Officer's Report Jose L.F. Freire, Chair 1. The Optical Methods Division is sponsoring sessions inside the general tracks of the Annual Meeting and also organized sessions from the general call for papers. The updated By-laws version has been elaborated during the current year and will be presented to the Division members at the Annual Meeting for discussion. Proposed Activities for the Future 2.1. The Division intends to support a Thematic Track at 2000 Meeting.
Several subjects are under consideration.
The Division intends to have a annual version of this Status which will be fed by a special session which will be sponsored at each Annual Meeting.