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The OSSC is a non-profit that brings together the optics/photonics community in Southern California.

03/04/2026

Sign up today for our next OSSC meeting both in person and online at Cahill Astronomy Building on March 11th at 6:00PM PDT. Out speakers will be Roger Smith and Jason Fucik and will be speaking on “Cryoscope: an infrared telescope technology for wider field of view and lower thermal background”. Be sure not to miss this great talk!

01/26/2026

Sign up today for our next OSSC meeting on Wednesday February 11th at 6:00PM PST. Our speaker will be Prof. Fei Xia, Assistant Professor Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science .beckmanlaser . Prof. Xia will be speaking on “Illuminating Intelligence with Light” at . Be sure to sign up today and online so you don’t miss this great talk!

01/09/2026

Sign up today for our first OSSC meeting of 2026! Our speakers will be Dr. Barham Jalali, Distinguished Professor Emeritus . Dr. Jalali “RF encoded fluorescence camera for cancer detection and cell biology: from lab to product” at 6:00PM on Wednesday January 14th at the ! Be sure to sign up today both in person and/or online so you don’t miss this great talk!

10/27/2025

Sign up today for our next OSSC meeting on Wednesday November 12th at 6:00PM PST at ! Our speakers will be Dr. Vanessa Bailey, Dr. Eric Cady, and Dr. Brian Monacelli of and will be speaking on “The Science and Development of the Roman Space Telescope’s Coronagraph Instrument”. Be sure to sign up both in person and online so you don’t miss this great talk!

10/06/2025

Sign up today for our next OSSC meeting this Wednesday October 8th at 6:00PM PDT! Our speaker will be Doug Finke, Chief Content Officer,
Global Quantum Intelligence and will be speaking on “What You Should Expect to See from Quantum Computing and When Will It Happen?”. Meeting will be both online and in-person at in Santa Ana. Be sure not to miss this great talk!

09/05/2025

Kick off this 2025/2026 season with us next week at our September Meeting! Join OSSC for an Evening with Dr. Joel Sercel.

Don’t miss Dr. Joel Sercel, President & CEO of TransAstra, on Wednesday, Sept 10 (6–9:30 PM) at the Holiday Inn LA Gateway (Torrance, CA).

He’ll share insights on asteroid mining, space logistics, and the groundbreaking Sutter Turn Key Observatory (TKO)—a modular, rapidly deployable sky-survey system reshaping space domain awareness.

👉 Dinner Tickets (by Sept 9): Members $35 | Non-Members $45 | Students $10 | Late +$10
👉 Presentation only (in-person or online): FREE

✨ Register now and be part of this inspiring event: https://lnkd.in/ggMWzkgA

09/02/2025

We’re back! The OSSC’s program year is about to get underway and we have a great talk lined up to kick it off! Sign up today for our talk with Dr. Joel Sercel
President & CEO, TransAstra, who will be speaking on “The Sutter Turn Key Observatory (TKO)”. The meeting will be at the Holiday Inn Gateway in Torrance on September 10th 2025 and will start at 6:00PM PDT. We will also have a livestream for those who cannot make it in person. Be sure to sign up today so you don’t miss this great talk!

06/02/2025

Sig up today for our final OSSC meeting of the program year on Wednesday June 11th 2025. Our speaker will be Richard Rieber, M.S., Robotics Systems Engineer and will be speaking about the Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS). This will also be our annual business meeting, where we will announce our election results for next year’s Board of Directors! The meeting will be held at Raffi’s Restaurant in Pasadena CA at 6:00PM PDT. Be sure to sign up today so you don’t miss this great talk!

05/01/2025

Sign up today for our next OSSC meeting with Dr. Aydogan Ozcan Ph.D. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Bioengineering Department, California NanoSystems Institute
UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA. He will be speaking on “AI-based advances in biomedical microscopy and sensing” at the Courtyard by Marriott, Long Beach Downtown on May 7th 2025 at 6:00PM PDT. This event is co-located with CLEO (“Conference on Lasers & Electro Optics”). Sign up today so you don’t miss this great talk!

04/01/2025

Sign up today for our next OSSC Meeting with returning speaker Dr. Annie Xiang Senior Vice President of Quality Management and Customer Success
Photodigm, Inc. after her talk was unexpectedly canceled earlier this year. Dr Xiang will be speaking on “DBR Laser Diode Advancements: Precision Engineering for Spectroscopy, Quantum, and Beyond” on April 9th 2025 at 6:00PM PDT at MOSAIC at in Pasadena California. Be sure to sign up today for this great talk!

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