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PLENARY SPEAKER | Prof. Miguel A. Alonso, Aix Marseille Univ., Centrale Marseille, Institut Fresnel, France and The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, USA.
He received the degree of Engineer in Physics from the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana in Mexico City and the PhD degree in Optics from the University of Rochester. He joined the faculty of The Institute of Optics in 2003, and since 2018 he has been based at the Institut Fresnel and the Ecole Centrale in Marseille, France, as an A*MIDEX Chair of Excellence. Since January he serves as the Editor in Chief for Optics Letters. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America. His research focuses on mathematical aspects of wave propagation, in particular on the description and applications of beams with structured intensity and polarization distributions, optical coherence, and the connection between the ray and wave models of light.
Title of talk: The Poincaré sphere, its generalizations, and their several applications in optics
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PLENARY SPEAKER | Prof. Sile Nic Chormaic, Light-Matter interactions for quantum technologies unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Graduate University, Japan.
She recieved her B.Sc. (1st Class Joint Hons.) in Experimental and Mathematical Physics (St. Patrick's College Maynooth, National University of Ireland), M.Sc. by Research - Electron-Hydrogen Collisions (St. Patrick's College Maynooth, National University of Ireland) and PhD in Physics - Stern-Gerlach Atom Interferometry of Hydrogen (Université Paris-Nord, France).
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Title of talk: Ultrathin Optical Fibers and Whispering Gallery Resonators- Basics, Particle Trapping, and Beyond
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PLENARY SPEAKER | Prof. Kevin Eliceiri, Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
Career Interests: Biophotonics, Image Analysis, Imaging Instrumentation, Live Cell Imaging
Eliceiri is an internationally known expert in advanced light microscopy in the Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation (LOCI) in the Graduate School and College of Engineering and also an Principal Investigator in the Morgridge Institute for Research. The mission of LOCI is to develop advanced optical and computational techniques for imaging and experimentally manipulating living specimens.
As founding PI and director of LOCI, Eliceiri oversees the day-to-day operations of the lab and has initiated research collaborations with faculty both at UW and internationally. These collaborations have resulted in over 100 publications ranging from informatics and instrumentation to live cell microscopy and cancer imaging papers. Eliceiri has been funded by NSF, NIH, Department of Defense, Susan G. Komen, American Cancer Society and the Wellcome Trust. Current projects include developing software to annotate and archive microscopy data, the development of the ImageJ2 software platform and Fiji distribution of ImageJ, and the development of software and hardware to interrogate the tumor microenvironment.
Eliceiri also directs a collaborative medical engineering group at the Morgridge Institute for Research (MIR). As a MIR PI, Kevin Eliceiri leads efforts in advanced biofabrication and instrumentation and multiscale imaging. In MIR medical Engineering in collaboration with the LOCI group, current projects include transient lighting fluorescenece techniques, light sheet microscopy, multiscale metabolism and multiscale imaging of the extracellular matrix.
Title of talk: Computational Optics of the Tumor Microenvironment
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PLENARY SPEAKER | Prof. Andrew Forbes, School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
He has at various times in his career found himself as teacher, janitor, secretary, receptionist, web-master, systems engineer, sales rep, manager, director, and sometimes a scientist. Andrew is presently a Distinguished Professor within the School of Physics at the U. Witwatersrand (South Africa) where in 2015 he established a new laboratory for Structured Light. Andrew is active in promoting photonics in Africa, a founding member of the Photonics Initiative of South Africa and initiator of South Africa’s Quantum Roadmap. He is a Fellow of SPIE, the OSA, the SAIP, and an elected member of the Academy of Science of South Africa. He holds an A-rating by the South African NRF, 3 honorary professorships, is editor-in-chief of the IoP’s Journal of Optics and sits on the editorial board of three other international journals. Andrew has won several awards, including the NSTF national award for his contributions to photonics in South Africa, the Georg Forster prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for outstanding contributions to photonics, and the SAIP Gold Medal, the highest award for physics in South Africa, making him the youngest winner to date. Andrew spends his time having fun with the taxpayers’ money, exploring structured light in lasers as well as classical and quantum optics.
Title of talk: Structured Light: From Fundamentals to Applications
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PLENARY SPEAKER | Prof. Victor Kotlyar, Department of Technical Cybernetics, Samara University, Russia.
