Institut d’Optique Graduate School (IOGS)

About

Institut d’Optique Graduate School (IOGS), also known under its legal name Institut d’Optique Théorique et Appliquée (IOTA), is an institution of higher education and research of public utility. It is placed under the supervision of the Ministry of Education and Research.

IOGS operates on 3 campuses in France: Palaiseau, Saint-Etienne and Bordeaux.

Within IOGS three cultures mix and enrich each other: Education, represented in particular by a large engineering school, a corporate environment by its entrepreneurial center, and research with three internationally renowned research laboratories in optics Laboratoire Charles Fabry (in Palaiseau); Laboratoire Hubert Curien (in Saint Etienne); Laboratoire Photonique Numérique et Nanosciences (in Bordeaux). IOGS maintains very strong links to several learned societies. The French Optical Society, the European Optical Society and the International Commission for Optics have their registered office at IOGS. Many members of IOGS are also members of other learned societies, and PhD students are members of student chapters of OSA, SFO/EOS, SPIE and EPS both in Palaiseau and in Bordeaux. These chapters regularly organize activities for PhD students.

This strategic position gives the Institute credibility and strengths to explore the richness of the many aspects of light and photonics.

IOGS will organize a CARLA camp in Bordeaux.