Invited Speakers

Science & Innovations

S&I 5: Terahertz Science and Technology

Aydin Babakhani, Rice University, 




S&I 9: Photonic Integration

Xiaoyi Bao, University of Ottawa, CANADA




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

Peter Bienstman, Ghent University, INTEC, BELGIUM




S&I 13: Active Optical Sensing

Robert Candler, University of California, Los Angeles, 




S&I 12: Lightwave Communications and Optical Networks

Jose Capmany, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, SPAIN


Hyunyong Choi, Yonsei University, SOUTH KOREA




S&I 4: Nonlinear Optical Technologies

Crina Cojocaru, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, SPAIN




S&I 14: Optical Metrology

Elizabeth Donley, National Inst of Standards & Technology, UNITED STATES




S&I 8: Ultrafast Optics, Optoelectronics, and Applications

Maria Farsari, IESL-FORTH, GREECE




S&I 2: Laser Systems and Facilities

Hanieh Fattahi, Max-Planck-Institut fur Quantenoptik, GERMANY


Aleksandra Foltynowicz, Umea University, SWEDEN


Nicolas Forget, FASTLITE Ultrafast Sci Instrumentation, FRANCE


Rachel Grange, ETH Zurich, SWITZERLAND




S&I 3: Semiconductor Lasers

James Gupta, National Research Council Canada, CANADA


Åsa Haglund, Chalmers University of Technology, SWEDEN




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

Richard Haglund Jr. , Vanderbilt University, UNITED STATES


Nicholas Harris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, UNITED STATES


Jana Jagerska, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, 


Irina Kabakova, University of Technology Sydney, AUSTRALIA


Yuichiro Kato, RIKEN, JAPAN


Mercedeh Khajavikhan, University of Central Florida, CREOL, UNITED STATES


Femius Koenderink, AMOLF, NETHERLANDS


Kei May Lau, Hong Kong Univ of Science and Technology, UNITED STATES


Di Liang, Hewlett Packard Labs, UCSB, UNITED STATES




S&I 10: Biophotonics and Optofluidics

Yuhwa Lo, University of California San Diego, UNITED STATES


Marko Loncar, Harvard University, UNITED STATES


Helen Margolis, National Physical Laboratory, UNITED KINGDOM


Delphine Marris-Morini, Universite de Paris-Sud, FRANCE




S&I 6: Optical Materials, Fabrication, and Characterization

Pussama Moutanabbir, Polytechnique Montreal, 


Thomas Murphy, University of Maryland at College Park, UNITED STATES


Susumu Noda, Kyoto University, JAPAN


Yoshitomo Okawachi, Columbia University, UNITED STATES


Joyce Poon, University of Toronto, CANADA


Fabien Quéré, CEA Saclay, FRANCE


Barry Rand, Princeton University, UNITED STATES


Jan Rothhardt, Helmholtz Institute Jena, GERMANY


Roland Ryf, Nokia Bell Labs, UNITED STATES


Peter Schunemann, BAE Systems Inc, UNITED STATES


Klaus Sokolowski-Tinten, Universität Duisburg-Essen, GERMANY


Javier Solis, Instituto De Optica 'Daza De Valdes', SPAIN


Marin Soljacic, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, UNITED STATES


Thomas Spinka, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, UNITED STATES


Isabelle Staude, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, GERMANY


Linda Thomas, US Naval Research Laboratory, UNITED STATES


Victor Torres Company, Chalmers Tekniska Hogskola, SWEDEN


Benjamin Williams, University of California Los Angeles, UNITED STATES


Lan Yang, Washington University in St Louis, UNITED STATES