| Date | Title | Speaker/Location |
| September 19, 2006 Tuesday |
"Low drive voltage modulators with ultra low loss serpentine electrodes" |
James H. Cole |
| October 16, 2006 Monday |
"High performance photodiodes" | Joe Campbell University of Virginia |
| November 21, 2006 Tuesday |
" Correlated photons: Absolute Measurements Without Absolute Standards" | Jim Migdall NIST |
| January 16, 2007 Tuesday |
"Polarization Ray Tracing for Space Optics" |
Eugene
Waluschka NASA Goddard |
| February 20, 2007 Thursday |
" Astronomy with the Hubble Space Telescope" |
Dr.
H. John Wood NASA/GSFC |
| March 20, 2007 Thursday |
" State-of-the-Art Photonic Nanostructure Devices" | Professor
Toshihiko Baba Yokohama National University |
| April 17, 2007 Tuesday |
"Recent Advances in the Understanding of Surface Scatter Behavior |
Professor Jim Harvey
CREOL Harold Sharlin and Stephen Jacobs ReSET and Univ. of Rochester |
| May 15, 2007 Tuesday |
"The Promise of Ultra-High Resolution Space Imaging and Planet Detection" |
Richard G. Lyon (Optical Scientist)
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Date | Title | Speaker/Location |
| September 20, 2005 Tuesday |
"FIBER LASERS AND AMPLIFIERS FOR SCIENCE AND EXPLORATION "
Joint with DC/NVA Chapter of IEEE/LEOS |
Michael A. Krainak NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| October 18, 2005 Tuesday |
"Maritime Hyperspectral Imaging of the Coastal Ocean " | Dr. Michael Corson Naval Research Laboratory |
| November 15, 2005 Tuesday |
" Fabrication of Extremely Lightweight Mirrors" |
Dr. William Zhang NASA/GSFC |
| January 17, 2006 Tuesday |
"Photon Counting Micro-detectors and Their Applications" |
Dr. Sergio Cora Politecnico di Milano, LEOS Distinguished Lecturer |
| February 23, 2006 Thursday |
" Elastic scattering spectroscopy for noninvasive detection of
cancer" OSA Presidential speaker for 2005-06 |
Dr. Irving J. Bigio Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Physics, Boston University |
| March 25-26, 2006 Saturday & Sunday |
"WAS Capital Science 2006 Conference" | NA |
| April 18, 2006 Tuesday |
"Phase Retrieval:
from the Hubble to the James Webb Space Telescope" |
Dr. James Feinup
University of Rochester |
| May 16, 2006 Tuesday |
"Measuring Carbon from Space" |
Dr. Christopher Barnet NOAA/ NESDIS |
| Date | Title | Speaker/Location |
| September 21, 2004 Tuesday |
"TWO ASPECTS OF ATMOSPHERIC TRANSMISSION: PHASE ROBUSTNESS AND THE STRUCTURE FUNCTION" | Dr. Robert Lucke Naval Research Laboratory |
| October 19, 2004 Tuesday |
"HOE Scanning Lidars and Applications" | Geary K. Schwemmer |
| November 16, 2004 Tuesday |
" Imaging in the THz: Technology and Applications" Joint meeting with IEEE, MTT and LEOS |
Dr Mark Rosker DARPA |
| January18, 2005 Tuesday |
"Canceled" | Jim Feinup OSA sponsored invited speaker |
| February 15, 2005 Tuesday |
"Do-It-Yourself
Precision Optical Interferometer Standards
" |
Dr. Ulf Griesman
NIST |
| March 15, 2005 Tuesday |
"Coronagraphs: Challenging to Build and Design, but Essential to Understanding Space Weather Conditions" |
Chris St. Cyr |
| April 19, 2005 Tuesday |
"MILLIMETER WAVE IMAGING SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT" |
Prof. Dennis Prather , OSA Speaker
|
| May17, 2005 Tuesday |
"FRIZION (Frozen Vision) Ice Art:
Unlocking the spectrum frozen in ice" |
Pete Waselewski |
| Date | Title | Speaker/Location |
| September 16, 2003 Tuesday |
"SYNTHETIC APERTURE LADAR" | Dr. Robert Lucke Naval Research Laboratory |
| October 21, 2003 Tuesday |
"Tactical Reconnaissance for the Navy - From Requirement to Fielded System" | Dr. Michael Duncan Naval Research Laboratory |
