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Past Meetings & Events

August 2023 Planning Meeting
August 2023 Summer Planning Meeting at Buca di Beppo

December 2018 OSSC Meeting at Angelo's & Vinci's in Fullerton

January 2024 Meeting at the Sierra Madre United Methodist Church


October 2009 Meeting held at DRS


Presenter Walter Clark with his microwave demos (October 2009)

Laser Fest Cake
Cake from the May 2010 OSSC LaserFest Meeting held at Raytheon


The Optical Society of Southern California holds egular meetings, monthly from September through June (Except December), as well as a few special events.  Most of our meetings and events are open to the public.  This page includes a record of our past meetings dating back to 2009-2010. Events for the current active period are found on our events page and our events calendar.   

We encourage you to share ideas for future meetings with our Programs Chair.

OSSC Program Year 2023 - 2024


(Click on the Date for Event Registration and on the Topic for Presentation information.)
Date Location Speaker Topic

13 Sept 2023
Holiday Inn LA Gateway Torrance

Dr. Bradley Bobbs, Senior Scientist,

Laser Ultrasonic Products Group at
Intelligent Optical Systems

Laser ultrasonics for aerospace and nuclear applications

4 Oct 2023
Pasadena City College
Prof Changheui Yang
Caltech

Computation in microscopy: How computers are changing

the way we build microscopes

8 Nov 2023
UC Irvine
Beckman Laser Institute
Dr Elliot Botvinick

Bio-Engineering Advanced Medical Solutions (BEAMS) Laboratory at UCI – An Overview & Update


17 Jan 2023
Sierra Madre United Methodist Church
Dr Mehdi Asghari
CEO SILC, Monrovia, CA
Seeing the world in four dimensions
14 Feb 2024
Holiday Inn LA Gateway Torrance

Dr. Jeff Puschell,
Chief Engineer, EO/IR Payloads

Northrop Grumman Space Park

Hyperspectral coastal water imaging from space
13 March 2024
Urban Workshop
Dr. Elaine Jin, Principal Hardware Engineer - Camera Systems
Rivian
Overview of Automotive Cameras
10 April 2024
Holiday Inn LA Gateway Torrance Eric Fest, Ph.D. Optical Design of Waveguides for Augmented Reality Headsets
15 May 2024
UCI Division of Continuing Education Howard Lee, Ph.D. “Meta”-Optical Fibers: Integration of Metaphotonics with Fiber Optics
05 June 2024 Raffi's Catering & Banquet Daewook Kim, Ph.D. Scalable Extreme Optics Fabrication and Testing

 

OSSC Program Year 2022 - 2023


(Click on the Date for Event Registration or on the Topic for Presentation)
Date Location Speaker Topic
12 Oct 2022
Webinar & In-Person
MKS / Newport Corp
Jason Mudge PhD,
CEO Golden Gate Light Optimization, and
Adam Phenis, MS, CEO Amp Optics
Range-compensating lens:
Applications to LiDAR

16 Nov 2022
Webinar & In-Person
Fairfield Inn Tustin, Orange County
Doug Finke, Quantum Computing Report.com
Donn Silberman, Optics Institute of Southern California
The Quantum Industry - Education Overview & Outreach
14 Dec 2022
Webinar & In-Person
UC
Irvine, Div. of Continuing Education
Prof. Franklin Dollar, UC Irvine, Physics & Astronomy Dept.
Frontiers of Laser Driven
Advanced Accelerators
11 Jan 2023
Webinar & In-Person
Pasadena City College
Kent Wallace
JPL & Sensitec Technologies

Digital Holographic Microscopy
8 Feb 2023
Webinar & In-Person
Pasadena City College

Dr. Breanne Sitarski
GMTO
Overview and Status of
The Giant Magellan Telescop
15 March 2023
Webinar & In-Person
Holiday Inn LA Gateway Torrance

Jason Kriesel, OKSI(Opto-KnowledgeSystems, Inc.)
Laser Absorption Spectroscopy andHollow Core Fibers
12 April 2023
Webinar Prof. Galan Moody
ECE, UCSB
Compound Semiconductor-on-Insulator: Integrated Photonics Beyond Silicon
17 May 2023
Webinar & In-Person
UC Irvine,Div. of Continuing Education
James Bullock, P.D.
UC Irvine, Physics & Astronomy Dept.

