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E-book A Jewel in the Crown II : Essays in Honor of the 90th Anniversary of the Institute of Optics University of Rochester

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Meliora is the motto of the University of Rochester. It translates to “ever better.” We have chosen Meliora as the theme of this volume and the title of this section. In the one essay in this section, Carlos Stroud documents how from its very incep-tion The Institute had a mission that was different from that of a usual academic department in a research university. In 1929 there was no academic department specializing in optics in the United States, so the charge for the new department was literally to define the field and provide leadership for it. The new “Institute for Applied Optics” took this charge seriously, including its national scope. The field has evolved enormously in the 104 years since the group of nine men met to plan for the founding of the university institute and the Optical Society of America. The Institute has had to indeed become ever better to meet the growing challenge. In the final section of this book the director, P. Scott Carney, carries this Meliora theme further to extrapolate another decade to predict how The Institute will continue to serve the optics community at the centennial of its founding. Also included in this section is a map of New York with locations of local optics and imaging companies marked. It is clear that the local optics community has grown even faster than the national optics community. The faculty and directors of The Institute of Optics have since its earliest days felt an obligation to serve and nurture the field of optics and its practitioners, not just at the University of Rochester, or among its own faculty, students, and alumni, but in the Rochester area, the United States, and particularly in recent years, throughout the world. This sense of obligation has led our faculty, former faculty members, and alumni to serve as president of the Optical Society of America eighteen times, as pres-ident of the Society of Photographic Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) eight times. At present the Optics faculty serve as editors of three professional journals. The fac-ulty have authored many of the standard textbooks in optics, including three that are currently among the most cited in all of physics.1 They have served on innumerable committees advising governments on topics ranging from repairing the flawed opti-cal system of the Hubble Space Telescope, to design of counterfeit-resistant paper currency, and laser-assisted isotope separation. One even served the president as dep-uty in the Office of Science and Technology Policy. The Institute has reached out to the optics industry through a professional summer school for practicing engineers to return to campus and keep their skills up to date in the rapidly developing field. It also has an Industrial Associates program in which representatives from many of the leading optics companies come to campus twice a year, to meet faculty and students, to advise regarding the needs of the industry, and to learn about the latest research. The outreach has become quite international in recent decades. Steve Jacobs put together a program to distribute to schools around the world suitcases with kits for carrying out simple optics experiments (see Essay V.19). Formal cooperative agree-ments have been signed with more than twenty-eight schools and universities around the world to encourage exchanges of faculty, students, and research. All of this with a full-time faculty that always has been fewer than twenty.

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808.84 STR a

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New York : Boydell & Brewer., 2020

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257 hlm

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English

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9781800101050

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808.84

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online resource

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