Invited Speakers

S&I 1: Light-matter Interactions and Materials Processing

• Javier Solis
  Instituto De Optica 'Daza De Valdes', Spain
  
  
• Klaus Sokolowski-Tinten
  University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
  
  
• Richard Haglund Jr.
  Vanderbilt University, USA
  
  

S&I 2: Laser Systems and Facilities

• Hanieh Fattahi
  Max-Planck-Institut fur Quantenoptik, Germany
  
  
• Holger Schlarb
  DESY, Germany
  
  
• Thomas Spinka
  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
  
  

S&I 3: Semiconductor Lasers

• Åsa Haglund
  Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
  
  
• Benjamin Williams
  University of California Los Angeles, USA
  
  
• James Gupta
  National Research Council Canada, Canada
  
  
• Susumu Noda
  Kyoto University, Japan
  
  

S&I 4: Nonlinear Optical Technologies

• Crina Cojocaru
  Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
  
  
• Irina Kabakova
  University of Technology Sydney, Australia
  
  
• Marko Loncar
  Harvard University, USA
  
  
• Peter Schunemann
  BAE Systems Inc, USA
  
  
• Yoshitomo Okawachi
  Columbia University, USA
  
  

S&I 5: Terahertz Science and Technology

• Aydin Babakhani
  Rice University, USA
  
  
• Hyunyong Choi
  Yonsei University, South Korea
  
  
• Rebecca Milot
  University of Warwick, UK
  
  
• Vedran Jelic
  University of Alberta, Canada
  
  

S&I 6: Optical Materials, Fabrication and Characterization

• Barry Rand
  Princeton University, USA
  
  
• Isabelle Staude
  Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany
  
  
• Nanfang Yu
  Columbia University, USA
  
  
• Pussama Moutanabbir
  Polytechnique Montreal, Canada
  
  
• Thomas Murphy
  University of Maryland at College Park, USA
  
  

S&I 7: Micro- and Nano-Photonic Devices

• Di Liang
  Hewlett Packard Labs, UCSB, USA
  
  
• Femius Koenderink
  AMOLF, Netherlands
  
  
• Joyce Poon
  University of Toronto, Canada
  
  
• Marin Soljacic
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
  
  
• Mercedeh Khajavikhan
  University of Central Florida, CREOL, USA
  
  
• Michael Watts
  Analog Photonics, USA
  
  
• Peter Bienstman
  Ghent University, INTEC, Belgium
  
  
• Rachel Grange
  ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  
  
• Ruth Oulton
  University of Bristol, UK
  
  
• Yuichiro Kato
  RIKEN, Japan
  
  

S&I 8: Ultrafast Optics, Optoelectronics and Applications

• Fabien Quéré
  CEA Saclay, France
  
  
• Francesca Calegari
  Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron, Germany
  
  
• Jan Rothhardt
  Helmholtz Institute Jena, Germany
  
  
• Maria Farsari
  IESL-FORTH, Greece
  
  
• Nicolas Forget
  FASTLITE Ultrafast Sci Instrumentation, France
  
  

S&I 9: Photonic Integration

• Clint Schow
  University of California Santa Barbara, USA
  
  
• Delphine Marris-Morini
  Universite de Paris-Sud, France
  
  
• Kei May Lau
  Hong Kong Univ of Science and Technology, USA
  
  
• Lan Yang
  Washington University in St Louis, USA
  
  
• Nicholas Harris
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
  
  
• Xiaoyi Bao
  University of Ottawa, Canada
  
  

S&I 10: Biophotonics and Optofluidics

• Changhuei Yang
  California Institute of Technology, USA
  
  
• Yuhwa Lo
  University of California San Diego, USA
  
  

S&I 11: Fiber Photonics: Novel Phenomena, Lasers, Systems and Fabrication

• Angela Seddon
  University of Nottingham, UK
  
  
• Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem
  University of Adelaide, Australia
  
  
• Natalie Wheeler
  University of Southampton, UK
  
  
• Omer Tzang
  University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
  
  
• Qiang Zhang
  Univ of Science and Technology of China, China
  
  
• Radan Slavik
  University of Southampton, UK
  
  
• Shai Maayani
  MIT, USA
  
  
• Svetlana Aleshkina
  Fiber Optics Res. Ctr the RAS, RUSSIA
  
  
• Yasuyuki Ozeki
  University of Tokyo, Japan
  
  

S&I 12: Lightwave Communications and Optical Networks

• Alexei Pilipetskii
  TE SubCom, USA
  
  
• Gabriella Bosco
  Politecnico di Torino, Italy
  
  
• Jose Capmany
  Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
  
  
• Linda Thomas
  US Naval Research Laboratory, USA
  
  
• Michela Svaluto Moreolo
  Ctr Tecnològic de Telecom de Catalunya, Spain
  
  
• Roland Ryf
  Nokia Bell Labs, USA
  
  
• Victor Torres Company
  Chalmers Tekniska Hogskola, Sweden
  
  

S&I 13: Active Optical Sensing

• Jana Jagerska
  Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  
  
• Robert Candler
  University of California, Los Angeles, USA
  
  
• Xudong Fan
  University of Michigan, USA
  
  

S&I 14: Optical Metrology

• Aleksandra Foltynowicz Matyba
  Umea University, Sweden
  
  
• Elizabeth Donley
  National Inst of Standards & Technology, USA
  
  
• Erin Lamb
  OFS, USA
  
  
• Helen Margolis
  National Physical Laboratory, UK
  
  

S&I 15: Quantum and Atomic Sensors, and their Applications

• Ania Jayich
  UC Santa Barbara, USA
  
  
• John Kitching
  NIST, USA
  
  
• Mark Kasevich
  Stanford, USA
  
  
• Tanja Mehlstäubler
  PTB Germany, Germany
  
  

A&T 1: Biomedical Applications

• Abhishek Rege
  Johns Hopkins University, USA
  
  
• Alon Greenbaum
  University of California Los Angeles, USA
  
  
• Anna-Karin Gustavsson
  Stanford University, USA
  
  
• Daniel Razansky
  Technical University of Munich, Germany
  
  
• Hisataka Kobayashi
  National Institutes of Health, USA
  
  
• Kaushal Solanki
  Eyenuk LLC, USA
  
  
• Paul Campagnola
  University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
  
  
• Praveen Arany
  University at Buffalo, USA
  
  
• Scott Fraser
  University of Southern California, USA
  
  
• Thomas Klein
  Optores GmbH, Germany
  
  

A&T 2: Industrial Applications

• Jiyeon Choi
  Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials, South Korea
  
  
• Kristian Cvecek
  Univ Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
  
  
• Onur Tokel
  Bilkent Universitesi, Turkey
  
  

A&T 3: Optical Instrumentation for Measurements and Monitoring

• Andrew Sappey
  Zolo Technologies, Inc., USA
  
  
• David Moore
  Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
  
  
• Erik Novak
  4D Technology, USA
  
  
• Esther Baumann
  National Inst of Standards & Technology, USA
  
  
• Jake Li
  Hamamatsu Corporation, USA
  
  

A&T 4: Applications in Energy & Environment