| November 18, 2003 Tuesday |
" CLOUDS AT THE EDGE OF SPACE: Is there Evidence for Global Change?" |
Eric P. Shettle NRL, Washington, DC |
| January 20, 2004 Tuesday |
"Variable F/number IR Systems for the Next Generation" | Jay Vizgaitis |
| February 17, 2004 Tuesday |
"Building a NEAR-IR Cryogenic Multi-Object MEMS Spectrometer for
Ground-Based Astronomy " |
Raymond Ohl |
| March 20-21, 2004 Saturday&Sunday |
Meeting Location: National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA |
|
| April 13, 2004 Tuesday |
" Joint meeting with LEOS-- Microplasma Arrays: Photonic Devices for Emission and Photodetection", |
J. Gary Eden, OSA Speaker |
| May18, 2004 Tuesday |
"NASA Origins Mission, Hubble, JWST (James Webb Space Telescope)
and beyond" |
Dr. Jon Gardner Dr. Jon Gardner NASA Goddard |
| Date | Title | Speaker/Location |
| September 17, 2002 Tuesday |
"Spatial Heterodyne IMager for Mesospheric Radicals (SHIMMER): Miniaturized, high throughput, high spectral resolution spectrometers for space based remote sensing" | Christoph R. Englert Naval Research Laboratory |
| October 15, 2002 Tuesday |
"Coherent light interference microscope that uses photorefractive phase conjugation" | Philip Brody Army Research Laboratory |
| November 19, 2002 Tuesday |
"Optical Tagging of Vehicles for National Security" |
Jack Coulter Aerospace Corp. |
| January 21, 2003 Tuesday |
"Superfluid and Laser Analogies with Coherent Matter Waves" | Charles Clark National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) |
| February 18, 2003 Tuesday |
"Cancelled due to Snow" |
|
| March 18, 2003 Tuesday |
"Magneto-Optics in an Ultra-Cold Gas" |
Dr. Francesco Narducci |
| April 22, 2003 Tuesday |
"From Bits to Qubits: Exploiting Quantum Optics in Information Technology." | Dr. Peter Knight,
OSA Speaker |
| May 20, 2003 Tuesday |
Annual Science Fair Awards and Elections |
Dr. Sten Odenwald Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Date | Title | Speaker/Location |
| September 25, 2001 Tuesday |
"Optically Probing and Controlling a Quantum Dot: Towards Quantum Computing" | Dr. Dan Gammon Naval Research Laboratory |
| October 16, 2001 Tuesday |
""Microcavity Lasers and Spontaneous Light Emitters Fabricated
From III-V Nanostructures"
Joint Meeting with IEEE/LEOS (NoVA Chapyer) |
Prof. D.G. Deppe University of Texas |
| November 20, 2001 Tuesday |
"Fiber Optics Sensors" | Clay Kirkendall Naval Research Laboratory |
| January 15, 2002 Tuesday |
"Optical Design Using Computer Graphics" | Dr. Joseph M. Howard
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| February 19, 2002
Tuesday |
"Photonic Crystals | Dr. Armand Rosenberg Naval Research Laboratory |
| March 19, 2002 Tuesday |
"RGB Emission in Organic Light-Emitting Devices"
Joint Meeting with IEEE/LEOS (NoVA Chapyer) |
Dr. Zakya Kafafi Naval Research Laboratory |
| April 16, 2002 Tuesday |
"Slow, Ultraslow, Stored and Frozen Light"
OSA Eastman Lecture Joint Meeting with IEEE/LEOS (NoVA Chapyer) |
Prof. Marlin Scully Texas A&M University |
| May 21, 2002 Tuesday |
"NASA's Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP) Project"
Annual Science Fair Awards and Elections |
Ms. Liz Citrin NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| Date | Title | Speaker/Location |
| September 19, 2000 Tuesday |
"LARGE APERTURE MUTIPLE QUANTUM WELL MODULATED REROREFLECTORS FOR COMPACT LOW POWER FREE-SPACE OPTICAL DATA LINKS" | Dr. G. Charmaine Gilbreath Naval Research Laboratory |
| October 17, 2000 Tuesday |
""PHOTON CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY IN SPACE" | Robert W. Gammon University of Maryland |
| November 14, 2000 Tuesday |
