Women in Optics Presentation and Reception
Date: Monday, 23 January
Time: 4:30-6:00pm
Location: InterContinental Hotel, Ballroom B
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.
Empowering Women in Tech: Mentor, Give Back, Pay it Forward
Speaker: Leslie Fishlock
Leslie is best known as the CEO, founder and Geek Girl #1 of Geek Girl, whose mission is to educate and empower every girl and woman (and dude) at every age level, on every skill level, at every income level on computer technology. Leslie's vision for education, evangelism, entrepreneurialism, and empowering women is apparent when you meet her. Leslie prides herself on being "the resource", and will share everything she knows about entrepreneurialism, starting a business and tech with anyone who asks.
Her most recent success has been to launch the first Geek Girl Educational Training Center (GGETC) in Hyannis, MA. The Geek Girl ETC offers workshops, personal consultation, drop-in classes, and all forms of group learning, onsite and offsite, and online. Included in this educational endeavor is their famous Help Desk services and Geek Girl for Hire.
Women in Optics Presentation and Reception
Date: Monday 22 August
Time: 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
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.
Women in Science, Engineering and Technology(SET) Shape the Future: Nurturing Female Scientists Through Research
Kashiko Kodate
Kashiko Kodate, Professor Emeritus of Japan Women's University, has spent over 40 years in optical research, ranging from micro-optics to information photonics. Her work includes a VPH grism (a thick VPH grating sandwiched between two prisms constructed for the Subaru telescope in Hawaii) and a powerful online video matching application using optical correlation technology. She has also contributed greatly to nurturing many female students in Japan, where only 13.8% of researchers are women. She was elected as the first female vice-president of the Japan Society of Applied Physics in 2006. She became a SPIE fellow in 2010. Prof Kodate will speak about her career as a researcher and an educator.
2011 Events
Women in Optics Presentation and Reception
Date: Tuesday 26 April
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
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.
The Hand in the Snow
Colleen Fitzpatrick, PhD
Colleen Fitzpatrick is a Forensic Genealogist who has been recognized for her work with the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory on identifying the remains found in the Alaskan crash of Northwest Flight 4422. Retired from the optical industry in 2005, she now assists nonprofits, military organizations, and the FBI with forensic identification, and has been instrumental at exposing two high profile Holocaust literary frauds. As a world traveler and multi-lingual, Colleen specializes in international cases. She has written three books and numerous articles on forensic genealogy. Her article on Flight 4422 will be published in Scientific American early in 2011.
Women in Optics Presentation and Reception
Date: Monday 24 January
Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Open to all conference attendees.
Join us for an evening of networking and inspiration. Connect with others in our industry while enjoying wine and cheese refreshments.
Dr. Anita Mahadevan-Jansen
Vanderbilt University
Excellence in Research, Teaching & Family: The Juggling Act
The common perception amongst women interested in an academic career is that one has to wait with the family in order to "establish" one's research and get tenure. Dr Mahadevan-Jansen will present her perspective on achieving success in career and family. She will interweave her presentation with her teaching and research interests in using light and photonics for cancer diagnosis.
Dr. Mahadevan-Jansen joined the faculty of the Biomedical Engineering Department in the fall of 1998 after completing her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Her expertise is in the area of optical detection of clinical physiology and pathology with particular interest in applying optical techniques for cancer detection. She along with her husband, Dr. Duco Jansen (also a Professor in BME) together lead the Biomedical Photonics initiative at Vanderbilt University.
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Women in Optics Presentation and Reception
Date: Monday 2 August
Time: 5:00PM - 6:30PM
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Open to all conference attendees.
More Than Pretty Pictures
Speaker: Felice Frankel
Science photographer Felice Frankel holds concurrent positions at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School's Systems Biology, the Wyss Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Working in collaboration with scientists and engineers, Frankel's images have been published in over 300 journal articles and/or covers and various other publications for general audiences.
