Rice Photonic Owls
FP3 Series Lunch Meeting

November 1, 2007
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Attendees

• Mark Knight
  President
• Nathaniel Grady
  Vice-President
• Nche Fofang
  Treasurer
• Britt Lassiter
  Secretary
• Arthur Nieuwoudt
• Ben Appiah
• Tamer Ali
• Quang Nguyen
• Joe Young
• Rizia Bardhan
• Britain Willingham
• Aoune Barhoumi
• Surbhi Lal
• Janardan Kundu
• Dan Stark
• John Casey

Minutes

Mark: (announcements) SPIE Membership is $20 per year.  Members can get money for attending conferences and can apply for fellowships.  Travel costs can be supported as well.  We currently have 13 members, but 2 more would increase our allowance from $500 to $700 per year.  So sign up if you’re not already a member!

Mark introduces the first speaker in the FP3 series

Arthur Nieuwoudt is the first speaker.
Title:  "Nanophotonic Optical Strucutres for Future Computing Applications”

Ben Appiah is second speaker.
Title:  “Investigation of QCL-based MIR reflectance imaging for in-vivo tissues”

Mark: T-shirt design,  Nate has suggested polos with SPIE logo instead of T-shirts.
Britain asks if polos are more expensive?
Mark:  Yes they are.  For polos – everyone would have to pay about $10 for his/her shirt, in order to make up for higher prices.
Britain asks how to become a member?
Mark says to become a member, go to SPIE.org and sign up - $20 fee.
Nate asks for speaker volunteers, and suggests adding section on website to propose ideas for talks.
Mark:  agrees with Nate’s idea and says that these (FP3) talks should not be a repeat of LANP presentations.  Talks should be for fun, or even funny – including historical and/or fun topics.