Women in Optics Presentation and Reception
Date: Tuesday, 24 April
Time: 5:00-6:30pm
Open to all conference attendees
Join us for an evening of networking, information and inspiration. Connect with others in our industry while enjoying wine and cheese refreshments.
Experiences of an NSF "Rotator" and Beyond
Speaker: Alison Flatau
After working in industry for four years and academia for eight, I had the opportunity to serve as an NSF Program Manager. I returned to academia four years later with the benefit of lessons learned at the NSF - my move from focusing on trees to forests. In my presentation, I'll talk about lessons learned at the NSF and will interweave thoughts on student mentoring, faculty mentoring and my own research on magnetostrictive materials.
Dr. Flatau joined the Univ. Maryland in 2002 after serving as an NSF Program Manager (1998-2002) and as a Professor at Iowa State Univ. (2000-2008). She was the Director of Undergraduate Programs for Aerospace Engineering at UMD (2004-2009) prior to becoming the first Associate Dean of Research for the Clark School of Engineering at Maryland, a position in which she continues to grow and learn, while also serving in the inaugural class of Maryland ADVANCE Professors (2011-2012).
SPIE Women in Optics promotes personal and professional growth for women through community building, networking opportunities and encouraging young women to choose optics as a career.
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