{"73907":{"#nid":"73907","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Thomas Gaylord to Give Commencement Address","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThomas K. Gaylord, Regents\u0027 Professor and Julius Brown Chair in Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), will address the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0027s 222nd commencement ceremony on Friday, August 5, at 9 a.m., in Alexander Memorial Coliseum. Tech expects approximately 1,000 students to participate in the ceremony.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELast April, Gaylord received the Georgia Tech Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award. The prize, which includes the honor of delivering the summer commencement address, is the most prestigious award bestowed upon Tech faculty members. The recipient is chosen for his or her outstanding commitment to teaching, research and service and is selected by the Faculty Honors Committee.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAt the ceremony, former student Theresa Maldonado (Ph.D. 1990), now on the faculty of Texas A\u0026amp;M, said, \u0022Dr. Gaylord respected my capabilities completely.  He demanded excellence.  He also demonstrated a powerful human side of compassion when I had my first child while completing my dissertation.  He is a key person in my life and a model for me to follow.  His impact on me still resonates to this day.\u0022\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EKnown for going the extra mile for students, he started an end of semester event called the Extended Program of Attitude Readjustment in 1974. The program is an informal gathering of students, faculty and staff and has taken place every semester for 30 years.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn October, the Optical Society of America will honor him with the Esther Hoffman Beller Medal. The award is in recognition of his \u0022. . . innovative teaching that has brought the latest research results alive for students for 30 years and for his significant contributions to establishing Georgia Tech\u0027s optics and photonics programs,\u0022 according to the citation.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGaylord came to Tech in 1972. He earned his bachelor\u0027s degree in physics and his master\u0027s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri in Rolla. He received a doctorate in electrical engineering from Rice University.  He has been a key contributor to the founding and development of the optics and photonics program at Georgia Tech.  Gaylord is co-developer, with M. G. Moharam, of the Rigorous Coupled-Wave Analysis (RCWA) for the exact analysis of grating diffraction.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHe has also developed exact analogies between electromagnetic optics in dielectrics and electron wave optics in semiconductors and contributed to the development of holographic data storage, fiber gratings, semiconductor quantum optoelectronic devices, birefringence measurements, photonic crystals and chip-level optical interconnects.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGaylord is the author of 350 technical publications and 25 patents in the areas of diffractive optics, optical interconnects, optoelectronics and semiconductor devices. He has received the Curtis W. McGraw Research Award from the American Society for Engineering Education and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Graduate Teaching Award. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, IEEE and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Thomas K. Gaylord, Regents\u0027 Professor and Julius Brown Chair in Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), will address the Georgia Institute of Technology\u0027s 222nd commencement ceremony on Friday, August 5, at 9 a.m., in Alexander Memorial Coliseum. Tech expects approximately 1,000 students to participate in the ceremony.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ceremony is August Fifth at the Coliseum"}],"uid":"27310","created_gmt":"2005-08-01 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:27","author":"David Terraso","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2005-08-02T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2005-08-02T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"73908":{"id":"73908","type":"image","title":"Thomas Gaylord","body":null,"created":"1449178028","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:27:08","changed":"1475894681","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:44:41"}},"media_ids":["73908"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/commencement","title":"Commencement Information"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["david.terraso@comm.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}