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| Rajan Jha, at left, and Rim Cherif are recipients of the ICO 2015 Gallieno Denardo Prize. The announcement was made at the ICTP Winter College last month. |
TRIESTE, Italy, and BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA -- Apropos for the International Year of Light, the 2015 Winter College on Optics in Trieste followed the theme "Light: a Bridge between Earth and Space." The college drew 93 participants from 33 countries and ran 9-20 February at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP). SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, is a co-sponsor of the annual event, along with the International Commission for Optics (ICO) and several other organizations.
This year, 47% of participants were male and 53% female, organizers reported.
Directors were Angela Piegari (Optical Coatings Laboratory-ENEA), Errico Armandillo (European Space Agency), and W. Chen (Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics. Local organizers were SPIE Member Joe Niemela (ICTP) and Miltcho Danailov (Elettra).
Main topics covered by faculty included:
The Winter College LAMP (Laser, Atomic and Molecular Physics) program provides participants with an opportunity to present their work in poster form or as a short oral presentation, with Best Paper prizes awarded by SPIE.
SPIE Past President Katarina Svanberg presented the awards on behalf of SPIE, including two first prizes, to:
The 2015 ICO/ICTP Gallieno Denardo Prize recognizing young researchers from developing countries was awarded to two recipients:
Svanberg and SPIE Past President María Yzuel (Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona) represented SPIE at a meeting on 18 February of the Trieste System Optical Sciences and Applications (TSOSA) Advisory Group, which advises on the coordination of ICTP activities in optics and photonics.
In addition to supporting the Winter College on Optics with an annual $5,000 contribution, SPIE provides $30,000 annually to support an optics staff position in SPIE-ICTP Anchor Research in Optics Program.
The program recently moved to the ICTP campus and, using funds from the Applied Physics/Turbulence Lab at Elettra, has purchased equipment that can be used in ongoing optical tweezers research or other areas of microscopy, particularly thermal lens microscopy.
In conjunction with ICTP, SPIE provides free SPIE Digital Library access in participating countries through the eJDS (eJournals Delivery Service) program. Articles from scientific literature, primarily in physics and mathematics, are provided to individual scientists
SPIE is the international society for optics and photonics, a not-for-profit organization founded in 1955 to advance light-based technologies. The Society serves nearly 256,000 constituents from approximately 155 countries, offering conferences, continuing education, books, journals, and a digital library in support of interdisciplinary information exchange, professional networking, and patent precedent. SPIE provided more than $3.4 million in support of education and outreach programs in 2014.
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| Researchers demonstrate new microscopy equipment at the SPIE-ICTP Anchor Research in Optics Program lab. |
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| From left, Angela Guzmán, Mario Bertolotti, SPIE Fellow Anna Consortini, SPIE Past President María Yzuel, SPIE Fellow Vengu Lakshminarayanan, and SPIE Fellow Maria Calvo tour the SPIE-ICTP Anchor Research Program lab, newly relocated at the ICTP. |
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