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Watt's Up College of Optical Sciences News for Thursday, November 9, 2006
Today: November 9, 2006 -- Sculpture Dedication -- 11:00 a.m. -- West Wing Lobby
Today: November 9, 2006 -- OSC Colloquium -- 3:30 p.m. -- Meinel 307 Dr. Harold A. McAlister of Georgia State University will present The CHARA Array on Mt. Wilson: A Technical and Scientific Overview of an O/IR Interferometric Telescope Array. Stanley Pau is the host. Abstract: The CHARA Array is an optical/IR interferometric array located on the grounds of Mt. Wilson Observatory in southern California and owned and operated by Georgia State University. The facility consists of six 1-m aperture telescopes arranged in a Y-shaped configuration yielding baselines ranging from 34 to 331 m, which currently represents the longest operational IR baselines in the world. All six telescopes are installed and fully functional, and the facility is now routinely carrying out scientific observations in a variety of specific areas relevant to the general theme of measuring fundamental astrophysical parameters of stars. Following a description of the Array, examples of recent scientific results will be given in this colloquium. CHARA research is sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Georgia State University College of Arts and Sciences. www.optics.arizona.edu/Colloquium/default.htm
Coming Up: November 13, 2006 -- Veterans Day -- UA is Closed
This year,
The University of Arizona celebrates Veterans Day on Monday, November 13.
Much of the rest of the country, including banks, post offices, city,
state and county offices and all public schools, will close for Veterans
Day on Friday -- but not UA. Come to work and class as usual on
Friday and plan to take Monday as the holiday. Enjoy the extra day
off!
Coming Up: November 15, 2006 -- Practical Optical Seminar -- 2:00 p.m. -- Meinel 305 Dr. Sen Han of Veeco will present Interferometer Alignment. The seminar is open to everyone with an interest in the subject -- no advance registration is needed. For more information, please visit www.optics.arizona.edu/opti696BX
Coming Up: November
16, 2006 -- OSC Colloquium -- 3:30 p.m. -- Meinel 307
Congratulations Fellows Galina Khitrova and Robert Norwood have just been elected Fellows of the Optical Society of America.
Happy Birthday
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November 9, 2006 -- Sculpture Dedication -- 11:00 a.m. -- West Wing Lobby
November 9, 2006 -- OSC Colloquium -- 3:30 p.m. -- Meinel
307
November 9, 2006 -- AME
Seminar -- 4:00 p.m. -- AME Lecture Hall S212
November
10, 2006 -- PhD Final Oral -- 2:00 p.m. -- Meinel 701
November 10, 2006 -- Physics Colloquium -- 2:30 p.m. -- PAS 220 Nongjian Tao of Arizona State University will present Wiring Up Single Molecules. Abstract: The ability to measure and control current through a single molecule is a basic requirement towards the ultimate goal of building an electronic device using single molecules. It also allows one to read the chemical and biological information of the molecule electronically, which opens the door to chemical and biological sensor applications based on electrical measurement of individually wired molecules. To reliably measure the current, one must: 1) provide a reproducible contact between the molecule and two probing electrodes; 2) find a signature to identify that the measured conductance is due to not only the sample molecules but also a single sample molecule; 3) provide a third gate electrode to control the current; and 4) carry out the measurement in aqueous solutions for biologically relevant molecules in order to preserve their native conformations. We will describe methods to attach a single molecule to two electrodes via covalent bonds and control the current through the molecule with an electrochemical gate. We will also discuss unresolved issues in the attempt to measure and control electron transport in single molecules.
http://www.physics.arizona.edu/physics2006/news-events.php?page=colloquium_series
November 10, 2006 -- OSC Sports Friday -- 5:00 p.m. -- Location is TBD
November 13, 2006 -- Veterans Day -- University Holiday
November
14, 2006 -- PhD Final Oral -- 11:00 a.m. -- Meinel 701
November 15, 2006 -- Practical Optics Seminar -- 2:00 p.m. -- Meinel 305 http://www.optics.arizona.edu/opti696bx/ The seminar is open to everyone and registration is not required.
November 16, 2006 -- PhD Final Oral Exam -- 9:00
a.m. -- Meinel 701
November 16, 2006 -- OSC Colloquium -- 3:30 p.m. -- Meinel 307
November 16, 2006 -- AME
Seminar -- 4:00 p.m. -- AME Lecture Hall S212
November 17,
2006 -- OSC Community Speakers -- 12:00 Noon -- Meinel 410
November 17, 2006 -- Founders Day Lecture -- Noon -- DuVal Auditorium at UMC Dr. Harrison Barrett has been selected for the College of Medicine Founders Day Lecture. The Founders' Day Lectureship was established to recognize and honor College of Medicine faculty for their scientific accomplishments. Dr. Barrett was nominated in recognition of his long record of scientific achievements.
