Global Optics
A Fellow’s Journey to Mongolia
Akhlesh Lakhtakia details his journey to the hub of the most sparsely populated country in the world.
The author with a statue of Genghis Khan.
With the help of an OSA Fellow travel grant, I had the opportunity to visit Mongolia in late 2012. This landlocked country in East and Central Asia is bordered by Russia to the North and China to the South. I arrived in the outskirts of the capital—Ulan Bator—and was joined by my host Chimed Ganzorig, the vice president for research and innovation at the National University of Mongolia (NUM).
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