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Watt's Up College of Optical Sciences News for May 15, 2008
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Please Join our Graduates at OSC Pre-Commencement and UA Commencement
Our Pre-Commencement celebration begins at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, May 16 in the Manuel Pacheco Integrated Learning Center Auditorium, room 120. The celebration ceremony will be followed by a reception in the Integrated Learning Center Courtyard. Light refreshments will be served. The ceremony and reception will last approximately one and one-half hours.
The University of Arizona Commencement is on Saturday, May 17. Optical Sciences graduates participate in the 9:00 a.m. ceremony.
Parent-Friendly Campus Map: http://iiewww.ccit.arizona.edu/uamap/parent-friendly-campus-map.pdf
UA Commencement information: http://dos.web.arizona.edu/commencement/commencespringinfo.html
Questions? Graduate students, please contact Ms. Gail Varin at 520-626-0888 or gail@optics.arizona.edu Undergraduate students, please contact Dr. Joseph McCollough at 520-626-3689 or jmccollough@optics.arizona.edu
Willis E. Lamb Jr. 1913 - 2008
Dr. Lamb received a Nobel Prize in 1955 for his experimental work on the fine structure of the hydrogen atom and discovery of a phenomenon called the Lamb shift. His discovery revolutionized the quantum theory of matter and led physicists to rethink the basic concepts behind the application of quantum theory to electromagnetism. His work became one of the foundations of quantum electrodynamics, a key aspect of modern elementary particle physics.
Dr. Lamb joined the University of Arizona's Optical Sciences school in 1974 and retired in 2002. Together with friends and colleagues, he established the Willis Lamb Jr. Scholarship in Optical Sciences as a legacy to all who pursue their passions and endeavors to discover great things. A few weeks before his death, the scholarship was awarded for the first time to Amber Young, an Optical Sciences graduate student.
Contacts: James C. Wyant, Dean, College of Optical Sciences: jcwyant@optics.arizona.edu or 520-621-2448 William H. Wing, University of Arizona: 520-465-9304 (cell) and 520-885-9333. Murray Sargent III, Microsoft: murrays@exchange.microsoft.com Marlon Scully, Texas A&M: 979-204-3013 and 979-862-2333 Heidi Fearn, Cal State Fullerton: hfearn@fullerton.edu
Special Seminar
May 22 at 10:30 a.m. in Meinel 647. Alfred J. Meixner, Eberhard Karis Universitat Tubingen, Institut fur Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, will present Optical Spectroscopy in the Nano-World: From single molecules to ultra-high spatial resolution.
Double Special Presentation
May 22 at 11:30 a.m. in Meinel 821. Giancarlo C. Righini, Director National Research Council of Italy, Department of Materials and Devices, will present Physics R&D at the CNR Department of Materials and Devices and Maurizio Ferrari, Senior Researcher at CNR-IFN Institute of Photonics and Nanotechnology, CSMFO Lab, will present Joint Research Activity on Glass Photonics at CNR-IFN of Trento and CNR-IFAC of Firenze. Nasser Peyghambarian and Daniel Milanese are the hosts.
The Sichuan Earthquake Relief Effort Needs Your Help
On Monday there was catastrophic earthquake in Southwestern China: 7.9 magnitude. Amid reports of severe aftershocks, it is estimated that more than 15,000 lives were lost so far and many more people are still missing or injured.
If you can make a donation, anything you can give will be put to good use and very much appreciated. To support relief efforts and help the victims recover from the disaster, you can make donations through a number of agencies with experience in assisting families and communities.
Thank you for anything you can give.
Pre-Commencement and Commencement Information
Students, if your families are looking for pre-commencement information or copies of photos to download, please ask them to check out the links on our home page at www.optics.arizona.edu Sometime next week, we will post photos of our graduates at Pre-Commencement there also.
OSC Student Election Results
UA to Award Honorary Doctorate to OSC's Nicolaas Bloembergen
Dr. Bloembergen was awarded a Nobel Prize for his contributions to the field of nonlinear optics and to the development of laser spectroscopy. His research has included nuclear and electronic magnetic resonance, solid state masers and lasers, and nonlinear optics and spectroscopy. His work on proton spin relaxation times in water and aqueous solutions carried out in 1946 and 1947 under the guidance of his PhD thesis advisor, Edward M. Purcell, later became the basis for the medical diagnostic technique of magnetic resonance imaging: MRI.
Together with his co-workers, Dr. Bloembergen developed a rigorous theory of nonlinear polarizability, the extension of Maxwell’s equations to include nonlinear source terms and the interaction of multiple waves in the bulk and at the boundaries of nonlinear media. This latter work let to the extension of the laws of reflection and refraction.
Dr. Bloembergen is a recipient of the Lorentz Medal of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences in 1978, the National Medal of Science, awarded by the President of the United States in 1974, the Medal of Honor of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and the Frederick Ives Medal of the Optical Society of America. He is a member of various Academies in the United States and abroad and served as president of the American Physical Society in 1991.
He came to Optical Sciences in 2001 after more than 40 years at Harvard University.
In addition to Dr. Bloembergen, Optical Sciences is home to two other Nobel laureates: Adjunct Professor Roy J. Glauber and Professor Emeritus Willis E. Lamb Jr. who died yesterday.
Optical Sciences Calendar
May 16 OSC Pre-Commencement Celebration
May 17
May 22
May 26
Happy Birthday and Best Wishes for a Wonderful Year
May 19 Colin Holmes (clholmes@email.arizona.edu)
May 20
Neal Armstrong (nra@u.arizona.edu)
May 21 Robert Meeks (rmeeks@email.arizona.edu)
May 22 Mohan Kathaperumal (mohanalingam_kathaperumal@gg.nito.co.jp)
May 23
Celine Baker (cabaker@email.arizona.edu)
May 24
Kyle Myers (kyle.myers@fda.hhs.gov)
Please visit our optics employment Web site at http://www.optics.arizona.edu/employment/default.htm
Students: When you graduate and leave OSC, your subscription to Watt's Up automatically expires. If you would like to continue your subscription, 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 Arizonacathy.alexander@optics.arizona.edu |
Dr. Willis E. Lamb, Nobel
Laureate
and University of Arizona Regents' Professor of Physics and Optical
Sciences died in Tucson on May 15 at the age of 94. He
is survived by his wife, Elsie Wattson Lamb.
At
Commencement on Saturday, our own Nicolaas Bloembergen will receive
an honorary
degree of Doctor of Science from the University
of Arizona in recognition of
his outstanding contributions to the field of
optics and his support to the College of Optical
Sciences. 
Undergraduate
Student Job Openings. NOAO, National Optical Astronomy
Observatory. Educational outreach department. NOAO,
home of Kitt Peak National Observatory, is looking for undergraduate
students who are organized, creative, motivated, and interested in
working up to 10 hours per week in science education. If this
sounds like you, here is a link to a little