November 17, 2006 -- Physics Colloquium -- 2:30 p.m. -- PAS 220 http://www.physics.arizona.edu/physics2006/news-events.php?page=colloquium_series
November 17, 2006 -- OSC Sports Friday -- 5:00 p.m. -- Location is TBD
November 20, 2006 -- Biomedical Engineering Seminar -- 2:00 p.m. -- AHSC 5403 http://www.bme.arizona.edu/Seminar/Schedules/seminar_fall06.php
November 22, 2006 -- Practical Optics Seminar -- 2:00 p.m. -- Meinel 305 http://www.optics.arizona.edu/opti696bx/ The seminar is open to everyone and registration is not required.
November 23-24, 2006 -- Thanksgiving -- University Holidays
Employment Opportunities in Optics
more at http://www.optics.arizona.edu/employment/nationalopenings.htm
Applications Engineer. Edmund Optics. Jeremy Govier will be here at the College of Optical Sciences on Tuesday November 21st. Please stop by the Academic Office, room 403 to schedule an interview or email cmartinez@optics.arizona.edu Interviews will be held in Optical Sciences room 447. Description: Department: Engineering. Reports To: Applications Engineer Manager. Classification: Exempt. Brief Summary: Responsible for technical customer support as well as various engineering projects to include customer orders, catalog issues, and optical design. Duties: · Provide phone support for technical questions and product applications · Various engineering projects · Catalog production support · Customer order support and design · Optical lab testing and product application support · Attend training. Requirements: · Min. BS in optical engineering or physics or equivalent experience · Proficiency in basic optics principles and basic optical design · Great communication, organization, and math skills · Knowledge of company products and applications · Proficiency in optical specifications and measurements · Experience in the optics industry (internship, co-op, lab work, etc). Edmund Optics, 101 East Gloucester Pike, Barrington, New Jersey 08007. 856.546.9340 fax. humanresources@edmundoptics.com Edmund Optics encourages May 2007 graduates to apply at this time also.
Mechanical Engineer III. Applied Materials. US- Portland, Oregon. Requisition #008703. www.appliedmaterials.com/careers Job Specific Knowledge and Experience: BSc or MSc in Mechanical Engineering, 2 - 3 years experience designing optical mounts for lenses, mirrors, prisms, and polarizing optics. A comprehensive understanding of handling and mounting 10 to 150 mm diameter lenses, mirrors, and wave plates is required. Detailed understanding and application of ISO and ANSI standards for creating optical fabrication drawings for metal and glass components is required. A rigorous understanding of designing production level optical mounts, optical mount supports, and optical alignment tooling is required. Experience using Unigraphix, Inventor, or SolidWorks CAD packages required. Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires strong skills in change management, problem solving, communication skills, customer orientation, product technology, global business perspective, personal effectiveness, project management, team skills and quality. Requires knowledge of systems and software necessary to perform job function such as Lotus Notes, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project, Visio, UGNX, Oracle BOM, and/or Oracle ECO. Requires ability to influence other people; and ability to act as mentor. Knowledge and skills typically acquired by a completed BS in Mechanical Engineering or related technical discipline, and 5-7 years directly related experience, or equivalent. Responsibilities: Problem identification and troubleshooting a wide range of difficult mechanical problems. Define, coordinate, perform, and document engineering test reports. Supervise the development, design, or modify mechanical engineering layouts/schematics and/or detailed drawings/specifications of difficult scope. Supervise or perform engineering analysis of difficult scope. Independently prioritize tasks. Specify and review engineering documentation. Provide mentoring for less experienced engineers. Implements concepts for variety of product issues and mechanical solutions. Technically lead and/or execute engineering projects, including development of key suppliers. Generate mechanical product specifications. May be responsible for the design, development and implementation of custom mechanical tooling, fixturing, and associated processes to enable the handling, assembly and/or disassembly of parts, components, sub-assemblies and final assemblies throughout the product life cycle. Establishes standards across all operational processes. Applied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity in its workforce. To apply, please visit www.appliedmaterials.com/careers and reference Job ID 008703 or email the recruiter directly at lisa_hampton@contractor.amat.com
