Student/Industry Forum

Location: MIT
Note that this meeting will be held on a Friday

The NES/OSA in association with the OSA Student Chapter at Boston University, the OSA Student Chapter at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the OSA Student Chapter at Harvard University, the IEEE Photonics Society and the Optical Society of America will be holding the annual Forum on Optics Jobs in New England. The optics industry is invited to join area students to talk about what graduates can look forward to when they have completed their formal education. The program will include speakers sharing their insights and experience making the transition from student to industry.

Forum Speakers will include:

• David Scherer - Symmetricom
• Katherine Calabro - Synopsys
• Cathy DeVoe - MIT Lincoln Laboratory

The meeting will begin with networking including refreshments and a light meal, followed by a panel of up to four 10-15 min talks and a Q&A session, finishing with time for further discussions. Our industry panel will draw speakers from New England's diverse industrial base such as Aerospace, Metrology, Lighting and Bio-Medical.

We encourage our regular members to bring their stories, feel free to share any information about your companies or institutions, and we welcome postings for jobs or internships.

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Program

6:30 - 7:30 Networking time including light refreshments (Industry attendees will have an opportunity to introduce themselves to the group).

7:30 - 8:00 A light meal

8:00 - 8:30 Invited Talks with a Panel Discussion and Q&A

8:30 - 9:00 Time for additional conversations

Reservations:

DINNER reservations are required by noon, March 19, 2013, the Tuesday before the meeting. MEETING ONLY reservations are required by noon, March 21, 2013, the day before the meeting.

Please make reservations online. Reservations may also be left on the answering machine at 617.584.0266. We no longer have an email address for reservations due to SPAM. When making reservation requests, please provide the following information:

Location:

MIT Stratton Student Center (W20) (2nd floor Lobdell Dining Hall)
84 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA [Map]

Parking:

On-street parking is available along Memorial Drive and Vassar St. The Student Center is 1/2 mile from the Kendall/MIT MBTA Station. Additional parking is also available at the following MIT parking lots.

From 5:00 PM to 7:30 AM and on weekends and holidays permits are not required for MIT-affiliated people in the following lots:

• Building W91/Audrey Street
• Building E51/Amherst Street Lot
• Hayward Street Lot
• 65 Waverly Street Lot
• 600 Memorial Drive Lot

Meeting:

Meeting attendance is free.

Dinner Prices: (Prepay with credit cards online)

Vegetarian option available on request

General Information on NES/OSA Meetings

If the meeting must be canceled for any reason, we will try to call you at the phone number you leave with your reservation. Official notice of cancellation will be on our answering machine.

We have to pay for the dinners reserved as of the Tuesday before the meeting, so no-shows eat into our cash reserve. If you will not be able to attend, please let us know as early as possible. Otherwise, no-shows will be billed.

Membership Rates:

NOTE: The extra $5.00 of the non-member dinner fee can be used toward membership dues if the nonmember joins and pays dues for the current year at the meeting.