The West Lake Photonics Symposium (WPS) aims at providing a platform to gather the global leaders in optics and photonics. The symposium features the discussions on Advanced Photonics in the future. The WPS 2018 will be held by College of Optical Science and Engineering, at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, on 26 Oct. 2018. The city of Hangzhou, where Zhejiang University locates is well known for the West-Lake cultural landscape, which was inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 2011.

ETOP (Education and Training in Optics & Photonics) is a biennial conference that brings together educators from around the world to share information about the practice of teaching optics at all levels. The teaching of optics and photonics, critical fields at the core of today's world-wide technological infrastructure, must continually be upgraded and renewed in order to meet the growing demands of research, science and industry.ETOP-2017, the 14th International Conference on Education and Trai