The Australian Optical Society
AOS News
Vol 24, Issue 2:
June 2010
Read about Laserfest, Monsters of the Deep: How Nonlinear Optics is Shedding Light on Rogue Waves, Photonic Chip Based Transmitter Optimization and Error- free Receiver Demultiplexing of 1.28 Tbaud Data, and more!
Jobs
LECTURER/SENIOR LECTURER IN EXPERIMENTAL NANOPHOTONICS
School of Physics, Sydney University & CUDOS
Closes 2012-05-13.
Research Scientist CSIRO Minerals
CSIRO Lucas Heights NSW
Closes 2010-12-05.
News
CUDOS Entrepreneurship Seminar
AOS Members are invited to the CUDOS entrepreneurship seminar series.
Details of the fourth talk are as follows.
Date: Thursday, 1 December 2011
Time: 9:30-13:00 pm (refreshments provided)
Venue: Buzzard Lecture Theatre, Evan Burge Building (No. 3), Trinity College, University of Melbourne
Speaker: John Dyson, Starfish Ventures
Title: The role of venture capitalist in entrepreneurship
Attendance is free and open to anyone interested.
For further information and additional dates and speakers as well as videos of previous talks go to: www.cudos.org.au/education/seminarseries.shtml
IPOS Symposium on "Energy and the Environment: Photonics Solutions for the 21st Century"
The Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS) of the University of Sydney invites all AOS Members to attend its 3rd Annual Symposium. The details for this year are:
Topic: “Energy and the Environment: Photonics Solutions for the 21st Century”
Dates: Tuesday 6th and Wednesday 7th December, 2011
Venue: Lecture Theatre 101, New Law Building, The University of Sydney
Cost: Attendance is free, but registration is essential.
Please register at sydney.edu.au/science/ipos_symposium_rsvp_2011.php
The Symposium will focus on the role of optics and photonics in clean energy generation, energy conservation and monitoring and environmental sensing. Topics will include energy generation through photovoltaics and photothermal technologies, energy consumption of the internet, energy conservation through more efficient photonics-based technology and monitoring, end environmental sensing.
For more details about the Symposium, including a list of invited speakers, please see the Symposium website sydney.edu.au/ipos/news_events/events/symposium2011.shtml
CUDOS Entrepreneurship Seminar
AOS Members are invited to the CUDOS entrepreneurship seminar series. Details of the third talk are as follows.
Date: Wednesday, 16 November 2011
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm (pizza and soft drinks provided)
Venue: LT 1, School of Physics (Building A28), Physics Road, The University of Sydney
Speaker: Dr John Haywood (Smart Digital Optics)
Title: Smart Digital Optics, a successful start-up.
Attendance is free and open to anyone interested. There will be free pizza and soft drinks.
For further information and additional dates and speakers as well as videos of previous talks go to: www.cudos.org.au/education/seminarseries.shtml
Regional Workshop on Ultracold Atoms
28 – 30 November 2011, ANU Field Station, Kioloa, NSW South Coast
Organised by ACQAO
Webpage: www.acqao.org
CUDOS Entrepreneurship Seminar
AOS Members are invited to the CUDOS entrepreneurship seminar series. Details of the second talk are as follows.
Date: Wednesday, 2 November 2011
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm (refreshments provided)
Venue: LT 1, School of Physics (Building A28), Physics Road, The University of Sydney
Speaker: Dr. Karl Rodrigues (CSIRO)
Title: Path to Impact. Taking ideas to market. Processes, success and failures – stories from the front line of R&D, commercialisation and funding early start-ups.
Attendance is free and open to anyone interested.
For further information and additional dates and speakers as well as videos of previous talks go to:
www.cudos.org.au/education/seminarseries.shtml