Category Archives: LOFT News

LOFT group’s Review Paper publications (2019) by Logan Graves, Greg Smith, Daniel Apai, and Daewook Kim received the Excellent Article’s Award from the journal’s Editorial Board in 2022. “Based on the outstanding quality, wide influence of your paper published in “Nanomanufacturing and Metrology(NMME)”, the Editors-in-chief Prof. Fengzhou Fang and Prof. Wei … Continue reading →

The Nautilus Space Telescope project has been featured in the Sky & Telescope Magazine Nov 2021 issue celebrating its 80th  anniversary. LOFT group develops the optical engineering technology for the project. Please, check out the Nautilus article page 32 – 33 of the magazine page … Continue reading →

On Wednesday, August 11, 2021, the Livermore Lab Foundation (LLF) hosted its second-annual virtual Summer SLAM – Special Edition. Since 2018, the Foundation has partnered with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to recognize top presenters at the Lab’s annual poster … Continue reading →

In a new publication from Opto-Electronic Advances; DOI 10.29026/oea.2021.210040, Researchers led by Professor Daewook Kim from The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA consider advances in optical engineering for future telescopes. Please, read the EurekAlert article.

A very special tribute to Jim Wyant, OSC Professor Emeritus and Founding Dean, will be held in conjunction with the SPIE Optics + Photonics conference in San Diego, CA next month. “A Tribute to James C. Wyant: The Extraordinaire of … Continue reading →

LOFT peers (Jaren, George, Charlotte, and Daewook) have been a part of OpticStudio (Zemax) STOP feature beta program. We are pleased to be a part of the industrial software development and advancement serving our international community. “When doing work with … Continue reading →

Daewook Kim was a part of the NAS (The National Academy of Science) panel on review of “An Assessment of the Material Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology: Fiscal Year 2020 (2021).” LOFT group is happy … Continue reading →

We are happy to say that our LOFT peers Justin Hyatt and Christian Davila-Peralta received a NSF grant for their start-up company Paramium. Also, LOFT students are working on the thermoforming technologies with them. “Paramium said its “innovative” manufacturing solution unlocks rapid prototyping … Continue reading →

UArizona Will Lead NASA Space Telescope Mission to Reveal Unseen, Dynamic Lives of Galaxies. NASA has selected UArizona’s Aspera mission for a $20 million mission to build a space telescope that will map vast regions of star-forming gas that have eluded … Continue reading →

Dae Wook (LOFT peer) is going to offer Optical Introduction to Interferometric Optical Testing Course (SC213) at the annual SPIE Optics + Photonics conference in San Diego. This short course introduces the field of interferometric optical testing. Topics covered include … Continue reading →