Educational awards worth thousands in EO products and finance distributed among universities in the Americas and Europe.

Digital optics, quantum technologies and 3D printed optics among new conference topics on updated agenda including €50,000 AR/VR challenge.

Start date pushed back several months from initial plan, but officials confident of future impact.

LIGO pioneer also makes political point about evidence-based reasoning in highly entertaining press conference.

World's optical fiber innovator and current largest manufacturer "plans to maintain its leading position".

Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne and Barry Barish recognized for 'truly remarkable' achievement.

Launch date for what will become the most powerful telescope in space moved from October 2018 to mid-2019.

Recent upgrade of Virgo interferometer in Italy enables triangulation of cosmic event’s position.

12,000m² innovation center to forge closer links between academia and industry, and provide a new home for photonics spin-out Nanoscribe.

Trumpf’s Peter Leibinger and Hamamatsu chief Akira Hiruma confirmed as presenters for anniversary black-tie event in San Francisco.

Imperial launched its groundbreaking courses into the science of light just a year after Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity was published.

New tech center showcases interaction between people, machines, automation, software and Industry 4.0 solutions.