The Optical Society of Southern California holds nine regular meetings, monthly from October through June, as well as a few special events.  Most of our meetings and events are open to the public.  This page includes a record of our past meetings dating back to 2009-2010 (we are looking for volunteers to help add details for earlier meetings.

Events for the current active period are found on our events page and our events calendar.  The events calendar also has other items that may be of interest to OSSC members such as professional conferences and educational events.

Ideas for future meetings may be made to our Programs Chair

OSSC Program Year 2018-2019

Date	Location	Speaker	Topic
11 October 2017	JPL Von Karman Auditorium	Mars2020 SHERLOC Instrument Team	“Imaging” the Invisible World: Mars, Meteorites and Terrestrial Environments
8 November 2017	Proud Bird, El Segundo	Yang Chen, nanoPrecision Products	Next Generation Fiber Optic Connectors
14-16 November 2017	Aryes Hotel, El Segundo	Three days of speakers and exhibitors	Mirror Tech Days Reception
13 December 2017	UCI Applied Innovation, "The Cove"	Kenneth August & Michael Silivio	R&D Tax Credits & International Technology Transactions Legal Considerations
10 January 2018	Cal Poly Pomona, Kellogg West Conference Center	Nolan Johnson, Chris Mendoza, and Jacob Taube (Cal Poly Physics & Astronomy), Sevan Menachekanian (Cal Poly Chemistry & Biochemistry, and JPL)	Survey of Student Projects in Optics at Cal Poly Pomona: "Broadband Multilayer Plasmonic Structures", "Image Analysis in IR Astronomy", "Galileo's Telescope", and "Spatial Heterodyne Raman Spectrometers in Deep UV Region"
7 February 2018	The Reef Restaurant Long Beach	Angus Macleod	History of the Fundamentals of Optical Coatings
14 March 2018	Sodexo at Pickwick Gardens Burbank	Donald (Don) A. Pearson II	An Introduction to Spectrally Controlled Interferometry for the Measurement of Flat and Spherical Optics
11 April 2018	St. Gregory Chruch Pasadena	Robert Thompson	Laser Trapping on ISS
9 May 2018	Mahr Metrology Cypress	Brent Bergner	Advances inMetrology Tools for Asphere Characterization
13 June 2018	Precision Optical, Costa Mesa	James Millerd, 4D Technologies	Annual OSSC Business Meeting -- Advances in Large Mirror Interferometry for Commercial Applications

Date	Location	Speaker	Topic
5 October 2016	St. Gregory Armenian Apostolic Church	Mark Helminger, JPL	A Terrestrial Tour of Airborne Mapping Spectroscopy at JPL
9 November 2016	II-VI Optical Systems	Kent Weed, Director of Engineering,II-VI Optical Systems	Winning, building and testing the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) Lens Assemblies
14 December 2016	Kellogg West Hotel and Conference Center, at Cal Poly Pomona	Richard C. Juergens, Cimarron Optical Consulting, Inc.	IODC Lens Design Competitions from the last 25 years and Corporate Member Appreciation Event
11 January 2017	Monterey Clubhouse at Encino,16821 Burbank Blvd., Encino, CA	Roger Smith, Caltech	Surveying the Sky 1500 Times Faster: The engineering of a large astronomical Camera
8 February 2017	Alcon Laboratories,20511 Lake Forest Drive, Lake Forest, CA	Zsolt Bor, Director of Engineering, Alcon Laboratories	Eye Surgery With Femtosecond Lasers
22 March 2017	Los Angeles Convention Center, co-located with OSA's OFC Conference	Scott Jordan, Head of Photonics, Physik Instrumente	”Nano-alignment as challenge and enabler for "Silicon Photonics"
12 April, 2017	Anaheim Business Expo, 2 miles from SPIE Defense and Commercial Sensing meeting	Pete Vallianos,N2 Imaging Systems	Challenges in Optical Design in Soldier Systems
10 May 2017	UC Irvine Applied Innovation The Cove 5141 California Avenue Irvine, CA 92617	Panelists:Alan Willner,Bruce Tromberg, James Fisher,Nicolaus Lambert Moderator:Donn Silberman	Nexus between government, academia, industry and our professional societies in optics and photonics: A Panel Discussion
14 June 2017	Luminarias Restaurant	Prof. Alex Small,Cal Poly Pomona	Superresolution Microscopy: What is it, how far can it go, and why did your professor mislead you?

