Chris Dainty
congratulates
Mohiudeen Azhar.
Congrats to Student
Paper Awardees
At ACOFT 2010 in Melbourne, Australia, Mark Turner of Swinburne University received the OSA-Australian Optical
Society best student paper prize. During
Photonics 2010 in Guwahati, India,
OSA President Chris Dainty presented
best student paper awards to
Mohiudeen Azhar of the Max Planck Institute
in Erlangen, Germany, and Somnath
Ghosh, Indian Institute of Technology,
Delhi, India.
Member Named
Fellow of SLA
James King, a member of OSA’s
Library Advisory Committee, has been
named a 2011 Fellow by the Special
Libraries Association (SLA). He serves
as the National Institutes of Health
Library’s Information Architect in
Bethesda, Md., U.S.A. There, King
provides service to more than 5,000
clinicians and researchers and 15,000
support personnel. His recent focus
has been on creating virtual research
environments. Previously, he spent more
than 18 years at the Naval Research
Laboratory’s (NRL) Ruth H. Hooker
Research Library. He used his IT background to transform the NRL Research
Library from a print-based library to a
cutting-edge digital library. King has
served on several industry library advisory boards; he has received the SLA
Innovations in Technology Award, and
he was the 2010 President of the DC/
SLA Chapter. He is the convener of the
SLA Information Futurist Caucus.
Recife, the capital
city of Pernambuco.
Anderson S.L. Gomes, a member of
the OSA Board of directors and chair
of the OSA International Council, has
been named Secretary of Education of
the State of Pernambuco, Brazil. Gomes’s
department oversees 1,100 schools, more
than 30,000 teachers, almost 1 million
students and a budget of $1.7 billion.
He previously served as Pernambuco’s
State Secretary for Science, Technology
and Environment. Gomes is a professor
of physics at the Universidade Federal
de Pernambuco, and he was head of the
department from 2000 to 2004.
Free Journal Downloads
OSA Members receive 50 free Optics
InfoBase journal article or conference
paper downloads as part of their benefit package. Optics InfoBase is one of
the largest collections of peer-reviewed
optics and photonics content, with
nearly 200,000 articles and papers
to choose from. To access Optics
InfoBase, visit www.opticsinfobase.org
and “log-in” using your e-mail address
and OSA password. Note: Your
password will be your OSA member
number, unless you have changed it.
IONS-KOALA 2010 a
Great Success
OSA congratulates the organizers of
the latest International OSA Network
of Students (IONS) meetings. IONS-KOALA 2010 was organized by students
of the Otago University OSA Student
Chapter. IONS meetings give students
from around the world the opportunity
to share, collaborate and network with
their peers. For more information, visit
ions-project.org.
Mark your Calendars:
IONS- 9 in Salamanca, Spain
IONS- 9 is coming up 7-9 April 2011
in Salamanca, Spain. Speakers include
Chris Dainty (2011 OSA President, NUI
Galway) and Alexander Gaeta (OSA
Board of Directors, Cornell University),
among others. The conference features
student technical talks and posters, a
professional development session, lab
tours and networking opportunities. To
learn more, visit ions-project.org.
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