Nichols Elected to CLEO/QELS Advisory Committee

Jeff Nichols, regional sales manager for Pittsfield, Mass.-based Laurin Publishing Co., has been elected as exhibitor representative to the advisory committee of the Optical Society of America's CLEO/QELS (the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/International Quantum Electronics), the most highly regarded conference in the fields of lasers and electro-optics. Nichols was elected to a four-year term and will be involved in developing future CLEO/QELS exhibitions. He has worked for Laurin Publishing for seven years and lives in Pittsfield with his two sons. CLEO/QELS is the global scientific community's event of choice for presenting the latest optics and photonics research and findings, where more than a thousand of the world's foremost experts submit their works for presentation each year. Laurin Publishing produces www.photonics.com and the monthly photonics industry magazines Photonics Spectra and Biophotonics International and the bimonthly EuroPhotonics, as well as the international photonics buyers' guide and reference source the Photonics Directory.