He is the head of a laboratory at Image Processing Systems Institute (IPSI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and a professor of Computer Science Department at Samara National Research University. He graduated from Kuibyshev State University (1979), received his Candidate's and Doctor's Degrees in Physics & Mathematics from Saratov State University (1988) and Moscow Central Design Institute of Unique Instrumentation of the RAS (1992). He is a co-author of 400 scientific papers, 10 books and 7 inventions. His current research interests include diffractive optics, nanophotonics, and optical vortices.
Title of talk: Topological charge of a superposition of optical vortices
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PLENARY SPEAKER | Prof. Olivier Martin, Nanophotonics and Metrology Laboratory, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in physics in 1989 and 1994, respectively, from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. In 2001 he received a Professorship grant from the SNSF and became Professor of Nano-Optics at the ETHZ. In 2003, he was appointed Professor of Nanophotonics and Optical Signal Processing at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), where he is currently head of the Nanophotonics and Metrology Laboratory and Director of the Microengineering Section. He received the Latsis University prize for contributions to the study of near-field optics and photonic bandgap structures (1999) and an ERC Advanced Grant on the utilization of plasmonic forces to fabricate nanostructures and design tomorrow's Nanofactory (2016). He has authored or co-authored over 500 scientific contributions including over 250 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He also holds a handful of patents and invention disclosures.
Title of talk: Controlling Light with Plasmonic and Hybrid Metasurfaces
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PLENARY SPEAKER | Prof. Mohamed Missous, Semiconductor Materials and Devices at the University of Manchester, UK.
Mohamed Missous, FREng, FInstP, FIET, SMIEEE, is Professor of Semiconductor materials and Devices in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Manchester. His research activities are centred on the device fabrication of complex multi-layer compound semiconductor (CS) films for applications in opto, wireless and magnetic sensing devices. Over the years he has concentrated, with considerable success, on establishing practical approaches and techniques required to meet stringent doping and thickness control, to sub monolayer accuracy, for a variety of advanced quantum devices, from room temperature operating mid infrared quantum well infrared photodetectors, NanoTesla magnetic imaging using ultra-sensitive 2DEG for Non-Destructive Testing, 77 GHz car radars to Terahertz materials for 1.55 µm imaging. He now concentrates on the manufacturability of quantum devices including tunnel structures and VCSELs and APDs.
Together with Professor Mike Kelly he was awarded the 2015 Royal Society Brian Mercer award for manufacturability of tunnel devices. He is regularly invited to give talks at international venues on mmwave and THz technologies. His involvement in the above research topics has led to the publication of more than 240 papers in the open, international literature.
His involvement in the newly established Compound Semiconductor Manufacturing HUB applying CS knowhow to silicon manufacturing techniques will form the central focus for this new venture with other partner universities. At Manchester the Hub will provide unique capabilities in integrated CS electronics spanning the highly advantageous electrical, optical and magnetic properties of CS devices enabling research into large-scale CS growth and device fabrication.” The Research concentrates on manufacturability on large scale (up to 8” equivalent GaAs and InP wafer size) of novel, highly integrated 2D magnetic Quantum Well Hall Effect sensors for Non-Destructive Testing and Ultra high frequency RF circuits for emerging applications such as 5G wireless mobile communications, as well as ultra-high speed optical devices for upcoming 10G fibre to the home and data centres.
Title of talk: Challenges in Vertical Cavity Surface emitting lasers (VCSEL) manufacturing for Quantum applications
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PLENARY SPEAKER | Prof. Ekmel Özbay, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.
He received M.S. and Ph. D. degrees from Stanford University in electrical engineering, in 1989 and 1992. He worked as a postdoc in Stanford University and he later worked as a scientist in Iowa State University. He joined Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey) in 1995, where he is currently a full professor in Physics and EEE Departments. In 2003, he founded Bilkent University Nanotechnology Research Center (NANOTAM) where he leads a research group working on nanophotonics, nanometamaterials, nanoelectronics, and GaN based devices. He is the 1997 recipient of the Adolph Lomb Medal of OSA and 2005 European Union Descartes Science award. He worked as an editor for Optics Letters, PNFA, SPIE JNP and IEEE JQE journals. He has published 525+ articles in SCI journals. His papers have received 17500+ SCI citations with an h-index of 61. He has given 165+ invited talks in international conferences. He is also the CEO of a spin-off company: AB-MicroNano Inc., which is founded to commercialize the technologies developed in NANOTAM.
