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CLEO:QELS – Fundamental Science

CLEO:QELS – Fundamental Science General Co-Chairs

Hui Cao, Yale Univ., USA
Hideo Mabuchi, Stanford Univ., USA


CLEO:QELS – Fundamental Science Program Co-Chairs

Demetrios Christodoulides, School of Optics, CREOL, Univ. of Central Florida, USA
Norbert Lütkenhaus, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada

CLEO:QELS – Fundamental Science 1: Quantum Optics of Atoms, Molecules and Solids

Perry Rice, Miami Univ., USA, Subcommittee Chair
Paul M. Alsing, US Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Matthew Beeler, Univ. of Maryland, USA
Shchini Ghose, Wilfrid Laurier Univ., Canada
Ferruccio Renzoni, Univ. College London, UK
Glenn Scott Solomon, Joint Quantum Institute, USA
Edo Waks, Univ. of Maryland at College Park, USA

CLEO:QELS – Fundamental Science 2: Quantum Science, Engineering and Technology

Bill Munro, NTT Basic Res. Labs, Japan, Subcommittee Chair
Joseph Altepeter, Northwestern Univ., USA
Warwick P. Bowen, Univ. of Queensland, Australia
James D. Franson, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, USA
Alex Lvovsky, Univ. of Calgary, Canada
Nicholas A. Peters, Telcordia Technologies, USA
Timothy C. Ralph, Univ. of Queensland, Australia
Barry C. Sanders, Univ. of Calgary, Canada
Masahide Sasaki, NICT, Japan
Rob Thew, Universite de Geneve, Switzerland
Jason Twamley, Macquarie Univ., Australia
Steven J. Van Enk, Univ. of Oregon, USA
Peter van Loock, Max-Planck-Inst Physik des Lichts, Germany

CLEO:QELS – Fundamental Science 3: Metamaterials and Complex Media

Meir Orenstein, Technion Israel Inst. of Technology, Israel, Subcommittee Chair
Alexandra Boltasseva, Purdue Univ., USA
Igal Brener, Sandia National Labs , USA
Nicholas Fang, MIT, USA
Yuri S. Kivshar, Australian National Univ., Australia
Anatoly V. Zayats, Univ. of London King's College London, UK
Shuang Zhang, Univ. of Birmingham, UK

CLEO:QELS – Fundamental Science 4: Optical Interactions with Condensed Matter and Ultrafast Phenomena

Alfred Leitenstorfer, Univ. Konstanz, Germany, Subcommittee Chair
Sam Carter, NRL, USA
Natalia del Fatti, Universite Lyon 1, France
Edwin J. Heilweil, NIST, USA
Andreas Knorr, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Junichiro Kono, Rice Univ., USA
Guohong Ma, Shanghai Univ., China
Hrvoje Petek, Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA
Ryo Shimano, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
Koichiro Tanaka, Kyoto Univ., Japan
Alessandro Tredicucci, Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR, Italy

CLEO:QELS – Fundamental Science 5: Nonlinear Optics and Novel Phenomena

Roberto Morandotti, INRS, Univ. of Quebec, Canada, Subcommittee Chair
Ayman F. Abouraddy, Univ. of Central Florida, CREOL, USA
J. Stewart Aitchison, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
Ady Arie, Tel-Aviv Univ., Israel
Zhigang Chen, San Francisco State Univ., USA
Eugenio Del Re, Universita degli Studi dell' Aquila, Italy
Yujie J. Ding, Lehigh Univ., USA
Daniele Faccio, Heriot-Watt Univ., UK
Jason W. Fleischer, Princeton Univ., USA
Mark Aaron Foster, Johns Hopkins Univ., USA
Thomas Pertsch, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
Yaron Silberberg, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Stefano Trillo, Universita degli Studi di Ferrara, Italy
Henry M. Van Driel, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
Jeff F. Young, Univ. of British Columbia, Canada

CLEO:QELS – Fundamental Science 6: Nano-Optics and Plasmonics

Harald Giessen, Univ. Stuttgart, Germany, Subcommittee Chair
Hatice Altug, Boston Univ., USA
Pierre Berini, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada
Dai-Sik Kim, Seoul National Univ., South Korea
Kobus Kuipers, Center for Nanophotonics at AMOLF, Netherlands
Stefan Alexander Maier, Imperial College London, UK
Peter J. Nordlander, Rice Univ., USA
Gennady Shvets, Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA

CLEO:QELS – Fundamental Science 7: High-Field Physics and Attoscience

Csaba Toth, Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Dimitrios Charalambidis, FORTH-IESL, Greece
Simon M. Hooker, Univ. of Oxford, UK
Dong-Eon Kim, Pohang Univ. of Science & Technology, South Korea
John A. Nees, Univ. of Michigan, USA
Christoph Niemann, Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA
Tenio Popmintchev, JILA, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Fabien Quéré, CEA Saclay, France
Caterina Vozzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy


