Important Meeting Changes The Best Western TLC has lost its restaurant and will not be able to host functions like our monthly meeting. The next meeting will be held at the DoubleTree Hotel in Waltham.
The NES/OSA has been facing higher costs for the past several years and needs to make some changes to the price we charge for Dinners. We will maintain the current dinner prices for those reserving dinner on the requested date for the March meeting. Those making reservations after the sign-up date, up to the time of the meetings will incur a higher dinner price. The updated dinner prices will be: | | Register on/before
DINNER Reservation Date | Late Reservation or
at the door
| | NES/OSA Members and their guests | $25.00 each | $30.00 | | Students | $15.00 | $15.00 | | Non-members | $30.00 (See NOTE Below) | $35.00 |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 11 March 2010 )
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Mar. 18, 2010 - Tom Brown |
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Meeting Location has changed to the Doubletree Hotel in Waltham Can stress be a good thing?
The geometrical beauty and practical applications of stress-engineered optical elements. The study of stress birefringence goes back to the earliest days of optics, yet squeezing an otherwise uninteresting optical window can provide beautiful and surprising effects. After a brief (and pretty) pictorial overview of stress polarimetry, I will discuss the optics of a symmetrically stressed window, from which one can produce laser beams having polarization vortices, scalar phase vortices, and even more exotic beams. Whether used as pupil filters in microscopy or in polarimetry applications, they also show interesting potential in a wide variety of optical engineering applications. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 10 March 2010 )
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Student/Industry Networking Invitation |
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Save this date: April 21st, 2010
The NES/OSA is having an Industry/Student Networking evening at the Boston University Photonics Center on Wed April 21st. We are inviting the local optics industry to share experiences with students who are curious about what one does in optics after graduation. Students from the area universities are being invited though their local OSA Student chapters.
The meeting will begin with networking including refreshments and a light meal, followed by a panel of up to four 10 min talks and a Q&A session, finishing with time for further discussions. Our industry panel will draw speakers from New England's diverse industrial base such as Aerospace, Metrology, Lighting and Bio-Medical.
We encourage our regular members bring their stories, feel free to share any information about your companies or institutions, and we welcome postings for jobs or internships.
Information is available at NESOSA.ORG and will be updated to include our panel members over the next couple of weeks.
For additional details please contact:
Groot Gregory
617-320-6354
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Last Updated ( Friday, 26 February 2010 )
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Biomedical Optics Workshop |
IEEE Photonics Society Tuesday, March 16, 23, 30, April 6, 13, 2010, 7:00–9:30 PM
Located at Boston University Photonics Center, 8 Saint Mary's Street, Boston, MA, USAFor details and registration see http://www.bostonphotonics.org/workshops/biomedicaloptics10/
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