CUBES: A VISUAL EXPLORATION OF POSSIBILITY Cubes uses technology developed by Alexander Green and Symmetry Labs, a San Francisco-based technology and design company founded by Alexander Green and Trip Vest. Cubes has been featured on the Discovery Channel, the Esquire network, and at the Treasure Island Music Festival. Cubes is presented in Rochester in partnership with Haywood Hawks.Alexander Green will give a talk on the technology and vision behind Cubes,...Continue Reading
Grant aims to grow the pipeline of middle skills workers. June 12, 2015 – The Monroe Community College Foundation has been awarded a $320,000 grant from JPMorgan Chase to create a middle-skill bridge program and expand accelerated certificate programs at Monroe Community College. The grant is part of a larger, $1 million JPMorgan Chase investment to support advanced manufacturing training programs in four upstate New York regions—Albany, Buffalo, Rochester and...Continue Reading
On Thursday, June 4th, OSA, SPIE and New York Photonics hosted a webinar with the Department of Commerce about proposed changes to the U.S. Munitions List. These changes have the potential to greatly hamper the export of optics and photonics products from the U.S. 26 New York Photonics members participated in the Webinar. The presentation is >>here<< Continue Reading
Lumetrics Obtains Patent for Contact Lens Measurement System Lumetrics was awarded a patent for an apparatus that measures the optical performance characteristics and dimensions of an optical element using a Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor and a low coherence interferometer. This is a major improvement on current manufacturing inspection methods, especially for the contact lens and intraocular lens industries. The first implementation of this product uses a modified ClearWave in combination with...Continue Reading
For New York Photonics Member CEOs and Presidents We are pleased to collaborate with another education organization here in Rochester to make you aware of an interesting seminar– The Growth Challenge: How Innovation can Close your Growth Gap, to be held on Tuesday, June 09, 2015, 7:30 am at Oak Hill Country Club. One of the top issues that challenge “C” Level executives today is the SPEED of DISRUPTION in their...Continue Reading
$987,500 grant will fund state-of-the-art x-ray beam monitor Sydor Instruments has been awarded a Phase IIA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant in the amount of $987,500 from the Department of Energy. Sydor Instruments will use this grant in collaboration with Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University to develop commercial diamond beam position, timing and flux monitors that feature functionality not available today. The x-ray beam monitor will be...Continue Reading
Webster resident Joseph Serio worked as a gas station attendant in the 1990s, and had no ties to NASA or Mars Rovers. Now he’s a Monroe Community College optics technology student with 20 years of experience manufacturing optics parts for NASA Mars Rovers with Ontario company Optimax. He’s headed to Texas next week to compete with a team of college students from around the country to build prototype rovers. Optics...Continue Reading
FluxData’s FD-1665 used in Image Enhancement Of Surface Microstructure On Mucosa For Polarimetric Endoscopy study Katsuhiro Kanamori from Device Research Laboratory Advanced Research Division, Panasonic Corporation in Japan recently concluded their research into endoscopic imaging of gastric mucosa for the purpose of detecting colon cancer. FluxData’s FD-1665 Polarimetric imaging system was used as part of the research. Cancer affects the gastric areas surrounded by pits in the gastric mucosa. The...Continue Reading
June 1 – June 12, 2015 The Institute of Optics will offer its 54th annual Summer School short-course series next month. This year’s offering will be a mix of a one-week course and two-and-a-half-day courses. RRPA Grants Available Full scholarships for our Summer School courses are available through a grant from the US Employee and Training Administration, Department of Labor. The Rochester Regional Optics, Photonics , and Imaging Cluster Accelerator...Continue Reading
We are living in a transformative age of photonics potential! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyzzg7dTuvY https://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2015/05/06/video-cellscope-automates-detection-of-parasites/Continue Reading
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