The Optical Society (OSA) has announced that its members have elected Philip H. Bucksbaum of Stanford University as its 2012 vice president. Three directors at large were also chosen during this year's election - James D. Kafka of Spectra-Physics, Byoung Yoon Kim of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), and Jun Ye of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado.
By accepting the vice presidency, Bucksbaum makes a four-year commitment to OSA's Board of Directors. As vice president, he will automatically become president-elect in 2013 and then the society's president in 2014, followed by a one-year term as past president.
Bucksbaum has been an active OSA member for more than 20 years, including holding leadership roles on several conference programme committees and technical meetings, as well as on the Board of Directors. Bucksbaum previously served as the programme co-chair for OSA's Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (1997) and general co-chair from (1999), and was chair of OSA's Short Wavelength Topical Meeting in 1992. On the Board, he served as a director at large from 2006-2008 and sat on the Board's Finance Committee during that time.
Along with Bucksbaum, the new directors at large, Kafka, Kim, and Ye, will begin their terms on January 1, 2012, replacing three outgoing members of the Board of Directors. They will hold their positions for three years.
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