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ACOLS 2001

Australasian Conference on Optics, Lasers and Spectroscopy 2001

3rd - 6th December 2001
University of Queensland Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

http://www.physics.uq.edu.au/acols2001/

Second Announcement

Scope of ACOLS 2001

ACOLS 2001 is the fifth conference in the ACOLS series. It incorporates the 14th Australian Optical Society Conference, the 10th Australian Laser Conference, and the 20th Australian Spectroscopy Conference. ACOLS 2001 is the region’s showcase of research and development in all aspects of optics, lasers and spectroscopy, and provides a broad forum for discussion of these important areas at the modern facilities of the University of Queensland. A Technical Exhibition will be run in conjunction with the conference and adjacent to poster presentation sites.

Student Prize

There is a Prize of US$2,500 for best student presentation presented by sponsors, the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) and the Optical Society of America (OSA).

Short courses

Two exciting short courses are being presented as part of ACOLS 2001. Each course is conducted by a leader in the relevant field and provides the opportunity to gain insights only an expert can impart. Numbers are strictly limited, so early registration is advisable.

• Course 1: The Musical Score, the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, and the Shortest Events Ever Created, Rick Trebino, Georgia Inst. of Tech., USA
• Course 2: Infrared Fiber Optics, James A. Harrington; Fiber Optic Materials Research Program, Rutgers University Details at http://www.acols.physics.uq.edu.au/courses/

Plenary Speakers

• Mark Kasevich, Yale, USA Atom interferometry (Frew Lecturer)
  
  
• Anthony Johnson, New Jersey Institute of Technology Ultrafast optical phenomena (OSA Lecturer)
  
  
• Eleanor Campbell, University of Göteborg Collisions of fullerenes
  
  
• Hideo Mabuchi, California Institute of Technology Ultra-sensitive real-time optical measurement: from quantum feedback to biochemistry. (Coherent Scientific Lecturer)
  
  
• James A. Harrington, Rutgers University Infrared optical fibres (SPIE Lecturer)
  
  
• Deborah M Kane, Macquarie University Integrated semiconductor lasers
  
  
• Anthony Legon FRS, University of Exeter Rotational and vibrational spectroscopy
  
  
• Motoichi Ohtsu, Tokyo Institute of Technology Microscopy

Presentations

All participants are kindly invited to submit abstracts on topics from research and development in their working group or on their own work. Instructions for submission of one page abstracts will be issued shortly. (See Important Dates below.)

Important Dates

• Call for Papers: 6 August 2001
• Submission of Abstracts: 10 September 2001
• Registration: 2 November 2001
• Notification to Authors: 15 October 2001

Pre-registration page

Please register your interest in the conference, and especially in the short courses (due to limited numbers) and you will receive all conference announcements and reminders. Pre-registeration carries no obligation. The pre-registration page is at

http://www.acols.physics.uq.edu.au/registration.html

We are looking forward to seeing you in Brisbane for ACOLS 2001

Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop
Chair - ACOLS Local Organizing Committee