The European Optical Society Annual Meeting, EOSAM 2024, was held in the sunny and captivating city of Naples, Italy, 9-13 September, at the facilities of CESTEV, University of Naples Federico II. It was organized this year in close collaboration with the Italian Society for Optics and Photonics (SIOF), the Italian branch of the European Optical Society (EOS). EOS and SIOF worked together to ensure a meeting with the highest quality and novel research results in different fields of optics.

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

The European Optical Society (EOS) will be holding elections to the Board of Directors later this year. 

With this Call, EOS is seeking nominations. The nomination period is now open and will last until April 22nd 2024.
Any member can nominate up to three candidates, and each candidate needs three nominations.
 

More information: https://www.europeanoptics.org/pages/about/board-election-2024.html

Welcome to PromOptica on board the Journal of the European Optical Society: Rapid Publication, JEOS:RP!

The Belgian association for the promotion of optics, Promoptica, joins the EOS Journal editorial board, following several other National optics and photonics societies from Germany, Portugal, Italy and Spain, for an even better service for JEOS-RP readers and authors.

JEOS:RP is the online, open access Journal of the European Optical Society: Rapid Publications covering a large scope of research in optics and photonics. JEOS:RP is a peer-reviewed open-access journal which is listed with ISI Journal Citation Reports. ISSN 1990-2573. In addition to the scientific publications, JEOS:RP also publishes Industrial White Papers.

As of the 1st of January 2022, the Journal of the European Optical Society - Rapid Publications is published by EDP Sciences.

Read more about the journal: https://jeos.edpsciences.org/

EOSAM 2023 was held in the beautiful city of Dijon France, 11-15 September, at the congress center. It was organized this year with the French Optical Society (SFO) that is one of the seventeen national optical societies (NOS) of the European Optical Society (EOS). We worked together to ensure a meeting with the highest quality and novel research results in different fields of optics. Thus, nine topical optical meetings, four focused sessions (on selected hot topics deemed to be of special interest to conference attendees), EU Project Sessions, Early Stage Researcher Sessions, and sessions on the industrial mastering of optical technologies and systems were scheduled in parallel in large rooms or the big auditorium to fit our over 500 attendees. The exhibition and industrial program fostered relations between science and industry. All attendees took benefit of the lunch time, the lunch included in the registration made sure all attendees stayed in same location, for a good and efficient networking. After all, EOSAM is the platform for the European optics and photonics community to meet!

A lot of PhD level students attended the conference, over 30% of the attendees were in fact students. Master-level students were also given a chance to come and join the tutorials on Monday. Ten tutorial speakers took the stage before the official opening of the conference on Tuesday: Sébastien Bidault, Julien Charton, Sara Ducci, John M. Dudley, Oliver Fähnle, Philippe Grelu, Sandrine Lévêque-Fort, Rüdiger Paschotta, Roozbeh Shokri, Antoine Dubrouil.

The European Optical Society Annual Meeting, EOSAM, is a major international scientific conference covering all aspects of optics and photonics.

The 11th EOSAM is organized by EOS and SFO onsite in Dijon, France, at the Dijon Exhibition and Convention Center, 11 - 15 September 2023. We will have an exciting week with over 400 presentations, industrial exhibition, and over 500 participants expected to join!

Early Bird registration is now open, 

EOS nominated Dr. Silvia Soria as a co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the European Optical Society-Rapid Publications (JEOS-RP). We very warmly welcome her. She joins Sergei Popov, the longstanding Editor-in-Chief, who has led the journal with the support of Co-Editors Riad Haidar, Gerd Leuchs and Sergei Turitsyn as well as an expert, international Editorial Board.
 
Dr. Soria is tasked specifically with supporting the development of special issues and engaging researchers in certain subject areas, including her own areas of expertise: optics, lasers and non-linear optics in organic and glass materials and biophotonics.
 
“I enjoy scientific publishing, and editing special issues, so close engagement with JEOS-RP as co-Editor-in-Chief will be very rewarding as the journal grows with ever-increasing quality and impact within the scientific community,” commented Dr. Soria. “The opportunity to work closely with a fantastic team of editors and editorial office staff was a temptation I could not resist.”.

The European Optical Society Annual Meeting, EOSAM, is a major international scientific conference covering all aspects of optics and photonics that are presented in topical meetings and special sessions. This year, EOSAM 2022 took place in Portugal, at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, FEUP, in close collaboration with the Portuguese Society for Research and Development in Optics and Photonics, SPOF, and INESC TEC - Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science. EOS also collaborated with Sedoptica, PhotonicsFinland, Promoptica, and the European Photonics Industry Consortium, EPIC for the event.

The conference was chaired by Manuel Filipe Costa, President of SPOF, and Maite Flores-Arias, Secretary of EOS as General chairs; Orlando Frazao and Susana Novais, INESC-tec as Local Chairs; and Patricia Segonds, President-Elect of EOS and Gilles Pauliat, President of EOS as Program Chairs. The EOS Office coordinated and handled the organization led by the Executive Director, Elina Koistinen, together with Conference Manager Jussi Ahonen and Conference Assistant Tiina Romppanen.

EOSAM 2022 included high-quality program within the following 13 Topical meetings (TOMs), 3 special sessions and an exhibition: