First Year of Light Planning Meeting at ICTP
After the UNESCO endorsement last year, the EPS-coordinated proposal for an International Year of Light is working its way through the various procedural steps to the United Nations General Assembly. But serious planning for events and activities is already underway, and the first multi-partner planning meeting will take place in early February 2013 at the International Centre of Theoretical Physics [ICTP] in Trieste, Italy.
The planning meeting will involve Steering Committee representatives from the nations of Ghana and Mexico (who led the proposal to UNESCO) as well as representatives from a number of different international partners: the Optical Society of America; SPIE; the International Commission on Optics; the European Optical Society, Optics Within Life Sciences, the IAEA, UNESCO and science programmes across Europe.
The meeting will precede the regular meeting of the Trieste System for Optical Sciences and Applications [TSOSA] Advisory Group which was formed by the late Gallieno Denardo at the ICTP to promote optical sciences in the developing world, and will take place during the ICTP Winter College on Optics: Trends in Laser Development and Multidisciplinary Applications to Science and Industry during 4-15 February. Some post deadline inscriptions at the Winter College may be available: please see the ICTP website.
