Sponsored Meetings
Events
Global Meeting Support
Optica is proud to support the optics and photonics community by co-sponsoring meetings, workshops and symposia.
Below is a list of recently co-sponsored events.
2-6 January 2025: Winter School on Computational Optics-Photonics 2025, Hyderabad, India
19-25 January 2025: XIII Optoelectronics and Photonics Winter School - Artificial Intelligence For Telecom, Trento, Italy
26-27 March 2025: AILU’s 9th Industrial Laser Applications Symposium, Warwickshire, UK
11-13 April 2025: Indo French International Conference on Specialty Fibers, Sensing and Quantum Photonics, Hyderabad India
5-9 May 2025: Quantum Science Generation, Trento, Italy
15-17 May 2025: 5th International Conference on Light and Light-Based Technologies, Ankara, Turkey
21-23 May 2025: XXII Participation of the Women in Science, León City, Guanajuato, Mexico
1-5 June 2025: Women in Photonics / Jena, Jena, Germany
4-6 June 2025: Biophotonics for EyE Research Summer school, Granada, Spain
7-15 June 2025: Photonic Sensing and Metrology for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, Stirling, UK
17-18 June 2025: Quantum In Photonic Microstructures Workshop, Limoges, France

27 June-1 July 2025: Max Born Symposium and 13th International Symposium "Optics & its applications," Wroclaw, Poland
2-4 July 2025: XIV Reunión del Comité de Optoelectrónica (14th Optoelectronics Committee Conference), Terrassa, Spain
6-11 July 2025: 10th International Conference on Attosecond Science and Technology, Lund, Sweden
9-12 July 2025: International Conference on Nonlinear Optics and Nanophotonics: Fundamental to Technological Applications, Bhopal, India
14-18 July 2025: XIX International Conference on Optics of Excitons in Confined Systems, Warsaw, Poland
20-27 July 2025: Advanced Study Course on Optical Sensors XIII, Leon, Spain
25-28 August 2025: DoKDoK 2025, Jena, Germany
25-28 August 2025: Hojan Science Forum, Ottawa, Canada
25-29 August 2025: X International School and Conference on Photonics, Belgrade, Serbia
1-3 September 2025: Biophotonics and Optical Angular Momentum, Palaiseau, France

1-5 September 2025: Quantum Optics XI, Kraków, Poland
3-5 September 2025: Photonics Ireland 2025, Cork, Ireland
8-12 September 2025: 17th International Conference on Correlation Optics, Cernivtsi, Ukraine
19 September: Belgian Photonics Online Meetup, Brussels, Belgium
21-22 October 2025: IZPHOTECH'25 (Talks on Photonics Science and Technology), Izmir, Turkey
27-31 October 2025: Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes 8 Conference, Viña del Mar, Chile
6-7 November 2025: French Photonics Days 2025, Orsay, France
17-21 November 2025: XI Iberoamerican Optics Meeting / XIV Latinamerican Meeting on Optics, Lasers and Applications, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
8-12 December 2025: Student Conference on Optics and Photonics and Optical Society of India Symposium 2025, Ahmedabad, India
15-17 December 2025: VII “Rio de la Plata” Workshop on Optics and Photonics, Punta del Este, Uruguay
2024
24-26 January 2024: PhD Days Photonics Bretagne, Lannion, France
13-15 February 2024: International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Melbourne, Australia
11-13 March 2024: Fifty Years of Fluoride Glasses, Rennes, France
15 March 2024: CIQ Careers and Networking Event, Bristol, UK
17-22 March 2024: Fluorescence Markers for Advanced Microscopy: From Photophysics to Biology, Les Houches, France
7-10 May 2024: Quantum Science Generation Workshop, Trento, Italy
12-14 June 2024: National Optics Meeting and the Andean and Caribbean Conference on Optics and its Applications, Cartagena, Colombia
17-19 June 2024: European Conference on Integrated Optics, Aachen, Germany
17-21 June 2024: International School on Light Sciences and Technologies, Santander, Spain
1-5 July 2024: 68th Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Physics 2024 (Photonics Track), Grahamstown/Makhanda, South Africa
11 July 2024: Eureka 2024, Bath, UK

