In the final issue of AOS News for 2017 read details of outreach work with remote communities and an item about Marie Curie’s place as a role model for modern female scientists. There is also news from SPIE and the general optics community in Australia, and our ‘Optics in Everyday Life’ section looks at the history and evolution of camera lenses. There is also a report on the number of papers on laser physics and photonics published in Australia that investigates how well we’re doing compared to the rest of the world.

AOS News Dec 2017.pdf