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Dear Industrial Affiliate Members,
Classes started on August 24, so our students have returned and we are all back in the swing of things. This year, we welcomed 70 graduate students and 53 undergraduate students into our academic program.
Our Colloquium, Community Speakers, and Sports Friday activities are beginning, so please take a look at the Calendar events for September below. If you'll permit us to brag about our students for a moment, our Women in Optics group and our Students Optics Chapter -- both fairly new entities -- have developed strong and active student leadership and are sponsoring quite a number of our calendar activities.
Affiliates, you are all invited to attend our Semi-Annual Industrial Affiliates Workshop to be held on Tuesday October 27 and Wednesday October 28.
The agenda is still in the planning stages and will include -- but is not limited to -- faculty and graduate student research presentations, open laboratories, escorted tours, optical design project presentations by our seniors, and plenty of opportunities for you to visit informally with our students and faculty members at coffee breaks and lunches.
The workshop schedule also includes time for you to give company presentations and interview prospective employees if you wish. To make arrangements, please contact Allison Huff, Industrial Affiliates Coordinator, at allison@optics.arizona.edu Please contact her early as University and college classes will be in session and we will make our plans around them.
We hope you will plan to attend and we look forward to seeing you in October. You may RSVP by registering on-line at http://www.optics.arizona.edu/Affiliates/2009FallWorkshop/RegistrationF2009.htm If you have questions or would like more information, please contact Allison at allison@optics.arizona.edu
We look forward to seeing you in October and thank you again for your interest in our students and for your support.
CONTACT US
It's Always a Pleasure to Hear From You: Please feel free to contact Ms. Allison Huff, College of Optical Sciences Industrial Affiliates Coordinator, at any time. She can be reached by telephone at 520-626-6737 or by e-mail at allison@optics.arizona.edu
Has your Contact Information Changed? Or should someone else in your company be receiving these e-mails? Please drop us a line. The easiest way is to e-mail Allison at allison@optics.arizona.edu
INDUSTRIAL AFFILIATES
OSC Calendar Events for September: Affiliates, you are always welcome at our events -- please join us whenever you are in Tucson. Details about specific events are usually posted a few days to a week prior to the event, so please check back with us every once in a while to see what's been added.
Save the Dates: October 27 and 28: Fall Workshop for Industrial Affiliates. March 2 and 3, 2010: Spring Workshop for Industrial Affiliates. March 2: Evening. Company Showcase for Industrial Affiliates.
SPONSORED AWARDS
August 1 through August 31: HCC: Small: Enabling Focus Cues in Stereoscopic Displays. PI: Hong Hua. Sponsor: NSF. August 1, 2009 to July 31, 2012. $497,600. Monolithic Programmable Pulse Shaper for Efficient Energy Scaling of Ultrashort Fiber Laser Pulses in the C-Band. PI: Robert Norwood. Sponsor: NP Photonics, Inc. (Sub-Navy) June 29, 2009 to January 29, 2010. $21,000. Cavity Optomechanical Manipulation and Control of Atomic and Molecular Systems. P.I. Pierre Meystre. Sponsor: NSF. July 15, 2009 to June 30, 2012. $240,000. Collaborative Research: Quantum Control of Qudits and Quantum Transport in Optical Lattices. PI: Poul Jessen. Sponsor: NSF. August 1, 2009 to July 31, 2012. $351,318. Densely Multiplexed Fluorescence Imaging by Fourier Transform Fluorometry. PI: Leilei Peng. Sponsor: NIH. August 1, 2009 to July 31, 2012. $745,112. Educational Optical Rail. PI: Thomas Milster. Sponsor: Nikon Research Corp. June 19, 2009 to August 15, 2009. $11,742. Graduate Areas of National Need Fellowship Program. PI: Carl Maes. Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education. August 15, 2009 to August 14, 2012. $391,968. Shortwave Infrared Polarimetric Imager for Aerosol and Cloud Remote Sensing. PI: Russell Chipman. Sponsor: JPL. January 14, 2009 to August 19, 2011. $557,021.
STUDENTS, FACULTY, AND STAFF
Dewen Chen is Selected to Receive Two Awards: From Hong Hua. Dewen Cheng, a visiting PhD student from Beijing Institute of Technology is the recent recipient of two very prestigious awards: The Michael Kidger Memorial Scholarship and the Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Optical Design Competition. Dewen Chen is a PhD candidate at the College of Optoelectronics, Beijing Institute of Technology. His thesis supervisor is Professor Yongtian Wang of the Beijing Institute of Technology. Dewen is currently conducting his research work at the College of Optical Sciences under a joint education program, and Dr. Hong Hua is his co-supervisor. Congratulations Dewen.
CONTINUING EDUCATION
A Summer Optics Program for K-12 Teachers: From Meredith Kupinski. This summer, in conjunction with CIAN, the Center for Integrated Access Networks, the College of Optical Sciences hosted six Arizona high school and community college science teachers as guest researchers. The goal of this program is for science teachers to learn about optical science research and to translate what they've learned into their classrooms. Thanks to those that attended the RET Poster Session. Everyone can expect an invitation in the Spring Semester when these OSC-affiliated teachers return to tell us about the execution of their lesson plan. Thank you to the OSC faculty that participated in the ROCKET program: Russell Chipman, Mahmoud Fallahi, Hyatt Gibbs, Franko Kueppers, Matthew Kupinski, and Robert Norwood. ROCKET is an NSF-funded Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program.
OSC ON-LINE STORE
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Cathy Alexander Information Specialist Coordinator College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona |
