Learn more about POLISH PHOTONICS! This is a unique opportunity to visit modern laboratories and see what is happening in the Polish photonic industry. We cordially invite you to celebrate the International Day of Light 2020 together!Due to exceptional circumstances, this year’s celebration will take place on the Internet. We…
Sometimes it’s good to reminisce, especially in times of social apocalypse. On 04.10.2019, we went together with a friendly chapter “Nanorurki” to the Warsaw Neon Museum. The museum focuses on presenting Polish light ads, but you can also find references to foreign culture. About the fact that everything ended colourfully,…
On 8th January all our members gathered for the KNOF Annual Meeting – a time to reflect on the previous year and choose a new Board for the upcoming year. 2019 Board was stepping down and summarized the previous year, highlighting the most important achievements, like the EPS Leadership Meeting…
We are proud to announce that our “MiniModes Photonics School” was honoured in Chapter Briefs: A Newsletter for Photonics Society Chapters by IEEE. It’s phenomenal to see our chapter being awarded for dedication and passion with which this project was organized. We highly recommend you to take a look at…
We remind you that we are approaching the end of registration at Siegman International School on Lasers. Registration will close on March 1. There are not many places left so hurry up. More information is available at osa.org/siegmanschool.
On 27th November we were hosting meeting with Gabrielle M Thomas, a winner of the very prestigious Marie-Sklodowska Curie Actions (MSCA) Individual Fellowship (IF), 2019 Ambassador of the Optical Society and now an innovation manager at M Squared. She shared her personal journey and experience of selecting a career path as well as some tips and resources useful for our own careers. Some of the most valuable things we’ve learned are ways of being more active in specific field of interest and building our own network. During workshop our guest guided us through the process of writing grant proposals and securing funding. She provided us with elaborately detailed requirements and pointers to pay attention to while writing for grants and scholarships. What was extremely interesting to understand and discuss was her very own MSCA IF proposal. Thank you all for great meeting!
On November 13th and 14th, Michael Freeman from Washington University, Fulbright Scholar in Spain, taught us how to visualize our data, ideas and workThe meeting and workshop called “Visualization Concepts: using data to explain complex topics” showed us, when seemingly simple ideas are difficult and tricky to present; and the…
It’s hard to imagine a career, which completely doesn’t need making some data understandable. In the world where information is everywhere, it is necessary to represent it properly, if we want to be heard and understood. That’s why the talk about data visualization given by Bartosz Borucki from the ICM UW, was indeed useful and interesting. We’ve learned a lot about some principles and tips helping with representing data better. Especially the talk was focused on frequent mistakes which can not only complicate the understanding of certain information but even distort it.
Second November weekend was the time for the first edition of a new event in KNOF calendar – the miniModes Photonics School. Three days filled with lectures, workshops, presentations and discussions. Fives speakers from different UW units. Poster session, showcasing students’ work in optics-related research groups. Quizzes, brainstorimg sessions and…
A memorable event from last September was the Frontiers in Optics 2019 conference in Washington DC, USA. 100 sessions, 800 presentations and 1300 participants – including three people from our Association! Besides meeting famous scientists – like Nobel Prize winner Donna Strickland – and top industry leaders, we met our…
