Stay up-to-date on news of honors, achievements, activities and milestones of SPIE constituents.
17 March 2010
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CREOL's LaserFest will bring the celebration of lasers to the southeast region with a combination of outreach, knowledge sharing, and networking at Optics Day and the SPIE Symposium.
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15 March 2010
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SPIE Member Mark Kahan, Chief Electro-Optical Systems Engineer for Optical Research Assoc., provided a guest blog on NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). Many of the managerial and engineering lessons learned from WISE will be covered in the conference An Optical Believe It or Not: Key Lessons Learned, at SPIE Optics and Photonics in August.
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11 March 2010
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Maryellen Giger and Xiang Zhang are among 65 new members and 9 foreign associates named this year to the National Academy of Engineering, NAE president Charles Vest announced last month.
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25 February 2010
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Laser pioneer Charles Hard Townes, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA, is the 2010 recipient of the SPIE Gold Medal of the Society. Townes is honored in recognition of his extraordinary foresight in recognizing the potential of the laser and coherent light 50 years ago, for his pursuit of the requisite scientific inquiry to turn lasers into one of the most potentially disruptive technologies of the 21st century and finally for his pioneering scientific contributions to the fields of optics, lasers, astronomy and molecular spectroscopy.
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25 February 2010
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Juan Carlos Miñano, Universidad Politeconica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, is the 2010 recipient of the A.E. Conrady Award in recognition of his exceptional contributions in developing new design methods and devices in Nonimaging Optics.
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25 February 2010
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J. Gary Eden, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA, is the 2010 recipient of the Harold E. Edgerton Award in recognition of his major contributions in demonstrating optical techniques for observing physical phenomena, including his seminal work in atomic, molecular and ultra fast spectroscopy.
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25 February 2010
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Mitsuo Takeda, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan, is the 2010 winner of the Dennis Gabor award in recognition of his eminent contributions to the development of holography and optical metrology through the inventions of the Fourier transform method for fringe analysis and coherence holography.
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25 February 2010
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Moustafa T. Chahine, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, USA, is the 2010 winner of the George W. Goddard award in recognition of his exceptional achievement in optical science and instrumentation for aerospace and atmospheric research.
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25 February 2010
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Emil Wolf, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA, is the 2010 recipient of the G.G. Stokes Award in recognition of his contributions in formulating the modern theories of coherence and polarization of optical fields.
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25 February 2010
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James C. Wyant, College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA, is the 2010 recipient of the Chandra S. Vikram award in recognition of his lifetime of achievements in optical metrology, in particular his pioneering contributions to the field of quantitative interferometric optical testing, and for nurturing the invention of phase-measuring interferometer systems.
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25 February 2010
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Marc D. Levenson, BetaSights, Saratoga, California, USA, is the 2010 recipient of the Frits Zernike Award for Microlithography in recognition of one of the most important developments in lithography resolution enhancement of the last twenty years, the phase shifting mask.
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25 February 2010
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Alberto Salleo, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA, is the 2010 recipient of the Early Career Achievement award in recognition of his fundamental and highly influential contributions in large area electronics, polymer thin film transistors, and laser/material interactions.
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25 February 2010
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Nicholas M. Massa, Springfield Technical Community College, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, is the 2010 Educator Award winner in recognition of his multiple contributions to optics/photonics education over the past 23 years including: educating, mentoring and preparing hundreds of college students for the workforce; teaching in-service teachers and technicians in industry; serving on SPIE Education and ETOP long-range planning committees; developing new instructional materials and co-authoring a user-friendly introductory optics textbook.
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25 February 2010
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Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA, is the 2010 recipient of the Technology Achievement award in recognition of his conceptualization of sculptured thin films, wide-ranging theoretical and experimental research in optics on these materials, and for characterizing them as nanoengineered metamaterials.
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22 February 2010
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Inexpensive thin-film solar cells aren't as efficient as conventional solar cells, but a new coating that incorporates nanoscale metallic particles could help close the gap. Broadband Solar, a startup spun out of Stanford University late last year, is developing coatings that increase the amount of light these solar cells absorb. SPIE Member Mark Brongersma is scientific advisor to the new company.
