Students

Student members are an important and active part of the OSA community. Student benefits are built around the unique needs of those preparing to enter the professional world of optics. As an OSA Student Member, you join a worldwide community of optics and photonics scientists, engineers and business leaders. Join us today.

Student Members attend OSA conferences, exhibits and educational sessions at reduced rates. Frontiers in Optics (OSA's Annual Meeting), the Optical Fiber Communication Conference & Exposition and National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and more than 20 topical meetings are among the many annual events hosted by OSA.

Best Student Paper Award

The ASSP Best Student Oral Paper Award was established in 2001 to encourage excellence in research and scientific presentation skills in the student optics community. The award is sponsored by Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies and includes a $1000 cash prize and a plaque.

There will also be a competition for the ASSP Best Student Poster Paper Award. The recipient of this award will be presented with a $500 cash prize and a certificate. Students submitting contributed papers who desire to compete for these awards must indicate this intention when submitting the paper. Papers actually presented by advisors or other non-students will not be scored. Student papers accepted for oral presentation will be scored by the ASSP Technical Program Committee with the scores weighted according to the following formula: technical content (50%), oral presentation quality and general poise (25% with no penalty for non-native English speakers) and graphical presentation quality (25%). Student papers accepted for poster presentation will be scheduled in a “Young Scientist Poster Session” and scored according to the same formula as the oral papers. ASSP attendees are highly encouraged to participate in this session to provide feedback to the students and encourage their work.

In order to be considered for this award, you must indicate in your submission record whether or not you are a Student Member or a Student Nonmember. You must also indicate whether or not you wish to be considered for this award. If you do not complete these two steps, your paper will not be considered for these awards.

OSA Foundation Student Travel Grants

The OSA Foundation is pleased to offer travel grants to students working or studying in a qualifying developing nation who plan to attend Advanced Solid-State Photonics (ASSP) 2010.

Congratulations to these grant recipients:

Huseyin Cankaya, Koc University, Turkey
Gaurav Shukla, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
Geetika Bajaj, IIT Delhi, India