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College of Optical Sciences News for Thursday, March 9, 2006

(2)  Ranjan Grover will present Characterizing thermal properties of materials with sub-10 nm resolution using Scanning Probe Microscopy.  Abstract:  Ultrahigh density (> 1 Tbit/in^2) data storage comes with a unique set of problems wherein thermal properties of the storage media needs to be characterized for understanding and optimizing the various processes.  Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) and its derivatives offer an opportunity to characterize these materials with sub-10 nm resolution. A unique instrument based on SPM which maps thermal conductivity with sub-10 nm resolution was developed in the College of Optical Sciences and will be discussed in this talk.

Rolyn Optics Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Awards

Three OSC PhD candidates -- Joseph Dagher, Glen Jannuzzi, and Jane Lee -- have been awarded the prestigious Rolyn Optics Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Awards for the work they did during the Fall 2005 semester.  The Awards recognize and reward Optical Sciences graduate students who have done outstanding work as teaching assistants.  The teaching assistants chosen to receive the award are selected by an Optical Sciences faculty committee on the basis of teaching evaluations from students and letters of recommendation from faculty course supervisors.  Historically, faculty members have nominated their most outstanding teaching assistants for the award based on a variety of reasons including unusual dedication to student assistance, the design of innovative teaching labs, the launch and maintenance of course web sites, and excellence in substitute lecturing.  Rolyn Optics gives three awards at the end of each semester for a total of six awards per academic year.  Each teaching assistant at Optical Sciences is eligible to receive one award each year and becomes eligible again the following year.  To date, Rolyn Optics has rewarded 51 Optical Sciences graduate students for their outstanding performance as teaching assistants.  Congratulations Joseph, Glen, and Jane -- and thank you, Rolyn Optics.

Glen Jannuzzi nominated by Brian Anderson	John Ross President Rolyn Optics Company	Jane Lee nominated by Grover Swartzlander	Joseph Dagher nominated by Masud Mansuripur

 

Introducing Please join us in welcoming two new Research Associates:  Linan Jiang and Stefan Schumacher.  They are sharing office space in Meinel 605 and can be reached at the same telephone number:  626-6992.  Linan can be reached by e-mail at ljiang@optics.arizona.edu and Stefan can be reached at sschumacher@optics.arizona.edu  Welcome to Optical Sciences, Linan and Stefan.
	Linan Jiang	Stefan Schumacher

VOTE For Your Favorite T-Shirt Design

Our 2006 T-shirt design entries are posted on the wall just outside the OSC Library, so be sure to vote for the one you'd most enjoy wearing.  Voting begins today and all ballots will be counted by our Student Representatives at 4:45 on Friday.  Our voting machine (actually a shoebox labeled "Ballots") is in the Academic Programs Office, Meinel 403, so drop by to cast your vote.

 

Around Campus   March 9, 2006 -- AME seminar -- 4:00 p.m. -- AME Lecture Hall, S212 Dr. Michael S. Eldred, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Optimization and Uncertainty Estimation Department, Sandia National Laboratories, will present Overview of Optimization Under Uncertainty Capabilities in DAKOTA.   March 9, 2006 -- Special BME Seminar -- 2:00 pm. -- AHSC 5403 Mark A. Haidekker, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering at the University of Missouri-Columbia, will present Optical Imaging Systems for the Quality Control of Tissue-Engineered Constructs.   March 10. 2006 -- Physics Colloquium -- 2:45 p.m. -- PAS 220 Dr. Gary Gladding, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, will present Reforming Introductory Physics Courses at Research Universities.

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