Report Subject： Exciting New Areas of Speckle Application and Theory

Lecturer： Professor Joseph W.GOODMAN 

Time： November 17,2008（Monday）9：30 am

Place： Transient Optics Department 3F meeting room

Profile of the Lecturer:

Joseph W. Goodman received an A.B. Degree from Harvard, an M.S degree and a Ph.D. degree, both from Stanford University in Electrical Engineering. After 4 years on the research staff at Stanford, he joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering. He chaired the department from 1989 to 1996, following which he served as Senior Associate Dean of

Engineering until 1999. He retired from Stanford in January of 2001.

Dr. Goodman is the author of the books Introduction to Fourier Optics (now in its 3rd edition), Statistical Optics, Speckle Phenomena in Optics, and co-author of Fourier Transforms: An Introduction for Engineers. He is the author of more than 200 scientific and technical papers, and has been primary research supervisor for 49 Ph.D.s. He has received numerous awards from the I.E.E.E., the A.S.EE, the O.S.A., the S.P.I.E ., including the highest awards given by the latter two societies.

Dr. Goodman was a co-founder of Optivision, Inc., ONI Systems (now part of Ciena), and served as a member of the board of directors of E-TEK Dynamics (now part of JDS Uniphase).