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9/7/2007
Gov. Charlie Crist visits CREOL
From Orlando Sentinel: While in town to deliver the keynote address at the Florida Dept. of Children & Families Dependency Summit in Orlando, Gov. Charlie Crist took the opportunity to make a tech side trip to the University of Central Florida, Wednesday afternoon. Crist met students and faculty, including UCF president John Hitt, and toured the school's College of Optics and Photonics, and the Institute for Simulation & Training research facility. More here...

10/21/2007
Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society
LEOS 2007 is the 20th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society. This year the conference will be held from 21 to 25 October in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, and includes short courses, invited papers, topical symposia and contributed technical papers addressing a broad spectrum of topics of interest to LEOS members and the lasers and electro-optics community. This conference has established itself as an important forum for the latest developments in lasers and electro-optic technologies. With a strong core of invited talks given by preeminent speakers from around the globe, LEOS 2007 will provide an ideal platform to learn about new fields and understand technological trends.  For more information, go to http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/leos/LEOSCONF/LEOS2007/index.html

5/25/2007
2007 International Michael Kidger Memorial Scholarship
Florian Fournier: Selected for the 2007 International Michael Kidger Memorial Scholarship. The Michael Kidger Memorial Scholarship was established in 1998 to honor Michael John Kidger, a well-respected educator, design software developer and member of the optical science and engineering community. The 2007 award is anticipated to consist of a study grant of $5,000. The award will be presented at the UK Optical Design Meeting (UK ODM) to be held on September 19th 2007, at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Oxfordshire, UK. The Space Science and Technology Department at The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, part of The Science and Technology Facilities Council, is sponsor of the UK ODM.