Luau (many more fun pictures)

My husband bought everyone in our family Hawaii style clothes

Professor Wayne H. Knox and his wife performing on stage

Program chair Steve Cundiff with his family.

Professor Harris

Pretty girl

General Chair Daniel Gauthier and his wife

Luau workshop students performing on stage.

Engaging conversation

Call for voluteers

Professor Boyd walking to stage...

sidestage with beautiful girls

General chair Takunori Taira with his wife

Professor Andy Kung with the famous couple. You know who they are, right?

Professor Takayoshi Kobayashi with the famous couple, again.

concluding remarks by Steve Cundiff and his sleepy daughter

poster session (many pictures)

Entrance of the poster session room...

This meeting had 149 presentations including 3 plenary, 30 invited, 92 oral, and 24 poster presenations. There were many interesting results presented there. One thing I like about the poster session is the valuble face to face communication with the presenter. You can get all your questions answered.

50 years of NLO---talk by Robert Byer

Prof. Byer talked about his passion for both light waves and ocean waves:



He mentioned a story when he worked with Prof. Harris:



He dropped the crystal yet this leads to Stanford's crystal growing by themselves and a life long collaboration. So bad things can turn to be good afterall.

Prof. Byer's slide is available on 2011 NLO website.

Thanks Andy Kung for providing me the pitures.

The Birth of Nonlinear Optics---talk by professor Nicolaas Bloembergen

Although Professor Bloembergen used the old-fashioned projector, he delivered a wonderful talk on the early history of the nonlinear optics.

He started by saying that Ruby laser is nonlinear optics. Therefore, we should celebrate the birth of nonlinear optics 1 year earlier, together with the laserfest.


Applause continued for a long time after his talk.





Thanks to Andy Kung for providing me these pictures.

symposium celebrating 50 years of NLO--Planery talk by prof. Harris

Tuesday when I had lunch with Prof. Andy Kung, he said: All I want to listen is the wed. symposium.

The much-anticipated symposium started with planary talk by Dr. Harris. He started saying it has been wonderful 50 years and he would like to personalize that history.




He mentioned his early optical talbe, which was made from a lathe:



He concluded by speaking about his achievement:

40 years ago I modulated many photons; 40 years later I modulate one photon.



Thank Prof. Andy Kung for providing me these pictures.

Presentations from the Symposium Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Nonlinear Optics available on line

Some more to come. Dr. Harris's talk is too large to upload for now.
Here is the link: http://www.osa.org/Meetings/Topical_Meetings/NLO/Special_Events.aspx#Symposium

The talk is at the bottom of the page.

Herbert Winful---Organizer of the Nonlinear Optics at 50, a symposium at univ. of Michigan in Oct.

I noticed Professor Winful because he is one of the two African Americans present in the meeting room. I thought to myself, wow, this is worse than women. Out of the around 150 particiants, there are about 10 women there.

Yesterday the chair announce that there will be a symposium at the Unvi. Of Michigan celebrating the 50th anniversary of the birth of NLO. He said for more details, please contact Professor Winful.

I got a flyer during the poster session from Professor Winful. I was in a hurry trying to look through all the posters and take pictures so I didn’t talk to him much.

Later I googled him and found out that he is a professor at Univ. of Michigan doing research in the area of fiber optics. He is also featured as one of the “Laser Pioneers” at the LaserFest website. I found out that he's had an interest in lasers since he was a child. He won a lot of awards and “When not pondering theoretical problems in laser science, Winful likes to relax at the piano, playing the music of Bach, Chopin, and Brahms." "It is my greatest joy, next to my work."

For more information on the symposium please contact him.