Professor Emeritus David Jackson FInstP, FOSA, is meeting former and present academic staff members, research associates and PhD students many of whom are now leading research programmes in industry and at prestigious universities around the world.

The exciting two-day event takes place in Canterbury on the University of Kent campus on 21 and 22 May 2015 and includes talks about the history and current development of optical sensing (including the early days of optical fibre sensing, and other topics explored at Kent, such as coherence imaging methods and optical signal processing) and the legacy of the Kent Applied Optics Group.

The event is intended to be a celebration of Prof Jackson’s rich and lengthy career, which has included many world firsts. From 1965, David led research in Applied Optics at the University of Kent for four decades, making Kent an internationally recognised centre of excellence for fibre optic sensing, laser Doppler anemometry, laser light scattering and optical instrumentation.