CLEO: Science & Innovations

CLEO: Science & Innovations General Co-Chairs

Robert Fisher, RA Fisher Associates, LLC, USA
Paul Juodawlkis, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA

CLEO: Science & Innovations Program Co-Chairs

Craig Arnold, Princeton Univ., USA
René-Jean Essiambre, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA

CLEO: Science & Innovations 1: Laser Processing of Materials: Fundamentals and Applications

Richard Haglund, Vanderbilt Univ., USA, Subcommittee Chair
Marta Castillejo, Consejo Sup Investigaciones Cientificas, Spain
Ya Cheng, Shanghai Inst of Optics and Fine Mech, China
Boris N. Chichkov, Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V., Germany
J. Thomas Dickinson, Washington State Univ., USA
Emmanuel Haro-Poniatowski, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Iztapalapa, Mexico
Yves Hernandez, MultiTel Inc, Belgium
Wayne Hess, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Saulius Juodkazis, Swinburne Univ. of Technology, Australia
Andre V. Rode, Australian National Univ., Australia
Ioanna Zergioti, National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece

CLEO: Science & Innovations 2: Solid-State, Liquid, Gas, and High-Intensity Lasers

Jonathan Zuegel, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Univ. of Rochester, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Federico Canova, Amplitude Technologies, France
Thomas Graf, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
Constantin Leon Haefner, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Dennis G. Harris, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA
Joachim Hein, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
Dietmar Kracht, Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V., Germany
Karoly Osvay, Szegedi Tudomanyegyetem, Hungary
Claude Rouyer, CEA Cesta, France
Takunori Taira, Institute for Molecular Science, Japan
Gregory Wagner, Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies, USA
Victor P. Yanovsky, Univ. of Michigan, USA

CLEO: Science & Innovations 3: Semiconductor Lasers

Seth Bank, Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Markus Amann, Technische Universität Munchen, Germany
Stephane Calvez, Univ. of Strathclyde, UK
Lukas Chrostowski, Univ. of British Columbia, Canada
John Cockburn, Univ. of Sheffield, UK
A. S. Helmy, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
M. Kneissl, Technische Universität, Germany
Patricia Lustoza de Souza, Pontificia Univ Catolica Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Shinji Matsuo, NTT Photonics Laboratories, Japan
Richard Mirin, NIST, USA
Hong-Gyu Park, Korea Univ., South Korea
Dan Wasserman, Univ. of Illinois, USA
Liming Zhang, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, USA

CLEO: Science & Innovations 4: Applications of Nonlinear Optics

Valdas Pasiskevicius, KTH, Sweden, Subcommittee Chair
Darrell J. Armstrong, Sandia National Labs, USA
Gaetano Assanto, Universita degli Studi Roma Tre, Italy
Gary C. Catella, Gooch & Housego, USA
Benjamin J. Eggleton, Univ. of Sydney, Australia
Goëry Genty, Tampereen Teknillinen Yliopisto, Finland
Antoine Godard, ONERA - the French Aerospace Lab, France
Shekhar Guha, US Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
John E. Heebner, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Takashi Kondo, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
Peter G. Schunemann, BAE Systems Inc, USA

CLEO: Science & Innovations 5: Terahertz Technologies and Applications

Peter Jepsen, DTU Fotonik, Denmark, Subcommittee Chair
Stefano Barbieri, Universite Paris-Diderot Paris VII, France
David Cooke, McGill Univ., Canada
Nils C. Fernelius, US Air Force, USA
Hiromasa Ito, RIKEN, Japan
Thomas Kleine-Ostmann, Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany
Andrea Markelz, State Univ. College at Buffalo SUNY, USA
Tsuneyuki Ozaki, INRS-EMT, Canada
Ci-Ling Pan, National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan
Wei Shi, NP Photonics Inc, USA
Weili Zhang, Oklahoma State Univ., USA
David Zimdars, Picometrix LLC, USA

CLEO: Science & Innovations 6: Optical Materials, Fabrication and Characterization

Anders Kristensen, Technical Univ. Denmark, Denmark, Subcommittee Chair
Stavros Demos, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Aaron Hawkins, Brigham Young Univ., USA
Kristjan Leosson, Science Institute, Univ. of Iceland, Iceland
Uriel Levy, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Israel
Xiuling Li, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Yuji Oki, Kyushu Univ., Japan
Christophe Peroz, aBeam Technologies, USA
Dario Pisignano, Universita del Salento, Italy
Vladimir Shur, Univ. of Ural, Russia
Koji Yamada, NTT Microsystem Integration Laboratories, Japan