Title of talk: Centimeter scale nanostructures: Lithograpgy-free metamaterials for photoconversion, photodetection, light emission, sensing, and filtering
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PLENARY SPEAKER | Prof. Manijeh Razeghi, Director, Center for Quantum Devices, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University, USA.
She received the Doctorate d’état ES Sciences Physiques from the Université de Paris, France, in 1980. Manijeh Razeghi was the Head of the Exploratory Materials Laboratory at Thomson-CSF (France) during the 80’s where she developed and implemented modern metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) vapor phase epitaxy (VPE), molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), GasMBE, and MOMBE for entire compositional ranges of III-V compound semiconductors from deep UV to THZ.She has authored or co-authored more than 1000 papers, more than 34 book chapters, and 20 books, including the textbooks Technology of Quantum Devices (Springer Science Business Media, Inc., New York, NY U.S.A. 2010) and Fundamentals of Solid State Engineering, 4th Edition (Springer Science Business Media, Inc., New York, NY U.S.A. 2018). Two of her books, MOCVD Challenge Vol. 1 (IOP Publishing Ltd., Bristol, U.K., 1989) and MOCVD Challenge Vol. 2 (IOP Publishing Ltd., Bristol, U.K., 1995), discuss some of her pioneering work in InP-GaInAsP and GaAs-GaInAsP based systems. The MOCVD Challenge, 2nd Edition (Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, 2010) represents the combined updated version of Volumes 1 and 2. She holds more than 60 U.S. patents and has given more than 1000 invited and plenary talks. Her current research interest is in nanoscale optoelectronic quantum devices. Dr. Razeghi is a Fellow of MRS, IOP, IEEE, APS, SPIE, OSA, Fellow and Life Member of Society of Women Engineers (SWE), Fellow of the International Engineering Consortium (IEC). She received the IBM Europe Science and Technology Prize in 1987, the Achievement Award from the SWE in 1995, the R.F. Bun shah Award in 2004, IBM Faculty Award 2013, the Jan Czochralski Gold Medal in 2016, the 2018 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering, and many best paper awards. She is an elected life-Fellow of SWE, IEEE, and MRS.
Title of talk: Light and Light-based technology
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PLENARY SPEAKER | Prof. Jian Wang, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
He received the Ph.D. degree in physical electronics from the Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 2008. He worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Optical Communications Laboratory, University of Southern California, USA, from 2009 to 2011. He is currently a professor at the Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. He is the director of the department of Optoelectronic Devices and Integration (OEDI), Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. He leads the Multi-Dimensional Photonics Laboratory (MDPL). His research interests include optical communications, optical signal processing, silicon photonics, photonic integration, orbital angular momentum, and structured light. He has published over 200 refereed international journal papers on Science, Science Advances, Nature Photonics, Light: Science & Applications, Physical Review Letters, Optica, Laser & Photonics Reviews, ACS Photonics, Research, PhotoniX, Optics Express, Optics Letters, etc. He has authored and co-authored over 150 international conference papers on OFC, ECOC, CLEO, etc. He has also given about 100 tutorial/keynote/invited talks in international conferences including the invited talk at OFC2014 and tutorial talk at OFC2016. He is currently the Topical Editor of Optics Letters, Topical Editor of Chinese Optics Letters, and Area Editor of Microwave and Optical Technology Letters. He is also a frequent reviewer of Nature Photonics and Nature Communications.
Title of talk: Multi-dimensional entanglement transport in conventional single-mode fiber
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Dr. Hadise Alaeian, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, USA
Hadiseh Alaeian received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Physics from Stanford University in 2015. For her dissertation focused on the studies of non-Hermitian and active photonic systems, she received the silver medal from Materials Research Society in 2015. After her graduation, she moved to Germany first, as a Humboldt postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bonn and later as a junior group leader at the 5th institute of Physics at the University of Stuttgart. Her research has been focused on quantum dynamics and phase transitions in photonic systems including their Bose-Einstein condensation and atom-induced photon-photon interactions. In August 2020, Hadiseh joined Purdue as an assistant professor of the Electrical Engineering and Physics where she is extending her studies to the strongly interacting quantum photonics and quantum photonic gates using Rydberg excitons.
