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Watt's Up
College of Optical Sciences News for July 16, 2009
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New Sponsored Awards
Multiangle Spectropolarimetric Aerosol Characterization and Target Detection Through Haze. P.I.: Russell Chipman. Sponsor: JPL. June 17, 2009 to October 30, 2009. $45,000
Fusion System Polarization Diagnostics. P.I.: Russell Chipman. Sponsor: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. June 24, 2009 to September 30, 2011. $150,000.
CGH Null for the Aspheric Surface of Optimax Lens. P.I.: Chunyu Zhao. Sponsor: Optimax. June 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009. $10,000.
The Southwest's First Student Optics Conference was a Roaring Success
From Stefano Young. A group of intrepid souls from our SPIE/OSA student chapter (SOCk) traveled to Albuquerque, NM to help organize and participate in the 1st Annual Southwestern Optics Student Conference (SWOSC), held June 15 through June 17. The event was a big success, with more than 50 students attending from various universities. The highlights of the action-packed conference included a plenary speaker, tours to local optics companies, poster sessions, student talks, and a panel forum for discussing optics careers with an array of experts. Many thanks to the College of Optical Sciences, SPIE, OSA, and the University of New Mexico for their support in organizing this event. We look forward to hosting SWOSC '10 next year right here in Tucson!
CIAN Center for Integrated Access Networks
Presents
ROCKET Research in Optical Communications for K-14 Educators and Teachers
Everyone at OSC is invited to attend a very special research poster session. The session will feature posters by Arizona high school and community college science teachers who have spent the last 6 weeks with us as summer researchers. The goal of the poster session is to allow the teachers to share the results of their 6-week research experience and their plans to translate what they've learned into their classsrooms. The date is Wednesday, July 24, the place is the Meinel Building 3rd floor lobby, and the time is 3:00 p.m.
Special thanks go to the OSC faculty members who participated in the ROCKET program: Russell Chipman, Mahmoud Fallahi, Hyatt Gibbs, Franko Kueppers, Matthew Kupinski, and Robert Norwood.
ROCKET is an NSF-funded Research Experience for Teachers (RET) program.
OSC's Jennifer Barton is Named to Bio5 Post
BIO5 brings together scientists from five disciplines - agriculture, medicine, pharmacy, basic science, and engineering - to treat disease, feed humanity and preserve livable environments. BIO5 creates science, industry and education partnerships to engage in leading-edge research, translate innovations to the market and to inspire and train the next generation of scientists.
She is a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, and a fellow of SPIE, the international society to advance light-based research. She was honored at the 2009 UA Innovation Day as a "leading edge researcher."
She is developing both the technology and potential applications of optical imaging. Her research focuses on optical coherence tomography, known as OCT, a noninvasive technique that directs a beam of near-infrared light on tissue. Images similar to ultrasound are obtained, but with much higher resolution. She is particularly interested to see if OCT can be used to detect cancer at a very early stage, when it is most curable.
She is developing small probes that can direct light to internal organs such as the colon or ovary. Since the technology is so new, she is also working to discover what potentially dangerous changes OCT can detect.
Alumni Reception
From Will Rivera. Dean Jim Wyant cordially invites all alumni and Industrial Affiliate members to join him for an evening reception acknowledging our alumni and to thank alumni and Affiliates for their continued support of the College of Optical Sciences.
The alumni reception will take place in conjunction with the SPIE annual conference in San Diego and will be held on August 4, 2009 between 5:30 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. at the Manchester Grand Hyatt, America’s Cup Room, One Market Place, San Diego, California. If you’re planning to attend the conference we welcome you to also visit us at booth 705.
Please direct questions or comments to either Luz Palomarez, Executive Assistant to the Dean at lpalomarez@optics.arizona.edu or Will Rivera, Director of Development and Alumni Relations, at will@optics.arizona.edu .
