The Australian Optical Society
AOS News
Vol 27, Issue 1:
March 2013
This issue looks back on 40 years of developments at mid infrared wavelengths, unravels knotted light as well as recap the highly successful AIP Congress/ACOFT held in Sydney during December. All this and much more can be found in this edition of the AOS News!
Jobs
Technical Scientific Sales - Photonics
Warsash
Closes 2012-12-31.
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE/RESEARCH FELLOW – ASTROPHOTONICS (EXPERIMENTALIST)
CUDOS, University of Sydney & Australian Astronomical Observatory
Closes 2012-08-19.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Diamond Photonics (Level A or B, Full time, 2 years)
Macquarie University
Closes 2012-08-12.
News
OPTIC 2013 Optics & Photonics Taiwan, International Conference
Annual meeting of the Taiwan Photonics Society
National Central University, Zhongli (Chung-Li), Taiwan
5-7 December 2013
OPTIC is the annual meeting on optics/photonics in Taiwan, with an expected attendance of more than 1500 people from academia, government, and industry nationwide. The event includes 10 conferences covering a broad range of topics listed here.
The AOS is pleased to be a cooperating society and discounted registration is available for AOS members.
Optical Design Course ANU: 30 July - 2 August
The Australian National University has announced its first professional training program in optical design using Zemax for scientists and engineers.
The course is led by Herbert Gross, editor and main author of the 6-volume series ‘Handbook of Optical Systems’ (Wiley-VCH).
For more information and to register for this exciting course, please visit the RSAA (ANU) website.
Save The Date: ANZ Conference on Optics & Photonics, 8-11 December 2013
This year’s major local optics and photonics conference will be held in Fremantle from 8 – 11 December. It will incorporate the Australasian Conference on Optics, Lasers and Spectroscopy (ACOLS), the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT) and will also be the annual meeting of the Australian Optical Society.
Further details will be made available shortly, but all researchers working in the field are warmly encouraged to start making plans to attend the 2013 Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics.
AOS Prizes and Awards nomination deadline approaching
Australian Optical Society members are reminded that the deadline for applications for all AOS awards is 31 March. Please consider applying or nominating students or colleagues. The AOS offers the following awards:
- AOS W. H. (Beattie) Steel Medal
- AOS Geoff Opat Early Career Researcher Prize
- AOS Postgraduate Student Prize
- AOS Technical Optics Award
- AOS/Warsash Science Communication Prize in Optics
All applications and nominations are to be forwarded to the AOS Secretary. Membership of the AOS is an eligibility requirement for all awards. For more information, view the ‘Prizes’ link.
Discount registration for AOS members
AOS members who register to the Optics in Life Sciences Congress, hosted by the OSA, are entitled to a registration discount.
Optics in the Life Sciences: OSA Optics & Photonics Congress
14–18 April 2013 | Waikoloa Beach, Hawaii, USA
Top researchers and rising stars gather at Optics in the Life Sciences to discuss the latest advances in molecular probe development, life science imaging, novel and more powerful optical instrumentation and its application to study fundamental biological processes and clinical investigations.