JWST, Scientific User's Group Committee Chair

Exploring the Cosmos with JWST
14 June 2023 Holiday Inn LA Gateway Torrance James Kafka, Ph.D.
MKS Fellow /
Spectra-Physics CTO
Optica Vice Pres.

Ultrafast Laser and Innovation


OSSC Program Year 2021 - 2022

(Click on the Date for Event Registration or on the Topic for Presentation)
Date Location Speaker Topic
13 October 2021
Webinar Mr Tony Hull
U New Mexico

Mirror Material Parameters for Optimal Cost and Stability



10 November 2021

Combined
In-Person
& Webinar
Dr. Joseph Green
JPL

Rotating Synthetic Aperture Imaging


8 December 2021
Combined
In-Person
& Webinar
 
Mr Mike Scobey
CEO Alluxa

Versatile, Best in Class PVD Optical Coatings
12 January 2022
Combined
In-Person
& Webinar


Dr. Andrew Marcus
U Oregon, Eugene OR

Fluorescence-Detected Spectroscopy of Exciton-Coupled Cyanine Dimers

9 February 2022

Webinar Prof Tenio Popmintchev
UCSD
High Harmonic Generation
9 March 2022
Webinar Prof James Hamilton
U. Wisconsin
Platteville, WI
Cleaner than a Cleanroom: Filling Technology Gaps for Space Telescopes and LIGO
13 April 2022
Webinar Dr.  Bill Goodman
CEO Goodman Technologies

Ultra-Lightweight, Ultra-Stable RoboSiC Additively



27 April 2022

Webinar
Special Event
Dr. Gabriele Vajente
Sr Research

The Optical Technologies that Allowed
Gravitational Wave Detection

11 May 2022
Webinar Dr. Andrew Jordan
Chapman Univ.
Precison Measurement with Integrated Optics
9 June 2022
Webinar Mr. Erik Fleming
CEO Diverse Optics
Polymer Optics Manufacturing & Applications

OSSC Program Year 2020 - 2021

(Click on the Date for Event Registration or on the Topic for Presentation)
Date Location Speaker Topic
14 October 2020 Webinar Dr. Nemanja Jovanovic Astrophotonics and Search for Extraterrestrial Life
18 November 2020 Webinar Prof. Robert L. Byer
Table Top Xray Laser
9 December 2020 Webinar Dr. Stephen Fantone
Molecular Vibrations
Imaged for the First Time
13 January 2021 Webinar Dr. Aaron Freeman
Microsat laser Communication Terminals and IR Imaging Space-Based Payloads
10 February 2021 Webinar Prof. Nader Engheta
Extreme Optical Metamaterials and Applications
17 March 2021 Webinar Profs. Tom Suleski and Matt Davies
Recent Advances in Freeform Optics
7 April 2021 Webinar Prof. Sasan Fathpour
Recent Advances in Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Integrated Optics
20 May 2021 Webinar Dr. Garrett Cole
Redefining Precision Laser Optics With Substrate-Transferred Optical Coatings
9 June 2021 Webinar Prof. Rajesh Menon
Versatile Flat Diffractive Optics


OSSC Program Year 2019-2020

(Click on the Date for Event Registration or on the Topic for Presentation)
Date Location Speaker Topic
9 October 2019 Ayres Hotel Dr. Jon Arenberg James Webb Space Telescope
& Tours at NGST
13 November 2019 Cal Poly Pomona Kevin Romero Optical Payloads for Telescopes; Instruments: Innovation & Creativity
11 December 2019 Fullerton Prof V. Ara Apkarian Molecular Vibrations
Imaged for the First Time
8 January 2020 St Gregory Church, Pasadena Kurt Ponsor A complete review of past/ present telescopes & the exotic materials used in them
12 February 2020 Joint Forces Training Base
Los Alamitos
Dr. Mike Sholl The Supernova Acceleration Probe
Studying Dark Energy in the Universe
11 March 2020 JPL (cancelled) Dr. Garreth Ruane The Search for Exoplanets
8 April 2020 On-Line Webinar Scott Jordan Intelligent Positioning in High Throughput Photonics Manufacturing Automation
13 May 2020 On-Line Webinar Dr. Alex Fast Multiphoton Imaging of Human Skin
17 June 2020 TBD TBD TBD


