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Photos from the October 2009 Meeting held at DRS.  Featured presenter Walter Clark, with his collection of microwave demos, is shown in the photo on the right.
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
12 June 2019 Brea Civic & Cultural Center,
Brea		 Sandy Irani &
Jonathan Habif		 Annual OSSC Business Meeting --
Quantum Computing & The National Quantum Initiative
8 May 2019 Proud Bird,
El Segundo		 Wayne Rodgers Evolution of Optical Monitoring for Thin Film Coating
10 April 2019 Facebook,
Northridge		 Hamid Hemmati Connecting the Unconnected
13 March 2019 Cal Poly Pomona,
Kellogg West Conference Center		 Mark Harfouche The Micro Camera Array Microscope—Enabling gigapixel imaging for behavioral biology
13 February 2019 St. Gregory Church
Pasadena		 Andrey Matsko Advancing Microresonator-Based Photonics Technology at OEWaves
9 January 2019 Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base Timothy Day Tunable Laser Based Spectroscopic Imaging and Sensing
12 December 2018 Angelo’s and Vinci’s,
Fullerton		 Simon Prince Optics for DNA Sequencing
6 - 8 November 2018 Ayres Hotel,
El Segundo		 Three days of speakers and exhibitors Mirror Tech Days Reception
14 November 2018
 Eden Garden,
Pasadena		 James Beletic,
Teledyne Imaging Sensors		 Detection of Visible and Infrared Light for Scientific Research
10 October 2018 UC Irvine Division of Continuing Education Chris Barty,
UC Irvine		 CI’s Convergence Optical Sciences Initiative and the Development and Applications of Compact Laser-Compton X-ray Sources

OSSC Program Year 2017-2018


Date Location Speaker Topic
13 June 2018 Precision Optical,
Costa Mesa		 James Millerd,
4D Technologies		 Annual OSSC Business Meeting --
Advances in Large Mirror Interferometry for Commercial Applications
9 May 2018
 Mahr Metrology
Cypress		 Brent Bergner Advances in Metrology Tools for Asphere Characterization
11 April 2018 St. Gregory Church
Pasadena		 Robert Thompson Laser Trapping on ISS
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
7 February 2018 The Reef Restaurant
Long Beach		 Angus Macleod History of the Fundamentals of Optical Coatings
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"
13 December 2017
 UCI Applied Innovation,
"The Cove"		 Kenneth August &
Michael Silivio		 R&D Tax Credits &
International Technology Transactions Legal Considerations
14-16 November 2017 Aryes Hotel,
El Segundo		 Three days of speakers and exhibitors Mirror Tech Days Reception
8 November 2017 Proud Bird,
El Segundo		 Yang Chen,
nanoPrecision Products		 Next Generation Fiber
Optic Connectors
11 October 2017 JPL Von Karman Auditorium Mars2020 SHERLOC Instrument Team “Imaging” the Invisible World:
Mars, Meteorites and Terrestrial Environments

OSSC Program Year 2016-2017


Date Location Speaker Topic
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?
10 May 2017 The Cove, Irvine 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
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
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"
8 February 2017 Alcon Laboratories, Lake Forest Zsolt Bor, Director of Engineering, Alcon Laboratories Eye Surgery With Femtosecond Lasers
11 January 2017 Monterey Clubhouse at Encino, Encino Roger Smith, Caltech Surveying the Sky 1500 Times Faster: The engineering of a large astronomical Camera
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
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
5 October 2016 St. Gregory Armenian Apostolic Church Mark Helminger, JPL A Terrestrial Tour of Airborne Mapping Spectroscopy at JPL

OSSC Program Year 2015-2016


Date Location Speaker Topic
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"
11 May 2016 JPL Von Karman Auditorium Virginia Ford, Senior Optomechanical Engineer,Thirty Meter Telescope A Technical Overview of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT)
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 update on the National Photonics Initiative
9 March 2016 Holiday Inn LAX Dr. Stephanie Sandor-Leahy, Northrop-Grumman Aerospace Systems Hyperspectral Remote Sensing
10 February 2016 Courtyard Marriott, Monrovia John Rogers, Synopsys Freeform and related optical systems
13 January 2016 Kellogg West Hotel and Conference Center (on the campus of Cal Poly Pomona) Dr. Tijana Jovanovic-Talisman Advances in quantitative super-resolution microscopy
9 December 2015 UC Irvine Institute for Innovation Milton Chang Starting a Business in the Current Environment
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)
14 October 2015 Los Angeles Southwest College Hildreth (Hal) Walker Jr. Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment and STEM Education

OSSC Program Year 2014-2015


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

OSSC Program Year 2013-2014


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 Instruments on Curiosity
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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