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| Watt's Up College of Optical Sciences News for March 5, 2009
Today's Colloquium. 3:45 p.m. Meinel 307
Alan Willner, University of Southern California Department of Electrical Engineering Systems, will present Optical Communications Innovations (and their needs) Abound. Nasser Peyghambarian is the host.
Abstract: Optical communications has enjoyed dramatic growth in terms of technical achievement as well as commercial implementation. This presentation will highlight three main topics. Firstly, a broad perspective will be given on some of the technical trends in optical communication systems, with special connection to the NSF ERC CIAN. Secondly, I will describe technical issues related to stable, robust optical networking, including performance monitoring, channel-degrading effects, efficient modulation formats, and switching. Finally, I will discuss adding flexibility and reconfigurability to different aspects of the base optical technologies.
Prospective Grad Students -- Welcome to OSC
On Friday and Saturday our most promising and talented grad student applicants -- the best of the best -- will be our guests at our annual Graduate Student Recruitment Weekend.
OSC students, faculty members, and staff, please join us in giving our prospective grad students a warm OSC welcome. You are all invited -- and strongly encouraged -- to come and meet our new recruits on Friday March 6 at the 10:30 and 2:15 coffee breaks in the 3rd floor lobby.
We're printing the agenda again as there have been a few updates and additions.
Save the Date: March 12 For Women in Optics Brown Bag Lunch
Mary Turner, OSC MS 1990 and PhD 1993, will talk about being a woman in optics and give a brief overview of the issues and concerns women face while working in optics. The talk will be followed by a Q&A session, so please come prepared with questions. Mary is Director of Training at Breault Research Organization. She has been involved with the development of optical software and has conducted training on optical design and the use of optical software for 12 years. She has contributed chapters to several optical reference encyclopedias covering various aspects of optical design and analysis and is a Fellow of SPIE. The brown bag lunch is open to everyone. It’s in room 447, from 11:30 to 1:00 on Thursday, March 12, and is sponsored by BRO.
Rolyn Optics Company Rewards Three OSC Graduate Students
The awards recognize and reward Optical Sciences graduate students who have done outstanding work as teaching assistants. Faculty members nominate TAs for 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.
Because the nature of the award involves a high degree of excellence, the awards have gradually acquired great prestige among the faculty members who nominate their students and are prized by the students selected to receive them.
The awards are sponsored by John Ross of Rolyn Optics Company of Covina, California, a supplier of precision optics since 1925 and a pioneer in modern fabrication and distribution of quality off-the-shelf industrial and precision optics. Their in-house fabrication and metrology capabilities enable them to modify many of their stock items to fit customer needs for "almost stock" items and they also supply large production runs of completely custom parts. For more information about Rolyn Optics Company, please visit their web site at www.rolyn.com.
Rolyn gives six awards each year; three in the spring and three in the fall. Since 1997, John Ross has become unofficial grandfather to 69 outstanding graduate students at OSC.
Congratulations Joshua, Katie, and Corrie .
Emerald Literati Network 2009 Awards for Excellence
The Emerald Literati Network has selected an article by Roy Frieden and colleagues -- Toward a Formal Theory of Socioculture: A Yin-Yang Information-Based Theory of Social Change -- as a Highly Commended Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2009.
Emerald publishes several journals, with the award winning papers selected by the journal’s Editorial Team. The papers chosen provide or demonstrate (1) a new contribution to the body of knowledge either in terms of approach or subject matter, (2) excellent structure and presentation, (3) rigor in terms of argument or analysis, (4) relevance to practice and further research, (5) timeliness in demonstrating that the latest/key works in the field have been cited, and (6) the work is clearly within the editorial scope and remit of the journal. Citation: M. Yolles, B.R. Frieden, G. Kemp. (2008) Toward a Formal Theory of Socioculture: A Yin-Yang Information-Based Theory of Social Change, Kybernetes 37:7, 850-909.
Congratulations Roy.
Adjustable Fluidic Lenses Developed at OSC
From a February 24 article by Laura Mgrdichian in Physics/Physics at PhysOrg.com Randall Marks, David Mathine, Jim Schwiegerling, Gholam Peyman, and Nasser Peyghambarian have created a fluid-based ophthalmic lens in which the amount of fluid can be constantly adjusted to provide customized eye correction. The lens may one day be incorporated into the tools that eye doctors use to determine prescription strength. Similar lenses have been produced for telescopes to provide an adjustable field of view and zoom, removing the need to mechanically move optical components and yielding smaller, lighter telescopes. The group has taken these principles and applied them to ophthalmics. Citation: Randall Marks, David L. Mathine, Gholam Peyman, Jim Schwiegerling, and Nasser Peyghambarian, Adjustable Fluidic Lenses for Ophthalmic Corrections, Opt. Lett. 34, 515-517 (2009) http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-34-4-515 View Full Text: Acrobat PDF
Happy Birthday and Best Wishes for a Wonderful Year
March 9Hyun
An (hkan@optics.arizona.edu) March 11Nico
Bloembergen (nbloembergen@optics.arizona.edu) March 12
Bernard Kippelen (kippelen@gatech.edu) March 13Robin Strickland (strickland@ece.arizona.edu) March 15Tao
Luo (tao@advaluetech.com)
OSC Calendar
March 6 and 7 Graduate Student Recruitment Weekend March 6 Our grad students have cancelled today's OSC Community Speakers and OSC Sports Friday so they can spend time with our visiting recruits.
March 12 No Colloquium this week.
March 12 Women in Optics Brown Bag Lunch with Mary Turner
March 13 OSC Sports Friday. 5:30 p.m. Location is TBA.
March 16 through 20 UA Spring Break
March 16 through 20 CGH/DOE Workshop
On Campus
March 5 Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Seminar. Dr. Pamela Vandiver, UA Materials Science and Engineering/Anthropology/Archaeology, will present Reverse Engineering and Preserving Ancient Pyrotechnologies. 4:00 p.m. AME Lecture Hall, Room S212.
March 6 Physics Colloquium. PAS 224. A 2:15 grad student presentation is TBA. At 4:00 Guest Speaker Dr. Andreas Heinrich will present Atomic-Scale Magnetism Probed with Spin Excitation Spectroscopy.
March 13 Mathematical Physics Seminar. 3:00 p.m. Math 402. Greg Lawler, University of Chicago Department of Mathematics, will present Multifractal Analysis of the Schramm-Loewner Evolution.
March 14 Town Hall Meeting for Astronomers in the Southwest: Astro2010 Decadal Survey. 1:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Steward Observatory. N210 Lecture Hall. For more information, please visit http://www7.nationalacademies.org/bpa/Astro2010.html
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