CLEO: Science & Innovations 7: Micro- and Nano-Photonic Devices

Wolfgang Freude, Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology, Germany, Subcommittee Chair
Vasily N. Astratov, Univ. of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Roel G. F. Baets, Universiteit Gent, Belgium
Manfred Eich, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
Marco Fiorentino, Hewlett Packard Company, USA
Hugo E. Hernandez-Figueroa, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy, Oracle Corporation, USA
Andrea Melloni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Masaya Notomi, NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Japan
Milos Popovic, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Jessie Rosenberg, IBM Watson Research Center, USA
Concita Sibilia, Univ degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Kartik Srinivasan, NIST, USA
Michael Robert Watts, MIT, USA

CLEO: Science & Innovations 8: Ultrafast Optics, Optoelectronics and Applications

Irina Sorokina, Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology, Norway, Subcommittee Chair
Sterling J. Backus, Colorado State University, USA
Charles G. Durfee, Colorado School of Mines, USA
David M Gaudiosi, Raydiance Inc, USA
Jungwon Kim, Korea Advanced Inst of Science & Tech, South Korea
Yohei Kobayashi, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
Catherine LeBlanc, Ecole Polytechnique, France
François Légaré, INRS-Energie Mat & Tele Site Varennes, Canada
Uwe Morgner, Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V., Germany
Thomas Robert Nelson, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Konstantinos Simeonidis, Max-Planck-Institut fur Kernphysik, Germany
Gunter Steinmeyer, Max Born Institute, Germany
Frank W. Wise, Cornell Univ., USA

CLEO: Science & Innovations 9: Components, Integration, Interconnects and Signal Processing

Solomon Assefa, IBM T.J. Watson Res. Ctr., USA, Subcommittee Chair
Erik Duerr, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA
Yeshaiahu Fainman, Univ. of California San Diego, USA
Sonia M. Garcia-Blanco, Univ. of Twente, Netherlands
Satoki Kawanishi, Photonic Crystal Laboratory, Japan
Paul Matthews, Northrop Grumman Corp., USA
Frederick B. McCormick, Sandia National Labs, USA
Yoshiaki Nakano, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
Beatriz Ortega, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Joyce Poon, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
Todd H. Stievater, US Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Hiroshi Yasaka, Tohoku Univ., Japan

CLEO: Science & Innovations 10: Biophotonics and Optofluidics

Siavash Yazdanfar, GE Res., USA, Subcommittee Chair
Fred Azar, Philips Healthcare, USA
Romeo Bernini, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
Martin James Booth, Univ. of Oxford, UK
Xudong Fan, Univ. of Michigan, USA
Robert Huber, Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität Munchen, Germany
Chulmin Joo, Yonsei Univ., South Korea
Peter Kiessel, Palo Alto Res Ctr., USA
Michael Previte, Illumina, USA
Holger Schmidt, Univ. of California Santa Cruz, USA
Tomasz Tkaczyk, Rice Univ., USA
Vladislav Yakovlev, Texas A&M Univ., USA

CLEO: Science & Innovations 11: Fiber Amplifiers, Lasers and Devices

Robert Jopson, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Sang Bae Lee, Korea Institute of Science & Technology, South Korea
Shenping Li, Corning Inc., USA
Mike Messerly, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
John D. Minelly, Coherent Inc., USA
Denis Penninckx, CEA Cesta, France
Stojan Radic, Univ. of California San Diego, USA
Siddharth Ramachandran, Boston Univ., USA
Axel Ruehl, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands
Thomas Schreiber, Fraunhofer IOF, Germany
Akira Shirakawa, Univ. of Electro-Communications, Japan
Shinji Yamashita, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
Michalis N. Zervas, Univ. of Southampton, UK

CLEO: Science & Innovations 12: Lightwave Communications and Optical Networks

David Caplan, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Govind P. Agrawal, Univ. of Rochester, USA
Cristian Antonelli, Universita degli Studi dell' Aquila, Italy
E. Bert Basch, Verizon Communications Inc., USA
Gabriella Bosco, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Michael Leon Dennis, Johns Hopkins Univ., USA
Ivan B. Djordjevic, Univ. of Arizona, USA
Mark D. Feuer, AT&T Corp, USA
Diego F. Grosz, Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Hiroshi Ito, Kitasato Univ., Japan
Christian Malouin, Juniper Networks Inc., USA
Roland Ryf, Alcatel-Lucent, USA

