UOSE organises SEON 2008

The Optoelectronics and Electronic Systems Unit (UOSE) organised SEON 2008 - VI Symposium on Enabling Optical Networks at the Department of Physics from the Faculty of Engineering, on 20 June.

The scientific meeting’s aim was to gather post-graduate students and researchers in the area of Optoelectronics, thus promoting connections and technology transfer between R&D institutions and Portuguese companies. The event was organised by INESC Porto and by the Institute of Telecommunications from Aveiro (IT-Aveiro), with the support of both the University of Porto and the University of Aveiro.

The first edition of SEON took place in June 2003 in the context of the research and development projects and post-graduate training carried out by INESC Porto and IT-Aveiro. Ever since then, these meetings have been taking place every year, alternately between Porto and Aveiro. This meeting has been achieving an increasing importance in the national community of researchers working on Optoelectronics.

This year’s edition focused on themes related to high debit optical communications and optical applications for communication, in the areas of optical sensors, encryption and safe communications.

The event had a group of 65 participants set up by students, researchers and professors. We would like to highlight the participation of the following national and international speakers: Tsuyoshi Konishi (University of Osaka, Japan), Tetsuya Kawanishi (NICT, Japan), Naoya Wada (NITC, Japan), Nobuyuki Kataoka (NITC, Japan), Marcelo Segatto (UFES, Brazil), Thereza Rocco (IME, Brazil), Professor Carmen Garcia (Carlos III University in Madrid, Spain), Yasser Omar (IT – Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal) and  Armando Pinto (IT-University of Aveiro, Portugal).