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2014 conference to be held in Berlin
Berlin
Session six is inspired by the presence of the ten film studios at Adlershof, including the Mega-Studios G+H. There will also be a special event related to cinema organised during the conference.
T
he biannual conference of EOS, EOSAM2014, is to be held in Berlin from 16 to 19 September 2014. This year, EOSAM returns to Germany – a
country with a long tradition in optics and photonics. The country has a number of leading research institutes dedicated to the field, including several Max Planck and Fraunhofer institutes. Today, Germany’s flourishing high- tech photonics industry employs approximately 150,000 people. Berlin is therefore a great place to be for EOSAM2014. We are very happy that we will be hosted by the excellent conference facilities at the high-tech park, Adlershof, in the south-east of the German capital. In parallel, EOS will organise a trade show where the optics and photonics industry can promote their products to participants of the conference. The area of Adlershof has a rich history of science and technology. It is the birthplace of German aviation and it still hosts the German Aerospace Center DLR. Before the German reunification, several institutes of the East German Academy of Science built the first science centre in this area. Today, it is a Science and Technology Park, with more than 15,000 people working in 445 companies and 10 non-university research institutes. Among these research institutes are the Ferdinand Braun Institute for High Frequency Technology, the Max Born Institute for Non-Linear Optics and
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Ultrafast Spectroscopy, and the division of PTB, the German Metrology Institute, focusing on photon radiometry. Ten years ago, the Humboldt University relocated six faculties (including physics, chemistry and IT) to its Adlershof campus, which gave the area a final boost to become Germany’s largest science park.
EOSAM2014 will run the following sessions: 1. Guided wave optics; 2. Silicon photonics (PICs, optical computing, monolithic and hybrid optical sources and detectors, assembly and packaging);
3. Optical system design and tolerancing (including both imaging and non-imaging optics);
4. Biophotonics and medical optics; 5. Meta-materials, photonic crystals and plasmonics: fundamentals and applications;
6. Optics for cinematography and video (optics for digital cinematography, illumination design, screen technology for cinema and video, etc.);
7. Energy harvesting and organic photonics (light-manipulating organic materials and devices, organic photovoltaic, organic semiconductors for sensing, OLEDs);
8. Adaptive and active optics; 9. Frontiers in optical metrology; 10. Diffractive optics; and 11. Special session for partners in an EU project to disseminate their results.
Session 10 replaces the EOS Diffractive Optics Topical Meeting, which was scheduled initially for this spring. Session 11 is for EU projects in optics and photonics that have just ended or are about to end and have achieved significant results. The partners can present on their project and the results obtained in a number of subsequent talks (about three to four for a typical project). Particularly suitable are those projects resulting in a prototype device being built. Proposals for project disseminations can be submitted at:
www.myeos.org/events/eosam2014. There is now a tradition at EOSAM conferences to organise a session called ‘Grand Challenges in Optics’, with different prominent speakers. This session has been a huge success, with many participants attending. This time there are four talks: Professor Tobias Kippenberg (EPFL Switzerland) will talk about the mechanical properties of light; Professor Ferenv Krausz (Max-Planck- Institut für Quantenoptik, Germany) will discuss attosecond photonics; Professor Aristide Dogariu (CREOL, USA) will talk about his recent research; and Dr Markus Weber, head of research at Carl Zeiss, will discuss future trends and upcoming technologies from the perspective of one of the most prominent optical companies in the world.
The deadline for submitting contributions to the conference is 4 April and can be made at:
www.myeos.org/events/eosam2014. I would also like to draw your attention to
a new event taking place in conjunction with EOSAM2014, a summer school on ‘Novelties in Optics and Photonics’. The event is organised by Professor Patricia Segonds and will take place for the most part on Monday 15 September, the day before the conference. There are eight lectures scheduled, all aimed at PhD students, although other registered participants of EOSAM2014 can also join without an additional fee. So, EOSAM2014 will be an exciting conference in an exciting city. We hope to welcome many of you there!
Paul Urbach EOS President
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