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In this issue: Call for Editors-in-Chief Nominations and CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Award entries, upcoming meeting deadlines and more.

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January 2015
Bending of flash light in a fountain.—[From the 2014 After Image photo contest.]Suman L. Shakya, Nanophotonics Lab, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
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Opportunities
Call for Editors-in-Chief Nominations
Deadline: 1 February

The OSA Board of Editors welcomes nominations for the following Editor-in-Chief positions with three-year terms to begin 1 January 2016: Biomedical Optics Express and Optical Materials Express. Nominations and self-nominations in the form of a short note of recommendation or a cover letter summarizing the nominee's qualifications should be sent to the attention of Martijn de Sterke (University of Sydney and Chair, OSA Board of Editors) at odp@osa.org.
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Be a Speaker at the CLEO Technology Transfer Program and Promote Your Technologies
Deadline: 23 February

You are invited to submit a presentation for the Technology Transfer Program, scheduled for CLEO 2015 on 14 May. The Technology Transfer Program will include a Pitch Panel for entrepreneurs to showcase their technology, explain why it's valuable and discuss the next steps to commercialization. The program will also continue to provide a Tutorial for those that want to learn more about the licensing process – funding, entrepreneurship, technology transfer and intellectual property. In addition, organizations will feature their license ready technologies at tabletop displays in the exhibit hall.
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Call for Entries: CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Award
Deadline: 23 February

A monitor screen image through a glass cup. — Abdollah Hassanzadeh, University of Kurdistan - See more at: http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/image_of_the_week/#image-2The CLEO/Laser Focus World Innovation Awards were established to honor companies that have made major contributions that advance the field of optics and photonics through recently launched products and services.

You are invited to submit your most innovative products and services for consideration. Winners will be recognized during CLEO and will receive extensive promotion through various OSA and Laser Focus World marketing vehicles.
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Submit an OSA Senior Member Designation Request
Deadline: 28 February

You are encouraged to request an OSA Senior Member designation in recognition of your significant accomplishments or service within the optics and photonics field. Senior Member requests and supporting endorsements can be submitted online.
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CLEO Pacific Rim 2015 Call for Papers
Submission Deadline: 15 March 2015

The 11th Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO Pacific Rim) will take place
24 – 28 August 2015 at the BEXCO, Busan, Korea. Paper submissions will be accepted beginning in January 2015.
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You're Invited to Help Write OSA’S 100TH Anniversary Story!

OSA will be 100 years old in 2016, and we are planning a big celebration to commemorate this historic event. Our focus is on the extraordinary people who have advanced the field and have been an important part of our community. Please share with us your stories, photos and anecdotes about your experience with OSA and its members.
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Apply to Attend the 2015 Siegman International School on Lasers
2 - 8 August 2015
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Amberg, Germany
Application Deadline: 15 February

The Siegman International School is a week-long program that exposes students to in-depth learning of lasers and their applications from internationally recognized academic and industry leaders in the field. This program consists of lectures, networking events, professional development programs, poster presentations and research sharing and brings together the top 100 student applicants from around the world.

Tuition is $900 USD, which includes accommodations for 6 nights, all meals, lectures and materials. (Financial aid may be available.)

The Siegman International School on Lasers was established in honor of Anthony E. Siegman, 1999 OSA President, founding board member of The OSA Foundation and widely known expert on lasers and optics. This program is co-founded by IPG Photonics and endowed by donors from around the world.
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Advocacy
Join OSA for Congressional Visits Day

OSA and its National Photonics Initiative (NPI) partners are participating in the annual Congressional Visits Day (CVD) taking place in Washington, D.C. on 17 – 18 March 2015. With so many new members of Congress, this is a great opportunity to establish a relationship with your Congressional offices and to educate your members of Congress on the importance of optics and photonics.

OSA will be participating in this annual event to talk about the importance of R&D funding, the NPI and discuss other relevant legislation such as the America COMPETES Act. Training will occur on 17 March with a reception that evening on Capitol Hill. On 18 March, visits to your Congressional representatives will occur.

