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Advisory Group Meeting Minutes

 The OISC First Advisory Group Meeting was held on Thursday August 7 from 4 - 6 pm at the SPIE Annual Conference in San Diego in Meeting Room 8.

In attendance were:

Larry DeShazer, Irvine Valley College, Center for Applied Competitive Technologies
Arnie Bazensky, Schott Glass Technologies, Inc.
Donn Silberman, The Optics Institute of Southern California
Ana Maria Silberman, The Optics Institute of Southern California
Michael Silberman, The Optics Institute of Southern California
Scott Rowe, Alcon Laboratories

Murty Mantravadi, Northrup Gruman Company, Retired

Reddy Chirra, Raytheon Systems Company, Retired

Shari West, Museum Consultant

Mary Turner, Zemax Development Corporation

Susan Raffsenperger, Northrup Gruman Company, Consultant

Joseph Esposito, Science Systems & Applications, Inc.

Click here to see a full list of The OISC Advisors

Click here to see the meeting presentation

ACTION ITEMS from the meeting

  1. Come up with a topic for a Thursday Seminar presentation at UC Irvine's Beckman Laser Institute by OISC & Contact Bruce Tromberg.  Scott Rowe, Donn Silberman, Vic Kardos
  2. Contact management at Northrup Gruman and other major companies about possible support for OISC outreach activities.  Susan Raffsenperger
  3. Outline OISC program for proposing Science Fair 'optics kits' to science fair kit companies.  Graham Brewis, Donn Silberman
  4. Contact Forrest Reynard at Reynard Corporation about donating obsolete optics for use in optics outreach programs like "OPTRICK".  Donn Silberman
  5. Investigate the possibility of an Optics Science Fair at Irvine Valley College.  Larry DeShazer
  6. Contact OSA about possible lectures, seminars, workshops at major local optics conferences like OFC.  Donn Silberman
  7. Initiate the "Speed of Light" exhibit program.  Larry Deshazer, Donn Silberman
  8. Contact the Discovery Science Center about the possibility of having our next meeting at their facility (Date TBD).  Donn Silberman

The Board of Directors will be forming the Advisors into Advisory Groups to address various topics that were mentioned at the meeting and can be found in the meeting presentation. 

If you have any comments, additions, corrections, questions or feedback please e-mail them to Donn Silberman.

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