President’s Columns

I am starting my column on my way back from the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) that was held in Basel, Switzerland on September 18-22. The atmosphere was great as many researchers rekindled after years of not seeing each other in-person. A few remarked ...

Time flies and we are almost into the Fall of 2022. It is the time to return to school for many students and professors, with the return of in-person classes for most.  Two Society conferences are approaching. The first is IEEE Research and Applications of Photonics ...

  Summer is approaching in North America with warmer weather and two conferences from our Society taking place in-person. The first is the IEEE Summer Topicals (SUM) Meeting Series in Mexico in July (see https://www.ieee-sum.org/). It consists of several topical tracks that facilitate information exchange between ...

I would like to thank you for your continued readership of the Society’s Newsletter, and its April issue for 2022. Now a quarter into the year, the Society is busy implementing goals and the planning for many of our conferences are underway, which are set ...

It is an honor to serve as the incoming President of the IEEE Photonics Society for 2022 and 2023. In this capacity, I am hoping to best serve our members and deliver on what they expect from a Society that represents them. In my new role, I will help a body of volunteer leaders accomplish their objectives with the support of the Society staff, who...

As the end of 2021 approaches, so does my term as President of the IEEE Photonics Society. I would like to thank the Photonics community for the opportunity to have served as your President for the last two years. It has been an honor to contribute to advance the efforts of the IEEE Photonics Society in supporting its members through conferences, m...

Let’s discuss PhotonIcs, in which I intentionally capitalize the “I” for “Innovation.” Innovation is the name of game in our field that drives us to demonstrate new concepts that will translate into ground-breaking technologies. What motivated me to write on this topic is an IEEE ...

Every June when my university, Colorado State, launches the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) Program, jointly offered with the University California at Berkeley, an infusion of energy occurs. The eager student participants are motivated to work on exciting research ...

The 2021 conference season is here and as in 2020 our conferences are going virtual. The decision to use a virtual platform was not an easy one. However, due to existing travel restrictions the IEEE Photonics Society decided to offer all of its 2021 conferences ...

The landscape of technical publications has seen significant changes in the last few years. Specifically, in the photonics area, there has been a surge of new open access (OA) journals from main publishers. This is a consequence of “Plan S”, an initiative that started in ...