2017
Inventor, Professor & Business Leader – UCSB’s Daniel Blumenthal is Solving Complex Problems in Opti
Hi! I'm Daniel Blumenthal, a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering specializing in optical communications and photonic integration at the University of California – Santa Barbara, Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), The Optical Society (...
Added: 20 December 2017
Education & Next Steps for Illumination Optics Day 2
While the first day of the OSA Illumination Optics Incubator focused on the state of illumination optics science and technology, today’s session focused on the community, education and next steps.
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Added: 17 November 2017
Day 1 Illumination Optics Incubator
The Illumination Optics Incubator was designed to focus on ways to create a thriving community between researchers and industry in the field of illumination optics. Experienced professionals covering the...
Added: 17 November 2017
The Importance of Science Communication
Science communication plays an increasingly important role in our society, but today’s PhD students have few formal training opportunities. The Communicating Science workshop for graduate students, formally known as ComSciCon, was created to help fill this gap by teaching science communication...
Added: 11 October 2017
Day 2: Small Eyes & Smart Minds Incubator
Yesterday during the Small Eyes & Smart Minds “Sensors & Systems” session experts discussed novel imaging techniques and hardware.
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Added: 06 October 2017
Day 1: OSA Small Eyes & Smart Minds Incubator
The Small Eyes & Smart Minds Incubator is all about new imaging techniques, the computational work that makes them possible and the exciting applications this work can engender.
Added: 05 October 2017
Creating Thought Provoking Presentations at the 2017 Siegman School
Writing articles and giving presentations is the essence of scientific work. To make science is to communicate our findings to our peers and the public. But how do we do it in an...
Added: 02 October 2017
Optical Interconnects in Data Centers: What’s Next?
As technology advances at an ever-increasing pace, the potential applications for optics continue to grow and fuel new discoveries. To highlight...
Added: 28 September 2017
Quantum Technology: The Business Side
One of the meeting’s three “Visionary Speakers” keynote talks on Wednesday included plenty of interesting science, but also focused on the business and political issues emerging as quantum technology drives toward real applications. The speaker was OSA Fellow Wilhelm Kaenders, the...
Added: 20 September 2017
The Dilemmas of a “Post-fact” World
Given what seems an ever more polarized and uncertain political environment, scientists increasingly grapple with the need to persuade policymakers and the public about the importance of the work that science does. In a morning session at the 2017 Frontiers in Optics meeting, Rush Holt, the CEO of the...
Added: 20 September 2017
