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

光电子产业发展协会(OIDA)寻求美国国家科学基金会的支持，以增加学生和学术界对“光学：通过光子学为绿色革命提供动力”的参与。光学是第一个跨学科会议，讨论光子学在绿色技术中的作用，并关注绿色光子学的技术和政策。智力价值技术会议由全体会议和三个平行的技术轨道组成。全体会议包括讨论更广泛的政策和技术问题的杰出演讲者。这些技术会议的论文选择符合严格的标准。OIDA将发布论文征集，外部审查委员会将从中挑选论文进行口头陈述。除了提交的论文外，会议还将在第一天结束时的网络招待会上主持一次海报会议。更广泛的影响NSF的资金将支持一种创新的会议信息传播新媒介：实时、有节制的博客。OIDA将为三个技术轨道的每一个提供一名教授和一名学生的资金。学生们将参加每堂课，记录和注释所展示的材料。教授将主持博客，以确保适当的内容，然后Oida将发布在会议网站上。这将为学生提供一个学习的机会，让他们接触到最新的技术和行业的领导者，并通过提高他们的技术写作技能。这一创新的概念利用了年轻一代严重依赖互联网进行交流和作为信息来源的倾向。Oida预计，学生编写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.