Monday 11 August..............6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Tuesday 12 August...........8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Wednesday 13 August........5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Conference attendees are invited to attend the poster sessions on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evening. Each evening will represent a different set of conferences. Come view the posters, ask questions, and enjoy the refreshments. Authors of poster papers will be present to answer questions concerning their papers. Attendees are required to wear their conference registration badges to the poster sessions.

Poster Setup
Poster presenters must set up between 10:00 am and 5:00 pm on the day of their assigned presentation. Poster presenters who have not set up by 5:00 pm on the day of their presentation will be considered a "no show" and their manuscript will not be published. Presenters must remove their posters immediately after the poster session. Posters not removed will be considered unwanted and will be discarded. SPIE assumes no responsibility for posters left up after the end of each poster session.

Date: Monday 11 August
Time: 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Chair: R. John Koshel, Photon Engineering LLC and College of Optical Sciences/The Univ. of Arizona

Representatives from nonsequential design and analysis codes will present their thoughts about trends in modeling and analyzing illumination systems. Each will provide an overview to their code (ASAP® from Breault Research Organization, FRED® from Photon Engineering, TracePro® from Lambda Research Corp, and LightTools® from Optical Research Associates). They will highlight at least one special topic: color modeling, optimization, and/or tolerancing. They will also provide insight into what they see in the future for illumination design and analysis software. After each of the four brief overviews a moderated panel discussion will be done. The audience, moderator, and panel members are encouraged to ask questions of the four speakers.

Light refreshments will be available at this event.

Date: Tuesday 12 August
Time: 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Chairs: Mary Turner, Breault Research Organization, Inc.; Steve Johnston, Photon Engineering, LLC; Rich Pfisterer, Photon Engineering, LLC

Join us for our yearly gathering of experienced, "recognized" professional lens designers as we meet and discuss...lens design! We will hear about what they're designing, how they're going about doing it (what materials, software, techniques, etc.), and what problems they're encountering. We will also explore current technical and commercial trends in the marketplace. Our feature speaker will be Dr. Virendra N. Mahajan, Distinguished Scientist at the Aerospace Corporation in the Los Angeles area, who will discuss:

ORTHONORMAL POLYNOMIALS IN OPTICAL DESIGN AND TESTING

Zernike circle polynomials are in widespread use for wavefront analysis in optical design and testing because they are orthogonal over a unit circle and represent balanced aberrations of systems with circular pupils.

Since the circle polynomials form a complete set, any wavefront, regardless of the shape of the pupil (which defines the perimeter of the wavefront) can be expanded in terms of them. However, unless the pupil is circular, advantages of orthogonality and aberration balancing are lost, and the value of a Zernike coefficient changes as the number of polynomials used in the expansion changes. Hence, the circle polynomials are not suitable for wavefront analysis of noncircular pupils.

We will discuss the Zernike circle polynomials and their disadvantages for analyzing non-circular wavefronts, such as ocular wavefronts over elliptical pupils or annular wavefronts in astronomical telescopes. Numerical examples will be given to illustrate the use of orthonormal polynomials for noncircular pupils such as hexagonal, annular, elliptical, and square.

Date: Tuesday 12 August
Time: 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Chair: Warnick J. Kernan, Pacific Northwest National Lab.

The event brings together technologists and scientists with interests in neutron, x- and gamma-ray detection, spectroscopy, and imaging for all applications.

This meeting will feature a special presentation on "Aspects of detector development for neutrinoless double beta decay experiments" by Dr. John L. Orrell, Pacific Northwest National Lab.

Date: Tuesday 12 August
Time: 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Moderators:
Richard B. Hoover

Panelists:
Michael H. Engel, Univ. of Oklahoma;
E. J. Gibson, Jr., NASA Johnson Space Ctr.
Alexei Yu. Rozanov, Paleontological Institute (Russia)
Nalin Chandra Wickramasinghe, Cardiff Univ. (United Kingdom)
Stanley Awramik, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara

Liquid water is essential to all life forms known on Earth. Astrobiologists have adopted the mantra “Follow the Water” as a guide to where they should search for evidence of life in the Cosmos. The European Space Agency’s Mars Express Spacecraft has found evidence for a frozen lake and sea on Mars. The Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding (MARSIS) probe has discovered a 1000 km diameter giant dome mainly composed of water ice on the South Polar region. The volume of water in this deposit was estimated to be 1.6 million cubic kilometers, enough to cover the entire planet in a global water layer 11 meters thick. The NASA/ESA/Italian Space Agency Cassini Spacecraft has provided dramatic images of water geysers erupting from regions near the South Pole of Saturn’s tiny moon Enceladus. In addition to plumes of water vapor, the geysers contain methane, carbon dioxide and organics. The high temperatures observed, the water vapor and large number of ice particles expelled suggest that a liquid water lake may exist beneath the “tiger stripe” ice cracks of Enceladus.

Changes in the spin rate of Saturn’s moon Titan indicate that it may also harbor a 300 km thick liquid water ocean beneath its icy crust. NASA Deep Impact probe has shown that the nucleus of comet Temple 1 is much hotter than previously thought and that geyser-like jets frequently erupt from the surface spewing water vapor, dust, and portions of the black crust into space. A spectrometer on the spacecraft detected a mixture of clay and carbonate minerals (that form in the presence of liquid water) streaming off the comet after the collision with the 370 kg impactor. These observations combined with new knowledge about the ability of microbial extremophiles to thrive in the Antarctic ice and permafrost suggest that Life may be far more widely distributed in the Cosmos than previously thought possible. This Panel will review recent discoveries and provide their own insights into these intriguing questions. The audience will be encouraged to participate in a question and answer session with the Panelists.