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17 February 2010
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Using arrays of long, thin silicon wires embedded in a polymer substrate, a team of scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) including SPIE Member Harry Atwater has created a new type of flexible solar cell that enhances the absorption of sunlight and efficiently converts its photons into electrons.
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16 February 2010
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Direct assembly of nanomaterials for highly efficient energy conversion will be the goal of a five-year, $750,000 project led by Cornell Univ. researcher David Erickson. An SPIE Member, Erickson is assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering.
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16 February 2010
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By creating diamond-based nanowire devices, a team at Harvard Univ. led by SPIE Member Marko Loncar has taken another step towards making applications based on quantum science and technology possible.
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15 February 2010
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David L. Begley, owner and president of David Begley, LLC passed away January 18, 2010 at his home in Colorado.
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15 February 2010
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Hans A. Buchdahl, Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Australian National Univerity, passed away on January 7, 2010.
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15 February 2010
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SPIE Fellows James Burge and Robert Parks of the University of Arizona have won a stimulus grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to adapt highly precise tools used to build and test telescope mirros for use by the nation's manufacturers.
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12 February 2010
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Combining varying viewpoints and multiple disciplines often results in innovative ideas, notes SPIE President Ralph James in a recent interview in Innovation magazine. The article followed announcement of the latest award James, a senior pysicist at Brookhaven National Lab, has received for his innovations in advanced radiation detectors.
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12 February 2010
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Directed energy is an important economic platform now and for the future for New Mexico, industry experts were told by the chief engineer of the Air Force Research Lab Directed Energy Directorate last month. AFRL's Cindy Kaiser made her comments at the well-attended "Bridging the Gap" conference in Albuquerque on 6 January.
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11 February 2010
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Daniel J. Bradley, physicist and laser pioneer, died 7 February in Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland.
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11 February 2010
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SPIE Corporate Member Jenoptik has reported the sale during the SPIE Photonics West exhibiton in San Francisco last January of its 10,000th frequency-doubled disk laser in the green wavelength range. The majority of this type of laser is used in a medical practice for eye operations.
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11 February 2010
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Anton Zeilinger of Univ. of Vienna and the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, John Clauser of J.F. Clauser and Assoc., and Alain Aspect of the Institut d'Optique will share the 2010 Wolf Prize in Physics, the Wolf Foundation has announced.
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10 February 2010
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Barry R. Masters, professor of biological engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Fellow of SPIE, has been named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
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05 February 2010
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in a group led by SPIE Member Lionel Kimerling have demonstrated the first laser built from germanium that can produce wavelengths of light useful for optical communication.
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04 February 2010
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Piotr Targowski from Nicolaus Copernicus University has co-authored a report showing how medical imaging techniques can be used to reveal art forgeries.
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04 February 2010
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Cole W. Litton, retired Air Force Senior Scientist, died of a heart attack on 26 January during Photonics West in San Francisco.
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22 January 2010
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John Pellegrino, director of the Sensors and Electron Devices Directorate, and Kwong-Kit Choi, senior research scientist for physical sciences, both at the U.S. Army Research Lab, have been selected to receive the 2009 Presidential Rank Award. Both are actively involved with the SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing symposium.
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19 January 2010
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Charles Townes, Univ. of California, Berkeley, professor emeritus of physics and 1964 Nobel Laureate in physics, is being honored for his part in stimulating developing of the laser with an exhibit and public lecture. Townes is a Fellow of SPIE.
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06 January 2010
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Vladimir Shalaev, Purdue Univ., and Sir John Pendry, Imperial College London, have been named winners of the 2010 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics, along with Aleksei Zheltikov, Lomonosov Moscow State Univ. Shalaev and Pendry are active in the program committee of the Plasmonics: Nanoimaging, Nanofabrication, and their Applications conference at SPIE Optics + Photonics. Shalaev is a Fellow of SPIE.
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