MTS (Member of Technical Staff). Applied Materials. US- Portland, Oregon. www.appliedmaterials.com/careers Job Specific Knowledge and Experience: PhD Physics, Electrical Engineering, or Optical Sciences. Rigorous understanding and application of mathematics and mathematic software such as Mathematica, Matlab, etc., in conjunction with a rigorous understanding and application of optical and laser theory. This position requires a comprehensive understanding of light propagation, speckle, laser, and nonlinear theories of light. The candidate must be able to plan and execute experiments to measure light energy distribution to high accuracies using CCD cameras and perform image processing using mathematic software. The ability to interface various electronic devices and laboratory tools using LabView software and to write LabView VI routines for controlling the apparatus is required. Experience with high energy (> 1 J) nanosecond pulsed lasers and high-power (>1 kW) laser diode arrays preferred. Required Knowledge and Experience: Skills and abilities to perform job include: strong analytical skills; strong oral and written communication skills; strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills; strong computer literacy skills; detail oriented; exercises mature judgment; ability to work in a team; ability to work independently; ability to influence other people; ability to act as mentor, lead and/or supervise projects; ability to design for serviceability; and manufacturability; and ability to determine production worthiness. Knowledge and skills typically acquired by a completed BS in Mechanical Engineering or related technical discipline (or equivalent knowledge) and 10+ years directly related experience; MS in Mechanical Engineering or related technical discipline (or equivalent knowledge) and 7+ years directly related experience preferred. Preferred previous work experience includes mechanical engineering experience in a development or manufacturing environment. Responsibilities: Develops and implements concepts for range of exceptionally complex product issues and engineering solutions. Problem identification and troubleshooting a wide range of exceptionally complex engineering problems. Specify, supervise, or perform engineering analysis. Provide mentoring for less experienced engineers. Interface with internal and external customers regarding engineering issues for product line. Generate product specifications. Specify, supervise the development, design, or modify engineering layouts/schematics and/or detailed drawings/specifications of complex scope. Define, coordinate, perform, and document engineering tests. Specify and review engineering documentation and engineering processes. Applied Materials is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity in its workforce. To apply, please email the recruiter directly at lisa_hampton@contractor.amat.com
Postdoctoral Fellow. Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary of Boston and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. The Eaton-Peabody Laboratory of Auditory Physiology at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary of Boston MA, in consort with The Center for Holographic Studies and Laser micro-mechaTronics at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute of Worcester MA, invite applications for a Post-doctoral Fellow starting December 01, 2006. Candidates should have expertise in full-field-of-view optical metrology techniques, optical signal processing or physiological acoustical and mechanics. The Fellow will work on an exciting and challenging project exploring the utility of high-speed computer-controlled holography to quantify the sound-induced motions of the eardrum and other middle-ear structures. The new techniques derived from this project will be used to answer basic-science and clinic directed questions of eardrum function in normal and pathological ears. Please send a CV and a note describing your interest in this position, or ask for more information, to either: John J Rosowski, PhD, Professor of Otology and Laryngology, Eaton-Peaqbody Laboratory, Masssachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. Email: John_Rosowski@meei.harvard.edu Phone: 617 573-4237. Fax: 617 720-4408 or Cosme Furlong, PhD, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Enginneering, The Center for Holographic Studies and Laser micro-mechaTronics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Email: cfurlong@wpi.edu Phone: 508 831-5126. Fax: 508 831-5713.
Postdoctoral Opportunity with the Duke Imaging and Spectroscopy Program. Duke University. The Duke Imaging and Spectroscopy Program (DISP) in the Duke University is looking for a recent PhD graduate with a background in physical optics, signal processing and optical systems. DISP is affiliated with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics and the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University . DISP applies physical layer coding, generalized sampling and nonlinear signal processing to the development of optical spectroscopy, spectral and polarization imaging and application specific imaging systems spanning the UV to LWIR spectral ranges. Core research concepts include 1. Anisomorphic signal inference. DISP uses spectral information to infer spatial structure, spatial measurements to get spectral or polarization measurements, etc. The point is that the geometry of the object, the geometry of the sensor and the geometry of the image need not be topologically equivalent. 2. Physical layer data compression. Generalized sampling allows DISP to infer more object data points than we measure. 3. Molecular imaging and chemometrics. DISP is often more interested in the identity of target objects than in their optical properties. The person selected would focus on computational and compressive imaging and spectroscopy with application to tissue and biomedical spectroscopy. The person would work under the supervision of Dr. David J. Brady. Additional information can be obtained by going to the web site http://www.disp.duke.edu/ or by calling Dr. Bob D. Guenther at 919-660-2569.
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