SPIE 2015 Election
SPIE members vote for directors and officers.
The following SPIE members are on the ballot for the Society's 2015 election, which is conducted online through 3 August.
SPIE members eligible to vote will select four new directors, a vice president, and a secretary/treasurer for terms beginning 1 January 2016. Directors serve three-year terms and officers serve for one year.
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Maryellen Giger University of Chicago (USA) |
John Greivenkamp University of Arizona (USA) |
Both Giger and Greivenkamp are SPIE Fellows who have previously served on the SPIE Board of Directors and on several SPIE committees.
The videos of the SPIE vice president candidates provide more information.
Gary Spiegel retired from Newport Corp. (USA), is the candidate for secretary/treasurer.
Spiegel has been a member of the SPIE Financial Advisory Committee since 2007 and holds a BA in industrial marketing from Baruch College, City University of New York (USA).
His technical activities and interests include opto-mechanical systems for research and industrial applications, precision manufacturing, technical management, and the business of optics.
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David Andrews University of East Anglia (UK) |
Jennifer Barton University of Arizona (USA) |
Steve Eglash Stanford University (USA) |
James Fujimoto Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) |
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Joseph Howard NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center (USA) |
Jay Kumler JENOPTIK Optical Systems, (USA) |
Vasudevan (Vengu) Lakshminarayanan University of Waterloo (Canada) |
Din Ping Tsai, Academia Sinica (Taiwan |
Other officers, previously elected, are SPIE President-Elect Robert Lieberman of Lumoptix (USA), who will become SPIE president in January 2016, and SPIE Vice President Glenn Boreman of University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Plasmonics Inc. (USA), who becomes president-elect next year.
The 2015 SPIE President, Toyohiko Yatagai (Japan), will become Immediate Past President in January. He will announce the results of the election at the SPIE annual general meeting during SPIE Optics+Photonics in San Diego (USA) 11 August.
Voting members of SPIE who have not yet received their ballot instructions should contact SPIE.
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