Frontiers in Optics 2012 is OSA's 96th Annual Meeting and is being held together with Laser Science XXVIII, the annual meeting of the American Physical Society (APS) Division of Laser Science (DLS). The two meetings unite the OSA and APS communities for five days of presentations, invited speakers, and a variety of special events spanning a broad range of topics in physics, biology and chemistry. FiO 2012 also offers a number of Short Courses.