Title of talk: Dipolar Interaction in low-dimensional atom-photonics platforms
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Dr. Raul Arenal, The Institute of Nanoscience of Aragon, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Dr. Raul Arenal received his Ph.D. in Solid State Physics from Univ. Paris-Sud (Orsay, France, 2005) and in 2013, he obtained his Habilitation (HDR) also at this University. From April 2005 to August 2007, he joined the Electron Microscopy Center in Argonne National Laboratory (ANL, USA) as post doctoral fellow. In 2007, he became research scientist (Chargé de Recherches) at the CNRS (France), working at the LEM, CNRS-ONERA (Chatillon, France). From September 2010 to December 2011, he was visiting scientist (sabbatical position) at the Laboratorio de Microscopias Avanzadas (LMA) at the Instituto de Nanociencia de Aragon (INA) of the Universidad de Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain). Since 2012, Dr. Arenal is on leave from the CNRS, and he is currently ARAID research scientist at the LMA-INMA-Universidad de Zaragoza. In addition, since 2007 he is visiting researcher at the ANL (USA). Since 2018, he is the Director of the TEM area of the LMA.He has published more than 200 papers in refereed journals (cited ca. 8100/5700 times, H-index 45/40; Google Scholar / Web of Science), edited 1 book (Springer) and published 6 chapters of a book. He is member of the board of the Spanish Microscopy Society (SME), periods: 2013-2017 & 2017-2021. In 2017, Dr. Arenal has been elected member of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE) and also this year he has been elected member of its board (2017-2020). Dr. Arenal is the chair of the HeteroNanoCarb conference series (https://heteronanocarb.org) focused on graphene, NT and related 1D-2D nanomaterials.
Title of talk: Optoelectronic properties of low-dimensional Materials investigated by TEM-EELS
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Prof. Martin Booth, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK.
He read for a degree in Engineering Science at Hertford College, Oxford, from 1993-7. His doctoral work in adaptive optics for confocal microscopy took place in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford from 1997-2001, during which time he was also a member of Jesus College.In 2001, Martin was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship at Christ Church and in 2003 was appointed a Royal Academy of Engineering/EPSRC Research Fellow. In 2007 he was awarded a five-year EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship and was concurrently elected to a Hugh Price Fellowship at Jesus College. He became Professor of Engineering Science and Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College in 2014. He also holds a College Lecturership at Lincoln College. His current research interests centre on the development of new dynamic optical methods for applications ranging from biomedical imaging to laser-based manufacturing.
Awards: Young Researcher Award in Optical Technologies from the School of Advanced Optical Technologies at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2012.International Commission for Optics Prize, 2014.
Title of talk: Three-dimensional super-resolution microscopy deeper in specimens using adaptive optics
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Dr. Matteo Bosi, IMEM-The National Research Council (CNR), Italy.
He is a researcher in the Institute of Materials for Electronic and Magnetisc, part of the National Research Council (IMEM-CNR) in Parma, Italy. His scientific activity has always been focused on epitaxial deposition by means of Metal Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy (MOVPE) of semiconductor materials for photovoltaic, sensor and optoelectronic devices. During his career he has studied the epitaxy/synthesis of arsenides and phosphides (GaAs, InGaP, and AlGaAs), germanium, SiC, diluted nitrides (GaAsN), III-nitrides (GaN and InGaN), nanostructures (3C-SiC nanowires) and TiO2.
His research is now focused on Ge nanowires for sensors, transition metal dichalcogenides (MoS2), and gallium oxide (Ga2O3) for deep-UV solar blind detectors. Dr Matteo Bosi has attended about 20 international conferences with several invited talks and he is author or co-author of about 100 papers in international peer-reviewed journals.
Title of talk: UV-C solar blind photoresistors based on e-Ga2O3 polymorph
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Prof. Warwick Bowen, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, Australia.
