SPIE’s career and diversity specialist Meg All, left, facilitated an Equity in Industry panel during SPIE Photonics West earlier this year. Joining All, from left to right, are Openwater’s Mary Lou Jepsen; Double Helix’s Leslie Kimerling; and Chromacity’s Shahida Imani
Daneet Steffens from SPIE details some of the initiatives currently in place aimed at improving diversity in photonics
The webinars will showcase the latest research and findings from leaders in biomedical optics
Christina Willis says that learning to communicate science to non-experts is a crucial part of her role in politics - a skill that all scientists should develop
Established industry leaders and disruptive startups have been announced as finalists of the SPIE Prism Awards
The organiser of Photonex, Xmark Media, has been bought by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics
The 2019 Prism Awards have been won an automotive lidar system, a head-mounted display for augmented reality, a tuneable industrial fibre laser, and a cloud-based Raman spectrometer
The 9th annual SPIE Startup Challenge recognised a company aiming to shift prostate-cancer treatment from an invasive surgical procedure to a brief, office-based visit, as the winner of its top award at SPIE Photonics West
Professor David Andrews, incoming 2019 vice-president of SPIE, describes the support, growth and promise of some rapidly emerging quantum applications
SPIE CEO Kent Rochford has responded to the US government’s proposed change to rules regarding the export of emerging technologies, urging that they are ‘reasonable and balanced’
The US Department of Commerce is now accepting comments on how to control technologies such as quantum and AI for export. Export control classification changes could have a broad impact on the optics and photonics community
