Congratulations 2009
Harvey H. Pollicove Memorial
Scholarship Winner
The OSA Foundation (OSAF)
announced that Katie Schwertz was
selected as the 2009
recipient of the Harvey
M. Pollicove Memo-
rial Scholarship during
the OSAF Chairman’s
Breakfast at Frontiers
in Optics. The schol-
arship, which honors
optics manufacturing
pioneer Harvey Pollicove, is given to an
outstanding student pursuing a degree in
precision optics manufacturing. Schwertz
is earning a master’s degree in optical
sciences at the University of Arizona.
The OSAF extends a special thank you
to the supporters of the H.M. Pollicove
Memorial Fund who have made this
Schwertz
Latin American Lidar
Meeting a Success
The Fifth Workshop on Lidar Measurements in Latin America was held in
Buenos Aires, from November 30 to
December 2, 2009. Sixty-five participants,
including six from the United States,
attended this meeting, which was held
at the Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos
Aires. The main goal was to bring Latin
American researchers and students
together to interact not only with those
from their own country, but also with
professionals from other areas and leaders of international lidar teams. A selection of papers presented at the meeting
will be sent to Optica Pura y Aplicada
magazine. OSA provided a small grant
to support this meeting.
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program or other Foundation initiatives,
visit www.osa-foundation.org/give.
Journal of the Optical Society of
Korea Now Available on Infobase
Current and previous issues of the Journal
of the Optical Society of Korea (JOSK) are
now posted to Optics InfoBase. JOSK
is published in English by the Optical
Society of Korea. All articles are available
free of charge.
The journal publishes papers that
report recent advances in all areas of
optical science and technology. JOSK
is published four times a year—March,
June, September and December.
Original contributions in all technical
fields are welcome. JOSK is indexed and
abstracted in Science Citation Index
Expanded and the Journal Citation
Reports of Thomson Reuters services.
Free E-mail Aliases
OSA offers a free e-mail alias service
that enables members to establish an
osamember.org address linked to their
own e-mail account. Having an OSA
e-mail account helps to ensure that
your contacts will always have a way to
reach you in case you change jobs or
switch Internet providers at home. To
sign up for this service, navigate to the
“Member Benefits” section under the
“Membership” tab on the OSA website.
Welcome New Editors
We are happy to announce that Franco
Gori of the Universita degli and Studi
Roma Tre has been appointed the new
editor of JOSA A. Eugenio Mendez of
CICESE is the new division editor of the
optical technology division for Applied
Optics. Finally, we welcome Michael
Duncan of the Naval Research Laboratory as the new chair of the OSA Board
of Editors.
Matthew Pelton of Argonne National
Labs and Gabriel Popescu of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have
agreed to serve as new associate editors for
Optics Express. P. Scott Carney of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
has joined the editorial board of JOSA A.
We also welcome Svetlana Lukishova of
the University of Rochester as a new topical editor for Optics Letters.
Finally, we thank Richard Moncorge
of the University of Caen and Javier
Hernandez-Andres of the University
of Granada for agreeing to serve second
three-year terms as topical editors for
JOSA B and JOSA A, respectively.
We thank these members of the opt-
ics community for their support of
OSA journals.
OSA Thanks Its Volunteers
OSA extends special thanks to Irene
Georgakoudi, Sailing He, Brad Bower
and Yannick Lize for their outstanding service on the OSA Senior Member
Advisory Group. The Advisory Group
was responsible for developing the
guidelines and policies for the newly
established OSA Senior Member category. The first Senior Members will be
announced in March.
Carlos López-Mariscal, MES Council Member and OSA Young Professional, has provided enormous support to the
Society’s student chapter and youth education programming. He is also involved
in a number of publications and meeting
activities. Many thanks to Carlos for his
ongoing efforts.
