May 23 2005
Hosted by the Chinese Optical Society and organized by the CAS Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, the 20th Congress of the International Commission for Optics (ICO20) will be held from August 21 to 26 in Changchun, capital of northeast China's Jilin Province.
With the theme of challenging optics in science and technology, the conference is expected to attract 1,000 scientists from about 50 countries to share their views on the development of optics technology, said Xuan Ming, executive president of ICO20 and director of the Changchun Institute.
Under the support from such China's institutions as CAS, Chinese Academy of Engineering, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Chinese Association of Science and Technology, the congress will be co-sponsored by several organizations from abroad like the International Society for Optical Engineering, Optical Society of America, European Optical Society, Optical Society of Russia, Optical Society of Japan and Optical Society of Korea, IEEE/LEOS, and AFOSR Asia Office.
The International Commission for Optics was founded in 1947. The congress is held every three years. China, which joined the commission in 1987, is the first developing country to host the congress, and the third Asian country after Japan and ROK.
Changchun is regarded as the cradle of China's optics research and industry, which has witnessed the birth of the country's first optic mechanics research institute, the first optic apparatus museum and the first optic glass.
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