Friday, October 22, 2004

Joe Eberly Elected as Vice President (2005), President Elect (2006), President (2007) and Past President (2008) of the Optical Society of America

The Optical Society of America (OSA) has announced that its members have elected Joseph Eberly (http://www.osa.org/aboutosa/leaders/election_2004/Eberly.asp) Carnegie Professor of Physics and Professor of Optics at the University of Rochester and director of the Theory Center for Optical Science and Engineering, as its 2005 vice president.

See: http://www.osa.org/news/release/10.2004/Election.asp

By accepting the vice presidency, Eberly makes a three-year commitment to OSA's board of directors. As vice president, Eberly will automatically become president elect in 2006 and then the Society's president in 2007.

Optical Society of America (OSA) - Presidents

OSA Past Presidents (17 out of 71 were Rochester Faculty or Alumni)

OSA President 1930-1931: Loyd A. Jones - Professor of Optics University of Rochester (1929-1943)	OSA President: 1933-1934: Wilbur B. Rayton Professor of Optics University of Rochester (1929-1931)	OSA President: 1947-1948: Rudolf Kingslake Professor of Optics, University of Rochester (1929-2003) Applied Optics and Optical Design by A. E. Conrady, Rudolf Kingslake	OSA President: 1951-1952: Brian O'Brien Professor of Optics, University of Rochester (1930-1955)	OSA President: 1962: David L. MacAdam Professor of Optics, University of Rochester Sources of Color Science -David L. MacAdam
OSA President: 1970: W. Lewis Hyde Professor of Optics, University of Rochester(1963-1968)	OSA President: 1973: Robert E. Hopkins Professor of Optics, University of Rochester (1943-) UR Optics Alumnus MS 1939, PhD 1954 (OSA Fraunhofer Award 1983)	OSA President: 1974: F. Dow Smith- PhD Optics, University of Rochester 1951 (left)	OSA President: 1978: Emil Wolf- Wilson Professor of Physics and Optics University of Rochester (1954-)	OSA President: 1982: Robert P. Madden BS Physics, University of Rochester, 1950
OSA President: 1985: Robert R. Shannon (BS Optics - 1954 University of Rochester) The Art and Science of Optical Designe -Robert R. Shannon	OSA President 1987: Robert G. Greenler BS Physics - 1951 University of Rochester.	OSA President: 1996: Duncan T. Moore Professor of Optics, University of Rochester ( 1974-) UR Optics Alumnus MS 1970, PhD 1974 (Also OSA Leadership Award 2001)	OSA President: 2003 - G. Michael Morris Professor of Optics, University of Rochester (1980-2002 ) (Click for OSA Presidents, Complete List by year)	OSA President: 2004: Peter Knight -Imperial College ( Research Assoc. Dept. Physics) University of Rochester ( 1972-744)
OSA President Elect (2004 -> OSA President 2006) : Susan Houde- Walter Professor of Optics, University of Rochester	OSA President Elect (2005 -> OSA President 2007) Joseph H. Eberly Carnegie Professor of Physics and Optics, University of Rochester (1967-)	Rudolf Kingslake, David L. MacAdam, Stanley S. Ballard, Karl G. Kessler, W. Lewis Hyde, Robert E. Hopkins, F. Dow Smith

Article submitted by:
Arie Bodek
10/22/04; 3:09:42 PM

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