OSSC Program Year 2018-2019


Date Location Speaker Topic
12 June 2019 Brea Civic & Cultural Center,
Brea
Sandy Irani &
Jonathan Habif
Annual OSSC Business Meeting --
Quantum Computing & The National Quantum Initiative
8 May 2019 Proud Bird,
El Segundo
Wayne Rodgers Evolution of Optical Monitoring for Thin Film Coating
10 April 2019 Facebook,
Northridge
Hamid Hemmati Connecting the Unconnected
13 March 2019 Cal Poly Pomona,
Kellogg West Conference Center
Mark Harfouche The Micro Camera Array Microscope—Enabling gigapixel imaging for behavioral biology
13 February 2019 St. Gregory Church
Pasadena
Andrey Matsko Advancing Microresonator-Based Photonics Technology at OEWaves
9 January 2019 Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base Timothy Day Tunable Laser Based Spectroscopic Imaging and Sensing
12 December 2018 Angelo’s and Vinci’s,
Fullerton
Simon Prince Optics for DNA Sequencing
6 - 8 November 2018 Ayres Hotel,
El Segundo
Three days of speakers and exhibitors Mirror Tech Days Reception
14 November 2018
Eden Garden,
Pasadena
James Beletic,
Teledyne Imaging Sensors
Detection of Visible and Infrared Light for Scientific Research
10 October 2018 UC Irvine Division of Continuing Education Chris Barty,
UC Irvine
CI’s Convergence Optical Sciences Initiative and the Development and Applications of Compact Laser-Compton X-ray Sources

OSSC Program Year 2017-2018


Date Location Speaker Topic
13 June 2018 Precision Optical,
Costa Mesa
James Millerd,
4D Technologies
Annual OSSC Business Meeting --
Advances in Large Mirror Interferometry for Commercial Applications
9 May 2018
Mahr Metrology
Cypress
Brent Bergner Advances in Metrology Tools for Asphere Characterization
11 April 2018 St. Gregory Church
Pasadena
Robert Thompson Laser Trapping on ISS
14 March 2018 Sodexo at
Pickwick Gardens
Burbank
Donald (Don) A. Pearson II An Introduction to
Spectrally Controlled Interferometry
for the Measurement of
Flat and Spherical Optics
7 February 2018 The Reef Restaurant
Long Beach
Angus Macleod History of the Fundamentals of Optical Coatings
10 January 2018 Cal Poly Pomona,
Kellogg West Conference Center
Nolan Johnson, Chris Mendoza, and Jacob Taube (Cal Poly Physics & Astronomy),
Sevan Menachekanian (Cal Poly Chemistry & Biochemistry, and JPL)
Survey of Student Projects in Optics at Cal Poly Pomona:
"Broadband Multilayer Plasmonic Structures",
"Image Analysis in IR Astronomy",
"Galileo's Telescope",
and "Spatial Heterodyne Raman Spectrometers in Deep UV Region"
13 December 2017
UCI Applied Innovation,
"The Cove"
Kenneth August &
Michael Silivio
R&D Tax Credits &
International Technology Transactions Legal Considerations
14-16 November 2017 Aryes Hotel,
El Segundo
Three days of speakers and exhibitors Mirror Tech Days Reception
8 November 2017 Proud Bird,
El Segundo
Yang Chen,
nanoPrecision Products
Next Generation Fiber
Optic Connectors
11 October 2017 JPL Von Karman Auditorium Mars2020 SHERLOC Instrument Team “Imaging” the Invisible World:
Mars, Meteorites and Terrestrial Environments

