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

光学与光子学冬季学校和研讨会2016年1月5-10日在光学学院举行光学与光子学是国家对劳动力发展需求日益增长的重要领域。一个挑战是，许多本科学校专注于传统的理工科课程，以至于它们的学生可能没有充分意识到从事光学和光子学职业的机会。这笔赠款将为2016年1月5日至10日在亚利桑那州图森市光学科学学院举办的首届光学和光子学冬季学校和研讨会提供部分支持。冬季学校和工作坊将通过吸引本科生和教职员工参与，旨在促进、支持和加强美国的光学和光子学教育和研究。首届光学和光子学冬季学校和研讨会将进行公开宣传。只有通过邀请才能参加，但所有感兴趣的人都可以申请。我们计划积极招聘大约10名教职员工和20名学生参与者，我们可以为他们报销机票、食宿。本科生的参与者将部分通过从特邀教师中提名来招募，但所有本科生申请者将被考虑邀请和经济支持，但取决于资金的可获得性。为了支付这些费用，我们要求国家科学基金会提供15000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落在几个领域。首先，该活动将促进和加强本科生的光学和光子学教育，从而鼓励更多的学生在这一领域追求职业生涯，并使光学专业研究生教育的优势变得明显。其次，工作坊为PUI的教职员工和学生提供了与类似本科生学院的同事以及来自较大研究生院和光子业的参与者建立联系的机会。尤其是对于主要来自本科生学院的教师来说，在本科环境中交叉培养光学教育学和成功研究项目的方法将非常有用，特别是对那些与更广泛的光学科学界建立联系的机会较少的人来说。因此，PUI的教师和学生将成为光学领域更有效的大使，并更好地鼓励他们追求研究生水平的光学和光子学教育。这最终导致光学和光子学领域的劳动力更强大、技能更高，以满足我们社会的技术和科学需求。举办光学和光子学冬季学校的目标将是让本科生概述光学和光子学的关键和基础领域，以及它们与特定研究领域的密切关系，希望鼓励更多的本科生在这些领域追求职业生涯。研讨会的对象是主要来自本科生学院的教职员工以及参加冬季学校的本科生。研讨会将为本科生和教职员工提供一个论坛，分享和/或学习在本科院校进行的光学科学研究和教育活动。

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.