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CREOL, The College of Optics & Photonics
Bahaa Saleh Accepts Dean's Position at CREOL
UCF Researchers Win Three Prestigious Optics Awards
Shin-Tson Wu Earns International Award for Research & Guidance in Liquid-Crystal Display
Jannick Rolland, Cynthia Young & Denise Nicholson Honored by UCF Women's Research Center
Zhibing Ge Wins 2007 UCF Outstanding Dissertation Award
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Save the Date: April 18, 2008 Register Today! Click here for details
Experience the Latest Trends in Biophotonics & Bio-Applications at Industrial Affiliates Day 2008. In additon, discover what's new in optics and photonics research at CREOL including lab tours, student research posters, and talks from a world-class assembly of plenary speakers:
DR. ROX ANDERSON, M.D., Wellman Center for Photomedicine Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts
General Hospital
DR. YARON SILBERBERG, Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science
DR. JIM FUJIMOTO, Electrical Eng. & Computer Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
DR. CHRISTOPHER CONTAG, Molecular Imaging Program; Stanford University
DR. ARISTIDE DOGARIU, CREOL, The College of Optics & Photonics
DR. DANIEL van der WEIDE, CREOL, The College of Optics & Photonics
Dr. Eric Van Stryland, CREOL, The College of Optics & Photonics
CREOL Student of the Year (to be named)
Industrial Affiliates Day 2008: 'Biophotonics & Bio-applications' will be held at the UCF Alumni Center & CREOL Building, Orlando, FL on April 18th, 8:30am - 6pm. Click here to register. Attendance is free, and open to all interested persons, not just CREOL Affiliates.
Spring Thing 2008! Click here for more info.This year's celebration will include lots of fun activities for the entire family. Play volleyball, basketball, croquet, tug-o'-war, or go gator stalking on Lake Jesup! Fishing enthusiasts, bring your own gear and try your luck along the shores of scenic Lake Jesup. Plus, drinks, door prizes and games, provided and arranged by CAOS students and much more! Bring lawn chairs, bug spray and a party attitude!
Affiliates, Partners, and Friends, are all enthusiastically invited. You are welcome to bring your friends and family members to this unforgettable subtropical fiesta! Call or email the CREOL receptionist at (407) 823-6800 / creol@creol.ucf.edu to RSVP. The Spring Thing 2008 will be held at 'Soggy Acres' 100 Tuskawilla Road, Winter Springs, FL 32708.
Current Dean Eric Van Stryland welcomes Professor Bahaa Saleh of Boston University to CREOL. Saleh has accepted the Dean's position at CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics. Bahaa commented, "I feel great about my new role and I look forward to the new challenge." It will take several months for Bahaa to make the transition from Boston. Dean Van Stryland who has led CREOL since 1999, stated, "I am happy! I have known Bahaa for many years, and he is a great choice to lead us to the next level."
Bahaa E. A. Saleh has been professor and chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University since 1994. He is Deputy Director of the NSF Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems, an NSF Engineering Research Center. He is also co-director of the Quantum Imaging Laboratory and a member of the Boston University Photonics Center. He received the B.S. degree from Cairo University in 1966 and the Ph.D. degree from the Johns Hopkins University in 1971, both in electrical engineering. He held faculty and research positions at the University of Santa Catarina in Brazil, Kuwait University, Max Planck Institute in Germany, the University of California-Berkeley, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Columbia University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he was a faculty member from 1977 to 1994 and served as Chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1990 to 1994.
Saleh's research contributions cover abroad spectrum of topics in optics and photonics including statistical and quantum optics, optical communication and signal processing, nonlinear optics, photodetectors, image processing, and vision. He is the author of two books, Photoelectron Statistics (Springer-Verlag,1978) and Fundamentals of Photonics (Wiley-InterScience, 1991, 2nd edition, 2007, with M. C. Teich), chapters in seven books, and more than 500 papers in technical journals and conference proceedings. He served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Optical Society of America from 1991 to 1997, and Chairman of the Board of Editors of the Optical Society of America from 1997 to 2001. He also served as Vice President of the International Commission of Optics (ICO) from 2000 to 2002. Saleh is Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Optical Society of America, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is the recipient of the 1999 Optical Society of America Esther Hoffman Beller Award for outstanding contributions to optical science and engineering education, the 2004 SPIE BACUS award for his contribution to photomask technology, and the 2006 Kuwait Prize for his contributions to optical science. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, and Tau Beta Pi.
SPIE Gold Medal, Dennis Gabor Award, and G.G. Stokes Award
At the SPIE Defense and Security Symposium banquet March 19 in Orlando, researchers at the University of Central
Florida received three of the highest awards bestowed by one of the world's premier scientific societies in
optics and photonics. M.J. Soileau, vice president of UCF's Office of Research and Commercialization and Founding Director of CREOL, received the SPIE gold medal, the highest honor awarded by the international society. Research faculty member Leon Glebov, won SPIE's Dennis Gabor Award for outstanding accomplishments in technologies relating to holography. And Shin-Tson Wu, Provost Distinguished Professor of Optics, received SPIE’s G. G. Stokes Award for exceptional contributions to the field of optical polarization.
Shin-Tson Wu Earns International Award for Research and Guidance in Liquid-Crystal Display
After 18 years working at the Hughes Research Laboratories in California and seven years at UCF,
Dr. S.T. Wu has
been chosen for the 2008 Jan Rajchman Prize, the highest honor conferred by the Society for Information Display
(SID). SID is an international organization with chapters across the Americas, Europe and Asia that engages
professionals in every vocation relating to flat-panel and other types of displays.Chris King, chairman of the SID Honors and Awards Committee, said that Wu was an obvious candidate for the award, not only because of his prolific contributions to the field, but also because of his commitment to the international community. "He's been very active internationally, helping especially people in Taiwan develop liquid-crystal technologies and helping with the education in Asia, as well as in the United States," King said.
Jannick Rolland, Cynthia Young & Denise Nicholson Honored by the UCF Women's Center
Jannick Rolland, Professor of Optics, ECE & Computer Science and head of the
Optical Diagnostics and Applications
Lab at CREOL has been honored, along with several other UCF women faculty, by the UCF Women's Research
Center. The announcement for their honor reads: "Today we honor 20 women faculty who were recognized nationally
or internationally for their research, creative activities and leadership during 2006 and 2007. These are
women who are making history and we honor them during Women's History Month."
Zhibing Ge, who recently graduated with a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Dr. S.T. Wu's group, has
been selected as the winner of the UCF Outstanding Dissertation Award for 2007. Many congratulations to Zhibing!Eric W. Van Stryland, Dean
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