OSSC Program Year 2015-2016

Date	Location	Speaker	Topic
14 October 2015	Los Angeles Southwest College	Hildreth (Hal) Walker Jr.	Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment and STEM Education
11 November 2015	St. Gregory Armenian Apostolic Church	Andrew Rakich, Senior Optinical Engineer,Giant Magellan Telescope	A Technical Overview of the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT)
9 December 2015	UC Irvine Institute for Innovation	Milton Chang	Starting a Business in the Current Environment
13 January 2016	Kellogg West Hotel and Conference Center(on the campus ofCal Poly Pomona)	Dr. Tijana Jovanovic-Talisman	Advances in quantitative super-resolution microscopy
10 February 2016	Courtyard Marriott, Monrovia	John Rogers, Synopsys	Freeform and related optical systems
9 March 2016	Holiday Inn LAX	Dr. Stephanie Sandor-Leahy, Northrop-Grumman Aerospace Systems	Hyperspectral Remote Sensing
13 April 2016	Spring Field Banquet Center	Dr. Joshua Smith, LIGO & CSU Fullerton and Dr. Alan Willner, USC and OSA	Using optics and precision metrology in LIGO to measure black hole mergers from across the universe and and update on theNational Photonics Initiative
11 May 2016	JPL Von Karman Auditorium	Virginia Ford, Senior Optomechanical Engineer,Thirty Meter Telescope	A Technical Overview of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT)
8 June 2016	Luminarias Restaurant (Monterey Park)	Eric Potma, UC Irvine, Dept. of Chemistry	Annual Business Meeting, Fellows Induction, and Presentation on"Nonlinear Optics to the Rescue"

Date	Location	Speaker	Topic
17 June 2015	Luminarias, Monterey Park	Dr. Ron Polidan, Northrop Grumman	Annual Meeting &An Evolvable Space Telescope For Future Astronomical Missions
20 May 2015	Hilton Garden Inn, Redondo Beach	Antonio Mendez	Photonic Signal Processing for Optical Communications Receivers
8 April 2015	Newport Corporation, Irvine	Dr. Jim Wyant	College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona: 50 Years of Excellence*
11 March 2015	Panavision, Woodland Hills	Dan Sasaki, VP Optical Engineering	Lens Design for Cinematography
14 February 2015	Hilton Garden Inn, Redondo Beach	Dr. Daniel Winters, Trioptics USA	State-of-the-Art Active Camera Alignment
14 January 2015	Kellogg West Conference Center, onCal Poly Pomona Campus	Dr. David Stork	Lensless Imaging
10 December 2014	IVC ATEP, Tustin	Panel Discussion: IVC ATEP Five Member Panel	Corporate Member Appreciation Event and Growing Optics in Southern California*
12 November 2014	The Proud Bird, Los Angeles	Harvey Spencer	Optical Materials
8 October 2014	Precision Optical, Costa Mesa	Panel Discussion: NPI Four Member Panel	National Photonics Initiative*

 

Date	Location	Speaker	Topic
12 June 2014	Luminarias, Monterey Park	Donn Silberman (Physik Instrumente and Optics Institute of Southern California), Nicolaus Lambert (Precision Optical), Julia Majors (UC Irvine), and Bo Wang (Precision Optical)	Annual Business Meeting, Induction of Scott Rowe and Valentina Doushkina as OSSC Fellows, Presentation: Optics Education and Outreach Programs in Southern California
30 May 2014	Mount Wilson Observatory		Viewing Night
14 May 2014	Monterey Clubhouse, Encino	Steve Fantone, Optikos	CVOSA & OSSC Joint Meeting & Adventures in Optics
9 April 2014	Kellogg West Conference Center, on Cal Poly Pomona Campus	Career panel: Valentina Doushkina (N2 Imaging), Donald Pearson (Davidson Optronics), Paige Lawson (Lightworks Optical Systems) Keynote: Eric Becklin, Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astrophysics	Panel Discussion: "How can students prepare for careers in the optics industry?" Keynote:Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA): Overview and First Science Results
12 March 2014	CalTech Cahill Center Hameetman Auditorium	Reed Riddle, CalTech	Robo-AO
12 February 2014	Hacienda Hotel, El Segundo	James Millerd, 4D Technology	Dynamic Interferometry
8 January 2014	Courtyard by Marriott, Monrovia	Jordan Neysmith,Second Sight	Innovation in Vision Restoration: Second Sight
11 December 2013	Calit2 Auditorium/ UC Irvine	OSSC Corporate Members Exhibits & Ron Sherwood, Novus Light	Corporate Member Appreciation Event and Photonics: An Industry Moving at the Speed of Light
13 November 2013	USC - Aerospace Presentation Center	Greg Downing and Eric Hanson, X-Rez Studio	Innovation and Disruption in Digital Imaging
9 October 2013	The Chart Room, Cal State Long Beach, Long Beach	Dr.Yoseph Bar-Cohen, JPL	Humanlike Robots as the Ultimate Challenge to Mimicking Biology
1-4 October 2013	Northrop Grumman Aerospace Presentation Center	Various	Conference & Mirror Technology Days

