Joseph Eberly became vice president of the Optical Society of America in January. He will be president-elect in 2006 and president in 2007. His OSA activities include stints on the board of directors and the board of editors. He succeeds Eric Van Stryland; Susan Houde-Walter is president for 2005 (see Physics Today, January 2004, page 65; December 2002, page 75).
Eberly is the Andrew Carnegie Professor of Physics and a professor of optics at the University of Rochester. He is director of the Rochester Theory Center for Optical Science and Engineering, and his research interests are in theoretical quantum optics and atomic, molecular, and optical science. He received his BS in physics in 1957 from Pennsylvania State University and his PhD in physics from Stanford University in 1962.
In his personal statement before the election, Eberly said, “The guiding themes of OSA are discovery and development in...