CLEO: Science & Innovations 13: Active Optical Sensing

Thomas Reichardt, Sandia Natl. Labs, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Yoshihisa Aizu, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan
Rodolfo Barron-Jimenez, Pranalytica Inc, USA
Johannes Kiefer, Univ. of Aberdeen, UK
Lin Ma, Clemson Univ., USA
Penelope Monkhouse, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg, Germany
Mark C. Phillips, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Thomas Seeger, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
David M. Sonnenfroh, Physical Sciences Inc., USA
Yosuke Tanaka, Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
Ulrike Willer, Technische Universität Clausthal, Germany
Gerard Wysocki, Princeton Univ., USA

CLEO: Science & Innovations 14: Optical Metrology

Erich Ippen, MIT, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Kristan L. Corwin, Kansas State Univ., USA
Gesine Grosche, Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany
Chad W. Hoyt, Bethel Univ., USA
Tetsuya Ido, National Institute of Info. & Com. Tech, Japan
Hajime Inaba, National Metrology Institute of Japan, AIST, Japan
David J. Jones, Univ. of British Columbia, Canada
Youngjin Kim, Korea Advanced Inst of Science & Tech, South Korea
Nathan R. Newbury, NIST, USA
Jens Engholm Pedersen, NKT Photonics, Denmark
John D. Prestage, NASA, USA
Giorgio Santarelli, LNE-SYRTE Observatoire de Paris, France
Thomas Udem, Max-Planck-Institut fur Quantenoptik, Germany
Zhigang Zhang, Peking Univ., China

CLEO: Science & Innovations 15: LEDs, Photovoltaics and Energy-Efficient ("Green") Photonics

Leo J. Schowalter, Crystal IS Inc. and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Shangjr Gwo, National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan
Motoaki Iwaya, Meijo Univ., Japan
Meredith Reed, US Army Research Laboratory, USA
Linda Romano, Epi-consulting, USA
E. Fred Schubert, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Tae-Yeon Seong, Korea Univ., South Korea
Mikael Syväjärvi, Linköping Univ., Sweden
Peter Wellmann, Univ. of Erlangen, Germany
Jonathan Wierer, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Ben Yoo, U. of California at Davis, USA


CLEO: Applications & Technology

CLEO: Applications & Technology General Chair

James Tunnell, Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA

CLEO: Applications & Technology Program Chair

Mike Wraback, ARL, USA

CLEO: Applications & Technology 1: Biomedical

Yu Chen, Univ. of Maryland, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Leon Esterowitz, National Science Foundation, USA
Amir H. Gandjbakhche, NIH, USA
Nicusor Iftimia, Physical Sciences Inc., USA
Richard M. Levenson, Brighton Consulting Group, USA
Laura Marcu, University of California Davis, USA
Vasilis Ntziachristos, Helmholtz Zentrum München GmbH, Germany
T. Joshua Pfefer, FDA Ctr. Devices & Radiological Health, USA
Jianan Qu, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong
Jessica C. Ramella-Roman, Catholic University of America, USA
Chi-Kuang Sun, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Yoshiaki Yasuno, University of Tsukuba, Japan

CLEO: Applications & Technology 2: Environment/Energy

Christian Wetzel, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., USA, Subcommittee Chair
Dan A. Cohen, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Nicolas Grandjean, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Andreas Hangleiter, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
Hao-chung Kuo, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Tania Paskova, North Carolina State University, USA
Lothar Reichertz, RoseStreet Labs Energy, USA
Max Shatalov, Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc., USA
Yoshitaka Taniyasu, NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Japan
Loucas Tsakalakos, GE Global Res., USA
Mark A. Zondlo, Princeton University, USA

CLEO: Applications & Technology 3: Government & National Science, Security & Standards Applications

Iain McKinnie, Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies, USA, Subcommittee Chair
Andy Bayramian, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Jens Biegert, ICFO -The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain
Thomas Coty, Dept. of Homeland Security, USA
Jorgen Larsson, Lunds Tekniska Hogskola, Sweden
Jerry Manke, NSWC-Crane, USA
Mike Mason, Coherent, UK
Hajime  Nishioka, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Jonathan Rall, NASA, USA
Don Seeley, University of New Mexico, USA
Michelle Shinn, Thomas Jefferson Laboratory, USA
Emma Springate, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
Brian Stadler, US Air Force Research Lab, USA

CLEO: Applications & Technology 4: Industrial

Eric Mottay, Amplitude Systemes, France, Subcommittee Chair
Yves Bellouard, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Chung-Wei Cheng, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan
Malcolm Charles Gower, Nanophoton Technologies, UK
Robert F. Hainsey, Electro Scientific Industries, Inc., USA
Minghui Hong, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Lan Jiang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Arzu Ozkan, Lumyn Technologies, USA
Wilhelm Pfleging, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany
Michael Schmidt, University of Erlangen, Germany
Jeffrey Warrender, US Army Research Laboratory, USA
Pingfan Peter Wu, 3M Company, USA