Her most recent book, co-authored with chemist George M. Whitesides, No Small Matter, Science on the Nanoscale was published by Harvard University Press in 2009. Frankel's previous books are Envisioning Science, The Design and Craft of the Science Image. (The MIT Press), On the Surface of Things, Images of the Extraordinary in Science (Harvard University) co-authored with George Whitesides and Modern Landscape Architecuture, Redefining the Garden, with Jory Johnson (Abbeville Press). She is founder of the Image and Meaning conferences whose purpose is to develop new approaches to promote the public understanding of science through visual expression www.imageandmeaning.org. She is also leading a National Science Foundation funded program, Picturing to Learn, an effort to study how making representations by students, aids in teaching and learning, www.picturingtolearn.org.
Frankel was awarded the Photographic Society of America's 2009 Progress Medal "for the innovative creation of images through synthesizing photographic artistry and computer technology to visually clarify scientific phenomena".
Join us for an evening of inspiration. Connect with others in our industry while enjoying refreshments.
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Women in Optics Presentation and Lunch
Date: Wednesday 14 April
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Brussels, Belgium
Location: 204
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Join us for an early afternoon opportunity for networking and inspiration. Connect with your colleagues while enjoying a light lunch.
Women and Science: Success, Priorities and Possibilities
Speaker: Dr. Eleni Alexandratou
Eleni Alexandratou has a B.Sc in Physics from University of Athens, Greece and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from National Technical University of Athens, Greece. Currently, she is a Senior Researcher at the Laboratory of Biomedical Optics and Applied Biophysics, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens.
Among her research interests are Optical Imaging, Real Time Fluorescence Imaging of Cellular Function and Structure at the single cell level, Photodynamic Therapy, Machine Vision Techniques in Cancer Diagnosis and Grading.
European Union, together with leading technology companies, is trying to get more young women interested in ICT careers in a drive to avoid a predicted shortage of qualified engineers. Why is this so difficult? Why is the ICT sector so unattractive to women? Why is there reluctance to hire women within the ICT sector?
Starting from the experience gained from the BRIGHTER.EU initiative, opportunities and challenges facing women in academic and business sectors will be addressed. Employing women is no longer a politically correct action - it is good business strategy. A different way of looking at success, priorities and possibilities will be discussed.
SPIE Women in Optics Presentation and Reception
Tuesday 6 April, 4:30 - 6:00 pm
Orlando, Florida USA
Open to all conference attendees. Talk title to be announced.
Speaker: Angelique Irvin, President and CEO, Clear Align
Angelique has 23 years of professional experience, focused on technology driven businesses. Her experience includes successful corporate and entrepreneurial business launches at companies including Clear Align, Coviant, NEC, AT&T Microelectronics, and AT&T Bell Laboratories.
Angelique leads Clear Align, a company that designs, prototypes, and manufactures custom imaging, sensing, and fiber-optic systems for defense and aerospace customers. Clear Align's imaging expertise spans the UV, visible, NIR, SWIR, MWIR, and LWIR portions of the spectrum, delivering both narrow- and wide wide-field-of-view systems. The company's fiber-optic and sensing expertise includes optical integration for communications, remote sensing and targeting, as well as for medical applications. Under Irvin's leadership, Clear Align has earned a multitude of growth and technology awards including the Inc. 500™, the Deloitte Technology Fast 500™, and the SBA minority entrepreneur of the year award.
Prior to Clear Align, Angelique founded and built Coviant, a world-class electro-optics manufacturing company serving tier-one customers such as Intel, Unilever, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin. She developed the intellectual property strategies that aligned the company with fortune 500 technology partners such as Agilent and Rohm and Haas. Angelique was responsible for a new product launch at AT&T Bell Laboratories where she led a team that built out optical assembly facilities and developed new markets for a $500 million product line. Angelique graduated with honors from Alfred University, with a Bachelor's degree in Ceramic Engineering and earned an MBA from the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania. Angelique is currently a regular speaker and an Entrepreneur in Residence at The Wharton School and teaches others how to build technology companies.
SPIE Women in Optics Lunch
Tuesday 23 February, Noon to 1:00
San Jose, California, USA
Open to all conference attendees.
Join us for an opportunity to network with other professionals at this lunch hosted by SPIE. Register at the SPIE Cashier on-site by 3 pm Monday; location information provided upon sign-up.
Guest Speaker: Anna Sidana, Founder and CEO, One Million Lights
Small Things Matter
Light is as fundamental as food, water and shelter. The discussion will cover a journey of discovery in understanding how a small thing such as a light can change a life forever.