"SURF III: A SYNCHROTRON RADIATION SOURCE FOR RADIOMETRY AND APPLIED RESEARCH" | Dr. Uwe Arp National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) |
| January 16, 2001 Tuesday |
"SMART IMAGERS AND dIFFRACTION oPTICS tECHNOLOGY" | Dr. Joseph Mait
US Army Research Lab |
| February 20, 2001
Tuesday |
"NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR OBSERVING OLD LIGHT: SUBMILLIMETER OBSERVATIONS OF THE YOUNG UNIVERSE" | Dr. Harvey Moseley NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
| March 20, 2001 Tuesday |
"WHY IS IT SO HARD TO MEASURE THE STRENGTH OF GRAVITY?" | Dr. Stephen Merkowitz NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center |
| April 24, 2001 Tuesday |
"ULTRAFAST OPTICAL PHENOMENA"
OSA Presidential Lecture |
Dr. Anthony M. Johnson New Jersey Institute of Technology |
| May 1, 2001
|
"STORMY (SPACE) WEATHER AT SOLAR MAX"
Annual Science Fair Awards and Elections |
Dr. Donald J. Michels Naval Research Laboratory |
| Date | Title | Speaker/Location |
| September 14, 1999 Tuesday |
How to Successfully Develop New Optical Products | Kevin Hines Complete Optical Solutions Sante Fe East, Old Town, Alexandria |
| October 19, 1999 Tuesday |
High Definition TV | Hank Dardy NRL |
| November 16, 1999 Tuesday |
Ubiquitous Imaging | Tom Strat Ex-DARPA |
| December 7, 1999 Tuesday For more information, contact Dominique Dagenais |
Non Linear Dynamics in Erbium Doped Fiber Lasers SPECIAL ADDED MEETING JOINT WITH LEOS |
Rajarshi Roy Univ. of MD Lecture at Univ. of MD Dinner After Lecture at Chef's Secret Restaurant |
| January 19, 2000 Tuesday |
History of Imaging from Space
MEETING CANCELLED--SNOW!! |
Randy Lieberman |
| February 10, 2000
|
MEMS
Joint Meeting with LEOS MEETING CANCELLED |
Ming Wu
Univ. of MD Lecture at U of MD Dinner After Lecture at Chef's Secret Restaurant |
| March 21, 2000 Tuesday |
"The NIST/NASA Pogram for Radiometric Calibration Assessment in the Earth Observing System Program" | Carol Johnson
NIST Chef Peking Restaurant |
| April 18, 2000 Tuesday |
Speckle OSA Sponsored Speaker Joint with LEOS |
Joseph Goodman Stanford University |
| May 16, 2000 Tuesday |
Geology of the Moon via Remote Sensing | Stephanie Tompkins SAIC |
| Date | Title | Speaker/Location |
| October 1, 1998 |
"Adaptive Spectral Reconnaissance"
Joint with IEEE/LEOS |
Dr. Brad Tousley DARPA Mr. Smith's of Georgetown |
| October 29, 1998 |
"Multi-Band Infrared Visualization" | Dr. Dean Scribner NRL Santa Fe East Restaurant, Alexandria VA |
| November 17, 1998 |
"The Optics of the Visual system" | Dr. Marsha Krasicky Bethesda Naval Hospital Chef Peking, Rockville MD (Tentative) |
| January 20, 1999 [Wednesday] |
"Low Vision Care: An Overview" | Dr. Stephen J. Feinberg Howard University Hospital 94th Aero Squadron Restaurant, College Park, MD |
| February 16, 1999 [Thursday] | "Self-Organization in Nonlinear Optics: Discovery, Design and Applications" | Dr. Mikhail Vorontsov Army Research Laboratory Sala Thai Restaurant, Washington DC Lecture at OSA Headquarters |
| March 16, 1999 |
"Quantum Well and Quantum Dot Infrared Detectors for Intrared Focal Plane Arrays" | Dr. Rich Leavitt Army Research Laboratory Chi Chi's Restaurant, Greenbelt, MD |
| April 20, 1999 |
"Optics in the Inormation Age" OSA Presidential Lecture Joint NCS and LEOS Meeting |
Dr. Gary C. Bjorklund OSA President Bjorklund Consulting Mr Smith's of Georgetown, Tysons Corner, VA |
| May 25, 1998 Note th date change |
"Multi-Spectral Imaging of Planets and Art-Historical Objects"
Annual Science Fair Award Dinner & Elections |
Dr. John Hillman NASA GSFC Recreation Center, Greenbelt, Maryland |