He is recognised both nationally and internationally for research at the interface of nanotechnology and quantum science; including nanophotonics, nanomechanics, quantum optomechanics and photonic/quantum sensing. He is an Australian Future Fellow. He leads the Quantum Optics Laboratory at UQ, is Director of the UQ Precision Sensing Initiative, and is both Program and Node Manager of the Australian Centre for Engineered Quantum Systems. The research in Professor Bowen's lab spans from the very fundamental, e.g. how does quantum physics transition into our everyday world at large scales, to applied, e.g. developing next generation sensors for medical diagnostics and navigation. To pursue this research, his lab works in close partnership with industry and uses state-of-the-art facilities for nanofabrication, nanoanalysis, precision optical measurement and deep cryogenic refrigeration available in-house or on campus at UQ. Professor Bowen has supervised more than thirty postgraduate students, who have been recognised with prizes such as Fulbright Scholarships, an Australian Youth Science Ambassadorship, a Springer PhD theses prize, the Queensland nomination for the Australian Institute of Physics Bragg Medal, the Australian Optical Society Postgraduate Student Prize and UQ Graduate of the Year. He regularly has projects available, both for postgraduate students and for postdoctoral researchers.
Title of talk: Absolute quantum advantage in biological imaging
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Prof. Yu-Faye Chao, Retired Honorary Professor, Department of Photonics, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.
She received the degree of BSc in Physics from National Taiwan Normal University, MSc in Physics from Wisconsin State University-Superior, USA, and the PhD degree from Department of Physics, Wesleyan University, USA.
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Title of talk: Zeros in Polarimetry and Ellipsometry
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Prof. Sabino Chavez-Cerda, Instituto Nacional De Astrofisica Optica y Electronica, Mexico.
He received his B.Sc in Physics from the Escuela Superior de Física y Matemáticas, Mexico, and the PhD in Optics from the Imperial College, England. Sabino is presently Distinguished Professor within the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics, Mexico, which he joined in 1995. Since 2013 Sabino is Fellow of the Optical Society of America for his contributions to the physics of optical beams with new families of optical nondiffracting beams and presenting a physically consistent theory of these beams and other structured scalar beams. He is also Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and Fellow of the National Research System in Mexico. He has been Research Fellow in different countries. In 2000 he was fellow of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) at Imperial College, London. In 2003 of the UCMEXUS program visiting the University of Berkeley where he started his investigation in Visual Optics. Later in 2005 he was fellow of CAPES (major research funding in Brazil) at the University of Alagoas, Brazil. More recently in 2014 he participated within the 100 Talents in Fujian at the University of HuaQiao, China, where he was awarded the title of “Foreign Visiting Researcher of Excellence.” The year 2000 saw the onset of papers appearing in the selection “Best in Optics” of the Year in the Magazine Optics and Photonics News. It was the first time a Mexican research group appeared in that selection. He has won several awards, among them, with experimental collaborators of the University of Saint Andrews, in 2003 obtained the European Optics Prize. His research focus is on the Mathematical-Physics of beams propagation in linear, inhomogeneous and nonlinear media. Being a theoretician Sabino fully agrees with the expressed by Augustine-Jean Fresnel: “…. all the compliments, … never gave me so much pleasure as the discovery of a theoretical truth, or the confirmation of a calculation by experiment.” This makes him eager to collaborate with experimental groups around the world.
Title of talk: In pursue of understanding the physical nature of scalar structured beam
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Prof.Costas Balas , Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece.
Costas Balas is a Full Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, where he has been since 2002. He is the Director of the ECE School Electronics Lab and the founder and leader of Lab’s photonics group. He is also the director of the Biomedical Engineering MSc program (www.bme-crete.edu), jointly organized by the Academic Institutions of Crete, Greece. From 1995 to 2001 he served as a faculty member researcher in the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser-Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), where he has founded and led the biomedical imaging and spectroscopy lab. He has founded DySIS Medical (www.dysismedical.com) and QCELL (www.qcel.tech), both developing and globally commercializing innovative biophotonic imaging systems for non-invasive diagnosis. His research interests span both biophotonics and hyperspectral imaging. Much of his work has been on developing in vivo, early detection, and non-invasive diagnostic methods based on the understanding and the modeling of complex light-matter interaction phenomena. In the hyperspectral sector, he has worked on developing novel staring and snapshot hyperspectral camera systems together with their applications in microscopy, endoscopy, and don destructive testing. Professor Costas Balas has served as Guest Editor/Editorial Board Member in 9 journals, he has given more than 50 invited/plenary talks in international conferences and participated in more than 40 international conference committees. He has received numerous national and international awards and distinctions and has attracted more than €40 million from research grants and corporate VC funding. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and holds several patents pending and granted in the USA, EU, China, and Japan. His research has been showcased in prominent international media including but not limited to Research Outreach, CNN.com, Nature, Nature Oncology (research highlights), Economist, Science & Vie, The Times.