One Million Lights is a part of the World of Color public charity, a 501c3 nonprofit organization based in Palo Alto, CA. One Million Lights' mission is to improve the daily lives of children and adults by providing clean and healthy lighting. www.onemillionlights.org
Women and Optics Presentation and Reception
Monday 25 January, 4:30 to 6:00
Hilton Hotel, Golden Gate Room 8
Open to all conference attendees.
Join us for an evening of networking and inspiration. Connect with others in our industry while enjoying wine and cheese refreshments.
Educating Girls and Physics Teachers in Developing Countries - A Key to Sustainability
Priscilla Laws will discuss why support for girls education in countries like Mozambique and the introduction of low cost active learning strategies for physics teachers in the developing world are extremely effective strategies for sustainable development.
Priscilla Laws, Dickinson College
Dr. Laws received her bachelor's degree from Reed College and her doctorate from Bryn Mawr College where she studied nuclear physics. She joined the faculty at Dickinson in 1965 and began focusing her efforts on the health effects of radiation. This led to the publication of two consumer books on medical X-rays. She is a research professor for Dickinson College and is promoting ways to use physics research and education to enhance sustainable development in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Women and Optics Presentation and Reception
Monday 3 August 2009, 5:00 to 6:30
Convention Center - Room 11B
Empowering Refugee Women Through Solar Cooking
Speaker: Tzivia Schwartz-Getzug
Executive Director, Jewish World Watch
Tzivia Schwartz-Getzug recently went to Chad to bear witness to the genocide in Darfur and the atrocities committed against women as they left relative safety of the refugee camps to collect firewood. Through the introduction of solar cooking, not only have the women been able to stay protected in the refugee camps, but the environment and the local economy are being saved as well.
For more information visit the Solar Cooker Project
SPIE Women in Optics Presentation and Reception
SPIE Women in Optics Presentation and Reception
Tuesday 14 April 2009, 4:30 to 6:00
Orlando, Florida USA
Frances Ligler
US Navy Senior Scientist for Biosensors and Biomaterials, Naval Research Laboratory
How to explore the cracks between the disciplines without falling through them.
Frances Ligler, U.S. Navy Senior Scientist for Biosensors and Biomaterials, Naval Research Lab, talked about leadership, balance, and the value of an active curiosity, at a Women in Optics-sponsored reception and presentation.
Biography: Frances S. Ligler, D.Phil., D.Sc. (Oxford University), is currently the Navy's Senior Scientist for Biosensors and Biomaterials and vice chair of the Bioengineering Section of the National Academy of Engineering. She has published over 300 full-length articles in scientific journals and has 24 issued patents; together they have been cited over 5300 times. She performs research in optical biosensors, microfluidics, and nanotechnology. In 2003, she was awarded the Homeland Security Award by the Christopher Columbus Foundation and the Presidential Rank of Distinguished Senior Professional by President Bush.
SPIE Women in Optics LunchTuesday 24 February 2009, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
San Jose, California, USA
The themes of the importance of mentoring, recognizing high-caliber work, and encouraging young teenagers in particular to explore science were repeated in stories related by engineers, researchers, students, and executives at a Women in Optics luncheon Tuesday afternoon.
Work experiences among the group have varied widely, from a workgroup in which 50% of the engineers and scientists are women, to a company which has a disproportionately low number of women as fellows because, as one scientist was told, "women aren't aggressive enough
Pictured: Roya Mojtahedi, JSR Micro, shares her experiences in the industry with her colleagues.
SPIE Women in Optics Presentation and ReceptionTuesday 27 January 2009, 4:30 to 6:00
San Jose, California USA
Room location to be announced.
Persis S. DrellDirector, Stanford Linear Accelerator CenterStanford University
Free Electron Lasers at an Angstrom: A Revolution in Hard X-ray Sources
After reviewing the basics of Free Electron Lasers, I will describe the Linac Coherent Light Source: The world's first hard X-ray FEL that will turn on this year at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. I will discuss the science motivation, recent experimental results, and prospects for the future.
Open to all conference attendees.
Join us for an evening of networking and inspiration. Connect with others in our industry while enjoying wine and cheese refreshments.