To participate, please send an email to Brandy Dillingham.
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U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty Visits OFS Specialty Photonics

A monitor screen image through a glass cup. — Abdollah Hassanzadeh, University of Kurdistan - See more at: http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/image_of_the_week/#image-2Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty toured the OFS Avon, CT facility on 16 December to see first-hand the impact of photonics on the community, state and the nation. “It was a privilege to host congresswoman Esty and demonstrate to her OFS’ commitment to improving our everyday lives through photonics enabled technology,” stated Dr. Timothy F. Murray, CEO and Chairman of OFS; OFS Fitel LLC is an OSA Industry Development Associates member. “Inclusion of optics and photonics in the recently passed Revitalizing American Manufacturing and Innovation (RAMI) Act send a strong signal from Congress that investing in this field is critical to the American workforce and economy. We appreciate the work that Rep. Esty has done on behalf of our business and our district, and we look forward to continuing to work with her and others in Congress to bridge the gap between basic research and product development to ensure U.S. leadership in photonics.”

If you are interested in inviting your local member of Congress to tour your facility, OSA can help coordinate the visit. Contact Laura Kolton for more information.

Industry
You’re Invited: Special Executive Event at OFC

On 23 March during the Executive Forum, you will connect with decision makers from the entire ecosystem in optical networking and communications. During these panel discussions, find out what the future holds from the visionaries making it happen.

OSA Industry Development Associates Members save $375 until 23 February and receive a Buy One, Get One Free Registration. Invite a colleague or customer to attend OSA Executive Forum with you at no charge. Seating is limited so register early, secure your seat and save!
moreA monitor screen image through a glass cup. — Abdollah Hassanzadeh, University of Kurdistan - See more at: http://www.osa-opn.org/home/gallery/image_of_the_week/#image-2
Register for the 2015 OSA-CIAN Workshop: Photonics in Dis-Aggregated Data Centers

OSA Industry Development Associates (OIDA) is once again hosting a workshop at OFC on the role of optics in data centers, this year focusing on the role of optics in dis-aggregated data centers. A “dis-aggregated” data center allows the architect to pool the processing, memory, storage and networking into separate racks or rows, using them more efficiently for certain tasks. This will be the fifth in a series done in partnership with CIAN, the NSF center managed out of the University of Arizona.

The workshop will be held 22 March in Lost Angeles, collocated with OFC. Special savings are available through 23 February.
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Appointments and Honors
Ronald Driggers Assumes Role of Applied Optics Editor-in-Chief

OSA welcomes Ronald Driggers, CEO of St. Johns Optical Systems, as the new Editor-in-Chief of Applied Optics. Prior to St. Johns Optical Systems, Driggers was the Superintendent of the Optical Sciences Division at the Naval Research Laboratory, and before that, he was the Director of the Modeling and Simulation Division at the U.S. Army’s Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD). Driggers is an OSA Fellow and was a topical editor of Applied Optics. He was also Editor-in-Chief of SPIE’s Optical Engineering. Driggers takes over this role from Joseph Mait, who successfully led the journal for 6 years.
OSA Congrats Best Student Paper Winners

Martin Ringbauer, University of Queensland, received the OSA Best Student Paper Prize at the Australian Institute of Physics Congress & Australian Optical Society (AOS) Meeting for his paper "Measurements on the Reality of the Wavefunction". The conference took place in December 2014 in Canberra, Australia. 2015 OSA President Philip Russell attended the conference and met with the local Student Chapter at the Australian National University.

Ajanta Barh, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India and Saba Nashreen Khan, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India received OSA Best Student Paper Prizes during the Photonics 2014 conference for their papers "Low-Loss Hollow Core Plastic Photonic Band-Gap Fiber for Efficient THz Transmission" and "Switchable Hermite-Gaussian Beam Generation in Dual-mode Fiber by Controlling Incident Polarization" respectively. The conference took place in December 2014 in Kharagpur, India. OSA CEO Elizabeth Rogan, 2014 President Philip Bucksbaum and 2015 President Philip Russell attended the conference.
 
 

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