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CUDOS Entrepreneurship Seminar
AOS Members are invited to the CUDOS entrepreneurship seminar series.
Details of the fourth talk are as follows.
Date: Thursday, 1 December 2011
Time: 9:30-13:00 pm (refreshments provided)
Venue: Buzzard Lecture Theatre, Evan Burge Building (No. 3), Trinity College, University of Melbourne
Speaker: John Dyson, Starfish Ventures
Title: The role of venture capitalist in entrepreneurship
Attendance is free and open to anyone interested.
For further information and additional dates and speakers as well as videos of previous talks go to: www.cudos.org.au/education/seminarseries.shtml
IPOS Symposium on "Energy and the Environment: Photonics Solutions for the 21st Century"
The Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS) of the University of Sydney invites all AOS Members to attend its 3rd Annual Symposium. The details for this year are:
Topic: “Energy and the Environment: Photonics Solutions for the 21st Century”
Dates: Tuesday 6th and Wednesday 7th December, 2011
Venue: Lecture Theatre 101, New Law Building, The University of Sydney
Cost: Attendance is free, but registration is essential.
Please register at sydney.edu.au/science/ipos_symposium_rsvp_2011.php
The Symposium will focus on the role of optics and photonics in clean energy generation, energy conservation and monitoring and environmental sensing. Topics will include energy generation through photovoltaics and photothermal technologies, energy consumption of the internet, energy conservation through more efficient photonics-based technology and monitoring, end environmental sensing.
For more details about the Symposium, including a list of invited speakers, please see the Symposium website sydney.edu.au/ipos/news_events/events/symposium2011.shtml
CUDOS Entrepreneurship Seminar
AOS Members are invited to the CUDOS entrepreneurship seminar series. Details of the third talk are as follows.
Date: Wednesday, 16 November 2011
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm (pizza and soft drinks provided)
Venue: LT 1, School of Physics (Building A28), Physics Road, The University of Sydney
Speaker: Dr John Haywood (Smart Digital Optics)
Title: Smart Digital Optics, a successful start-up.
Attendance is free and open to anyone interested. There will be free pizza and soft drinks.
For further information and additional dates and speakers as well as videos of previous talks go to: www.cudos.org.au/education/seminarseries.shtml
Regional Workshop on Ultracold Atoms
28 – 30 November 2011, ANU Field Station, Kioloa, NSW South Coast
Organised by ACQAO
Webpage: www.acqao.org
CUDOS Entrepreneurship Seminar
AOS Members are invited to the CUDOS entrepreneurship seminar series. Details of the second talk are as follows.
Date: Wednesday, 2 November 2011
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm (refreshments provided)
Venue: LT 1, School of Physics (Building A28), Physics Road, The University of Sydney
Speaker: Dr. Karl Rodrigues (CSIRO)
Title: Path to Impact. Taking ideas to market. Processes, success and failures – stories from the front line of R&D, commercialisation and funding early start-ups.
Attendance is free and open to anyone interested.
For further information and additional dates and speakers as well as videos of previous talks go to:
www.cudos.org.au/education/seminarseries.shtml
AOS membership renewal for 2012 is open
Australian or New Zealand students signing up for the first time are free for 2012 (an address at a university must be provided).
Other fees are listed on the Membership pages.
IQEC/CLEO Pacific Rim 2011
29 August – 1 September 2011, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre http://www.iqec-cleopr2011.com/.
Combines four major meetings:
- The International Quantum Electronics Conference (IQEC)
- The Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) Pacific Rim
- The Australasian Conference on Optics, Lasers and Spectroscopy (ACOLS)
- The Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT)
19th Australian Institute of Physics Congress
December 6-10, 2010, Melbourne, Victoria
http://www.aip2010.org.au
Including the AOS Conference and the 35th Australian Conference on Optical
Fibre Technology
7th Asia Pacific Laser Symposium (APLS), APLS 2010
12th May -15th May 2010, Seogwipo KAL Hotel, Jeju Island, Korea. www.apls2010.org
APLS 2010 will cover various research areas related to lasers and their applications:
- High Power Lasers
- Ultrashort Intense Lasers
- Laser Material Processing
- Laser Applications in Medical Science and Biology
- Laser Spectroscopy and Nonlinear Optics
- Terahertz Generation and Applications
- Femtochemistry
- Laser Metrology