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Hamas-Israel Conflict:
A Plea for Compassion and Peace
The world has looked on with sadness, disbelief and shock at the great human tragedy that has unfolded in Israel and Gaza. Thousands of innocent civilians both within Israel and Gaza, many of them children, have been killed and tens of thousands have been injured. We call on both parties to respect the dignity of human life, the basic human rights of all individuals and replace conflict with compassion.
ICO News
ICO AWARD to nano-photonics
Dr. Qing Dai was awar- ded for his groundbrea- king contributions to the field of nanoscale light-matter interactions.
ICO-IUPAP PRIZE IN OPTICS 2024
In recognition of Utso Bhattacharya advances in non-equilibrium dynamics and quantum simulations of optical systems.
Galileo Galilei Medal Award 2024
The 2024 Medal goes to Prof. Victor Reshetnyak for the development of the photoalignment technique.
ISC General Assembly
The ICO participated in the third General Assembly of the International Science Council in Oman.
PIMICS Project
A hyperspectral system for basic research with resource constrained
budgets.
In 2023, John Howell was President of the ICO and he had an idea of making a low-cost multi-spectral or hyper-spectral camera from the Raspberry Pi. This was announced at the Optics and Photonics Africa 2023 conference in South Africa. The goal was to use the Raspberry Pi, its camera, and the general purpose input/output (GPIO) pins to drive LEDs and/or filter wheels for building multispectral cameras.