OSA 2011 Election
The OSA Board of Directors is pleased to present an outstanding slate of candidates for election to terms beginning in 2012. The election opened 5 July 2011 and will continue through 23 September 2011, 11:59 p.m. US EDT. All eligible voters* should have received an email with instructions for electronic voting or a paper ballot. Paper ballots were sent to members without a current email address or upon request.
If you did not receive ballot instructions, or to request a paper ballot, please contact OSA at voting@osa.org, or telephone: +1.202.416.1403 or 1.800.766.4672 (US only). Click here to access the ballot.
Results will be announced on Tuesday 18 October 2011 at the OSA Annual Business Meeting in San Jose, CA, USA, during FiO/LS 2011.
*Regular Members, Senior Members, Graduated Student Members, Honorary Members, Emeritus Members and Fellow Members as of 29 August 2011 are eligible to vote. Teacher Members and Student Members are not eligible to vote.
Vice President Candidates (1 will be elected)
Please note that Satoshi Kawata has regretfully withdrawn as a candidate for Vice President. Attached please find a message from Prof. Kawata. The election will proceed with two candidates for Vice President.
Candidates for Director at Large (3 will be elected)
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James D. Kafka, Spectra-Physics, Newport Corp., USA
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Byoung Yoon Kim, KAIST (Korea Advanced Inst. Science and Tech.), South Korea
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Carlos Lopez-Mariscal, US Naval Research Lab., USA
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Giovanni Volpe, Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme, Germany
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Jun Ye, NIST and Univ. of Colorado, USA
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