5 December 2024
Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Thank you for joining SPIE in Melbourne at ANZCOP/AIP Summer Meeting

SPIE participated in the ANZCOP/AIP Summer Meeting 5 December 2024, and we look forward to being involved in next year's program. The workshop hosted by SPIE included invited speakers who presented on space, security, and defence topics for the Pacific Rim community.

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2024 invited speakers


Geoff Andersen

AOARD-Melbourne—US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (Australia)

Nadia Court

Semiconductor Sector Service Bureau (S3B) (Austrailia)

Howard D’Costa

Australian Space Agency

Anna Moore

Australia National Univ. / Institute for Space (InSpace)

Dragomir Neshev

ANU - ARC Centre for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS) (Australia)

Linh Nguyen

Australian Dept. of Defence

Van Nguyen

Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance Enterprise (Australia)

Giacinta (Gia) Parish

Director, Defence & Security Institute and Professor, School of Engineering at the University of Western Australia

Patrick Rufangura

Univ. of Technology Sydney/ARC Centre-TMOS (Australia)

Mark Spencer

Joint Directed Energy Transition Office

Frédérique Vanholsbeeck

Dodd Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies (New Zealand)

Mike Wardlaw

Office of Naval Research (United States)

Callum Wright

Defence Science Institute/Defence Science Technology Group

Hosted by:


Program Committee


Dennis Delic, Australian Dept. of Defence

Lorenzo Faraone, Univ. of Western Australia

Francesca Iacopi, Univ. of Technology Sydney

Brant Gibson, RMIT Australia

Weilin “Will” Hou, Office of Naval Research (USA)

Dragomir Neshev, Australian National Univ.

Clint Novotny, Office of Naval Research (USA)

Gia Parish, UWA Defence & Security Institute

William “Pat” Roach, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (USA)