OSGSL Homepage

The Optical Society of Greater St. Louis (OSGSL) is a section of the Optical Society of America. It is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting education and communication of optical sciences and technology. Bimonthly meetings feature optics and photonics programs describing engineering developments, technology overviews, experimental techniques, etc. Interest areas include lasers, fiber optics, imaging, optoelectronics, optical materials, telecommunications, vision, color, and sensing.

The officers can provide further information on the organization and its activities.

* To be added to the meeting E-mail list please contact osgsl@umr.edu.

* To comment about this site please contact Steve Watkins at watkins@umr.edu.

We welcome suggestions for seminars, requests for educational resources, opportunities for optics-related facility tours, and participation from students and K-12 educators.

Membership is open to those interested in optics and photonics including engineers, scientists, educators, and students. Activities include bimonthly seminars, networking opportunities, educational programs, and science fair prizes. One is not required to be a member of the parent OSA organization in order to join OSGSL. Annual dues for regular membership is $15, for student membership is $5, and for corporate membership is $50. Corporate members are:

	Boeing P.O. Box 516, St. Louis, MO 63166-0516 http://www.boeing.com/
	BEA Electo Sales, Inc 2330 Brickvale Dr., Elk Grove, IL 60007 847-238-1420 or 800-783-2321 http://bea-eo.com/ or info@bea-eo.com
	University of Missouri-Rolla Electrical and Computer Engineering Department http://www.ece.umr.edu/
	Your Company Here

The parent Optical Society of America is an international society for optics and photonics professionals.

Optical Society of America, 2010 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036-1023
E-mail: info@osa.org Telephone: 202-223-8130 Internet: http://www.osa.org

OSA offers an Optics Discovery educational kit (targeted to grades six through nine) which features eleven detailed experiments to demonstrate the basic principles of optics. It publishes several scholarly journals and a monthly magazine Optics and Photonics News. (http://www.osa.org/PUB_SVC/OPN/) World Wide Web links are available to the OSA, other professional societies, university optics programs, and commercial resources.

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