17-19 July 2024: 14th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing, Rome, Italy
15-30 August 2024: International College on Modern Applications of Optics and Photonics, Yerevan, Armenia
26-30 August 2024: DoKDoK 2024, Jena, Germany
26-30 August 2024: VII Summer school “Photonics meets Biology,” Split, Croatia
26-30 August 2024: The 7th International Conference on the Physics of Optical Materials & The 4th International Conference on Phosphor Thermometry, Budva-Bečići, Montenegro
3-5 September 2024: Warsaw Summer School on Advanced Optical Imaging 2024, Warsaw, Poland
9-13 September 2024: 10th International Conference on Ultrahigh Intensity Lasers, Cozumel, Mexico
19-20 September 2024: Belgian Photonics Online Meetup, Brussels, Belgium
23-27 September 2024: 23rd International Conference and School on Quantum Electronics: "Laser Physics and Applications," Ravda, Bulgaria
26-27 September 2024: Photonics Days Jena 2024, Jena, Germany

15-16 October 2024: French Photonics Days 2024, Besançon, France
15-19 October 2024:12th International Symposium “Optics & its applications,” Yerevan, Armenia
21-22 October 2024: Talks on Photonics Science and Technology @IZTECH, Izmir, Turkey
23-25 October 2024: XLVII Annual Symposium of the Optical Society of India: International Conference on Advances in Optics and Photonics Instrumentation, Chandigarh, India
5-8 November 2024: Optics & Photonics in Sweden 2024, Gothenburg, Sweden
7-8 November 2024: International Workshop on PCSELs 2024, Birmingham, UK
26-28 November 2024: 3rd International Workshop on Adaptive, Compressive and Computational Imaging, Montevideo, Uruguay
9-13 December 2024: Quantum Optics X, Puerto Varas, Chile
12-15 December 2024: Photonics2024, Kharagpur, India

2023
21-27 January 2023: Photonic Quantum Information Processing - Winter School, Trentino, Italy
13-16 March 2023: International Workshop on BioPhotonics Applications & Food Security, Suez, Egypt
17 March 2023: II Workshop Mujer, Óptica y Fotónica, Salamanca, Spain
17-19 March 2023: Int'l Conference on Spectroscopy & Applications, Tunis, Tunisia
21-25 March 2023: XI Reunión Iberoamericana de Óptica / XIV Encuentro Latinoamericano de Óptica, Láseres y sus Aplicaciones, San Jose, Costa Rica
26-31 March 2023: Ultrafast Optics XIII, Bariloche, Argentina
28 April 2023: Careers in Quantum, Bristol, UK
27-28 April 2023: Swissphotonics, Lausanne, Switzerland
2-5 May 2023: Quantum Science Generation Workshop, Trento, Italy
19-20 May 2023: European Physical Society-Young Minds Leadership Meeting, Naples, Italy
1-4 June 2023: Biophotonics for EyE Research Summer school, Jaca, Spain

12-16 June 2023: Young Atom Opticians Conference, Barcelona, Spain
14 June 2023: Eureka 2023 - Physics in the South West, Bath, UK
3-5 July 2023: ICFO International School on the Frontiers of Light: Photonics with free electrons, Barcelona, Spain
3-7 July 2023: 67th Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Physics, Richards Bay, South Africa
5-8 July 2023: Photonics 2023, Bangalore, India
11-14 July 2023: The International Symposium on Plasmonics and Nanophotonics 2023, Queenstown, Singapore
28 August-1 September 2023: IX International School and Conference on Photonics- PHOTONICA 2023, Belgrade, Serbia
28 August-1 September 2023: DoKDoK 2023, Jena, Germany
4-6 September 2023: Photonics Ireland 2023, Limerick, Ireland
4-8 September 2023: 10th International Symposium on Terahertz-related Devices and Technologies, Aizuwakamatsu, Japan

7-8 September 2023: Conference on Recent Advances in Translational Eye Research 2023, Warsaw, Poland
13-15 September 2023: 3rd International Workshop "Biophotonics and Optical Angular Momentum," Palaiseau, France
18-21 September 2023: 16th International Conference on Correlation Optics, Chernivtsi, Ukraine
18-22 September 2023: ICFO-UNAM International School on the Frontiers of Light 2023, Queretero, Mexico
21-22 September 2023: bePOM 2023, Brussels, Belgium
26-29 September 2023: Workshop on Quantum Networking at Photonics in Switching and Computing Conference, Mantova, Italy
6-10 November 2023: Optics and Photonics in Africa Conference, White River, South Africa
26-30 November 2023: Women in Photonics, Jena, Germany
1-3 December 2023: Optics & Photonics Taiwan International Conference 2023, Tainan, Taiwan