OSSC Program Year 2012-2013

Date	Location	Speaker	Topic
12 June 2013	Hacienda Hotel, El Segundo	Lacy Cook, Raytheon Space & Airborne Systems	Annual Business Meeting & Presentation: Where DO Inventive Ideas Come From?
8 May 2013	Embassy Suites, Irvine	Dr. Hu Cang, Salk Institute	Cloud Computing and Light-sheet Illumination for Single-molecule Super-resolution Imaging
10 April 2013	Empress Paviliion, Los Angeles	Dr. Michelle Povinelli, University of Southern California	Light Interaction with Nanostructured Materials: Photovoltaics and Self-Assembly
20 March 2013	Holiday Inn Anaheim in conjunction with OFC	Dr. Jules Jaffe, Scripps Institution of Oceanography	From Titanic to the Tiny: Three Decades of Underwater Optical Imaging in my Lab
13 February 2013	Kellogg West Conference Center, on Cal Poly Pomona Campus	Dr. Timothy Corcoran, Cal Poly Pomona	A Sideways Look at Broadband Fluorescence Spectroscopy
9 January 2013	The Chart Room, Cal State Long Beach, Long Beach	Dr. Steve Howell, NASA	The NASA Kepler Mission: Recent Exoplanet and Astrophysical Discoveries
21 December 2012	Mt. Wilson Observatory	NA	Stargazing
12 December 2012	Embassy Suites, Anaheim-North	Arnie Bazensky, Schott North America	Corporate Member Appreciation Event and presentation on Schott History
14 November 2012	Monterey Clubhouse, Encino	Dr. Muthu Jeganathan, JPL
10 October 2012	Hacienda Hotel, El Segundo	Lenny Lipton	An Overview of Electro-stereoscopic Displays

OSSC Program Year 2011-2012

Date	Location	Speaker	Topic
13 June 2012	Luminarias, Monterey Park	Naty Hoffman, Activision	Uses of Physically-Based Light-Material Interaction Models in Videogame and Feature Film Graphics
9 May 2012	N2 Imaging, Irvine (tour), then Citrus Cafe, Tustin (dinner and presentation)	Peter Vallianos, N2 Imaging Systems	Challenges in Optical Design in Soldier Systems
21 April 2012	UC Irvine Beall Center for Art + Technology, Irvine	Outreach Chair: Donn Silberman	Family Day Event
14 April 2012	Mile Square Golf Course, Fountain Valley	OSSC Golf Chair: Hal Johnson	OSSC Annual Fred Hansen Memorial Golf Tournament
11 April 2012	Kellogg West Conference Center, on Cal Poly Pomona Campus	Dan Harris, Naval Air Systems Command, China Lake	History of Magneto-rheological Finishing
10-11 March 2012	Discovery Science Center, Santa Ana	Outreach Chair: Donn Silberman	Optricks & Lasers Extravaganza
7 March 2012	JW Marriott Hotel, Los Angeles	Dr. Madeleine Glick, APIC Corporation	at OFC/NFOEC Conference LA Convention Center Optics in Next Generation Data Centers
8 February 2012	UC Riverside, Department of Electrical Engineering, Riverside	Prof Alexander Balandin	Unique Thermal Properties Of Graphene: Applications In Thermal Management Of Optoelectronics And Electronics
11 January 2012	USC Keck School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology Los Angeles	Dr. Carmen Puliafito and Shuliang Jiao	New developments in ophthalmic optical coherence tomography and Photoacoustic ophthalmoscopy for in vivo retinal imaging: current status and prospects
14 December 2011	UC Irvine, hosted by the UC Irvine OSA Student Chapter	Karen Newman and Laura Marshall and Exhibits by OSSC Corporate Members	Corporate Member Appreciation Event and Scale to thrive? Consolidation in the Photonics Industry
9 November 2011	Synopsys, Pasadena	Bruce Moision, JPL	Signaling on the Deep-Space Optical Channel
5 November 2011	UC Irvine Beall Center for Art + Technology, Irvine	Outreach Chair: Donn Silberman	Family Day Event
12 October 2011	Hacienda Hotel, El Segundo	Jeff Puschell, Raytheon	History and future of space-based images and other optoelectronic systems

