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As the holiday season comes to a close, we would like to take this opportunity to let you know how much we value your association with us and how much we appreciate your interest in our students and our programs. We hope the new year brings you happiness, success, and prosperity.
CONTACT US
Affiliates, it's always a pleasure to hear from you. Please feel free to contact Ms. Allison J. Huff, College of Optical Sciences Industrial Affiliates Coordinator at any time. She can be reached by telephone at 520-626-6737 or by email at allison@optics.arizona.edu
INDUSTRIAL AFFILIATES
Robert Hilbert: 1941 - 2008: Robert Hilbert, President and Chief Executive Officer of Optical Research Associates (ORA®) , died on December 11 in Arcadia, California. He was 67. Hilbert, who had been ORA's President and CEO, was a dynamic and respected leader who was actively involved in shaping and supporting key optical design and engineering initiatives at the company. He had served ORA since 1975, initially as Vice President leading the Optical Engineering Services business. A member OSC's Development Board and of both SPIE and the Optical Society of America, he was the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including an SPIE Fellowship and an American Optical Company Fellowship from the University of Rochester. He held seven U.S. patents.
Photonics West: SPIE's Photonics West is less than a month away and we hope to see you all there. We will be in booth 417, so please come by to see us. Two of our graduate students -- Hannah Noble and Anoopoma Bhowmik -- will be staffing our booth and quite a number of our faculty members will be attending the conference also.
Save the date for our Spring Workshop: February 24 and 25, 2009. The company showcase is scheduled for the evening of the 24th and you may schedule employment interviews for the 26th. We are still finalizing events and activities, but for the most current information, please visit http://www.optics.arizona.edu/Affiliates/2009SpringWorkshop/Overview2009Spring.htm Affiliates, we hope to see you all at the workshop.
FACULTY/PERSONNEL
CIAN schedules an industry workshop: The National Science Foundation's $18.5M Center for Integrated Access Networks (CIAN), headed by OSC's Nasser Peyghambarian, will hold its first industry workshop on January 27, 2009 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Doubletree Hotel San Jose, which is right next to the San Jose Airport. (Note that Photonics West is in San Jose from January 24 to 29.) Highlights of the workshop will include overviews of the current and proposed research programs of CIAN, an industry feedback session, and a student poster session. This is an excellent opportunity to get involved from the outset with CIAN, whose mission is to make transformative advances that will revolutionize the efficiency, cost and scalability of the future optical Internet. For more information, please contact Bob Norwood at rnorwood@optics.arizona.edu or 520-626-0936.
Short course news: In keeping with our commitment to bring the world's finest optics classes to students everywhere, John Greivenkamp has just finished taping another non-credit short course. Introduction to Aberrations is available now and can be purchased via credit card from our Website at http://www.optics.arizona.edu/ShortCourses/ShortcoursesSC709-08.htm The course moves beyond the first-order treatment of optical system design (as presented in the Geometrical Optics short course) to describe the effects of aberrations on the performance of imaging systems. The dispersion of optical materials is described leading to a discussion of chromatic aberrations. The design of the thin-lens achromatic doublet is derived. The concepts of wavefront and ray aberrations will be introduced, and the individual third-order aberration terms will be examined. Ray fans, wave fans and spot diagrams will be shown. The through-focus performance of an imaging system in the presence of aberrations will be shown. Combinations of aberrations and the use of aspheric surfaces are also discussed. The 3-hour and 48-minute long short course may be purchased for individual use or as a site-license.
DISTANCE LEARNING
Save the Date: January 14,
2009: That's the first day of classes for our Spring
semester classes. In addition to the new on-line lab, we are
offering eight additional courses:
Easy admission to OSC on-line: Bachelor's degree grads, we hope you will take advantage of our new, streamlined admission/registration process leading to a Master's degree. Now you may enroll in graduate-level courses without being admitted to a graduate degree program: simply enroll in graduate-level course work as a non-degree-seeking student and transfer into the Master's program after all your paperwork's been processed. For all the details, please visit http://www.optics.arizona.edu/academics/admissions.htm
STUDENTS/ALUMNI
Alumni Reunion: OSC Alumni, you are all invited to attend the College of Optical Sciences Alumni Reunion Reception at SPIE’s Photonics West in San Jose, California on Tuesday, January 27, at 5:30 p.m. The reception will be held in the Grande Ballroom of the Sainte Claire Hotel, 302 South Market Street, San Jose, California www.thesainteclaire.com The hotel is a five-minute walk from the San Jose Convention Center. As always, your families and guests are very welcome. We know our address list is not current for everyone, so please mention our plans to other alumni with whom you are in contact. And, if you would prefer to receive OSC correspondence via email, please send your email address to Allison J. Huff, allison@optics.arizona.edu or call her at 520-626-6737. There is no need to RSVP, but if you have questions, please contact Allison J. Huff. We look forward to seeing you in San Jose!
Congratulations December 2008 graduates: We just celebrated the graduation of 11 PhD students, 5 MS students, and 4 BS students. Special congratulations to our Valedictorians, Jason Kuhn for the undergrads and Joshua Udovich for the grads.
Our first graduate tells all: Jim Mayo, the first student to graduate from the Optical Sciences Center back in 1968, has written a short memoir focusing on the events leading him to OSC and his experiences as one of our early students. It's great reading and is getting rave reviews. You can find it on our Website at http://www.optics.arizona.edu/News/2008Newsletters/12-19-08.htm We would like to thank Jim for documenting our history from a student perspective and for allowing us to share it with our readers.
MISCELLANEOUS
Would you like to participate in a study? Hong Hua, director of OSC's 3D Visualization and Imaging System Lab, is looking for study participants who satisfy the following two requirements: First: 20/20 corrected vision with normal color vision. Second: normal stereo vision (e.g. experience 3D perception when watching 3D movies). The purpose of this study is to compare the quality of various SCAPE user interfaces for performing 2-user collaborative tasks. In the test, you will be asked to wear a helmet (Head-Mounted Display) to see a 3D virtual world visualized on a turntable. You will be asked to interact with certain objects in that world. The data collected in this study will be kept entirely anonymous. The study will consist of two sessions, each on a separate day and consisting of about 1hr 30min each. Modest compensation will be provided to all participants for their time. For accounting purposes as required by the University, we will need your SSN or EID; this information will be kept separate from any performance data we collect. This experiment is expected to run during the third, fourth, and fifth weeks of January, session scheduling is flexible. If you are interested in participating, please contact Sangyoon Lee at: sylee@optics.arizona.edu Professor Hua,s Website is at http://3dvis.optics.arizona.edu
Much of the information included in this e-mail can also be found in our weekly e-newsletter, Watt’s Up. If you would like to subscribe, you may add (and later remove if you wish) your name to our Watt's Up listserv by visiting http://www.optics.arizona.edu/helpdesk/listserv.htm
Cathy Alexander Information Specialist Coordinator College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona cathy.alexander@optics.arizona.edu |
Dear
Industrial Affiliate Member,