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September <strong>2012</strong><br />
On behalf of the <strong>IEEE</strong> <strong>Photonics</strong> Society Board of<br />
Governors and Staff I would like to welcome you to<br />
Burlingame for the <strong>IEEE</strong> <strong>Photonics</strong> <strong>2012</strong> conference. As<br />
you may know, this represents the 25th year in this series of<br />
conferences which were formerly known as the LEOS<br />
Annual Meeting.<br />
We are particularly pleased with the number and quality of<br />
the submissions to this year’s conference. Submissions, at<br />
441, were up again this year over last year making this the<br />
largest number of submissions received for our annual<br />
conference in my full six-year tenure as Executive Director<br />
of our Society. Congratulations to the hard-working Program Committee and the IPS<br />
conference staff! Complementing the contributed papers we also have 125 invited<br />
papers, 4 tutorials and 4 plenary talks this year for a total of 519 presentations. We<br />
hope you will appreciate the many high-quality technical sessions and special<br />
symposia presented in this year’s program as well as our location here with easy<br />
access to San Francisco.<br />
If you are not already an <strong>IEEE</strong> <strong>Photonics</strong> Society member you may sign up anytime<br />
online at www.ieee.org/membership/join so that you may begin to enjoy the many<br />
benefits of membership including online access to many of our journals and conference<br />
proceedings, reduced registration rates, and access to our online member<br />
directory.<br />
Again this year the <strong>IEEE</strong> <strong>Photonics</strong> Society will make available recordings of selected<br />
presentations with video display of the presentation materials at the low price of $35.<br />
If you did not sign up for this conference feature at registration you may do so at any<br />
time during the conference at the registration desk. The recordings will be accessible<br />
via the web for 60 after the conference. Last year was our first experiment with this<br />
offering and many people found it extremely helpful to view presentations that they<br />
may have missed due to a conflict in their schedule. Please check out this feature<br />
and give us your feedback!<br />
The <strong>IEEE</strong> <strong>Photonics</strong> Society is pleased to spotlight the recent report from the National<br />
Academy of Sciences entitled: Optics and <strong>Photonics</strong>: Essential Technologies for<br />
Our Nation. Alan Willner, co-chair of the NAS committee that produced the report,<br />
will present a brief review of the committee’s conclusions and will address questions<br />
on Sunday evening at 7pm directly after the Semiconductor Laser Symposium.<br />
Finally, I’d like to encourage you to join us 8-12 September 2013 at the Hyatt<br />
Regency Bellevue, Bellevue WA for the <strong>IEEE</strong> <strong>Photonics</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> 2013. Hope to<br />
see you there!<br />
Rich Linke<br />
Executive Director<br />
<strong>IEEE</strong>-<strong>Photonics</strong> Society<br />
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