Conference Notes
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Andreas Thoss
Hope
Covid-19 and its pandemic has changed many aspects in our life, in particular how we do scientific communication. While papers have been written throughout the time of self-isolation, conferences had to be canceled or they had to be converted to online events.
Such online events have good sides: They are available online, and no travel (costs) needed. And some organizers offer the sessions for a longer period, thus participants can enjoy them on another place at another time. This makes scientific results available to a much broader audience and in particular, those scientists with restricted funds would have equal chances.
Still, online cannot replace the feeling of a real conference. Neither does it give the speaker the incredible feeling of a full audience nor does it allow a young scientist to approach one of the senior fellows for the exciting small talk that may change a career.
And last but not least, online events do not fill the pockets of the organizing societies. While it looks great to get all talks for free, someone has to pay for all the organizational and technical efforts. Otherwise, the organizers run into severe trouble.
According to the event calendars of several professional societies, trade shows and conferences have been moved online for the rest of the year. For example, SPIE says on the website for their meeting on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation in December:
“As we plan for the in-person meeting in December, we recognize that travel conditions are uncertain. … If we determine that we are unable to hold an in-person meeting, we will host this event online as a Digital Forum. The final decision about the format of the event will be announced in early September and will include applicable registration information.”
So it remains unclear when the next on-site meeting will take place. A first test was conducted in China, the LASER World of Photonics China took place in July 2020. The organizers report 819 exhibitors and 57,000 visitors. Conferences and particularly trade shows in 2021 have been announced for on-site execution. Major events such as SPIE Photonics West in March or Laser – World of Photonics are planned as on-site events, to name but a few. Let us all hope that these plans can be realized, because a longer online period could have disastrous effects on the organizers of trade shows.
Andreas Thoss, Publisher, Advanced Optical Technologies
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Conference Calendar
The Calendar has been reviewed on 1st September. Due to further regulations in response to the worldwide pandemic, dates or locations may vary from this list.
Nevertheless, the pandemic may offer new opportunities as well. Please visit the website of a conference you missed. Some offer on-demand viewing of the meeting.
OSA Imaging and Applied Optics Congress
Virtual web conference
22–26 June 2020
www.osa.org/en-us/meetings/osa_meetings/osa_imaging_and_applied_optics_congress/
July
OSA Advanced Photonics Congress
Virtual web conference
13–16 July 2020
www.osa.org/en-us/meetings/osa_meetings/advanced_photonics_congress
August
SPIE Optics + Photonics
Digital Forum
24–28 August
September
Conference on Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD)
Virtual web conference
14–18 September 2020
Frontiers in Optics: the 104th OSA Annual Laser Science Conference
Virtual web conference
14–17 September 2020
www.frontiersinoptics.com/home/
OSA Quantum 2.0 Conference
Virtual web conference
14–17 September 2020
www.osa.org/en-us/meetings/topical_meetings/quantum/
SPIE LASER DAMAGE
Digital Forum
15–18 September 2020
25th Microoptics Conference MOC2020
Canceled, next event 2021 in Hamamatsu Japan
SPIE Remote Sensing
Digital Forum
21–25 September 2020
SPIE Security + Defense
Digital Forum
21–25 September 2020
SPIE Photomask Technology + EUV Lithography
Digital Forum
21–25 September 2020
SPIE Space, Satellites + Sustainability S3
Digital Forum
21–25 September 2020
2020 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)
Virtual web conference
Sep 28, 2020–Oct 1, 2020
October
OSA Laser Congress/ASSL
Virtual web conference
12–16 October 2020
www.osa.org/Meetings/OSA_Meetings/Laser_Congress
FOC 2020
Frontiers of Optical Coatings
Beijing, China
17–22 October 2020
November
VISION: canceled
Stuttgart, Germany
10–12 November 2020
www.messe-stuttgart.de/vision/
SPIE Future Sensing Technologies
Digital Forum
9–13 November 2020
December
SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation
San Diego, CA, USA
13–18 December 2020
2021
February
SPIE Medical Imaging
San Diego, CA, USA
14–18 February 2021
SPIE Advanced Lithography
San Diego, CA, USA
21–25 February 2021
March
Optical Fiber communication
San Francisco, CA, USA
28 March–1 April 2021
SPIE Photonics West
San Francisco, CA, USA
6–11 March 2021
SPIE AR | VR | MR
San Francisco, CA, USA
7–9 March 2021
April
OSA Biophotonics Congress
Vancouver, BC, Canada
12–15 April 2021
www.osa.org/en-us/meetings/osa_meetings/osa_biophotonics_congress/
SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing
Orlando, FL, USA
11–15 April 2021
SPIE Optics + Optoelectronics
Prague, Czech Republic
19–22 April 2021
May
DGaO Tagung
Bremen, Germany
25–29 May 2021
CLEO 2021
San Jose, CA, USA
9–14 May 2021
June
LASER World of Photonics
Munich, Germany
21–24 June 2021
World of Photonics Congress
Munich, Germany
20–24 June 2021
www.photonics-congress.com/en/
SPIE Conferences @WoP Congress
Biomedical Optics
Digital Optical Technologies
Optical Metrology
Munich, Germany
20–24 June 2021
https://spie.org/conferences-and-exhibitions
OSA Optical Design and Fabrication Congress
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
27 June–1 July 2021
www.osa.org/en-us/meetings/osa_meetings/optical_design_and_fabrication/
September
EOS Annual Meeting
Paris, France
6–10 September 2021
October
Frontiers in Optics: the 105th OSA Annual Laser Science Conference
Washington, DC, USA
10–14 October 2020
SPIE Optifab
Rochester, NY, USA
18–21 October 2021
2022
Optical Fiber communication
San Diego, CA, USA
6–10 March 2022
AKL’22
Aachen, Germany
4–6 May 2022
CLEO 2021
San Jose, CA, USA
15–20 May 2022
DGaO Tagung
Gent, Belgium
7–10 June 2022
LASYS
Stuttgart, Germany
21–23 June 2022
© 2020 Andreas Thoss, published by De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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- Editorial
- Good news!
- Community
- Conference Notes
- Tutorial
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- Research Articles
- M6 formalism – generalization of the laser beam quality factor M2 to the 3D domain
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