Creative Teaching Methods

This special session will focus on teaching optics - because there's more to being a professor than great research. Experienced teachers will share their wisdom on course development and other aspects of teaching.

This session will be held on Sunday, October 21, from 3:30pm - 5:00pm (between the short courses and the Careers in Research Forum).

Featured Presenters:

Professor Bahaa E.A. Saleh, Boston University, USA

Professor François Flory, Ecole Central Marseille, France

Moving from Industry to Academia Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire!?
Professor David A.B. Miller, Stanford University, USA

Professor Bahaa E. A. Saleh, Boston University, USA
	Biography: Bahaa E. A. Saleh has been professor and chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University since 1994. He is Deputy Director of the NSF Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems, an NSF Engineering Research Center. He received the B.S. degree from Cairo University in 1966 and the Ph.D. degree from the Johns Hopkins University in 1971, both in electrical engineering. He held faculty and research positions at the University of Santa Catarina in Brazil, Kuwait University, the Max Planck Institute in Germany, the University of California-Berkeley, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Columbia University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he was a faculty member from 1977 to 1994, and Chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1990 to 1994.
His research contributions cover a broad spectrum of topics in optics and photonics including statistical and quantum optics, optical communication and signal processing, nonlinear optics, photodetectors, digital image processing, and vision. He is a member of the Quantum Imaging Laboratory and the Boston University Photonics Center. He is the author or co-author of two books, Photoelectron Statistics (Springer-Verlag, 1978) and Fundamentals of Photonics (Wiley-Interscience, 1991, with M. C. Teich), chapters in seven books, and more than 350 papers in technical journals and conference proceedings. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Optical Society of America A from 1991 to 1997, and is presently the Chairman of the Board of Editors of the Optical Society of America. Dr. Saleh is Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Optical Society of America, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is the recipient of the 1999 Optical Society of America Esther Hoffman Beller Award for outstanding contributions to optical science and engineering education. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, and Tau Beta Pi.

Professor François Flory, Ecole Centrale Marseille, France
	Biography: François Flory is Professor in Optics and photonics at Ecole Centrale Marseille. His current research is in photonics: Optical Interference coatings, integrated optics, optical sensors, and nanophotonics. He is author of more than 160 book chapters, papers, patents or conferences. He was the chairman of the Education and Training in Optics and Photonics conference in 2005. He is co-founder of the Pole Optique and Photonique Sud French cluster.

Moving from Industry to Academia Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire!? Professor David A. B. Miller, Stanford University, USA
	Abstract: The transition to teaching and academic research, and the general differences, challenges, frustrations and rewards of academic life.
Biography: David Miller received a B. Sc. in Physics from St. Andrews University, and performed his graduate studies at Heriot-Watt University where he was a Carnegie Research Scholar. After receiving the Ph. D. degree in 1979, he continued to work at Heriot-Watt University, latterly as a Lecturer in the Department of Physics. He moved to AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1981 as a Member of Technical Staff, and from 1987 to 1996 was a Department Head, latterly of the Advanced Photonics Research Department. He is currently the W. M. Keck Foundation Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, and is Director of the the Solid State and Photonics Laboratory at Stanford, and a Co-Director of the Stanford Photonics Research Center. He also served as the Director of the E. L. Ginzton Laboratory at Stanford University from 1997-2006. His research interests include the use of optics in switching, interconnection, communications, computing, and sensing systems, physics and applications of quantum well optics and optoelectronics, and fundamental features and limits for optics and nanophotonics in communications and information processing. He has published over 230 technical papers including 13 book chapters, delivered over 110 conference invited talks and 40 short courses, and holds 62 patents. He has been a member or chair of over 40 technical conference committees, and was General Co-Chair for the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics in 1996. He has been elected to the Boards of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) and the Optical Society of America (OSA), was a member of the Defense Sciences Research Council for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency from 1991-2005, and also served on several scientific journal editorial boards. He was President of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society in 1995. He also has served on boards for several photonics companies. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the IEEE, the Optical Society of America and the American Physical Society, and was awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and an honorary Doctor of Engineering from Heriot-Watt University. For his work on semiconductor nonlinear optics, quantum well optical properties, and novel devices, he was awarded the 1986 Adolph Lomb Medal of the OSA, was co-recipient of the 1988 R. W. Wood Medal, and received the 1991 Prize of the International Commission for Optics. He was also an IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Traveling Lecturer in 1986-87. He was awarded an IEEE Third Millennium Medal in 2000.

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