The EOS Annual international conference and industrial exhibition, EOSAM, was initially planned to take place under the warm sun of Porto, Portugal in 7-11 September 2020, organized together with the Portuguese Society for Optics and photonics, SPOF. However, due to the circumstances with the covid pandemic, we wanted to ensure the safety of our attendees and their families, and made the difficult decision to move the onsite event into online form, for the first time ever in the history of the EOSAM conference.

During the conference week, 7-11 September, EOS offered live and on-demand presentations free of charge for attendees, with a chance to register and view the presentations also after the conference week, free of charge.

The conference week included the School of Physics on Optical Metrology, four live plenary talks and over 120 invited and contributed presentations covering all topics of optics and photonics under the 12 topical meetings.

At the conference, we had the pleasure of hearing the plenary talks of four esteemed researchers, one of which, was Hatice Altug from the Institute of Bioengineering, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland. She presented her talk on New Frontiers in NanoPhotonics: Next-Generation BioSensors. This session was special, as Prof. Altug also received the esteemed Emmy Noether distinction for Women in Physics from the European Physical Society (EPS) after her talk. The EOS warmly congratulates Hatice for this honor and thanks the EPS for this collaboration. In fact, the EPS and the EOS are collaborating societies since many years, and this collaboration is highly valued at the EOS.

The year 2020 has certainly been challenging for all, but it was nice to see the community coming together online to present and view the latest research in the field. It was a great pleasure to provide a platform for the researchers to present their research, in times when conferences in person cannot be held.

We warmly invite all EPS members to join us for the next EOSAM conference to be held in person in Paris in 6 - 11 September 2021

The European Optical Society, EOS, is a non-profit society, and an umbrella organization for all national optical societies around Europe. Our members extend from Europe to all over the world.

The EOS mission is to bring together and encourage the cooperation of all with an interest in optics, optoelectronics and related scientific fields, to make practical use of research results, and to support the industrial exploitation of optics. To this end, the EOS e.g. organizes international conferences, scientific, technical and cultural meetings, training courses, exhibitions, and other events…

Read more about the European Optical Society (EOS): https://www.europeanoptics.org/
EOSAM 2020 conference website:  www.eosam2020.org