Attend the world's largest technical event that covers optical design, systems, and engineering plus applications for remote sensing, space, and more. Hear cutting edge R&D presentations, technical workshops, and plenary sessions.
Conference registration includes access to all Plenary Sessions and 1500 papers on optical engineering and applications:
Symposium Wide Plenary Speaker:The Solar Decathlon: Building a Better Future with Solar Energy
Sunday 10 August, 6:00 pm to 6:45 pm
 | Richard King
Director, Solar Decathlon, U.S. Dept. of Energy
Mr. King has been with the U.S. Department of Energy since 1986 working primarily in the Solar Energy Technology Program. Recently he has been working in the DOE Buildings Program to work more closely with professional builders to develop cost-effective zero-net energy homes powered by solar energy.
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SPIE Solid State Lighting and OLED Plenary Session Plenary Session: Why the Developing World is the Perfect Market Place for SSL
Tuesday 12 August, 8:30 to 9:15 am
 | Dave Irvine-Halliday
University of Calgary, Canada
Nearly 4 billion people in the developing world have the same basic need for safe, healthy and affordable electric lighting. Dr. Dave Irvine-Halliday is a "LUTW University Professor" (Calgary), founded LUTW (1997), and brought SSL to nearly 20,000 homes, schools, clinics in 42 countries.
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Use of Heavy Metal Complexes in Solid State Light Sources (OLEDs) Tuesday 12 August, 9:15 to 10:00 am
 | Mark E. Thompson
Univ. of Southern California, USA
Dr. Mark E. Thompson is currently a Professor of Chemistry and Chair of the Chemistry Department at the University of Southern California. A great deal of progress has been made with broadband, white emissive OLEDs. Dr. Thompson will discuss the chemistry and design of these devices.
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Remote Sensing Plenary Session: The Contributions from the NASA Earth Science Decadal Survey missions in understanding Global Climate Change
Tuesday 12 August, 1:15 to 2:00 pm
 | Jason Hyon
Jet Propulsion Lab., USA
Jason Hyon is the Chief Technologist for JPL Earth Science and Technology Directorate. This talk will discuss how new NASA and NOAA missions with measurements from passive and active optical sensors will improve addressing challenges of the climate change.
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Recovering the Atmospheric Information from the High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (HIRDLS)
Tuesday 12 August, 2:00 to 2:45 pm
 | John Gille
NCAR and Univ. of Colorado/Boulder, USA
John Gille is a Senior Scientist and EOS Program Manager at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and Adjoint Professor at the University of Colorado, both in Boulder. This talk will look at new observations with 1 km vertical resolution at the boundary between the troposphere and the stratosphere and how this is leading to improved understanding of the fundamental underlying processes, important in discussions of Earth’s climate and its changes.
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Measurement Science for Climate Remote Sensing
Tuesday 12 August, 2:45 to 3:30 pm
 | Gerald Fraser
National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Dr. Gerald T. Fraser is Chief of the Optical Technology Division of the Physics Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). NIST role in supporting our Nation’s climate-change research will be described in this presentation.
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Application of MODIS Direct Broadcast System: Fire Detection, Burn Scars, Emissions, Air Quality Forecasting
Tuesday 12 August, 4:00 to 4:45 pm
 | Wei Min Hao
U.S.D.A. Forest Service, USA
Dr. Wei Min Hao is a senior scientist and team leader for fire chemistry research in the Fire, Fuel and Smoke Science Program at the Forest Service’s Rocky Mountain Research Station. Dr. Hao and his team have developed a forecast system to predict the atmospheric pollutant concentrations downwind from large fires using the Weather Research and Forecasting Chemistry Model.
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Infrared Retina Using Nanoscale Quantum Dots and Strain Layer Superlattices
Tuesday 12 August, 4:45 to 5:30 pm
 | Sanjay Krishna
Univ. of New Mexico, USA
Sanjay Krishna is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Center for High Technology Materials at University of New Mexico. Mr. Krishna will discuss the concept of an "infrared retina". There are a variety of ways to encode information in the sensors using bias sensitive spectrally adaptive quantum dot sensors, tunable filters, plasmonic antenna, photonic crystal.
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In a world where interdisciplinary collaboration is the rule rather than the exception, the scope of the Optical Engineering + Applications program gives you opportunities to collaborate across disciplines that no other event can.
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Optical Engineering + Applications 2008 Program Chairs
SPIE would like to express its deepest appreciation to the program chairs, conference chairs, program committees, and session chairs who have so generously given of their time and advice to make this symposium possible.
Program on Illumination Engineering
Ian T. Ferguson, Georgia Institute of Technology
Program on Optical Design
R. John Koshel, Photon Engineering LLC and College of Optical Sciences/The Univ. of Arizona
Program on Advanced Metrology
Katherine Creath, Optineering and College of Optical Sciences/The Univ. of Arizona
Program on Optical Systems Engineering
José M. Sasian, College of Optical Sciences/The Univ. of Arizona
Program on Image and Signal Processing
Khan M. Iftekharuddin, The Univ. of Memphis
Program on X-Ray, Gamma-Ray, and Particle Technologies
Sandra G. Biedron, Argonne National Lab.;
Massimo Altarelli, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (Germany)
Program on Remote SensingAllen H. L. Huang, Univ. of Wisconsin/Madison