OSSC Program Year 2016-2017


Date Location Speaker Topic
14 June 2017 Luminarias Restaurant Prof. Alex Small,Cal Poly Pomona Superresolution Microscopy: What is it, how far can it go, and why did your professor mislead you?
10 May 2017 The Cove, Irvine Panelists: Alan Willner, Bruce Tromberg,
James Fisher, Nicolaus Lambert
Moderator: Donn Silberman
Nexus between government, academia, industry and our professional societies in optics and photonics:
A Panel Discussion
12 April, 2017 Anaheim Business Expo, 2 miles from SPIE Defense and Commercial Sensing meeting Pete Vallianos,N2 Imaging Systems Challenges in Optical Design in Soldier Systems
22 March 2017 Los Angeles Convention Center, co-located with OSA's OFC Conference Scott Jordan, Head of Photonics, Physik Instrumente Nano-alignment as challenge and enabler for "Silicon Photonics"
8 February 2017 Alcon Laboratories, Lake Forest Zsolt Bor, Director of Engineering, Alcon Laboratories Eye Surgery With Femtosecond Lasers
11 January 2017 Monterey Clubhouse at Encino, Encino Roger Smith, Caltech Surveying the Sky 1500 Times Faster: The engineering of a large astronomical Camera
14 December 2016 Kellogg West Hotel and Conference Center, at Cal Poly Pomona Richard C. Juergens, Cimarron Optical Consulting, Inc. IODC Lens Design Competitions from the last 25 years and Corporate Member Appreciation Event
9 November 2016 II-VI Optical Systems Kent Weed, Director of Engineering,
II-VI Optical Systems
Winning, building and testing the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) Lens Assemblies
5 October 2016 St. Gregory Armenian Apostolic Church Mark Helminger, JPL A Terrestrial Tour of Airborne Mapping Spectroscopy at JPL

OSSC Program Year 2015-2016


Date Location Speaker Topic
8 June 2016 Luminarias Restaurant (Monterey Park) Eric Potma, UC Irvine, Dept. of Chemistry Annual Business Meeting, Fellows Induction, and Presentation on "Nonlinear Optics to the Rescue"
11 May 2016 JPL Von Karman Auditorium Virginia Ford, Senior Optomechanical Engineer,Thirty Meter Telescope A Technical Overview of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT)
13 April 2016 Spring Field Banquet Center Dr. Joshua Smith, LIGO & CSU Fullerton
and
Dr. Alan Willner, USC and OSA
Using optics and precision metrology in LIGO to measure black hole mergers from across the universe
and update on the National Photonics Initiative
9 March 2016 Holiday Inn LAX Dr. Stephanie Sandor-Leahy, Northrop-Grumman Aerospace Systems Hyperspectral Remote Sensing
10 February 2016 Courtyard Marriott, Monrovia John Rogers, Synopsys Freeform and related optical systems
13 January 2016 Kellogg West Hotel and Conference Center (on the campus of Cal Poly Pomona) Dr. Tijana Jovanovic-Talisman Advances in quantitative super-resolution microscopy
9 December 2015 UC Irvine Institute for Innovation Milton Chang Starting a Business in the Current Environment
11 November 2015 St. Gregory Armenian Apostolic Church Andrew Rakich, Senior Optinical Engineer,Giant Magellan Telescope A Technical Overview of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT)
14 October 2015 Los Angeles Southwest College Hildreth (Hal) Walker Jr. Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment and STEM Education

