Becoming a Member of the Institute for Optical Science
Are you interested in coming a member of IOS?
It's an easy 3 step process:
- Send the following to Matt Boersma (boersma.11@osu.edu) and Jessi Foley (Middleton) at middleton.85@osu.edu:
- Your CV
- A paragraph of your research interest and how it relates to the optical sciences
- Your request will be reviewed by our Executive Committee.
- We will inform you of their decision within 3 weeks.
(There are no membership fees.)
We encourage PostDocs, Graduate, and Undergraduate students to connect with us by attending Optica events and joining the Optica Student Chapter.
Benefits of IOS Membership
- Community
- Bringing people together in the field of optics to solve problems that will benefit society
- Find potential collaborators for your research
- Promoting YOUR Ideas
- Promotion of your ideas/initiatives and helping grow them into the potential for collaboration
- Travel Funding
- Visiting Scholar Travel Funds: IOS can fund the travel of your chosen scholar visiting Ohio State University
- Workshop & Seminar Support
- Promotion of your workshop to our network
- Opportunity to have your workshop supported financially by IOS
- Group Grants
- IOS can help facilitate group grants related to Optical Science
