Information on Upcoming Meeting
OSA-NCS latest Newsletter PDF file
Meeting Schedule for 2007-2008
Archive of Speakers Abstracts and Resumes
The National Capital Section is a local chapter of the Optical Society of America (NCS/OSA) serving the Washington DC-Northern Virginia-Baltimore area. We hold monthly meetings 8 months of the year featuring a social hour and dinner at a local restaurant followed by a technical presentation on an optics topic of current interest given by a distinguished speaker from the optics industry.
The Optical Society of America, our parent organization, is an international professional society of optical scientists and engineers dedicated to the professional development of its members through a wide variety of services including sponsoring technical meetings, symposia and conferences, publishing peer reviewed technical journals and many other services for over 12,000 members whose interests range from lens design to astronomical telescopes, from photonics to adaptive optics, from cameras to orbital sensor satellites, from optical computers to deep space probes, from optical fibers to giant mirrors, from simple optical components to complex optical systems--and much more!
Our local section covers a similar range of interests and our over 60 members represent government agencies, private industry, academia and consultants from the optics arena.
Links to Other Sites of Interest
The Washington Academy of Sciences is an umbrella organization representing
a large number of scientific and engineering societies in the Washington, DC,
area. The NCS is a member of the Washington Academy of Sciences. If you want
more information, see their web site at http://www.washacadsci.org/
The Washington Northern Virginia Section of the Laser and Electro-optics (LEOS)
holds several joint meetings with the National Capital Section of the Optical
Society of America. If you want more information, see their web site at http://ewh.ieee.org/r2/wash_nova/leos/