European Optical Society
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History
- Until 1984: OpticsOpticsOptics is the branch of physics which involves the behavior and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it. Optics usually describes the behavior of visible, ultraviolet, and infrared light...
in Europe is represented by the European Optical Committee (EOC). - 1984: The EOC joins the European Physical SocietyEuropean Physical SocietyThe European Physical Society is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote physics and physicists in Europe. Formally established in 1968, its membership includes the national physical societies of 41 countries, and some 3200 individual members. The Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft,...
(EPS) to create an Optics Division. - 1986: The National optical societies of several European countries found the European Federation for Applied Optics – Europtica, which officially registered in ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
in 1987. - December 1986: A Memorandum of UnderstandingMemorandum of understandingA memorandum of understanding is a document describing a bilateral or multilateral agreement between parties. It expresses a convergence of will between the parties, indicating an intended common line of action. It is often used in cases where parties either do not imply a legal commitment or in...
(MOU) is signed between EPS (the legal representative of the Optics Division), Europtica, and SPIE, in which the three parties agree to organise jointly one major annual optics meeting in Europe. This MOU initiated the ECO series of meetings, which were managed by the French organisation Europtica Services International Communications. The experience with these conferences demonstrated the need for a lean and efficient organisation of optical activities in Europe. - March 1990: On the background of this need, the Board of the Optics Division of EPS unanimously votes for starting negotiations with Europtica in order to found the European Optical Society (EOS).
- 24 May 1991: The European Optical Society, or EOS, is founded.
Aims & Mission
Optics as a scienceScience
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
, technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
, and base for industry
Industry
Industry refers to the production of an economic good or service within an economy.-Industrial sectors:There are four key industrial economic sectors: the primary sector, largely raw material extraction industries such as mining and farming; the secondary sector, involving refining, construction,...
, consumer goods, and health care
Health care
Health care is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is delivered by practitioners in medicine, chiropractic, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, allied health, and other care providers...
makes a significant contribution to society and has a great potential for further development. The purpose of the society is to contribute to progress in optics and related sciences, and to promote their applications at the European and international levels, by bringing together individuals and legal entities involved in these disciplines and their applications.
The European Optical Society (EOS) serves as the joint forum for all individuals, companies, organisations, educational institutions, and learned and professional societies, who recognise the opportunity and challenge that a common European base provides for the development of optics in its broadest sense. EOS aims at establishing an open coordination of international conferences in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
and seeks to provide a powerful joint representation through concerted efforts which include:
- promoting optics and related sciences in cooperation with industry and research by:
- establishing a joint information platform
- forming a national, European and international lobby for optics as the enabling technology of the 21st century
- supporting the dissemination of knowledge about the use and value of optics and related sciences to the general public, industry, media, and on the political level
- supporting the progress and application of optics by:
- influencing European R+D policy
- fostering the exchange of students and professionals
- promoting employmentEmploymentEmployment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. An employee may be defined as:- Employee :...
in optics throughout Europe
- coordinating optics conferences and publications in Europe
- enhancing the professional standing of individuals working in optics
- promoting European educational standards in optics in educationEducationEducation in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
, trainingTrainingThe term training refers to the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and competencies as a result of the teaching of vocational or practical skills and knowledge that relate to specific useful competencies. It forms the core of apprenticeships and provides the backbone of content at institutes of...
, and examination at all levels - acting as the forum for the European professional and learned societies for the collection and dissemination of information, for the coordination of policies, and for joint ventureJoint ventureA joint venture is a business agreement in which parties agree to develop, for a finite time, a new entity and new assets by contributing equity. They exercise control over the enterprise and consequently share revenues, expenses and assets...
s
EOS is supported in this by the national optical societies of a great number the European countries.
Main Activities
- Organisation of topical meetings, workshops and conferences, and endorsement of other scientific events
- Operation of a virtual platform for the European optics and photonicsPhotonicsThe science of photonics includes the generation, emission, transmission, modulation, signal processing, switching, amplification, detection and sensing of light. The term photonics thereby emphasizes that photons are neither particles nor waves — they are different in that they have both particle...
community at www.myeos.org - Focus Groups for various application fields
- Publication of JEOS:RP, the electronic Journal of the European Optical Society: Rapid PublicationsJournal of the European Optical Society: Rapid PublicationsThe Journal of the European Optical Society: Rapid Publications is an online open access peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the European Optical Society...
at www.jeos.org - Electronic and printed newsletters
- Representation of the optics and photonics community on the European level (Technology Platform Photonics21Photonics21Photonics21 is a voluntary association of industrial enterprises and other stakeholders in the field of photonics in Europe. It unites the majority of the leading photonics industries and relevant R&D stakeholders along the whole economic value chain throughout Europe. Photonics21 was founded in 2005...
