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Traveling/Presidential Speaker Schedule

Local Sections are eligible to request a visit from a member of the OSA Presidential Chain to be a guest speaker at one of their meetings. This benefit rotates annually between predetermined regions. Please refer to the regions below to verify your Section’s eligibility and the officer available to speak to your members. If your Section is not eligible for a Presidential Speaker in 2008, please refer to the Traveling Lecturer program to select a guest speaker.

Please contact Bernadette Martinucci, Executive Office Administrator, at 202-416-1954 or e-mail presidentialspeakers@osa.org for booking information or other questions.

2008 Regions Eligible for Presidential Speaker

Region III

Speaker: Thomas Baer
OSA President-Elect
Stanford Univ., USA

Columbia Local Section of OSA
Montreal Section of OSA
Optical Society of Northern California (OSNC)
Optical Society of Southern California (OSSC)
Quebec Section of OSA
Southwestern Ontario Section of OSA
Optical Society of San Diego (OSSD)
SW Ontario

Region IV

Speaker: Joseph H. Eberly
OSA Past President
Univ. of Rochester, USA

Ann Arbor Section of OSA
India Section of OSA
Minnesota Section of OSA (MSOSA)
Optical Society of Chicago (OSC)
Optical Society of Greater St. Louis/OSGSL
Rochester Section of OSA
Tokyo Section of OSA

2009 Regions Eligible for Presidential Speaker

(Please refer to the Traveling Lecturer program to select a guest speaker for your section.)

REGION I

Albuquerque Chapter of OSA
Huntsville Electro-Optical Society (HEOS)
Reno Tahoe Photonics
Rocky Mountain Section of OSA (RMOSA)
Singapore Local Section of OSA
Taiwan Local Section of OSA
Thailand Local Section of OSA
Tucson Section of OSA

Region II

Central Florida Section of OSA
Charlotte Optical Society
Emerald Coast Optical Society (ECOS)
National Capital Section of OSA (NCS)
New England Section of OSA (NESOSA)
Optical Society of Long Island
Southwestern Connecticut Section of OSA
Tri-state Section of OSA
Ukrainian Section of OSA
Western Pennsylvania Optical Society