Title of talk: Transforming Hyperspectral Imaging into Artificial Spectral Vision for advancing the diagnostic power of medical endoscopy and clinical/surgical microscopy
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Prof. Bülent Çakmak, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Erzurum Technical University, Turkey.
He received his B.Sc. and Ph. D degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Blacksea Technical University, Turkey and University of Bristol in United Kingdom, in 1990 and 2000, respectively. During his Ph.D work, he studied fabrication and characterisation of Q-switched long wavelength semiconductor lasers. From 2007 to 2012,he was an associate professor of electronics with the department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atatürk University. For different periods in 2003, 2004 and 2007, he was a visiting fellow at University of Bristol. In 2012, he became a full professor of electronics at Atatürk University. He joined to Erzurum Technical University in 2016 and was appointed to the position of rector in 2018, which position he holds currently. His research interests include fabrication of diode lasers, Q-switching, chirped semiconductor lasers for production of ultrashort pulses, modelling of tapered waveguide structures.
Title of talk: Chalcogenide Based Two Dimensional (2D) Structures: New Quantum Materials
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Prof. Hümeyra Çağlayan, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Tempere University, Finland
Prof. Humeyra Caglayan is an associate professor of physics in the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences at Tampere University and leads the Metaplasmonics group. She received her Ph.D. degree in Physics from Bilkent University, Turkey, in 2010, where she investigated the novel electromagnetic phenomena in metamaterials and plasmonic structures. After her Ph.D. studies, she worked as a postdoctoral scholar in Prof. Nader Engheta’s group at the University of Pennsylvania. Her group (Metaplasmonics) focuses on engineering the fundamental interaction between light and matter at the nanometer scale for plasmonic and metamaterial-based devices. She is an H2020 ERC Starting Grant holder (2019-2023).
Title of talk: Light-matter interaction control with multilayer epsilon-near-zero metamaterials
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Dr. Matteo Degani, Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Pavia, Italy.
Bachelor's Degree in “Materials Science” and Master's Degree in “Materials Science and Engineering” from the University of Genoa.
During his master's degree he was also awarded the call to carry out research activities at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. Selected at the University of Pavia for the PhD program entitled: “Development and characterization of thin films of hybrid perovskite for new generation solar cells”.
Title of talk: Efficient inverted Perovskite Solar Cells by Dual interfacial Modification
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Prof. Sezai Elagöz, ASELSAN Vice President R&D Management, Turkey.
He completed his undergraduate studies at the Department of Physics of Ankara University Faculty of Science and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. at the Racham Graduate School of Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Michigan in 1993. In between the years 1993-2011, He served as assistant professor, associate professor and professor in Faculty of Sciences at Cumhuriyet University and then in Faculty of Engineering, Department of Nanotechnology Engineering, for which he was one of the founders, at Cumhuriyet University. He is the founder of Cumhuriyet University Nanophotonic Application and Research Center (CÜNAM), Cumhuriyet University Optical Research and Application Center and Cumhuriyet University Advanced Technology Application and Research Center (CÜTAM), which is operating in the advanced technology field. He also has served as Dean of the Faculty of Science and Faculty of Technology, as the chair of the Institute of Science, the Department of Physics, the Department of Nanotechnology Engineering, as a board member of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Cumhuriyet University. Besides being the founder of many postgraduate programs and has a membership of Turkey Nanotechnology Working Group. He has served as an advisor of many doctoral and master thesis programmes, published many national and international articles, worked as a publication editor and served in several national/international projects. He has served as a consultant in ERMAKSAN between 2013-2018, where he has been responsible of the establishment of the optoelectronic infrastructure for the production of high power laser diodes and participated in various scientific panels. He had served as the Microelectronics, Guidance and Electro-Optics (MGEO) Business Sector President and the Vice President at ASELSAN between 13th June 2018 to 2nd November 2020. He was appointed as the Vice President and President of R&D Management at same company starting from the beginning of 2021.
