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CORM 2009

CORM 2009 Annual Technical Conference
Second Announcement and Call for Papers

May 5 - 8, 2009

The CORM 2009 conference will be held in Gaithersburg, Maryland just a short distance from the NIST. The conference theme is Solid State Lighting Standardization and Integrating Sphere Design, Measurements, and Applications. The 2009 Annual CORM Technical Conference is structured to provide interaction between the optical radiation industry and National Metrology Institutes (NMI's) such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), National Research Council (NRC) of Canada, and National Center for Metrology (CENAM) of Mexico.

Schedule

May 5    8:00 AM to 12:00 PM Solid State Lighting Workshop, Hosted by NIST
               1:00 PM to 4:30 PM: CORM Technical Committee Meetings.

May 6    CORM 2009 Conference: Integrating Sphere Design, Measurement
              andApplications
                   Session Chairs
                        Alan Tirpak, Optronic Laboratories
                        Angelo Arecchi, SphereOptics
                        Jim Leland, Gamma Scientific
                        Steve Newman, Labsphere
             6:00 PM Reception
             7:00 PM Franc Grum Memorial Lecture and Banquet

May 7   AM CORM 2009 Conference Solid State Lighting Standardization
           1:30 PM to 3:30 PM: NIST Tour
            Advance registration for the NIST tour is required due to security
            requirements. No walk-in registration for the tour will be available.
            Deadlines: April 24th, 2009 (US citizen), April 17th, 2009 (non-US citizen).

May 8 AM: CORM 2009 Conference: Solid State Lighting Standardization
                  Session Chairs
                        Andy Jackson: Philips Lighting
                        Carl Anderson, Federal Highway Administration
                        Kevin Dowling, Philips Color Kinetics
                        Mark Sapcoe, Osram Sylvania

Presenters may choose to provide a manuscript for publication in the Journal of Modern Optics. This is an option not a requirement for a CORM presentation.

Early conference registration begins in February 2009.

Program Coordinators

Mr. Greg McKee                                                       Mr. Macedonio Anaya
Labsphere, Inc.                                                       The Boeing Company
P.O. Box 70                                           PO Box 3707, MC 2R-80
North Sutton, NH 03260-0070                                  Seattle, WA 98124-2207
Ph: 603-927-4266                                                   Ph: 206-544-5716
Fx: 603-927-4694                                                   Fx: 206-544-5245
E-mail: gmckee@labsphere.com                               E-mail: massy.anaya@boeing.com