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Working Group on Research and Education

Committee on Optical Science and Engineering

Board on Physics and Astronomy
National Materials Advisory Board

National Research Council

Working Group Members:

  • Robert Byer (chair), Stanford University
  • David Attwood, University of California at Berkeley
  • Steven Chu, Stanford University
  • Erich Ippen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Brian Thompson, University of Rochester

NRC Staff:

  • Donald Shapero

Agenda for COSE Workshop on Research and Education

Irvine, California

January 4-5, 1996

Thursday, January 4, 1996

  • Introduction and Purpose of COSE -- Charles V. Shank, COSE chair
  • Goals of the Workshop -- Robert L. Byer, workshop chair

SESSION I: STEVEN CHU, SESSION CHAIR

  • Quantum Measurement and Computing -- H. Jeffrey Kimble, California Institute of Technology
  • Cooling and Trapping -- Carl Wieman, JILA
  • Optics in Cellular and Molecular Biology -- Stephen J. Smith, Stanford University

SESSION II: ERICH IPPEN, SESSION CHAIR

  • Technology and Applications of Femtosecond Lasers -- Martin Nuss, AT&T Bell Laboratories
  • Physics With Femtosecond Sources -- Philip Bucksbaum, University of Michigan
  • Lasers in Chemistry -- Robin Hochstrasser, University of Pennsylvania

SESSION III: DAVID ATTWOOD, SESSION CHAIR

  • EUV Optics for Advanced Lithographies -- David Markle, Ultratech Stepper
  • Applications of X-Rays to Materials Science -- Franco Cerrina, University of Wisconsin at Madison
  • Uses of High Brightness, Partially Coherent Light From Third-Generation Synchrotron Sources --Brian Kincaid, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Friday, January 5, 1996

SESSION IV: ROBERT BYER, SESSION CHAIR

  • Semiconductor Diode Lasers -- David Welch, Spectra Diode Labs, Inc.
  • Advanced Solid State Lasers -- William Krupke, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • Engineering Nonlinear Materials -- Martin Fejer, Stanford University
  • Materials for Optical Storage -- Masud Mansuripur, University of Arizona
  • Gradient Index Optics -- Duncan Moore, University of Rochester

SESSION V: BRIAN THOMPSON, SESSION CHAIR

  • Education and Training in Optics: A Philosophical Overview -- Brian Thompson, University of Rochester
  • Graduate Education -- M.J. Soileau, University of Central Florida
  • Four-Year Undergraduate Education -- Robert R. Shannon, University of Arizona
  • Two-Year Undergraduate Education and Training -- Robert F. Novak, Monroe Community College
  • K-14 Education and Training -- Darrell Hull, Center for Occupational R&D
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