SPIE Professional, October 2008 Issue

The October issue of SPIE Professional magazineis now available online.

SPIE Professional magazine

This issue of SPIE Professionalmagazine includes articles about several SPIE conferences that advance green technologies, including the upcoming Innovation Summit; articles about the state of the photo-lithography business; and two pieces on what SPIE constituents are doing to train future optical engineers.

The cover article is about the entrepreneurial climate in Europe and was written by Jose Salcedo, CEO of Multiwave Photonics in Portugal.

The full text of articles in the SPIE member quarterly is available only through an SPIE member login. However, one article in each issue is designated as open access. This issue’s open access article is by ASML chief scientist Bill Arnold who writes about his optimism about the future of semiconductor manufacturing. Arnold believes that lithography has adapted itself to scaling requirements over the years and that future fabs will remain “litho friendly. New technologies won’t easily displace optical lithography as a driver for Moore’s Law, he says.

The magazine also has articles about virtual autopsy, remote sensing, telecom, the Photonics Academy in Wales, new photonics societies in Poland and Hong Kong, and SPIE members in the news.

SPIE Student Chapter Leader Is Connecticut Newsmaker

Daniel Spicer, an SPIE member who attended the Student Leadership Workshop at SPIE Optics+Photonics last month, is the Norwich Bulletin’s Newsmaker of the Day.

Spicer, a student at Three Rivers Community College in Connecticut, joined about 100 other SPIE Student Chapter leaders from 18 states and countries, including Poland, China, India, and South Africa at the workshop.

Spicer told the newspaper that the optics and photonics conference in San Diego inspired him to continue his education in fiber and laser optics and electrical engineering.

“He’s considering the University of Central Florida and the University of Arizona, and looking for a job that will help pay for school. He said a lot of people are intimidated by jobs in the optics and engineering fields, but they shouldn’t be.”

Spicer said a career in science is scary to some people because “It’s a lot of math and a lot of science. But once you get past all that, it’s different,” he told the newspaper.

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SPIE’s New Slate of Officers for 2009

In addition to all the fun activities, great plenary presentations, and awesome technical conferences at SPIE Optics+Photonics in San Diego, the election results for SPIE’s 2009 officers and directors were announced last week by SPIE President Kevin Harding.

There’s a press release about it and a short article in SPIE Professional online. Here’s the skinny on the new officers and directors, all of whom are SPIE Fellows:

• Universidad Autonoma Professor Maria J. Yzuel (Spain) is the 2009 president
• Ralph B. James of Brookhaven National Laboratory (USA) will serve as president-elect
• Dr. Katarina Svanberg of Lund University (Sweden) was elected 2009 vice president
• Brian Lula, president and CEO of PI Physik Instrumente (USA), will serve another term as secretary-treasurer

New members of the SPIE Board of Directors are:

• Jennifer Barton
• Donis Flagello
• Bahram Javidi
• Upendra Singh
• Hugo Thienpoint