Partial Support for the 3rd Optics and Photonics Winter School and Workshop. To Be Held at the College of Optical Sciences January 4-8, 2018

光学和光子学是重要的领域，国家对劳动力发展的需求日益增长。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。这笔赠款将为第三届光学光子学冬季学校和研讨会提供支持，该研讨会将于2018年1月4日至8日在亚利桑那州图森市的光学科学学院举行。光学光子学冬季学校和研讨会旨在促进，支持和加强美国的光学光子学教育和研究。光学光子学冬季学校将为本科生提供光学和光子学的关键和基础领域的概述，以及它们如何与特定的研究领域密切相关，希望鼓励更多的本科生在这些领域从事职业。光学光子学研讨会将为学生和教职员工提供一个论坛，分享和/或学习本科院校发生的光学科学研究和教育活动，并扩大他们对职业机会的认识。基于从以往活动中吸取的经验教训，并为了更充分地利用PUI同事的独特视角，由PUI以前的参与者组成的咨询委员会已经成立，以帮助规划2018年的活动。光学光子学冬季学校和研讨会的预期影响福尔斯落在几个领域。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，研讨会为来自主要本科院校（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。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。这最终导致光学和光子学领域的高技能劳动力，以满足我们社会的技术和科学需求。我们要求NSF提供1万美元的部分支持。前两次活动的积极反馈在光学科学学院，PUI的参与者以及光学和光子学教育的各个利益相关者中产生了极大的热情。光学与光子学冬季学校的目标是让本科生了解光学与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，希望鼓励更多本科生在这些领域从事职业。该研讨会是针对教师主要是本科院校（PUI的）以及本科生参加冬季学校。该研讨会将为本科生和PUI教师提供一个论坛，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。光学科学学院于2016年1月和2017年1月举办了第一届和第二届光学和光子学冬季学校和研讨会，并得到了NSF的核心支持。据大多数人说，前两个冬季学校和讲习班取得了巨大的成功。2017年1月的活动为冬季学校带来了54名本科生，并从他们的家庭部门为研讨会带来了21名教师。更多细节可以在活动网站上找到，包括会议计划，冬季学校的所有讲义副本，以及大多数演示文稿的视频。参见http://wp.optics.arizona.edu/winter-school-workshop/。我们请求NSF为2018年1月的活动提供部分支持，金额为1万美元。

Optics & 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 support for the 3rd Optics & Photonics Winter School and Workshop to be held at the College of Optical Sciences in Tucson, AZ January 4-8, 2018. The Optics & Photonics Winter School and Workshop will be aimed at promoting, supporting, and strengthening optics & photonics education and research in the United States. The Optics & Photonics Winter School will 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 Optics & Photonics Workshop will provide a forum for students and faculty members to share and/or learn of research and educational activities in optical sciences taking place at undergraduate institutions as well as broaden their awareness of career opportunities. Based on lessons learned from previous events, and in an effort to more fully utilize the unique perspective of our colleagues from PUI's, an advisory committee consisting of previous PUI participants has been formed to help with the planning for the 2018 event. The expected impact of the Optics & 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 faculty and students from primarily undergraduate institutes (PUI) with the opportunity to network with colleagues at similar undergraduate institutes, and with attendees from larger graduate schools and from the photonics industry. As a result, PUI faculty and students will become more effective ambassadors for the field of optics, and better positioned to encourage the pursuit of graduate level optics & photonics education. This ultimately results in a more highly skilled workforce in optics and photonics to address the technological and scientific needs of our society. We request $10k in partial support from the NSF. The positive feedback from the first two events has generated great enthusiasm within the College of Optical Sciences, among our participants from PUI's, and from various stakeholders in optics and photonics education. We have made it a priority for our College to pursue long-term financial support such that it can eventually be self-sustaining.The goal of hosting the Optics and Photonics Winter School is 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 (PUI's) as well as undergraduates attending the Winter School. The workshop will provide a forum for undergraduate students and PUI faculty members to share and/or learn of research and educational activities in optical sciences taking place at undergraduate institutions. The College of Optical Sciences hosted the 1st and 2nd Optics and Photonics Winter School and Workshop in January 2016 and January 2017, with essential core support from NSF. By most accounts, the first two winter schools and workshops were a great success. The January 2017 event brought in 54 undergraduate students for the winter school and 21 faculty from their home departments for the workshop. More details can be found in the event website, including the conference program, copies of all lecture notes from the winter school, and videos of most presentations. See http://wp.optics.arizona.edu/winter-school-workshop/. We request partial support of the January 2018 event from the NSF in the amount of $10k.