OSSC Program Year 2014-2015


Date Location Speaker Topic
8 October 2014 Precision Optical,
Costa Mesa
Panel Discussion:
NPI Four Member Panel
National Photonics Initiative*
12 November 2014 The Proud Bird,
Los Angeles
Harvey Spencer Optical Materials
10 December 2014 IVC ATEP,
Tustin
Panel Discussion:
IVC ATEP Five Member Panel
Corporate Member Appreciation Event
and
Growing Optics in Southern California*
14 January 2015 Kellogg West Conference Center, onCal Poly Pomona Campus Dr. David Stork Lensless Imaging
14 February 2015 Hilton Garden Inn,
Redondo Beach
Dr. Daniel Winters,
Trioptics USA
State-of-the-Art Active Camera Alignment
11 March 2015 Panavision,
Woodland Hills
Dan Sasaki,
VP Optical Engineering
Lens Design for Cinematography
8 April 2015 Newport Corporation,
Irvine
Dr. Jim Wyant College of Optical Sciences at
the University of Arizona:
50 Years of Excellence*
20 May 2015 Hilton Garden Inn,
Redondo Beach
Antonio Mendez Photonic Signal Processing for Optical Communications Receivers
17 June 2015 Luminarias,
Monterey Park
Dr. Ron Polidan,
Northrop Grumman
Annual Meeting &An Evolvable Space Telescope For Future Astronomical Missions

OSSC Program Year 2013-2014


Date Location Speaker Topic
12 June 2014 Luminarias,
Monterey Park
Donn Silberman (Physik Instrumente and Optics Institute of Southern California), Nicolaus Lambert (Precision Optical), Julia Majors (UC Irvine), and Bo Wang (Precision Optical) Annual Business Meeting,
Induction of Scott Rowe and Valentina Doushkina as OSSC Fellows,
Presentation: Optics Education and Outreach Programs in Southern California
30 May 2014 Mount Wilson Observatory   Viewing Night
14 May 2014 Monterey Clubhouse,
Encino
Steve Fantone, Optikos CVOSA & OSSC Joint Meeting &
Adventures in Optics
9 April 2014 Kellogg West Conference Center, on Cal Poly Pomona Campus Career panel: Valentina Doushkina (N2 Imaging), Donald Pearson (Davidson Optronics), Paige Lawson (Lightworks Optical Systems)
Keynote: Eric Becklin, Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astrophysics
Panel Discussion: "How can students prepare for careers in the optics industry?"
Keynote:Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA): Overview and First Science Results
12 March 2014 CalTech Cahill Center Hameetman Auditorium Reed Riddle, CalTech Robo-AO
12 February 2014 Hacienda Hotel,
El Segundo
James Millerd, 4D Technology Dynamic Interferometry
8 January 2014 Courtyard by Marriott, Monrovia Jordan Neysmith,Second Sight Innovation in Vision Restoration: Second Sight
11 December 2013 Calit2 Auditorium/
UC Irvine
OSSC Corporate Members Exhibits &
Ron Sherwood, Novus Light
Corporate Member Appreciation Event
and Photonics: An Industry Moving at the Speed of Light
13 November 2013 USC - Aerospace Presentation Center Greg Downing and Eric Hanson, X-Rez Studio Innovation and Disruption in Digital Imaging
9 October 2013 The Chart Room,
Cal State Long Beach
,
Long Beach
Dr.Yoseph Bar-Cohen, JPL Humanlike Robots as the Ultimate Challenge to Mimicking Biology
1-4 October 2013 Northrop Grumman
Aerospace Presentation Center
Various Conference & Mirror Technology Days

OSSC Program Year 2012-2013


Date Location Speaker Topic
12 June 2013 Hacienda Hotel,
El Segundo
Lacy Cook, Raytheon Space & Airborne Systems Annual Business Meeting
&
Presentation: Where DO Inventive Ideas Come From?
8 May 2013 Embassy Suites, Irvine Dr. Hu Cang, Salk Institute Cloud Computing and Light-sheet Illumination for Single-molecule Super-resolution Imaging
10 April 2013 Empress Paviliion, Los Angeles Dr. Michelle Povinelli, University of Southern California Light Interaction with Nanostructured Materials: Photovoltaics and Self-Assembly
20 March 2013 Holiday Inn Anaheim in conjunction with OFC Dr. Jules Jaffe, Scripps Institution of Oceanography From Titanic to the Tiny: Three Decades of Underwater Optical Imaging in my Lab
13 February 2013 Kellogg West Conference Center, on Cal Poly Pomona Campus Dr. Timothy Corcoran, Cal Poly Pomona A Sideways Look at Broadband Fluorescence Spectroscopy
9 January 2013 The Chart Room,
Cal State Long Beach
,
Long Beach
Dr. Steve Howell, NASA The NASA Kepler Mission: Recent Exoplanet and Astrophysical Discoveries
21 December 2012 Mt. Wilson Observatory NA Stargazing
12 December 2012 Embassy Suites, Anaheim-North Arnie Bazensky,
Schott North America
Corporate Member Appreciation Event
and presentation on Schott History
14 November 2012 Monterey Clubhouse,
Encino
Dr. Muthu Jeganathan, JPL Instruments on Curiosity
10 October 2012 Hacienda Hotel,
El Segundo
Lenny Lipton An Overview of Electro-stereoscopic Displays