OSSC Program Year 2010-2011

Date	Location	Speaker	Topic
10 July 2011 6 Aug 2011	Mount Wilson Observatory	Mount Wilson Observatory	OSSC Family Tour & Astronomical Viewing Events
18 & 19 June 2011	Discovery Science Center, Santa Ana	Outreach Chair: Donn Silberman	Optricks & Laser Extravaganza
8 June 2011	Luminarias, Monterey Park	OSSC Annual Meeting	60th Anniversary of OSSC Honoring of Past OSSC Presidents
21 May 2011	Whispering Lakes Golf Course, Ontario	OSSC Golf Chair: Hal Johnson	OSSC Annual Fred Hansen Golf Tournament
11 May 2011	Kellogg West Conference Center, on Cal Poly Pomona Campus	Alex Small & Ertan Salik, Cal Poly Pomona	Tapered Optical Fibers & Theoretical Limits to Microscopy Beyond the Diffraction Limit
27 April 2011	UC San Diego	Yeshaiahu "Shaya" Fainman, UC San Diego	Ultrafast and Nanoscale Optics
16 April 2011	UC Irvine Beall Center for Art + Technology, Irvine	Outreach Chair: Donn Silberman	Family Day Event
13 April 2011	Osaka Seafood Buffet, Brea	Pete Fuqua, Aerospace Corporation	Angle Resolved Scattering from Optical Filters for Space Applications
9 March 2011	JW Marriott Hotel, Los Angeles	Milton Chang	at OFC/NFOEC Conference LA Convention Center Starting and Running Companies
9 February 2011	Hacienda Hotel, El Segundo	Dan Vukobratovich	Binocular Designs
12 January 2011	Monterey Clubhouse, Encino	Robert Fischer, OSSC Fellow	Optical Design Magic
8 December 2010	Newport Corporation, Irvine	Tommaso Baldacchini	Chemical Mapping of Three-Dimensional Microstructures Fabricated by Two-Photon Polymerization Using CARS Microscopy
13 November 2010	UC Irvine Beall Center for Art + Technology, Irvine	Outreach Chair: Donn Silberman	Family Day EventFamily Day Event
10 November 2010	USC Institute for Creative Technologies Playa Vista	Paul Debevec, Abhijeet Ghosh & Andrew Jones	Light Stage - Creation of Virtual Avatars
13 October 2010	LightWorks Optics, Tustin	Dan Barber, Kent Weed & Roger Johnston, LightWorks Optics Mark Robinson, ASU	Space-Based Optical Systems at LightWorks Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera
10 October 2010	UC Irvine Beall Center for Art + Technology, Irvine	Outreach Chair: Donn Silberman	Experimental Media Art Festival 10.10.10

OSSC Program Year 2009-2010

Date	Location	Speaker	Topic
2010-2011 (pending road repair)	Mount Wilson Observatory	Mount Wilson Observatory	OSSC Family Event
23 June 2010	Luminarias, Monterey Park	Alson E Hatheway, Alson E. Hatheway Inc.	Bridging the Chasm - Applying the Structural Engineering Arts to Optics
12 June 2010	Discovery Science Center, Santa Ana	Optricks Day LaserFest	Family Day Event
22 May 2010	Whispering Lakes Golf Course, Ontario	OSSC Golf Chair: Hal Johnson	OSSC Annual Fred Hansen Golf Tournament
12 May 2010	Raytheon Space & Airborne Systems, El Segundo	Dan Nieuwsma, Raytheon SAS	OSSC LaserFest at Raytheon: 50th Anniversary Celebration of the First Working Laser!
17 April 2010	UC Irvine Beall Center for Art + Technology, Irvine	Outreach Chair: Donn Silberman	Family Day Event
14 April 2010	UCLA	Aydogan Ozcan	Innovation Through Photonics
10 March 2010	Cerritos HomeTown Buffet	Steve Chakmakjian, Zygo Corporation	Confidence in Optical Metrology
10 February 2010	Almansor Court, Alhambra	Steve Hines, Hineslab	3-D Video Without Glasses!
13 January 2010	UC Irvine Beall Center for Art + Technology, Irvine	David G. Stork Ricoh Innovations	Did the great masters "cheat" using optics?
9 December 2009	Crowne Plaza, Fullerton	Joseph Diep, Joseph Bashe & Evan Lundstedt of Exotic Electro-Optics	IR Optics Manufacturing Lenses, Windows & Domes
14 November 2009	UC Irvine Beall Center for Art + Technology, Irvine	Outreach Chair: Donn Silberman	Family Day Event
11 November 2009	Northrop Grumman "S" Cafeteria, Redondo Beach	Gwynne Shotwell, President of SpaceX	Getting to Space for Less Cost
21 October 2009	DRS Defense Solutions, Cypress	Walter Clark	Demonstrations of Polarization Using Microwaves, Radio Waves & Light

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