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Announcements
New Faces
The Centre welcomes the following staff and students
whojoinedusrecently.
• Staffs
– Asst/P Julian Chan Chi Chiu
– Asst/P Rajesh Menon
– Dr Tamil Selvan, January 2003
– Dr Wu Jiu Hui, February 2003
– Dr Rudi Irawan, March 2003
– Muhammad Fueyz Karim, March 2003
– Dr Li He Ping, April 2003
– Chen Qing, June 2003
– Moh Ken-Jin, June 2003
• PhD students
– Zhao JingHua, January 2003
– Fu Chit Yaw, February 2003
– Balpreet Singh Ahluwalia, March 2003
• MEng students
MOU
– Yu Jia, January 2003
A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been
signed between NTU (School of EEE), Institut d’Optique
(France) and Thales Research and Technology (France).
The purpose of the MOU is to promote closer relations
and exchanges in the fields of signal and image processing,
optics, telecommunications, microelectronics and
nanophotonics.
Professor André Ducasse, Director Général from Institut
d’Optique, Mr Dominique Vernay, Thales Technical
Director, Mr Patrick Plante, Director of Thales Singapore
and Professor Er Meng Hwa, Dean of School of EEE,
NTU, signed the MOU on July 2003, bringing into existence
a collaboration between the institutions which will
bring research to new heights.
Events which are covered in the MOU includes:
• The exchange of teaching and research staff between
the parties
• The exchange of information on academic and research
programmes available in each institution
• The formation research teams on subjects of common
interest
• To welcome undergraduates, Posgraduate students
and Post doctoral fellows in appropriate programs,
both current and future
• To encourage mutual participation in conferences,
seminars and courses organized by each institution
Good News
Lipi Mohanty has given birth to a baby girl on 17th July.
She is healthy and weight in at 3.7kg! Best wishes from all
of us.
Upcoming Photonic Conferences
IOOC 2003 14th International Conference on Integrated
Optics and Optical Fibre Communication.
September 21–25, 2003. Rimini, Italy
http://www.ecoc.it/
LEOS 2003 16th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Lasers & Electro-Optics Society. October
26–30, 2003. Tucson, Arizona
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/leos/
LEOSCONF/LEOS2003/LEOS03.htm
ICMAT 2003 International Conference on Materials
for Advanced Technologies. December 7–12, 2003.
Singapore http://www.mrs.org.sg/icmat2003/
CLEO/Pacific Rim 2003 The 5th Pacific Rim
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics.
December 15-19, 2003. Taipei, Taiwan
http://cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw/˜cpr2003/
Did You Know? The vibrant colours on many butterflies are not due to
pigments (i.e. biochemistry) but optical diffraction (photonics) caused
by the physical structure of the wing surface. An aquatic creature
called a sea mouse produces iridescent colours using hairs with arrays
of microscopic holes, creating what is known as a photonic band gap.
Natural structures such as these are being studied for their application
to photonic devices.
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