OSSC Program Year 2011-2012


Date Location Speaker Topic
13 June 2012 Luminarias,
Monterey Park
Naty Hoffman,
Activision
Uses of Physically-Based Light-Material Interaction Models in Videogame and Feature Film Graphics
9 May 2012 N2 Imaging, Irvine (tour), then Citrus Cafe, Tustin (dinner and presentation) Peter Vallianos,
N2 Imaging Systems
Challenges in Optical Design in Soldier Systems
21 April 2012 UC Irvine Beall Center for Art + Technology,
Irvine
Outreach Chair:
Donn Silberman
Family Day Event
14 April 2012 Mile Square Golf Course,
Fountain Valley
OSSC Golf Chair:
Hal Johnson
OSSC Annual Fred Hansen Memorial Golf Tournament
11 April 2012 Kellogg West Conference Center, on Cal Poly Pomona Campus Dan Harris,
Naval Air Systems Command, China Lake
History of Magneto-rheological Finishing
10-11 March 2012 Discovery Science Center,
Santa Ana
Outreach Chair:
Donn Silberman
Optricks & Lasers Extravaganza
7 March 2012 JW Marriott Hotel,
Los Angeles
Dr. Madeleine Glick, APIC Corporation at OFC/NFOEC Conference LA Convention Center
Optics in Next Generation Data Centers
8 February 2012 UC Riverside, Department of Electrical Engineering,
Riverside
Prof Alexander Balandin Unique Thermal Properties Of Graphene: Applications In Thermal Management Of Optoelectronics And Electronics
11 January 2012 USC Keck School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology
Los Angeles
Dr. Carmen Puliafito and Shuliang Jiao New developments in ophthalmic optical coherence tomography
and
Photoacoustic ophthalmoscopy for in vivo retinal imaging: current status and prospects
14 December 2011 UC Irvine, hosted by the UC Irvine OSA Student Chapter Karen Newman and Laura Marshall
and
Exhibits by OSSC Corporate Members
Corporate Member Appreciation Event
and Scale to thrive? Consolidation in the Photonics Industry
9 November 2011 Synopsys,
Pasadena
Bruce Moision, JPL Signaling on the Deep-Space Optical Channel
5 November 2011 UC Irvine Beall Center for Art + Technology, Irvine Outreach Chair:
Donn Silberman
Family Day Event
12 October 2011 Hacienda Hotel,
El Segundo
Jeff Puschell, Raytheon History and future of space-based images and other optoelectronic systems

