The LEOS Awards Committee has selected four individuals to be LEOS Distinguished Lecturers during the 1998-99 year and extended the term of James Coleman for one year. The five will be available to present talks at LEOS Chapters. Travel support is provided by LEOS. Arrangements are made directly by the Chapter with the Lecturer. This year’s Lecturers are:
Pallab Bhattacharya
University of Michigan
Dept of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Tel: 734-763-6678
Fax: 734-763-9324
email: pkb@eecs.umich.edu
Title of talk: Quantum Well and Quantum Dot Lasers: From Strained Layer and Self-Organised
Epitaxy to High-Performance Devices
Jens Buus
Gayton Photonics Ltd
6 Baker Street
Gayton, Northants NN7 3EZ England
Tel: +44 1604 859253
Fax: +44 1604 859256
email: buus@compuserve.com
Title of talk: Semiconductor Lasers for WDM Systems
James Coleman
Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Illinois
208 North Wright Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Tel: 217-333-2555
Fax: 217-244-7645
email: jcoleman@uiuc.edu
Title of talk: Novel Integrable Semiconductor Laser Structures
Osamu Wada
FESTA Laboratories
The Femtosecond Technology
Research Association
5-5 Tokodai, Tsukuba 300-2635, Japan
Tel: +81 298 47 5181
Fax: +81 298 47 4417
email: owada@festa.or.jp
Title of talk: Progress in Femtosecond Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices
Xi-Cheng Zhang
Physics Dept
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY 12180
Tel: 518-276-3079
Fax: 518-276-6680
email: zhangx2@rpi.edu
Title of talk: Free Space THz Optoelectronics