Happy Birthday and Best Wishes for a Wonderful Year
July 20Chris Hessenius (chessenius@optics.arizona.edu) July 21
Kevin Bock (kevin.r.bock@lmco.com) July 24Keith Powell (kpowell@optics.arizona.edu) July 25
Pierre Blanche (pablanche@optics.arizona.edu) July 26
Jim Burke (jamesburkejr@wbhsi.net) July 27Jia-Fu Wang (jfwang@optics.arizona.edu) July 28
Jose Castillo Aguilella (jec@email.arizona.edu) July 30
Amritanshu Palaria (apalaria@email.arizona.edu) July 31
Bill Hawkins (hawkins_44143@yahoo.com) August 1
Linan Jiang (ljiang@optics.arizona.edu) August 3
Daniel Caywood (dcaywood@optics.arizona.edu)
OSC Calendar
June 1 - July 22
July 21 PhD Final Oral Defense. 10:00 a.m. Meinel 821. Seung Hune Yang will present A Study on High NA and Evanescent Imaging with Polarized Illumination.
July 23 PhD Final Oral Defense. 1:00 p.m. Meinel 701. Julian Sweet will present Radiative Coupling and Decay Properties of Quantum Confined Semiconductors.
July 24 PhD Final Oral Defense. 8:00 a.m. Radiology Room 101. Angelique Kano will present Ultrathin Single and Multi-Channel Fiberscopes for Biomedical Imaging.
July 28 PhD Final Oral Defense. 11:00 a.m. Meinel 821. Rania Abd El-Maksoud will present Ghost Image Analysis for Optical Systems.
July 29 PhD Final Oral Defense. 9:00 a.m. Meinel 701. Bruce Pixton will present Spherical Aberration Gauge for the Human Visual System.
July 30 Next issue of Watt's Up.
August 3 - 10 SPIE Optics and Photonics
August 4 Alumni Reception. 5:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego.
August 24 First day of classes
Student Position. College of Optical Sciences. The Milster Research Group is looking for one student to study an application of diffraction theory. The position starts July 1 and continues through the fall semester. The student should have a good knowledge of Matlab and basic diffraction theory (505 Level). Please contact Professor Tom Milster. Office: Meinel 729. Phone: 621-8280. E-mail: milster@arizona.edu
Postdoctoral Position/Junior-Stiftungsprofessur (W1). IImenau University of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering. Sponsored by the Carl-Zeiss-Foundation in the field of Optics-design, modeling and simulation optical systems. The position is available immediately and is to be occupied as soon as possible. The position is limited to a period of max. 6 years. Ilmenau University of Technology traditionally has a strong focus in research and education on precision engineering and optics. The position is supposed to further strengthen this research area. The Postdoc/Junior-Professor is expected to represent this scientific field self responsibly with respect to research topics as well as student teaching. Being integrated in the Fachgebiet Technische Optik she/he should also be able to independently initiate new research projects and topics. Specific focus of the research activities could e.g. be: - optical freeforms in optics design, - optical systems with adaptive/active or in general variable optical elements , - optical systems for (hyper-)spectral imaging, - optical systems und algorithms for computational imaging, - holistic design and optimization of complex technical systems with optical functionality. At Ilmenau University of Technology, the education of optical engineers takes place, among others, in the interdisciplinary course programs "Optronik“ and "Maschinenbau“. The Post-doc/Junior-Professor will be integrated into these and other course programs related to optical technologies. Our goal is to closely link to the strong optics industries in Thüringen and Germany as a whole. Thus, the Junior-Professor funded by the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung will help to further improve the reputation and international visibility of Ilmenau University of Technology and to reduce the deficit in highly educated optical engineers in Germany and worldwide. For hiring the premises according to § 82 of the Thüringer Hochschulgesetz (law for the Uni-versities in Thüringen) have to be fulfilled. The University is dedicated to equal opportunity and equal rights and thus explicitly encourages the application of female candidates. Applica-tions including curriculum vita, list of publications and a short description of the experience in research and teaching as well as ideas on future research topics may be send until June 30th 2009 to: Technische Universität Ilmenau, Fachgebiet Technische Optik, Prof. Dr. Stefan Sinzinger, Postfach 10 05 65, 98684 Ilmenau. stefan.sinzinger@tu-ilmenau.de
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From a July 8 article in Lo Que Pasa by Deborah Daun, Bio5
Institute. Jennifer