AOS 2000 : THE 13TH CONFERENCE OF THE
AUSTRALIAN OPTICAL SOCIETY

PROGRAM

AIP2000 runs from the evening of Sunday December 10 to Friday Dec 15. The program of AOS2000 proper will run from Tues Dec 12 to Fri Dec 15. The planned layout of AOS sessions is

Monday 11/12	Tuesday 12/12	Wednesday 13/12	Thursday 14/12	Friday 15/12
...	Congress Plenaries	Congress Plenary + Bragg medal presentation	Congress Plenaries (incl AOS plenary)	Congress Plenaries
...	2 parallel AOS sessions	Congress Plenary + AIP AGM	2 parallel AOS sessions	2 parallel AOS sessions
LUNCH
...	1 AOS session	Tours	1 AOS session	2 parallel AOS sessions
...	1 AOS session + AOS poster session	Tours	1 AOS session + AOS poster session	2 parallel AOS sessions

Oral sessions last 1.5 hours, and poster sessions 2.5 hours (overlapping with afternoon tea and running past the end of the parallel oral session).

Because there are regions of common interest, AOS sessions will be coordinated with sessions of the Australian Society for General Relativity and Gravitation (ASGRG), and of the Atomic and Molecular Physics and Quantum Chemistry (AMPQC) groups.

(The program committee is aware that AOS conferences are normally 3-day events, and that this one breaks the mould because it has to fit in with the AIP congress. It is intended to arrange the program so that sessions relevant to particular interest groups will be concentrated as much as possible at one end, or the other, of the week. This cannot of course be finalised until the reviewing of submitted abstracts is finished.)

Tours: these will mostly be local wine-tasting tours and the like. However one of the planned tours is of local physics and optics based industry. This is still being organised. It will be free but numbers will be limited. Stay tuned.

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For further information please see the AIP2000 congress homepage

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updated 1/9/00
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