Colleagues:

The cooling of the weather is a clear indication that Winter is coming, not withstanding the wild fires we’ve recently had here in Southern California. All of the holidays from Thanksgiving to Valentine’s Day are just around the corner. Here are a few items on my agenda for next year:

Once again I’ll be teaching my one-day short course,

Optomechanical Analysis
830 AM to 500 PM
January 27, 2009

in San Jose during SPIE’s Photonics West Symposium. You may learn more about the course content and register to attend by clicking on the following exciting link;

http://spie.org/app/program/index.cfm?fuseaction=COURSE&export_id=x12502&ID=x6771&redir=x6771.xml&course_id=E0846163&event_id=795339&programtrack_id=848771


In April I’ll be teaching another short course,

Optomechanics and the Tolerancing of Instruments

in Orlando during SPIE’s Defense and Security Symposium. More on this later.


Next summer in San Diego we’ll have our two-day conference,

Advances in Optomechanics

During SPIE’s Optics and Photonics Symposium. This will include an evening meeting of the International Technical Group on Optomechanics.


I look forward to a great year. I hope you enjoy the Holiday Season and perhaps I’ll see you in San Jose in a few weeks.

Al Hatheway
11-25-08