) - Awarding of the EOS Prize
Membership
The EOS today has more than 6,500 societal, corporate, individual, associate and student members from all over Europe andworldwide.
Membership Modes:
- Individual Membership
- Student Membership
- Individual membership through an EOS Branch
- Associate membership through an EOS Affiliated Society
- Direct Corporate Membership
- Corporate Membership through an EOS Branch or an EOS Affiliated Society
Societal Members:
22 national optical societies are members (10 branches, 12 affiliated societies) of the EOS:
- Belgium : Comité Belge d'Optique - Belgian Optical Committee (CBO-BCO) ; Promoptica)
- Czech Republic and Slovak Republic: Czech and Slovak Society for Photonics (CSSF)
- Denmark: Danish Optical Society (DOPS)
- Finland: Finnish Optical Society (FOS)
- France: Société Françaises d’Optique (SFO)
- Germany: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Angewandte Optik (DGaO); Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Lasertechnik e.V. (WLT)
- Italy: Società Italiana di Ottica e Fotonica (SIOF)
- Hungary: Hungarian Optical Society (HOS),
- Latvia: Latvian Optical Society (LOS)
- Netherlands: Dutch Physical Society – Optics Section DPS-OS)
- Poland: Polish Physical Society – Optics Division (PPS)
- Romania: Division of Optics & Quantum Electronics of the Romanian Physical Society (DOQE-RPS)
- Russia: Laser Association (LAS); Rozhdestvensky Optical Society (ROS)
- Sweden: Swedish Optical Society (SOS)
- Switzerland: Swiss Society for Optics and Microscopy (SSOM)
- Ukraine: Ukrainian Society of Pure and Applied Optics (USPAO)
- United Kingdom and Ireland: Institute of Physics Optical Group (IOP)
Corporate members:
38 companies are corporate members of the EOS.
Upcoming Conferences and Topical Meetings 2011/2012
- 2nd EOS Topical Meeting on Lasers (http://www.myeos.org/events/ETML2011), 26 September 2011 - 28 September 2011, Capri, Italy
- 4th EOS Topical Meeting on Optical Microsystems (http://www.myeos.org/events/OMS2011), 26 September 2011 - 28 September 2011, Capri, Italy
- 1st EOS Topical Meeting on Micro- and Nano-Optoelectronic Systems http://www.myeos.org/events/bremen2011, 7 December 2011 - 9 December 2011, Bremen, Germany
- 8th EOS Topical Meeting on Diffractive Optics (http://www.myeos.org/events/do2012), 27 February 2012 - 1 March 2012, Delft, Netherlands
- 1st EOS Topical Meeting on Photonics for Sustainable Development - Focus on the Mediterranean (http://www.myeos.org/events/psdm2012), 31 March 2012 - 3 April 2012, Tunis, Tunisia
- http://www.myeos.org/events/angel2012 - 2nd Conference on Laser Ablation and Nanoparticle Generation in Liquids, 22 May 2012 - 24 May 2012, Taormina (Sicily), Italy
- 6th EOS Topical Meeting on Advanced Imaging Techniques (http://www.myeos.org/events/ait2012), 2 July 2012 - 5 July 2012, Hyères - Southern Alps (Provence), France
- 6th EOS Topical Meeting on Visual and Physiological Optics (http://www.myeos.org/events/emvpo2012), 20 August 2012 - 22 August 2012, Dublin, Ireland
- EOS Annual Meeting 2012 (http://www.myeos.org/events/eosam2012), 25 September 2012 - 28 September 2012, Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre, Scotland, UK
JEOS:RP - the online Journal of the EOS
JEOS:RP is the online Journal of the European Optical Society: Rapid PublicationsJournal of the European Optical Society: Rapid Publications
The Journal of the European Optical Society: Rapid Publications is an online open access peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the European Optical Society...
covering a large scope of research and education in optics and photonics. It is the only journal throughout Europe which focuses on European research and exploration in optics and photonics. JEOS:RP aims for excellence in professional journal publications, and addresses experts of all fields in optics and photonics. www.jeos.org