The Michael Kidger Memorial Scholarship was initiated by Tina Kidger to provide a lasting memory of Michael's talent in the teaching of optical design.  





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MICHAEL KIDGER MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
IN OPTICAL DESIGN

The Michael Kidger Memorial Scholarship was established to honour Michael John Kidger who passed away while on a lecture trip to Australia in 1998. Michael was a well-respected educator, design software developer and member of the optical science and engineering community. He leaves a legacy of sincere concern for the understanding of his students and leadership in the development of practical design software for PC's. The award is a grant award in the amount of $7,500.

The 2023 winner of the Michael Kidger Memorial Scholarship award is Ankur Desai. Ankur is currently in his fourth year of the PhD program at the Institute of Optics, University of Rochester working with Professors Duncan Moore and Greg Schmidt.



Michael John Kidger
Imperial College London
Kidger Optics, Ltd

Selection criteria, requirements, submission of application documents and
ranking criteria are detailed here: Selection Criteria & Requirements

KIDGER SCHOLARSHIP AWARDEES
International Optical Design Conference (IODC)

IODC 2017
Denver, CO, USA



Back L-R: Ozan Cakmakci, Florian Fournier, Brian Wheelwright, Fabian
Dürr, Kyle Fuerschbach; Front L-R:
Jonathan Papa, Eric Schiesser,
Yunfeng Nie, Liying Chen, Dewen
Cheng

IODC 2023
Quebec City, Quebec, CA



Back L-R: Ankur Desai, David Lippman,
Fabian Dürr, Brian Wheelwright, Kyle
Fuerschbach, Andrew Rakich; Front
L-R: Nicholas Takaki, TINA KIDGER,
Eric Schiesser, Jonathan Papa

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