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Report from the 90th Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of America
By Kristin Beck, SPS Reporter, University of Rochester
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| Participants in the OSA Symposium on Undergraduate Research, held October 9, 2006. |
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From October 8 to 12, 2006, the Optical Society of America (OSA) held its 90th Annual Meeting in Rochester, New York. I attended the OSA conference at the suggestion of Professor Nicholas Bigelow, who directs a quantum optics lab at the University of Rochester (Dr. Bigelow was also the featured speaker at the Zone 3 SPS Meeting at Rowan University). Several undergraduates who worked in his group last summer were presenting their work in the student sessions. Not only would the conference give me a chance to meet them and learn what they contributed to the group, but it also would give me a chance to immerse myself in research side of optics.
As one example, Erin Riley, a recent SPS scholarship winner and a senior at the University of Central Florida (UCF), researched the formation of silver nanoparticles in a special glass that contains silver at the University of Bordeaux in France.
For the full story from the
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(Left to right): Lydia Mishchenko, from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, discusses her project with Andrew Kowalik, a graduate student from the University of Rochester at the poster session. |
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