The Optical Society - Workshop on Specialty Optical Fiber and Their Applications

Workshop on Specialty Optical Fiber and Their Applications

Meetings

Workshop on Specialty Optical Fiber and Their Applications

28 - 30 August 2013

Resources: Authors/Presenters

Submitting to an OSA meeting gives you the benefit of having your paper peer-reviewed by an expansive committee of experts in the field. If accepted, your paper will be officially published in Optics InfoBase, OSA's Digital Library, and indexed in Ei Compendex and Scopus.

Students are particularly encouraged to take part of WSOF and discuss their most interesting and significant results, even if these have already been presented in a recent publication (2012 or 2013).

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Call for Papers Opens
Abstract and Summary Submissions Due	22 May 2013, 12:00 EDT (Convert Time)
Peer Review
Program Committee Decisions
Authors Notified of Committee Decisions	21 June 2013
Online Program Planner Available	5 July 2013
Eligible Students: Apply for a Student Travel Grant
Postdeadline Abstract and Summary Submissions Due	Invalid date time. (Convert Time)
Postdeadline Paper Notifications Sent
Hotel Reservation	By 30 June 2013
Register for the Meeting	By 31 July 2013
Postdeadline Authors Notified of Committee Decisions
Prepare to Present at the Meeting
Present at the Meeting	28 August - 30 August 2013

Contributed presentations are 15 minutes
Invited presentations are 20 minutes
Tutorial presentations are 20 minutes
Plenary presentations are
Online Program Planner - The online program planner allows you to browse speakers and the agenda of sessions. Use the online program planner to build a custom itinerary and print your personal itinerary before coming to the meeting. You can also add your itinerary to your electronic calendar, download it to a personal mobile device or email it to a friend or colleague who might be interested in attending the meeting.

AV Provided for your Presentation

To ensure that the program runs smoothly, all speakers are requested to upload their presentations on the respective session room laptop at least one full coffee break prior to their session.

The meeting rooms will contain the following:

Laptop computer with Windows Microsoft OS 7 with Microsoft Office 2010 Professional
LCD projector
Podium microphone and/or wireless lavalieres
Projection pointer

Mac users should bring along a compatible VGA plug or the cable that converts Firewire to VGA which comes with the purchase of the laptop.

Please note that Internet access will not be available during your presentation, and due to licensing restrictions, the use of music in presentations, including video presentations, is prohibited.

Bulletin board is bulletin board to display a summary of the paper.
Authors must remain in the vicinity of the bulletin board for the duration of the session
Poster presenters are not supplied with any audiovisual equipment.
Information concerning the poster set-up and tear-down times will be included in the notification email to the submitting author.