@inproceedings{9bcfa35bc350419fa9aee441872b88dd,
title = "Optical Sciences Winter School for Enabling Future Students in Optics Society",
abstract = "Optical Sciences and Photonics are areas of growing importance that are too often missing from traditional undergraduate science and engineering curricula. Often, aspects of optics and photonics are picked up as side topics in undergraduate and graduate courses along the way to obtaining more traditional STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) degrees. Since 2016, the annual Optical Sciences Winter School has been held during the winter break of the University of Arizona's academic calendar. Its annual participants are now approximately 50 - 60 undergraduate students (mostly juniors and seniors) from US (United States) Universities who demonstrate an aptitude and talent for science and research. These students participate in a three- to five-day immersion experience, learning the many opportunities and benefits that choosing optics and photonics for their graduate studies can offer. The Optical Sciences Winter School (OSWS) brings together a motivated group of undergraduate students for a series of overview lectures teaching foundational topics in optics and their relation to current research. It also provides a forum for faculty, alumni, and invited guests to share results, approaches and methodologies in optics and photonics research and education that are unique to the undergraduate setting. This event is not focused on a specific school's program but tries to highlight the diverse optics programs in the US. Many sessions in the program are filled with various invited faculties and researchers' presentations from prominent optical physics and engineering undergraduate or graduate institutions.",
keywords = "Education, OSWS, Optical Sciences Winter School, Outreach, Wyant College of Optical Sciences",
author = "Daewook Kim and Chalifoux, {Brandon D} and Furenlid, {Lars R} and Jessen, {Poul S} and Jason Jones and John Koshel and Channel Lemon and Masud Mansuripur and Euan McLeod",
note = "Funding Information: Since the first Optical Sciences Winter School event in 2016, the program has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Gretler Foundation, SPIE, DeMund Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, TRIF, OPTICA, and/or Wyant College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. The Subaru Telescope, Large Binocular Telescope, and Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab generously provided in-person/virtual tours of their facilities. We thank Jonathan Friedman, Theresa Lynn, Enrique Galvez, Michaela Kleinert, Lowell McCann, and Jenny Magnes who served on the External Advisory Committee. We also thank Thomas L. Koch, Jennifer Garcia, Kaye Rowan, Judith Su, Mahmoud Fallahi, and Brian Anderson at the Wyant College of Optical Sciences who supported our OSWS planning activities and communication with sponsors. Finally, we give our special thanks to all our sponsors and speakers who spent their time and efforts to teach a lecture, provide a lab-tour, give an invited talk, participate a panel discussion, and join the event. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023 SPIE.; 17th Conference on Education and Training in Optics and Photonics, ETOP 2023 ; Conference date: 15-05-2023 Through 18-05-2023",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.1117/12.2670616",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Hagan, {David J.} and Mike McKee",
booktitle = "Seventeenth Conference on Education and Training in Optics and Photonics, ETOP 2023",
}