The Optical Society (OSA) Celebrates Historic 2019 Optics and Photonics Congress in Korea
Meredith Smith, OSA Director of Awards and Special Programs
It’s a wrap for the highly successful 2019 Optics and Photonics Congress, organized by the Optical Society of Korea (OSK) in Busan, Korea.
Caption: Left to right, Optical Society of Korea Vice President Kyung Sook Hyun with panelists Ray-Hua Horng, Malgorzata Kujawinska and 2019 OSA President Ursula Gibson
Credit: Photo by Meredith Smith
The Congress combined the Optical Society of Korea Summer AnnualMeeting and the OSK-OSA-OSJJoint Symposium.
2019 OSA President Ursula Gibson participated in a panel discussion on “Challenges and Future Directions of Optical Academic Societies,” where she addressed such issues as the role of optics in the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution, attracting more industry members to optical societies, the role of optical societies for attracting students to study optics and photonics and ways to enhance partnerships among international optical societies.
Gibson also gave a keynote speech on “Semiconductor Core Optical Fibers” and participated in a Women in Optics session.
She presented a commemorative gift to OSK President Byoungho Lee, in celebration of the OSK 30th anniversary. The combined events had over 600 attendees and a high number of research paper submissions.
OSA was honored to participate in the Congress and have the opportunity to celebrate and connect with our many authors, volunteers, and members in Korea. We look forward to many more years of collaboration with OSK and the scientific community in Korea. Since 2016, OSA and the Optical Society of Japan (OSJ) have organized a joint English-language symposia to provide a global forum for leading researchers to present their latest work and to hear the most up-to-date results in the fields of Applied Optics and Optical Science. This partnership was recently expanded to include the Optical Society of Korea and this year was the first joint symposium in Korea.
