The OSA recently posted all the speakers and events for FiO/LS, so attendees can start making an itinerary of the talks that interest them. There's a great set of invited speakers for the session on image-based wavefront sensing -- which is what I worked on in my previous life (grad school). It's always enlightening to hear a talk by someone who's papers you've (academically) grown up reading, and finally put a face to a name. On Thursday, there's a session on holography and diffractive optics that I will surely be at, with what should be an awesome talk by Prof. Barbastathis of MIT (my prof in my previous life - i may be biased). Oh, and there is a session on nonlinear imaging, which is what i am (trying to) do in my current life. I could go on...
Every year, I also pick a conjugate topic to my research that I know very little about and listen to a few talks in that area to try to figure out the main points. It's like trying to learn German by reading tax laws in German... any suggestions for a fun topic this year??!
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