Workshop: Inaugural Optics and Photonics Winter School and Workshop, College of Optical Sciences, Tucson AZ, January 5-20, 2016

光学和光子学冬季学校和研讨会在光学科学学院2016年1月5日至10日光学光子学是重要领域，其中有劳动力发展的国家需求不断增长。一个挑战是，许多本科学校专注于传统的科学和工程课程，以至于他们的学生可能没有充分意识到从事光学光子学职业的机会。这笔赠款将为首届光学和光子学冬季学校和研讨会提供部分支持，该研讨会将于2016年1月5日至10日在亚利桑那州图森市的光学科学学院举行。冬季学校和研讨会的目的是促进，支持和加强光学光子学教育和研究在美国通过从事本科层次的学生和教师。首届光学和光子学冬季学校和研讨会将被宣传。大会只接受邀请参加，但所有有兴趣人士均可申请。我们计划积极招募约10名教师和20名学生参与者，我们可以报销机票，膳食和住宿。本科生参与者将部分通过受邀教师的提名招募，但所有本科生申请人将被考虑邀请和财政支持，但需视资金的可用性而定。为了支付这些费用，我们要求NSF提供15，000美元的部分支持。光学和光子学冬季学校和研讨会的预期影响福尔斯在几个领域。首先，该活动将促进和加强本科层次的光学和光子学教育，从而鼓励更多的学生在这一领域从事职业生涯，并使光学课程研究生教育的优势变得透明。其次，该研讨会为PUI的教师和学生提供了与类似本科院校的同事以及来自大型研究生院和光子行业的与会者建立联系的机会。特别是对于主要来自本科院校的教师来说，光学教学法的交叉施肥和在本科环境中成功研究项目的方法将是非常有用的，特别是对于那些与更广泛的光学科学社区建立联系的机会较少的人。因此，PUI的教师和学生将成为光学领域更有效的大使，并更好地鼓励追求研究生水平的光学光子学教育。这最终导致在光学和光子学更强大，更高技能的劳动力，以满足我们的社会的技术和科学的需求。举办光学和光子学冬季学校的目标将是给本科生光学和光子学的关键和基础领域的概述，以及它们是如何密切相关的特定领域的研究，希望鼓励更多的本科生在这些领域从事职业。该讲习班的对象是主要来自本科院校的教职员工以及参加冬季学校的本科生。该研讨会将为本科生和教职员工提供一个论坛，分享和/或学习本科院校在光学科学方面的研究和教育活动。

Optics and Photonics Winter School and Workshop at the College of Optical Sciences January 5-10, 2016Optics & photonics are important areas in which there is a growing national need for work-force development. A challenge is that many undergraduate schools are focused on traditional science and engineering curricula, to the extent that their students may not be fully aware of the opportunities for pursuing a career in optics & photonics. This grant will provide partial support for an inaugural Optics and Photonics Winter School and Workshop to be held at the College of Optical Sciences in Tucson, AZ from January 5-10, 2016. The winter school and workshop will be aimed at promoting, supporting, and strengthening optics & photonics education and research in the United States by engaging students and faculty at the undergraduate level. The inaugural Optics and Photonics Winter School and Workshop will be publically advertised. Participation will be by invitation only, but application is open to all interested parties. We plan to actively recruit approximately 10 faculty and 20 student participants for whom we can reimburse airfare, meals and lodging. Undergraduate participants will be recruited in part through nominations from invited faculty, but all undergraduate applicants will be considered for invitation and financial support, subject to the availability of funds. To cover these expenses we request partial support from the NSF in the amount of $15k. The expected impact of Optics and Photonics Winter School and Workshop falls in several areas. First and foremost, the event will promote and enhance optics and photonics education at the undergraduate level, thus encouraging more students to pursue a career in this area and making transparent the advantages of a graduate level education in an optics program. Secondly, the workshop provides PUI faculty and students with the opportunity to network with colleagues at similar undergraduate institutes, and with attendees from larger graduate schools and from the photonics industry. For faculty from primarily undergraduate institutes in particular, the cross-fertilization of optics pedagogy and approaches to successful research projects in the undergraduate environment will be extremely useful, especially for those who have fewer opportunities to network with the broader optical sciences community. As a result, PUI faculty and students will become more effective ambassadors for the field of optics in general, and better positioned to encourage the pursuit of graduate level optics & photonics education. This ultimately results in a stronger and more highly skilled workforce in optics and photonics to address the technological and scientific needs of our society.The goal of hosting the Optics and Photonics Winter School will be to give undergraduate students an overview of key and foundational areas of optics and photonics, and how they are intimately related to specific fields of research, in hopes of encouraging more undergraduate students to pursue a career in those fields. The workshop is aimed at faculty members from primarily undergraduate institutes as well as undergraduates attending the Winter School. The workshop will provide a forum for undergraduate students and faculty members to share and/or learn of research and educational activities in optical sciences taking place at undergraduate institutions.