Many of the students who attended the SPIE Student Chapter Leadership Workshop on Saturday stayed for the exhibition and symposia at SPIE Optics+Photonics in San Diego.
In addition to attending conferences, presenting papers, and enjoying the comraderie of other optical scientists, several erected exhibits to show activities of their SPIE Student Chapters.
Students from Poland, Brussels, Singapore and elsewhere proudly exhibited in the San Diego Convention Center.
An annual event at SPIE Optics+Photonics includes an SPIE Student Chapter Leadership Workshop for 100-200 students from all over the world.
This year’s all-day Leadership Workshop was held Saturday, 9 August, at the Marriott in San Diego, and other events for students and early career professionals were held on Sunday when the technical conferences officially began.
I took this photo with my iPhone, so it may not be too sharp, and it looks like some people standing on the right got cropped out. Sorry!
The April 2008 issue of SPIE Professional and a May 26 article in The Washington Post describe some high-tech ways that people can conserve energy.
Beth Kelley’s article in SPIE Professional puts the spotlight on a number of products and devices that use optical technologies to help the environmentally and tech-savvy consumer monitor and save energy. These green tools include the Ambient Orb, Ewgeco and Wattson to monitor how much electricity you are using, electrochromic windows, and hybrid solar chargers for small electronic devices.
The Washington Post story, which was picked up by a number of other newspapers, talks about some of these devices as well as the “Prius effect,” a trend among owners of Toyota’s hybrid car to have friendly rivalries and competitions for better mileage. The elaborate monitors on the Prius dashboard seem to be making Prius drivers more conscious about energy conservation and changing their driving habits in surprising ways.
