It is our great pleasure to announce the "15th IEEE Photonics Society Benelux Annual Workshop" that will be held on June 15th, 2011 at the Faculty of Engineering of Mons University, Mons, Belgium. The scope of the workshop is very broad and covers the wide range of topics within the research field of photonics (a.o. sensing, semiconductor laser physics, optical communication, non-linear optics, ...).  This workshop is organized by the student chapter of the IEEE Photonics Society Benelux section and is oriented towards young researchers on a MSc and PhD level. On behalf of the members of the Organizing Committee, we would like to invite you to attend and/or contribute to this scientific and technical event.

This year’s workshop is honored by two invited talks.

First invited talk will be given by Dr. Sylvie Delepine-Lesoille from ANDRA who is working on the instrumentation of nuclear waste geological repository. Her talk will be on “The optical fiber sensors for structural health monitoring  to provide distributed temperature and strain measurements in concrete, metallic and soil structures”.

Second invited will be on “Microstructured fiber Bragg grating sensors: from fiber design to sensor implementation” given by Dr. Thomas Geernaert, from Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).

To attend to the workshop, you have to register. This can be done by the following link: http://www.telecom.fpms.ac.be/IEEEPhotonicsWorkshop2011/index.aspx

The registration fee is 35 euros.  Registration closes on June 3, 2010. Visit our website regularly for updates on the program. In case you have any questions, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

We hope to meet you in Mons on June 15th, 2011 !

The 16th annual symposium of the IEEE Photonics Society Benelux will be organized by Ghent University, on December 1-2, 2011. More information is available on this website.

The third edition of the “Photonics Event” will be held on the 16th of March, in Ghent. For this event, the Student Chapter invites innovative companies with an expertise in photonics to present their activities to anyone with an interest in photonics.  The aim for this annual event is to make master and PhD students familiar with the photonics industry in the Benelux and to increase their awareness for future job perspectives.

More information can be found on the event website: www.photonicsevent.be.