Corporate Member Appreciation Event
Featuring Exhibits by OSSC Corporate Members
To thank our OSSC Corporate Members for their continuing support, the OSSC is delighted to offer free exhibit table space to showcase your organization.
Exhibits and networking begin at 6pm
Dinner at 7pm, $30 (free for OSSC student members)
Keynote address at 8pm
Keynote Address: Schott: From A Glass Laboratory To A Technology Group
Arnie Bazensky, Schott North America
Abstract: Not since the passing of Joseph von Fraunhofer in 1826, had the making of optical glass using the scientific method been practised, and it was said at the time that Fraunhofer, a gifted optician and glassmaker, who worked in the secrecy of a Benedictine Monastery, took his secrets of glassmaking to his grave with him. For almost 50 years, this science lay dormant until a young chemist, Otto Schott, began to investigate the art of scientific glassmaking in his father's basement laboratory in Witten,Westphalia in Germany. One of his primary goals was to produce glass free enough of inclusions, bubbles and striae to serve as a material for microscope objectives that were being sought at the time. It was not until a number of years later on his 93rd trial melt that he found a glass with a purity sufficient to submit for analysis. He sought out the distinguished Physicist and Professor, Dr. Ernst Abbe at the University of Jena in nearby Thuringia, and on May 27, 1879, sent a letter to him at the University asking Abbe if he would be so kind as to evaluate a new glass This letter, and the subsequent relationship between Dr's. Abbe, Schott, and Carl Zeiss, began a revolution not only in optical glassmaking and microscopy, but also spurned "the fledgling the optics industry to new heights and expanded the science of technical glassmaking. Here is that story.
Location:
Embassy Suites Anaheim
3100 East Frontera
Anaheim, CA 92806
Please register for the meeting at OSSC.org by December 10.
Exhibit space is free but limited. Register for space ASAP to guarantee space.
To help defray the costs of this event, please consider sponsoring a table for $100.