Dear Esteemed National Society Partners,

we received several requests for postponement so we continued the EOSAM submission deadline until 3 MAY 2024 (oral and poster submissions welcomed).

The multidisciplinary conference AMYC-BIOMED, Autumn Meeting for Young Chemists in Biomedical Sciences, dedicated to young researchers under 40 working in the field of biomedical sciences, has reached its fifth edition, and will be held from September 23rd to 25th, 2024, at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Rome Sapienza.

We are delighted to announce a satellite Raman workshop on multimodal imaging, offered by the Gold Sponsor Phothermal and scheduled on Sunday 28th July.

"SIOF is thrilled to support the East African Summer School on Optics and Lasers organised by ICTP, Italy"

The Plasmonica community, constituted as the SIOF working group “Plasmonics and Nano-Optics”, is pleased to announce the 4th edition of the International School on Plasmonics and Nano-optics, which will be held on June 3–7, 2024 in Como, Italy.

The event is co-sponsored and hosted by the Lake Como School of Advanced Studies in the stunning setting of the Villa del Grumello, overlooking lake Como.

The Italian Society for Optics and Photonics (SIOF), in the spirit of promoting the study and development in optics and photonics, issues a call for one award of € 1000,00 (euros onethousand,00) for the best Ph.D. thesis. The prize will be delivered as a contribution to the attendance expenses for a conference, school, or any other similar activity, at the request of the winner.

The price is dedicated to young members who carried their activity at Italian Universities and/or Research Centers and whose thesis has optics and photonics as its main subject.

The Italian Society for Optics and Photonics (SIOF), in the spirit of promoting the study and development in optics and photonics, issues a 2024 call for two prizes of € 500,00 (euros fivehundred,00) for undergraduate (master) theses. The prizes will be delivered as a contribution to the attendance expenses for a conference, school, or any other similar activity, at the request of the winners.

The fifth edition of the “National School of Optical Biosensors and Biophotonics”, BiO&B, will take place in the charming city of Lecce (Italy) on 3-7 June 2024.

BiO&B is a multidisciplinary event organized by SIOF to promote the education and collaboration of young researchers in the field of optical biosensing and biophotonics.

The International Day of Light, established by UNESCO in 2015 on May 16 to commemorate the creation of the world's first laser by T.H. Maiman in 1960, aims to highlight the crucial role of light and light-based technologies in science, culture, education, and sustainable economic development.