Education
OSA’s Global Network of Students
In 2006, members from four OSA Student Chapters had a big idea: to create a global network of OSA students. Since then, IONS (the International OSA Network of Students) has grown to include hundreds of students who have taken the world by storm—traveling to leading research institutes, exchanging results with peers, and visiting cities all over the globe.
Participants at the first IONS meeting at the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona, Spain, in January 2007.
It all began at the Frontiers in Optics meeting in 2006, when a group of students presented their vision of bringing together young optics and photonics researchers from all over the world to create the most compelling conference possible. The idea of student-oriented meetings received enormous support from the other student chapter delegates and from OSA.
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