The History of OSA
OSA Politics Get Local
Local sections have always been an important part of the Optical Society. In fact, OSA itself began as a local section.
OSA has 19 U.S. local sections, 10 local sections in other countries, 44 student chapters at U.S. universities and 79 student chapters at various non-U.S. universities.
On November 18, 1915, a group of optics workers in the Rochester area had formed the Rochester Association for the Advancement of Applied Optics. Within a year, other optics workers, chiefly located in Washington D.C. and the Northeast, became interested in joining the group. Thus, the Association decided to form a national society—the Optical Society of America—and Rochester became the first local section.
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