December 2016
Escaping The Weather To Learn More About Optics
The University of Oregon Student Chapter of the OSA lit up the University of Oregon campus on Saturday, December 3rd for the first ever Optics...
Added: 14 December 2016
Day 2 of the Future Microscopy Incubator
After settling in for day two of the Future Microscopy Incubator, the participants were divided...
Added: 14 December 2016
Stereoptics: a 3D-OSA
‘Stereoptics: a 3D-OSA’ was born as an attempt to make an interactive and attractive workshop to show different ideas: stereoscopic vision, linear and circular polarization, and 3D-cinema technologies. With this main target, we developed a workshop where different notions were explained in order to build a whole story about light...
Added: 13 December 2016
Sir David Payne on the Power of Light
OSA’s Centennial Light the Future speaker series concluded with Photonics India in Kanpur on 5 December 2016. Professor Sir David Payne gave a special presentation dedicated to the Guglielmo Marconi and Charles Kao. Nobel prize winners 100 years apart, Marconi (1909) and Kao (2009) moved optical communications forward in...
Added: 13 December 2016
OSA Incubator Explores the Future of Microscopy at the Royal Society, Edinburgh
The first international OSA Incubator - Future Microscopy: Merging Adaptive & Computational Imaging - took...
Added: 13 December 2016
Engaging CCNY with Photons
On December 5th, I visited the OSA City College of New York (CCNY) Student Chapter in New York, USA. The visit was hosted by CCNY OSA Student Chapter advisor Professor Robert Alfano, president Nicholas Proscia. Furthermore, I had the great opportunity to had 1:1 meetings with professors Robert Alfano, and Vinod Menon before and after my talk...
Added: 09 December 2016
"Ask Me Anything” and They Did! Light in a Twist with Miles Padgett, University of Glasgow
I am often asked to give presentations around the world describing the work of my team on orbital angular momentum. A first for me was participating in a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” with The Optical Society and its members. Questions ranged from my research, to professional development and career changes.
Added: 07 December 2016
Branching Out and Making Connections
One of the main reasons that I pursued an academic position is my passion for mentoring and encouraging students in engineering and science. Unfortunately, the further that I progress in my career, the less time I have to spend time with students outside of my research group. Conferences can be very rushed, making it challenging to really...
Added: 06 December 2016
Celebrating the OSA Centennial with the Lightwave Roadshow
The Lightwave Roadshow is the University of Southampton chapter's student-led outreach education programme. The Roadshow traces its root back to 1998 when it was established to provide hands-on optics experiments for young children under the age of 10 in classes or fairs for families. More recently, the programme has expanded its scope...
Added: 06 December 2016
An Push For Photonics
On 10 November 2016, the Michigan Technological University (MTU) Student Chapter of OSA hosted a campus-wide outreach event with invited speakers representing a broad range of career paths within the field of photonics. Attending students had the opportunity to interact one-on-one with industry contacts and academic researchers across...
Added: 01 December 2016