Biography: Stanford University (2002-Present): Director, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (2007-Present); Deputy Director of SLAC and Director of Particle and Particle Astrophysics (2005-2007); Deputy Project Manager, Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope (2004-2005); Director of Research (2002-2005); Deputy Director, Cornell Laboratory of Nuclear Studies (2001-2002); Director, Cornell High Energy Group (2000-2001); Professor of Physics, Cornell University (1998-2002); Associate Professor of Physics, Cornell University (1993-1997).
Morris Loeb Lecturer in Physics, Harvard University (2006); Wellesley College Alumnae Achievement Award (2006); American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member since 2007; Stanford University Fellow (2006-2008); Guggenheim Foundation Fellow (1998); American Physical Society (1997); NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1988-1993).
Wellesley College - B.A., 1977, Mathematics and Physics University of California, Berkeley - Ph.D. 1983
Photonics West
Women in Optics Presentation and Reception
Tuesday 22 January 2008, 4:30 - 6:00pm
San Jose, CA USA
Advance in Novel Optical Materials: Function Drives Form
Dr. Kathleen Richardson
The Women in Optics session at Photonics West was, in the words of one attendee "Entertaining and informative, she (Richardson) emphasised the benefit of building your personal network, and shared many examples from her personal history." There were over 70 men and women in attendance for Dr. Kathleen Richardson's presentation on 'Advances in Novel Optical materials: Function Drives Form.
Advance Lithography
SPIE Women in Optics LunchTuesday 26 February 2008, 12:00 - 1:00pm
San Jose, CA USA
Women in Optics leaders urge involvementGet involved in organizing conference programs, SPIE Advanced Lithography Symposium Chair Roxann Engelstad advised those attending the Women In Optics (WiO) luncheon Tuesday in San Jose.
More than 20 women engineers and scientists from companies such as Intel, Hitachi, Corning, Nikon, and IMB attended the luncheon, along with a student who drew applause when she said that she is "looking forward to working with the talented women in the room."
Engelstad outlined SPIE's Women In Optics program, including upcoming and recent events, and presented new WiO posters and 2008 monthly planners featuring interviews with women in leading positions in optics and photonics industry, government, and academia.
Through the WiO network, SPIE promotes personal and professional growth for women by providing community-building and networking opportunities, and encouraging young women to choose optics as a career.
To become more involved in conference organization, start with the program committee, learn about the process, and move up to conference and symposium chair, Engelstad advised. While it is a significant commitment of time, it also is "a worthwhile and important role," she said.
Engelstad and Elizabeth Dobisz, both of whom are SPIE Fellows, were thanked by SPIE and other luncheon attendees for their work in SPIE events and support of the WiO network
Defense and Security
SPIE Women in Optics Lunch
Monday 17 March 2008, 12 - 1:00pm
Orlando, FL USA
This SPIE hosted luncheon at Defense and Security provided attendees with an opportunity to network with other optics professionals, generate new contacts, and expand their resources and referrals.
More than 30 attended the Women in Optics luncheon, many returnees, and all enjoyed the opportunity to network. Left to right, Meimei Tidrow, Missile Defense Agency, and Manijeh Razeghi, Northwestern University.
Photonics Europe
SPIE Women in Optics Presentation and ReceptionWednesday 9 April 2008, 6:30 - 8:00pm
Strasbourg, France
Prof. Maria Yzuel, SPIE President-Elect, welcomed attendees to the Women in Optics presentation and reception at Photonics Europe. Over twenty-five individuals turned out for fabulous French hors d'oeuvres and the chance to hear Katarina Svanberg, SPIE Fellow and Board member, discuss her work in cancer research at Lunch University.
Laser Metrology
SPIE Women in Optics Lunch
Wednesday 2 July 2008, 12:30 to 1:30pm
Singapore
Invited Speaker: Dr. Rachel Won Editor, Nature Photonics
Pictured from left to right: Oi Choo Chee, Prof. Anand Asundi (conference chairman), Kevin Harding (SPIE 2008 President), Dr. Won Rachel, Prof. Tian Ailing
The Women in Optics lunch meeting was held at the 9th Laser Metrology International conference, in Singapore. The attendees included the 2008 SPIE President Kevin Harding, the Conference Chairman Prof. Anand Asundi, Oi Choo Chee, representing Singapore and conference delegates, both women and men. Over 40 people were present for lunch and the talk. Prof. Tian Ailing, of Xi'an Technological University of China, presided over the conference.