OSSC Program Year 2010-2011


Date Location Speaker Topic
10 July 2011
6 Aug 2011
Mount Wilson Observatory Mount Wilson Observatory OSSC Family Tour &
Astronomical Viewing Events
18 & 19 June 2011 Discovery Science Center,
Santa Ana
Outreach Chair:
Donn Silberman
Optricks & Laser Extravaganza
8 June 2011 Luminarias,
Monterey Park
OSSC Annual Meeting
60th Anniversary of OSSC
Honoring of Past OSSC Presidents
21 May 2011 Whispering Lakes Golf Course,
Ontario
OSSC Golf Chair:
Hal Johnson
OSSC Annual Fred Hansen Golf Tournament
11 May 2011 Kellogg West Conference Center, on Cal Poly Pomona Campus Alex Small & Ertan Salik,
Cal Poly Pomona
Tapered Optical Fibers & Theoretical Limits to Microscopy Beyond the Diffraction Limit
27 April 2011 UC San Diego Yeshaiahu "Shaya" Fainman,
UC San Diego
Ultrafast and Nanoscale Optics
16 April 2011 UC Irvine Beall Center for Art + Technology,
Irvine
Outreach Chair:
Donn Silberman
Family Day Event
13 April 2011 Osaka Seafood Buffet,
Brea
Pete Fuqua,
Aerospace Corporation
Angle Resolved Scattering from Optical Filters for Space Applications
9 March 2011 JW Marriott Hotel,
Los Angeles
Milton Chang at OFC/NFOEC Conference LA Convention Center
Starting and Running Companies
9 February 2011 Hacienda Hotel,
El Segundo
Dan Vukobratovich Binocular Designs
12 January 2011 Monterey Clubhouse,
Encino
Robert Fischer, OSSC Fellow Optical Design Magic
8 December 2010 Newport Corporation,
Irvine
Tommaso Baldacchini Chemical Mapping of Three-Dimensional Microstructures Fabricated by Two-Photon Polymerization Using CARS Microscopy
13 November 2010 UC Irvine Beall Center for Art + Technology, Irvine Outreach Chair:
Donn Silberman
Family Day EventFamily Day Event
10 November 2010 USC Institute for Creative Technologies
Playa Vista
Paul Debevec, Abhijeet Ghosh & Andrew Jones Light Stage - Creation
of Virtual Avatars
13 October 2010 LightWorks Optics,
Tustin
Dan Barber, Kent Weed & Roger Johnston, LightWorks Optics
Mark Robinson, ASU
Space-Based Optical Systems at LightWorks
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera
10 October 2010 UC Irvine Beall Center for Art + Technology, Irvine Outreach Chair:
Donn Silberman
Experimental Media Art Festival 10.10.10

OSSC Program Year 2009-2010


Date Location Speaker Topic
2010-2011
(pending road repair)
Mount Wilson Observatory Mount Wilson Observatory OSSC Family Event
23 June 2010 Luminarias,
Monterey Park
Alson E Hatheway,
Alson E. Hatheway Inc.
Bridging the Chasm - Applying the Structural Engineering Arts to Optics
12 June 2010 Discovery Science Center,
Santa Ana
Optricks Day
LaserFest
Family Day Event
22 May 2010 Whispering Lakes Golf Course,
Ontario
OSSC Golf Chair:
Hal Johnson
OSSC Annual Fred Hansen Golf Tournament
12 May 2010 Raytheon Space & Airborne Systems,
El Segundo
Dan Nieuwsma,
Raytheon SAS
OSSC LaserFest at Raytheon:
50th Anniversary Celebration of the First Working Laser!
17 April 2010 UC Irvine Beall Center for Art + Technology,
Irvine
Outreach Chair:
Donn Silberman
Family Day Event
14 April 2010 UCLA Aydogan Ozcan Innovation Through Photonics
10 March 2010 Cerritos HomeTown Buffet Steve Chakmakjian,
Zygo Corporation
Confidence in Optical Metrology
10 February 2010 Almansor Court,
Alhambra
Steve Hines, Hineslab 3-D Video Without Glasses!
13 January 2010 UC Irvine Beall Center for Art + Technology,
Irvine
David G. Stork
Ricoh Innovations
Did the great masters "cheat" using optics?
9 December 2009 Crowne Plaza,
Fullerton
Joseph Diep, Joseph Bashe & Evan Lundstedt of Exotic Electro-Optics IR Optics Manufacturing Lenses, Windows & Domes
14 November 2009 UC Irvine Beall Center for Art + Technology, Irvine Outreach Chair:
Donn Silberman
Family Day Event
11 November 2009 Northrop Grumman "S" Cafeteria, Redondo Beach Gwynne Shotwell, President of SpaceX Getting to Space for Less Cost
21 October 2009 DRS Defense Solutions,
Cypress
Walter Clark Demonstrations of Polarization Using Microwaves, Radio Waves & Light

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