Special Seminar: “Presenting the recently released National
Academy Optics and Photonics report (Harnessing Light II)”, Paul McManamon
& Stephen Anderson
CREOL 102
Thursday, September 27, 2012 / 10:30-11:30am
“Optics and Photonics, Essential Technologies for Our Nation”- Paul
McManamon, Technical Director, LOCI, University of Dayton
Dr.
Paul F. McManamon is an independent consultant and works half time as the Technical
Director of the Ladar and Optical Communications institute, LOCI, at the
University of Dayton. Until May of 2008 he was chief scientist for
the Sensors Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Force Materiel
Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The Sensors Directorate
consists of about 1250 people responsible for developing new sensor technology
for the Air Force. The Sensors directorate spent $548M in FY 07. Dr
McManamon was responsible for the technical portfolio of the Sensors
directorate, including RF sensors and countermeasures, EO sensors and
countermeasures, and automatic object recognition. He has developed
multidiscriminate electro-optical sensors, including multifunction laser radar,
novel electro-optical countermeasure systems, and optical phased-array beam
steering. Dr McManamon has participated in three Air Force Scientific
Advisory Board summer studies, New World Vistas in 1995, A Roadmap for a 21st
Century Aerospace Force in 1998, and Sensors for Difficult Targets in
2001. Dr McManamon has technically led in many substantial DARPA
efforts. Dr McManamon was instrumental in the development of laser
flash imaging, initiating the ERASER program as a method to enhance our EO
target recognition range by a factor of 4 or 5. Dr. McManamon is widely
recognized in the electro-optical community. Dr McManamon was the 2006
President of SPIE. SPIE has 17,500 members world wide, and had >
45,000 people attend its meetings in 2006. He was on the SPIE board of
directors for 7 years and on the SPIE Executive Committee from 2003 through
2007. Dr. McManamon serves on the executive committee for the Military
Sensing Symposia, MSS. Dr. McManamon received the WRG Baker award from
the IEEE in 1998. The WRG Baker award is awarded for the best paper in
ANY refereed IEEE journal or publication. Dr. McManamon is a Fellow
of SPIE, IEEE, and OSA, the Air Force Research Laboratory, and the Military
Sensing Symposia, MSS.
“Industry Trends and Opportunities”- Stephen G. Anderson, SPIE
Industry & Market Strategist
Stephen
G. Anderson joined SPIE last year as Industry & Market Strategist. He is
an industry expert with an international background and has been actively
involved in the photonics technology marketplace for more than 30 years. Before
joining SPIE, Anderson was Associate Publisher and Editor-in-Chief with Pennwell's
Laser Focus World where he directed the editorial strategy for all media and
platforms. During his 18 year tenure there, Anderson supervised the Annual
Review and Forecast of the Laser Marketplace, published each January, and led
the highly regarded Lasers & Photonics Marketplace Seminar, held annually
at Photonics West. Anderson also co-founded the BioOptics World brand. In 2011
he served on the Blue Ocean Grants committee sponsored by Ocean Optics, and
since 2006 has served as a member of the jury panel for the Berthold Leibinger
Innovationspreis. Before joining Laser Focus World, Anderson held marketing and
business development positions at Perkin Elmer (UK) and at Spectra-Physics in
the UK, Germany, and most recently in the USA. He holds a chemistry degree from
the University of York, (England), and an Executive MBA from Golden Gate
University in San Francisco, CA.
