Larry G. DeShazer - Treasurer

 Larry G. DeShazer is Director of CACT at Irvine Valley College. Larry has thirty years of experience in business administration, industrial management, scientific research and product development. This experience was gained in large and small businesses, government service and academia.

He was director of industrial programs, Laser Systems Division, McDonnell Douglas Aerospace in St. Louis, head of Laser Optical Materials, Hughes Research Laboratories, Malibu, and director of Solid State Laser Group, Spectra Technology Inc., a subsidiary of Spectra Physics. He was also president for the small businesses BioLase Technology Inc., Solidlite Corporation and Future Light LLC, all making laser medical products. Larry was Liaison Scientist for the U.S. Office of Naval Research in London assisting U.S. scientists in establishing European contacts, developing many international contacts. He had tenure at the University of Southern California in the departments of physics and electrical engineering as a teaching and research professor of laser physics and quantum electronics, serving for 13 years. He founded the Center for Laser Studies at USC, an applied research organization interfacing between the university and industry, now in its 27th year of operation.

Larry received a Ph.D. in physics at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. He is Fellow of the Optical Society of America and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers with the citation, for contributions to fundamental research in laser spectroscopy of rare-earth and transition-metal solids and the development of lasers using these materials.

ldeshazer@ivc.cc.ca.us

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