Photonics Media spoke with professor Andrea Armani of the University of Southern California about the first Photonics Online Meetup (POM). Armani organized and co-chaired the event with Orad Reshef of the University of Ottawa. The mission of POM is to improve the accessibility of conference attendance, reduce the carbon footprint and the burden on family of conference travel, and reduce the cost of conference participation. Participation in POM — presenting or watching — was completely free. Photo courtesy of USC Viterbi. How did the first Photonics Online Meetup go? ...Read full articleRelated content from Photonics MediaARTICLES3 Questions with Tracey R. JonesPhotonics Media spoke with Tracey R. Jones, senior graphic designer at Ocean Insight and creator of a video competition called Spectroscopy Star. Photo courtesy of Video Shampoo. What got you...Photonics Spectra March 2020 Issue3 Questions with Bruce TrombergBioPhotonics spoke with Bruce Tromberg, the director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) within the National Institutes of Health (NIH), where he oversees...BioPhotonics Jul/Aug 2020 Issue3 Questions with Nishikant ‘Nish’ SonwalkarNishikant “Nish” Sonwalkar, founder of SunDensity and inventor of the company’s trademarked photonic smart coating (PSC) technology, was named the top winner of the Luminate NY...Photonics Spectra January 2021 Issue3 Questions with Badri YounesEarlier this year, NASA announced it was preparing to hand off to the private sector much of the work of communicating with spacecraft in Earth and lunar orbit. To find out a little more about the...Photonics Spectra June 2020 Issue