Date: Tuesday 12 August
Time: 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Chair: Mark Kahan, Optical Research Associates

A mini-session with a judging panel evaluating selected 5-minute skits resulting from the Monday/Tuesday Optical Believe It Or Not: Key Lessons Learned conference. An award will be presented to the last presenter standing.

Date: Tuesday 12 August
Time: 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Chair: Alson E. Hatheway, Alson E. Hatheway Inc.

This is the annual meeting of the premier group of optomechanical engineers that design and analyze the world's optical instruments and systems. Our feature speaker will be Dr. Jason Spyromilio, head of the European Extremely Large Telescope project office at the European Southern Observatory, who will discuss:

Optomechanical Challenges of the Forty-two Meter European ELT

The 42-m European Extremely Large Telescope is in the detailed design phase. Planned for a construction start in 2010 it will be the biggest astronomical telescope ever built and with a projected construction budget of 1.2 Billion US$ one of the most expensive scientific projects on the horizon. The 948 primary mirror segments combined with a novel optical train including a 2.5-m adaptive deformable mirror built into the telescope, it will excel in image quality and deliver unparalleled performance to its users. The presentation shall detail the current stage of the design and discussed the challenges posed by a telescope with more than 1000-m2 of collecting area and in particular areas where industrial developments are needed or would be greatly beneficial.

This gathering is open to all attendants to the Optics and Photonics Symposium. Anyone who wishes to put an item on the agenda should contact the Chair Al Hatheway. One agenda item will certainly be the advance planning of our biennial conference on Optomechanics for next year’s (2009) Optics and Photonics symposium.

Following the speakers and other agenda items the floor will be open for our traditional 'Problems and Solutions Workshop' session so bring some challenges before the group.

Date: Wednesday 13 August
Time: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Workshop Chairs:
Ali Khounsary, Argonne National Lab.; Christian Morawe, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (France); Shunji Goto, Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (Japan)

This one-day workshop is devoted to X-ray micro- and nano-focusing techniques, optics, and applications. Various techniques are described by some of the renowned practitioners, and challenges, limitations, and prospects are discussed. The workshop should provide the audience with a comprehensive introduction and up-to-date information on various focusing techniques including theory, development, implementation, and recent applications.

Session 1:

8:15 am: Introduction to X-ray focusing, Sunil. K. Sinha, Univ. of California, San Diego
8:55 am: X-ray focusing with Kirkpatrick-Baez optics, Kazuto Yamauchi, Osaka Univ. (Japan)
9:35 am: Hard X-ray focusing with curved reflective multilayers , Christian Morawe, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (France)

Session 2:

10:30 am: Refractive X-ray lenses for hard x-ray microscopy, Christian G. Schroer, Technische Univ. Dresden (Germany)
11:10 am: Kinoform X-ray lens arrays, Werner. H. Jark, Sincrotrone Trieste (Italy)

Session 3:

1:30 pm: Monocapillary optics, Ladislav Pina, Czech Technical Univ. (Czech Republic)
2:10 pm: X-ray focusing with polycapillary optics, Carolyn A. MacDonald, SUNY, Univ. at Albany
2:50 pm: Focusing of X-rays using crystal optics, Eckhart Förster, Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena (Germany)

Session 4:

3:45 pm: Multilayer Laue Lens for efficient nanometer focusing of hard X-rays, G. Brian Stephenson, Argonne National Lab. [7077 68]
4:25 pm: Diffractive focusing by zone plates, Michael Feser, Xradia, Inc.

5:05 to 5:30 pm: Workshop Discussion and Conclusion

Note: Please check the Final Program online for any unexpected changes.

Date: Wednesday 13 August
Time: 8:30 AM - 4:20 PM

Conference Chairs: James G. Grote, Air Force Research Lab., United States; Charles Y. C. Lee, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, United States

Date: Wednesday 13 August

Larry Dalton, Univ. of Washington

This special session will highlight state-of-the-art research in nonlinear optic polymer electro-optic modulator materials and devices presented by the leading researchers in the field and their collaborations with Professor Larry Dalton. Invited speakers include:

William Steier, Univ. of Southern California
Tobin Marks, Northwestern Univ.
Nasser Peyghambarian, College of Optical Sciences/The Univ. of Arizona
Harold Fetterman, Univ. of California/Los Angeles
Seth Marder, Georgia Institute of Technology
Devanand Shenoy, DARPA
Rick Barto, Lockheed Martin Corp.
Alex Jen, Univ. of Washington.
Bruce H. Robinson, Univ. of Washington

Date: Wednesday 13 August

James G. Grote, Air Force Research Lab.; Charles Y. C. Lee, Air Force Office of Scientific Research

Date: Wednesday 13 August

William Steier, Univ. of Southern California; Tobin Marks, Northwestern Univ.; and Nasser Peyghambarian, College of Optical Sciences/The Univ. of Arizona

Date: Wednesday 13 August

Harold Fetterman, Univ. of California/Los Angeles Seth Marder, Georgia Institute of Technology Devanand Shenoy, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Date: Wednesday 13 August

Richard Barto, Lockheed Martin Corp.; Alex K.Jen,, Bruce H. Robinson, Univ. of Washington

Organic Electro-Optics: Past, Present, and Future Larry R. Dalton, Univ. of Washington