OPTOmism - Conference on Photonics for Green Technology. To be held on May 19-20, 2009 in Santa Clara, CA.

光电产业发展协会 (OIDA) 寻求 NSF 支持，以增加学生和学术界对“OPTOmism：通过光子学推动绿色革命”的参与。 OPTOmism 是第一个讨论光子学在绿色技术中的作用的跨学科会议，重点关注绿色光子学的技术和政策。智力优势技术会议由全体会议和三个平行的技术分会组成。全体会议包括杰出的演讲者，讨论更广泛的政策和技术问题。这些技术会议论文的选择符合严格的标准。 OIDA 将发出论文征集，外部评审委员会将从中选择论文进行口头展示。除了提交论文外，会议还将在第一天结束时的网络招待会上举办海报会议。更广泛的影响 NSF 资金将支持会议信息传播的创新新媒介：实时、受​​监管的博客。 OIDA 将为三个技术方向各资助一名教授和学生。学生将参加每节课程，记录并注释所提供的材料。教授将主持该博客，以确保 OIDA 将在会议网站上发布适当的内容。这将为学生提供学习机会，让他们接触最新技术和行业领导者，并提高他们的技术写作技能。这一创新概念充分利用了年轻一代严重依赖互联网进行交流和获取信息的倾向。 OIDA 预计学生制作的针对学生的材料将扩大会议的影响。

The Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA) seeks NSF support to increase student and academia participation in "OPTOmism : Powering the Green Revolution through Photonics." OPTOmism is the first interdisciplinary conference that addresses the role of photonics in green technology and focuses on both the technology and policy of green photonics. Intellectual MeritThe Technical Conference consists of plenary sessions and three parallel technical tracks. The plenary sessions include highly distinguished speakers addressing broader policy and technology issues. The selection of the papers for these technical sessions meets rigorous standards. OIDA will issue a call for papers, from which outside review committees will select papers for oral presentation. In addition to presented papers, the conference will host a poster session during a networking reception at the conclusion of the first day. Broader ImpactsNSF funding will support an innovative new medium of conference information dissemination: a real-time, moderated blog. OIDA will fund a professor and students for each of the three technical tracks. The students will attend each session to document and annotate the material presented. The professor will moderate the blog to ensure appropriate content which OIDA will then post on the conference web site. This will provide a learning opportunity for the students both in exposing them to the latest technology and leaders in the industry and by improving their technical writing skills. This innovative concept taps into the younger generation's propensity to rely heavily on the Internet for communication and as a source of information. OIDA expects that student-generated material, targeted at students, will broaden the impact of the conference.