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This fall, members of the global laser and optics community gathered for two major international conferences: the 23rd International Symposium on Ultrafast Intense Laser Science (ISUILS…

Optical Frontiers Second Annual Showcase

On Friday, October 16, 2026, the Institute for Optical Science (IOS) welcomed more than 40 guests to the ElectroScience Laboratory for the second annual Ohio Optical Frontiers…

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IOS member and Single Molecule Working Group co-lead Michael Poirier and his collaborators have published new research revealing how linker histone H1 relies on chaperone proteins to locate and bind…

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The $4.5 million grant will support Schumacher and a multi-university team in developing new precision diagnostics for extreme-light lasers, work the physics professor says is essential…

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