Optics, Photonics in the Great Lakes Region

The Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, to be held June 12-16 in Dayton, Ohio, will feature 10 conferences, a senior-level plenary session, technical oral and poster sessions, a regional workforce competitiveness panel, short courses, and an exhibition featuring the latest light-based components, devices and associated services.

Dayton, Ohio, is home to the original bicycle shop owned by the Wright Brothers where they built their planes before testing them at Kitty Hawk. The shop is a National Historic Landmark in the Oregon Historic District, Dayton's oldest neighborhood.

Conference topics are:

Laser Sources and Enabling Materials
Aerospace Applications
Automotive Applications
Sensor-ATR Exploitation
Biophotonics and DNA Photonics
Emerging Photonics Technologies
High-Peak-Power and Average-Power Lasers
Nano- and Microphotonics: Materials, Devices, Processing, and Applications
Liquid Crystal Technology and Applications
Quantum Optics, Advanced Spectroscopy, and Terahertz Technology

For more information or to register, visit: http://www.nps.gov/daav/http://spie.org/Conferences/Programs/06/gl/register/