European Optical Society
The European Optical Society (EOS) is a non-profit association that operates on a European level. The EOS was founded on May 24, 1991, unites scientific societies as members. The club is based in Paris .
Goals, purpose of the association
The association promotes scientific progress in the field of optical technologies and related sciences, as well as their application at European and international level by networking the actors in this field of technology. EOS serves as a platform for all scientists, companies, organizations, educational institutions and other professional associations who want to further develop optical technologies and their fields of application in Europe.
Main activities
- Organization of topical meetings, workshops and conferences as well as co-sponsoring of other scientific events in the field of optical technologies
- Specialist groups for the most diverse fields of application of optical technologies (e.g. imaging methods, terahertz technologies, micro-optics, optical measurement technology, training and further education, etc.)
- Publication of the online journal
- Publication of an electronic and a print newsletter (the latter is published in the magazine “Optics & Laser Europe (OLE)”)
- Lobbying at European level (technology platform Photonics21, Phorce21)
- Annual award of the EOS Prize as well as the European THz Young Investigator Awards for young scientists
membership
The association has approximately 6500 members, including national optical societies, institutes, universities, companies, and individual and student members.
National optical societies: 19 countries are represented by national optical societies (10 branches, 12 affiliated societies) in the EOS:
- Belgium : Comité Belge d'Optique - Belgian Optical Committee (CBO-BCO); Promoptica
- Denmark : Danish Optical Society (DOPS)
- Germany : German Society for Applied Optics (DGaO); Scientific Society for Laser Technology eV (WLT)
- Finland : Finnish Optical Society (FOS)
- France : Société Françaises d'Optique (SFO)
- Italy : Societa Italiana di Ottica e Fotonica (SIOF)
- Latvia : Latvian Optical Society (LOS)
- Netherlands : Dutch Physical Society - Optics Section (DPS-OS)
- Portugal : Portuguese Society of Optics and Photonics (SPOF)
- Poland : Polish Physical Society - Optics Division (PPS)
- Romania : Division of Optics & Quantum Electronics of the Romanian Physical Society (DOQE-RPS)
- Russia : Laser Association (LAS); Rozhdestvensky Optical Society (ROS)
- Sweden : Swedish Optical Society (SOS)
- Switzerland : Swiss Society for Optics and Microscopy (SSOM)
- Czech Republic and Slovakia : Czech and Slovak Society for Photonics (CSSF)
- Ukraine : Ukrainian Society of Pure and Applied Optics (USPAO)
- Hungary : Hungarian Optical Society (HOS)
- United Kingdom and Ireland : Institute of Physics Optical Group (IOP)
Online journal
The Journal of the European Optical Society (JEOS: RP) is the freely accessible organ of the association aimed at researchers and developers in the field of optics and photonics.