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Watt's Up
College of Optical Sciences News for August 20, 2009
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New Sponsored Awards
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.
Bake Sale. Tuesday. 9:00 a.m. 3rd Floor Lobby
Here's your chance to pick up all kinds of homemade goodies: blueberry muffins, cookies, breads, cakes ... All profits go to SOCk, our Student Optics Chapter. (Note: Most baked goods will freeze nicely, so even if you don't cook, you can have some treats on hand for the upcoming holiday season.)
New Course and Lab Announcement for Fall 2009
Opti 415/515: Optical Specifications, Fabrication and Testing -- the class. On-campus or on-line. 3 credits. Professors Jim Burge, Bob Parks, and Bill Kuhn. Email: Jim Burge at jburge@optics.arizona.edu
Opti 415L/515L: Optical Specifications, Fabrication and Testing -- the laboratory. On-campus with a condensed one-week lab arrangement for distance students. 1 credit. Professors Jim Burge, Bob Parks, and Bill Kuhn. Email: Bob Parks at rparks@optics.arizona.edu
specifications.
The laboratory: A 15-week optical testing laboratory will complement the class and be available for local students. A condensed, one-week version of the lab will be available to distance students at an extra cost and will be held during a break in regularly scheduled classes.
Syllabi: Opti 415/515 class and Opti 415L/515L lab
Register: Please go to www.optics.arizona.edu/academics/admissions.htm
Benefits Open Enrollment for All Benefits Eligible Employees
Benefits Open Enrollment for the 2009-2010 plan year is in progress now and will end -- in two weeks -- at 5:00 p.m. on Friday, September 4. Plan and enrollment changes are effective on October 1, 2009. If you want to continue benefits coverage after October 1, 2009, you must enroll for benefits during this open enrollment period. There are significant changes in benefit options this year. For more information, please visit http://benefitoptions.az.gov/
Student Photos: Make-Ups and Re-Takes
Anyone who missed student photos or isn't happy with the results can come up to Cathy Alexander's office in Meinel 714 at any time for a new shot. It will take about two minutes. (The offer is open to faculty and staff also.)
Happy Birthday and Best Wishes for a Wonderful Year
August 24
William Bronson (williamb@email.arizona.edu)
August 25
Mahmoud Fallahi (mahmoud.fallahi@optics.arizona.edu)
August 26
Kristen Sayre (kristensayre@hotmail.com)
August 28 Liang
Gao (lgao@optics.arizona.edu)
August 29 Olli Nordman (onordman@u.arizona.rfu)
OSC Calendar
August 20 First day of open enrollment for UA benefits-eligible employees.
August 24 First day of classes
August 25 SOCk bake sale. 9:00 a.m. 3rd floor lobby. August 28 OSC Sports Friday. Details to be announced via email. September 3 First OSC Colloquium. 3:30 p.m. Meinel 307.
September 4 First
OSC
Community Speakers Noon. Meinel 410.
September 4 Last day of open enrollment for UA benefits-eligible employees.
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 Arizona |
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