To: Prof. A.E.Dixon,
Dept of Physics.
 
Thanks for your letter of October 16, 1991. Please excuse this method of reply
but Secretaries are in short supply when one is on Sabbatical.
 
I do not have any one in mind for your post-Docs but thought that you should
know that there is a Confocal Email Network run by Bob Summers at U. Buffalo.
His address(es) should be at the top next to 'cc.'  They have recently
published a list of about 30 other confocal people and one of them might be of
interest to you.( [log in to unmask]  ) He seems interested in the right
stuff but may only be an undergraduate.  Anyway, you should check with Bob,
(716-831-2911), get the list and go over it.  Better still, you might get onto
the network and 'Publish" your opening on it.
 
I don't know how this is done, (right now I get everything sent on by my office
in Madison!) but if Bob Reads a copy of this maybe he will put me on directly
at [log in to unmask] (Thanks Bob!)
 
 On other matters, I have spoken to Plenum and they are willing to think about
a second (third?) edition of the Handbook of Confocal.. in about two years.  How
would you feel about probing the depths of "Transmission Confocal"? It would
mean going into all of the contrast types as done by Wilson and Sheppard etc.
as well as the mirror problems...  Let me know what you think.
 
Cheers!
 
Jim P.