:: 2005 / 2006 Season ::
coordinated by Dirk Richter

Our current schedule for the 2005/2006 season meetings and invited speakers is as follows:

2005:
Sept. 22: Dr. Sara Tucker, NOAA, Boulder, CO: "Lidar Developments in NOAA's Optical Remote Sensing Group"

Oct. 20: Dr. Eric van Stryland, OSA president elect, CREOL, Orlando, FL: "Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy: Absorption and Refraction"

Nov.17: Dr. Leo Hollberg, NIST, Boulder, CO: "High Stability Optical Oscillators -- Precise Timing from Optical to Microwaves"

Dec. 15: Dr. Michael Webber, RAND Institute, Santa Monica, CA: "The True Story of a Start-Up Making Laser-Based Instrumentation: A Case Study"

2006:
Jan. 19: Dr. David F. Welch, Infinera Co., Sunnyvale, CA, "Photonic Integration and it's use in Digital Optical Networks"

Feb. 16: Dr. Jim Contreras, Ball Aerospace, Boulder, CO, "The James Webb Space Telescope"

Mar. 16: Dr. Christopher B. Dreyer and Adam Boyts, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, "Space Science Exploration Instrument Development at the Center for Space Resources: Overview and detail on CRDS numerical simulation"

Apr.20:
Prof. Rafael Piestun, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, "Synthesis and applications of 3D nanostructures and 3D light waves"

May.11: Dr. Christi Madsen, Texas A&M University, "Making A Many-Colored Processing Engine: Signal Processing with Optical Filters"

May.19: Dr. M. Selim Ünlü, Boston University, Boston, MA, "Nanoscale Imaging of Semiconductor and Biological Systems"


If you have suggestions for the 2006/2007 season speakers or topics, please contact
Steve Kendrick.