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SPIE Awards $1,000 Scholarship to Constance Teoh Kang Ting, Ding Ruo Jun and Song Majinyang.
SPIE has awarded a $1,000 SPIE Optical Science and Engineering Scholarship to Constance Teoh Kang Ting, Ding Ruo Jun, and Song Majinyang, at the Raffles Girls’ Secondary School in Singapore.
Under the direction of Prof. Anand Asundi, Nanyang Technological University, this group of girls is working on a project on Digital Holography. Their research centered on testing the applications and specifications of a Digital Holography set-up and investigated the use as a means of surface topography analysis of micro-devices.
click here to download the news release from SPIE.
For more information on SPIE’s scholarship program, click here.
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the nobel prize in physics 2009
"for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication" and "for the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit – the CCD sensor"
Charles K. Kao: 1/2 of the prize, Standard Telecommunication Laboratories Harlow, United Kingdom; Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China
Willard S. Boyle: 1/4 of the prize, Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, NJ, USA
George E. Smith: 1/4 of the prize, Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, NJ, USA
the nobel prize in Chemistry 2009
"for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome"
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan: 1/3 of the prize, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Thomas A. Steitz: 1/3 of the prize, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Ada E. Yonath: 1/3 of the prize, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Charles Vest: science & Engineering key to meeting challenges.
Click here to watch the video from the former president of MIT at the SPIE Optics+Photonics awards banquet.
LaserFest on the Road Outreach Program: Request for Proposals
Several grants of up to $10,000 will be awarded during LaserFest, a year long celebration of the 50th anniversary of the laser in 2010. This program is designed to encourage individuals to undertake physics outreach initiatives in their own communities and institutions during 2010.