Martin Booth Appointed as Honorary Professor of USST

On Dec 8th, Professor Martin Booth from University of Oxford was appointed as honorary professor of USST and delivered a special academic report to faculty and students from Gezhi Innovation Class.
At the appointment ceremony, Professor Gu Min, chairman of School Affairs Committee and dean of Institute of Photonic Chips gave introductions about Professor Martin Booth. Wang Lingyu, Secretary of Party Committee of USST, addressed a welcome speech, and presented the honorary professor certificate to Professor Martin Booth.
Wang Lingyu extended a warm welcome to the arrival of Professor Martin Booth. He pointed out that Professor Martin Booth enjoyed high international fame in optical field, especially in adaptive optics, and provided strong supports for scientific innovation and industrial development. He believed that Booth would equip USST students with more abundant frontier scientific knowledge, broaden students’ international vision and develop their interest in scientific innovation through his professional knowledge and entrepreneurship. He hoped that Booth's involvement could inject more vigor into USST’s talent cultivation and research environment by conducting more academic collaboration, innovation research and interdisciplinary discussion.
Afterwards Professor Martin Booth delivered the speech titled “Adaptive optics for high-resolution microscopes and precision engineering”to staff in Gezhi Innovation Class. He introduced the causes of aberrations in optical systems, how to measure and compensate for aberrations with adaptive optics methods, and how adaptive optics can be applied in high-resolution microscopes and precision manufacturing.
After the fantastic lecture from Professor Booth, Professor Gu Min offered students and researchers present at the lecture suggestions. He required them to calculate the focus of light in different materials based on the optical principles in the adaptive optics process, combined with their respective research.

About Martin Booth: https://eng.ox.ac.uk/people/martin-booth/