The invited speaker Rachel Won is an associate editor of Nature Photonics and is based in Tokyo. Her talk, "Communicating photonics with the public" described her adventure in optics from research to journalism. Rachel reviewed her different roles in the world of optics starting from the early stage as a research student through to becoming an optics engineer and a research commercialization consultant, and how the exposure to those different environments helped her in her current position as an editor. In particular, she talked of her experience on bridging the gap between university and industry, and science publishing and editing. A brief introduction to Nature Photonics also was presented.
Rachel's talk was well presented and there was an active question and answer session. The questions varied from how she got started in this and why she chose optics over journalism - her two interests to publication in Nature and the process which enables these publication to have a high impact factor.
Optics+Photonics
SPIE Women in Optics Presentation and Reception
San Diego, CA
Monday 11 August 2008, 5:00 to 6:30pm
Convention Center Room 13
Women in Optics speaker urges new strategies for communicating science to more diverse and larger audiences.
Scientists need the public to understand what they're doing, so that good personal and public policy decisions can be made in an increasingly technologically driven world, science writer Margaret Wertheim told an overflow audience at the Women in Optics reception Monday evening. Wertheim said that while understanding science and in particular physics provides a way of understanding ourselves, there is also the "beauty, wonder, and power" of science to appreciate.
But, she added, all too often the public doesn't know enough science to understand what scientists are talking about. On top of that, popular science magazines reach only relatively small numbers of readers who comprise a narrow demographic of college-educated men over age 40, and only two mainstream U.S. newspapers have dedicated science sections. Science communicators - both science writers and commentators as well as scientists themselves - can most effectively bridge the gap by remembering that non-scientists frequently have a very low level of knowledge, and want to know how the information will be relevant in their own lives.
Wertheim has authored books on the cultural impacts of physics, written for numerous science anthologies and publications (she currently contributes to the New York Times and Los Angeles Times), lectured widely at universities and colleges around the world, and has won several awards for science writing.
She co-founded the Institute For Figuring (IFF), which promotes public understanding of the poetic and aesthetic dimensions of science and mathematics. One project of the IFF is creation of a crochet coral reef traveling exhibition which currently is at the Hayward Gallery in London, UK. Wertheim shared examples of pieces from the exhibit. Each is a model of the hyperbolic plane, which occurs in nature in coral reefs, flowers, and elsewhere.
Defense & SecuritySPIE Women in Optics Lunch
Tuesday 10 April 2007, Noon to 1:00 pm
Orlando, Florida USA
Join us for an opportunity to network with other optics professionals, generate new contacts, and expand your resources and referrals. This SPIE hosted luncheon at Defense and Security is the perfect way to meet and develop relationships with others in your field. Register for this lunch at the SPIE Cashier onsite; location information will be provided upon sign-up.
Hosted by Maria Yzuel, 2007 SPIE Vice President
Optics + Photonics
Women in Optics Reception and Presentation
Monday 27 August 2007, 5:00 - 6:30pm
San Diego, California
Network with other optics professionals, and hear from Dr. Jean Morrison, Director of the Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) program at USC.
Dr. Jean Morrison Vice Provost for Graduate Programs, Professor of Earth Sciences Director of the Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) Program University of Southern California
The Women in Science and Engineering Program at USC: Programs and Progress 2000 - 2007The establishment of the Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) Program represents the serious commitment of the University of Southern California to address the under-representation of women in science and engineering. Since the launch of the program in 2000 with a $20 million gift to the endowment, WiSE has helped to more than double the number of tenured and tenure-track women faculty in the natural sciences, math, and engineering at USC through its faculty recruitment and retention programs. Its complimentary programs to address "pipeline issues" in support of undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars in these fields through a range of financial awards and activities have also grown in scope and impact. Director, Jean Morrison, will discuss the programs developed and administered by WiSE to address the obstacles to women's success in academic science and engineering. She will relay the perceived successes to date, and the challenges that remain in striving for gender equity in science and engineering at USC and beyond.
