OSC Highlights

Welcome, Leonardo DRS

The Wyant College of Optical Sciences welcomes Leonardo DRS as the newest Leadership Partner with the Industrial Affiliates Program.

Welcome to NP Photonics, new Industrial Affiliates Member

OSC is happy to welcome NP Photonics as the newest Associate Partner member to the Wyant College of Optical Sciences Industrial Affiliates. Find a full list of IA Members.

Airy Optics Joins OSC IA Program

The Wyant College of Optical Sciences is happy to welcome Airy Optics as its newest Associate Partner Industrial Affiliate Member. Welcome!

Spring 2019 OSC Commencement

Please join us to celebrate the 2019 OSC Graduates. Details and RSVP here.

Laser Fun Day, April 20th

Laser Fun Day, a public celebration of cool science and the study of light is April 20 from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Everyone is invited! Find out more.

Research Highlight: Probing Wildfire Smoke Plumes Up Close

Joint Professor Armin Sorooshian's student, Ali Hossein Mardi, published an article in AGU's newsletter on biomass burning plumes on the California coast. Read it.

Sunny Optical Technology Joins Industrial Affiliates

Sunny Optical Technology joined OSC's Industrial Affiliates program as a Leadership Partner member. Welcome, Sunny Optical Technology!

Viavi Solutions New Leadership Partner

OSC is happy to welcome Viavi Solutions as the newest Leadership Partner in the OSC Industrial Affiliates Program.

Welcome Back, Sandia National Laboratories

A big welcome back to Sandia National Laboratories! Sandia National Laboratories has reinstated their Industrial Affiliates Membership and rejoins as a leadership partner member.

Neutrik USA, Inc. Joins Industrial Affiliates

OSC would like to give a big welcome to Neutrik USA, Inc. as a new Associate Partner Member of the Industrial Affiliates.

ETC Joins IA Program

We would like to welcome ETC (Electronic Theatre Controls) to our Industrial Affiliates program as an Associate partner.

Welcome, Elbit Systems of America

OSC would like to welcome Elbit Systems of America, which joins our Industrial Affiliates program as an Associate partner.

Air Force Test Center at Edwards AFB - Air Force Civilian, Joins Industrial Affiliates

Air Force Test Center at Edwards AFB - Air Force Civilian, a development and test organization of the United States Air Force, joins our Industrial Affiliates as a Leadership Partner.

Wavefront Joins Industrial Affiliates

Wavefront Research Incorporated joined OSC's Industrial Affiliates program as an Associate Partner member. Welcome, Wavefront!

RSVP to 2018 OSC Pre-Commencement

All OSC graduating students, faculty, staff and guests are invited to the 2018 Pre-Commencement ceremony. Please RSVP no later than May 1.

Feb. 7 | The University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences Newsletter

Announcements

Better, Stronger, Faster, Smarter!

The College of Optical Sciences has seen a flurry of thoroughly exciting activity over the last several weeks, and we're due for much more.

A few days ago, we were extraordinarily pleased to announce a historic and record-breaking scholarship donation from educator, innovator and entrepreneur James C. Wyant, who has already done so much to strengthen OSC's globally respected research and academic programs. In conjunction with his generous commitment, a number of other individual and institutional donors stepped up to form the Principals of Opticks philanthropic society and fund more than a dozen FoTO (Friends of Tucson Optics) graduate student awards. Not a bad beginning to our 50th year!

In the weeks to come, we will welcome essential members to the administrative staff, have a fantastic (and informative) time at Laser Fun Day, look toward another successful Industrial Affiliates Workshop and, of course, continue celebrating our milestone anniversary, this time with a series of lectures by the eminent Professor Sir Michael V. Berry.

TLA Launches Lunchtime Workshops

Tech Launch Arizona begins its semester-long series of workshop lunches with "Protecting Your Invention," which will be offered in two sessions: Feb. 13 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. and Feb. 27 from noon to 2 p.m. Both meetings take place in the Rincon Room at the Student Union Memorial Center.

Kidger Scholarship Calls for Applicants

The Michael Kidger Memorial Scholarship is accepting applications through Feb. 28. The award, established in honor of educator and software developer Michael John Kidger, has been given each year since 1998 to a promising student of optical design.

Public Lecture to Commemorate 50th Anniversary

On Wednesday, Feb. 12, Michael V. Berry will offer the public lecture "How Quantum Physics Democratized Music," which will explore the "unexpected and unexpectedly common" connections between physics, technology and allegedly unscientific human behaviors.

The presentation will be held from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Auditorium 308 in the Kuiper Building, directly across the Mall from the Meinel Building.

Berry will also deliver OSC's Feb. 13 Colloquium, "The Singularities of Light: Intensity, Phase, Polarization,"and a Feb. 14 lecture at the department of physics.

New Administrators to Help Build College's Reach and Reputation

OSC will welcome two key additions to its administrative endeavors on Feb. 10: Justin Walker as associate dean of business development and administration, and Graeme Hunt as media content manager.

Vatican Observatory Seminar at Steward

The Vatican Observatory is holding a seminar on Feb. 20 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in Room N210 at the Steward Observatory. Among the topics to be discussed are a new collaboration between Steward and the observatory, the Arizona Robotic Telescope Initiative; astrobiology; and observing near-Earth objects. RSVPs are required to 520-621-2289 or michele@email.arizona.edu.

Events

Women in Optics Semester Kick-Off

Feb. 7, 5 p.m., Wilko (943 E. University Blvd., Tucson, Ariz.)

Ph.D. Written Exams

Feb. 11-12, Eighth-Floor Breakout Area

Special Presentation: Yong-Hee Lee, Ph.D. 1986

Feb. 11, 3:30 p.m., Meinel 647

Public Lecture: "How Quantum Physics Democratized Music"

Feb. 12, 3:30-5 p.m., Kuiper 308

Ph.D. Defense: Wiley Black

Feb. 13, 2-5 p.m., Franken Conference Room (Meinel 821)

Colloquium: Michael V. Berry

Feb. 13, 3:30-5 p.m., Meinel 307

Community Speakers

Feb. 14, noon-1 p.m., Meinel 408/410

Colloquium: David Griffiths

Feb. 20, 3:30-5 p.m., Meinel 307

Laser Fun Day

March 1, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Meinel Building

Industrial Affiliates Workshop

March 3-5

SPIE Establishes FoTO Scholarship

KVOA News Notes Wyant's Record-Breaking Gift

(BRI) Ultrafast Light Coupling to Nonequilibrium Carriers in Extended Semiconductor Media

Principal investigators: Jerome V. Moloney and R. Jason Jones

Grayscale Feature Fabrication

Principal investigator: Tom D. Milster

I-Corps: Holographic NsN Optical Switch for Data Communication

Principal investigator: Pierre-Alexandre Blanche

Laser-Guided Microwave Beams for Remote Detection of Weapons of Mass Destruction

Principal investigator: Pavel Polynkin

Spectrometer for Microscope and Array Microscope

Principal investigator: Eustace L. Dereniak

Graduate Student Wins Marshall Foundation Fellowship

Blake Coughenour, a Ph.D. student under Regents' Professor J. Roger P. Angel, was awarded a 2014 Marshall Foundation Dissertation Fellowship by the UA Graduate College. He has earned tuition for two semesters in support of the completion of his dissertation "Phovoltaic Concentrator Optical System Design: Solar Energy Engineering from Physics to Field."

Watts Happening

Say Hello to Our Newest Kupinski!

Miss Carly Adelaide Kupinski came into the world on Dec. 13 with both eyes open ...