Galileoscope Program Reaches
Wisconsin Students
;e OSA Foundation recently hosted a
special optics program in Milwaukee,
Wis., U.S.A. Over the course of four
days, OSA members Carlos López-Mariscal and Yasaman Soudagar made
13 presentations to nearly 450 minority
middle and high school students and
teachers. ;e presentations included a
Welcome New Editors
We are happy to announce that the following individuals have become associate
editors for Optics Express: Javier Garcia-Monreal of the University of Valencia,
Xiang Liu of Alcatel Lucent, Niels Asger
Mortensen of the Technical University
of Denmark, and Xiang Zhou of AT&T
Labs. We’d also like to welcome Robert
Kaindl of Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory and Valdas Pasiskevicius of
the Royal Institute of Technology as new
topical editors for JOSA B. Finally, we
thank Giancarlo Pedrini of Stuttgart
University for agreeing to serve as a new
topical editor for Applied Optics.
Welcome also to the new deputy
editors of Optics Express: John Dudley
of the Universite de Franche-Comte, F.
Javier Garcia de Abajo of the Institut
de Optica, Guifang Li of the University
of Central Florida, James Leger of the
Volunteers Carlos López-Mariscal and Yasaman Soudagar help students to assem- ble their Galileoscopes at Believers in Christ Academy in Milwaukee.
demonstration of lenses and their functions and a brief history of Galileo and
his contributions to science. Each student
assembled his or her own “Galileoscope.”
;e program was very well received by
the students and teachers. Please consider
supporting the “Galileoscope Challenge”
or one of the many other OSA Foundation programs by visiting: www.osa-foundation.org/give.
University of Minnesota, Colin McKinstrie of Alcatel Lucent, and Brian Orr of
Macquarie University. We thank these
members of the optics community for
their support of OSA journals.
New OSA Journal:
Biomedical Optics Express
OSA is launching a new open access,
rapid publication journal dedicated to
research and applications of optics and
photonics in the life sciences. ;e first
issue will be published in September
2010. Submissions are welcome on topics
encompassing theoretical modeling and
ILC MSU Student Chapter
Brings Light to Middle School
;e Student Chapter of the International
Laser Center at Moscow State University recently used the Optics Suitcase to
teach roughly 50 seventh- and eighth-grade students about some fascinating
properties of light. ;ey explained the
wave nature of light and used a Slinky
to show the phenomena of polarization.
Using two polarizers, they demonstrated
how light can be gradually weakened,
depending on the angle.
Experiments with
polarizers.
Irina Zhvania
simulations, technology development,
and biomedical studies and clinical
applications. For more information,
visit www.opticsinfobase.org/boe.
Introducing Energy Express
Energy Express is a new and recurring
bi-monthly supplement to Optics Express.
Edited by Bernard Kippelen of the
Georgia Institute of Technology, Energy
Express will focus on research pertaining to the use of light for sustainable
energy development, the environment
and green technologies. Submissions
are encouraged on research covering the
role that optics plays in energy e;ciency
and sustainability. Submit manuscripts
to Optics Express. Visit Energy Express at
www.opticsinfobase.org/ee.
Lynne Sturtz ( lsturt@osa.org) is OSA’s publications coordinator.
