illumination Engineering: Lightpipes and Reflectors · Illumination Engineering: Displays · Illumination Engineering: Optimization, Tolerancing, and Special Topics · Illumination Engineering: The Complete Set of all 4 Discs
Please visit our website for more information on Short Courses: http://www.optics.arizona.edu/ShortCourses/Default.htm
STUDENTS
· OSC's 2008 Outstanding Graduate Student: Yuan Luo is the recipient of the 2008 Outstanding Graduate Student Award. Yuan was admitted to the College of Optical Science’s graduate program in August 2004 and expects to receive his PhD in August, 2008. Yuan’s research focuses on theoretical and experimental research work in bio-medical imaging to develop new types of endoscope and novel systems that are capable of detecting cancerous structures in tissue. Yuan worked on an NIH project to develop a new type of optical coherence tomography endoscope by adapting a Monte Carlo simulator to modeling the weak optical signals measured with the endoscope. In Fall 2007, he started working on a new medical imaging NIH project that uses multiplexed volume holograms to replace mechanical scanning of tissue samples to obtain spectral-spatial information on a tissue sample. Yuan set up an optical prototype system to demonstrate the use of volume holograms as spectral-spatial filters in an imaging system and developed a comprehensive model for the holographic elements based on rigorous coupled wave theory to explain the performance of holograms.
· Amy Winkler Receives an ARCS Scholarship Award The ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists) Foundation, Inc. is a national volunteer women's organization dedicated to helping the best and brightest graduate and undergraduate students by providing scholarships in natural sciences, medicine and engineering. The ARCS Foundation was formed in 1958 in Los Angeles in response to Sputnik and the lack of U. S. supremacy in the technology race. Scholarship recipients are selected by the 44 colleges and universities to which ARCS Foundation chapters make allocations.
FACULTY
· Jennifer Barton Is Elected SPIE Fellow. Jennifer Barton, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Optical Sciences was elected a Fellow on the basis of her achievements in optical coherence tomography and dual modality fluorescence. One her most important contributions is the combination of OCT and laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) into a single instrument, which has outstanding abilities in identifying colon adenomas. She was also key to research that resulted in the highest resolution endoscopic OCT system to date, and has completed breakthrough research in speckle patterns for OCT imaging as well.
Charles Falco in the United Arab Emirates. Charles Falco recently visited the United Arab Emirates to speak about significant new information he has uncovered about the 11th century optical scientist Ibn al-Haytham, also known as Alhazen or Alhacen. Last year, Charlie donated the initial funds necessary to establish the Ibn al-Haytham Scholarship for College of Optical Sciences MS and PhD students. Al-Haytham, an 11th century mathematician, astronomer, and physicist, is considered the Father of Modern Optics for his extensive writings on lenses, mirrors, refraction, and reflection.
· Charles Falco Receives the Edwin Ziegfeld Lectureship Award. Charles Falco received the Edwin Ziegfeld Lectureship Award from the National Art Education Association at their annual meeting in New Orleans. Charlie was selected for his role in developing the very controversial Hockney-Falco Thesis. In conjunction with the NAEA meeting, Charlie will present a lecture on The History of Art; The Science of Optics, describing the discoveries made with David Hockney that Renaissance artists, including van Eyck, Bellini and Caravaggio, began using optics to project images as aids nearly 200 years before Galileo.
Find out more about awards and scholarships on our website at http://www.optics.arizona.edu/Academics/ScholarshipsFoTO.htm or by subscribing to our weekly e-newsletter, Watt’s Up.
MISCELLANEOUS
· Ibn al-Haytham Scholarship for College of Optical Sciences MS and PhD students. Charlie Falco has been working to find donors to fully endow the Scholarship and is available to discuss details of this project with anyone interested in knowing more. Charlie can be reached by email at falco@u.arizona.edu You may also contact Will Rivera, OSC's Director of Development, who can assist with donation questions. He can be reached by email at wrivera@optics.arizona.edu or by telephone at 520-626-8754. For more information about the Scholarship, please visit http://www.optics.arizona.edu/academics/ScholarshipsFoTONamed.htm
· OSC’s Newsletter, Watt’s Up, is a weekly update on the happenings at OSC and with our students, alumni, and community. If you would like to receive this electronic newsletter, please send an e-mail to Cathy Alexander at cathyalexander@optics.arizona.edu
For more information about Monthly Updates, please contact:
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Dear
Industrial Affiliate Member,