Title of talk: Optics Touches to Our Lives
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Assoc. Prof. Alexander Fuerbach, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Macquarie University, Australia
Alexander Fuerbach was born in Vienna, Austria. He obtained a Master’s degree in Engineering in 1999 and a PhD degree in Photonics in 2001 from Vienna University of Technology under the supervision of Prof. Ferenc Krausz. He then joined the company Femtolasers Produktions GmbH where he was responsible for the development of advanced ultrashort-pulsed Ti:Sapphire laser systems. In 2004 he returned to academia and moved to Australia to take on a position as Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, studying ultrafast pulse propagation effects in novel optical fibres. In late 2005 he was awarded an Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship which allowed him to establish his own research group at Macquarie University in Sydney where he has been ever since. He is currently Associate Professor and Higher Degree Research Director within the department of Physics and Astronomy. Alexander Fuerbach’s principal research interests are focused on the interaction of femtosecond laser pulses with solid matter for photonic device fabrication and the development of waveguide and fibre laser systems, particular in the mid-infrared spectral region.
Title of talk: Ultra-compact actively Q-switched waveguide lasers based on liquid crystal modulators
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Prof. Leonid Golovan, Department of Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Prof. Leonid Anatolievich Golovan studied Physics at the Moscow State University in Nonlinear optical properties of porous materials. He has published 80+ Journal papers in the field of optical properties of porous system-based nanocomposites, nonlinear optics and Photonic band gap materials.
Title of talk: Effect of light scattering and nanowire orientation
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Assoc. Prof. Nejeh Hamdaoui, Institute of Computer Sciences and Communication Techniques, Sousse University, Tunisia
Nejeh HAMDAOUI received the BS and MS degree in physics from Monastir University, Tunisia, in 2006, and 2008, respectively. He obtained PhD degree from INSA Lyon University in 2013 (France). He has been with Sousse University as assistant Professor since 2011 and as an Associate Professor since 2021. His research interest is in the area of semiconductor devices, magnetic and ceramics materials. He has more than 30 research publications in international journals.
Title of talk: New concepts in ultraviolet photodetectors
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Dr. Viktor Kisel, Research Center for Optical Materials and Technologies, Belarusian National Technical University, Belarus
Dr. Viktor Kisel received the Ph.D. degree in Optics from the Belarusian National Technical University, Belarus, in 2006. He is currently the Head of the Center for Optical Materials and Technologies, Minsk, Belarus. His research interests include spectroscopy of crystals doped with transition and rare-earth ions, diode-pumped solid-state lasers, femtosecond lasers. He has published more than 150 articles in international peer-reviewed journals (Optics Letters, Optical Materials Express, Applied Optics, Apllied Physics B, etc.). He has given more than 100 talks in international conferences. His papers have received more than 2000 citations with an h-index of 25 (Scopus).
Title of Talk: Ultrafast solid-state lasers
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Prof. Frank Koppens, Group Leader, Quantum Nano-Optoelectronics group, ICFO, Spain
University Degree: PhD in Nanoscience and Quantum Computation, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft (NL). Position at ICFO: Group Leader. ICREA Professor, ERC Starting Grant Award, ERC Consolidator Grant Award
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Title of talk: Optical nano-imaging of twisted 2D materials and related opto-electronic applications
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Dr. Benedetta Marmiroli, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
Benedetta Marmiroli got her master in materials engineering at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy) and her PhD in industrial engineering at University of Ferrara (Italy) in 2004. She currently is senior scientist for the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Graz University of Technology (Austria). She works at the Austrian SAXS beamline outstation of the university at Elettra-Sinctrotrone Trieste synchrotron radiation source in Italy. She is also collaborating with Elettra in the management of the Deep X-ray lithography beamline. Her scientific interests involve the interdisciplinary combination of microfabrication and characterization techniques, for the construction of micro/nano fluidic devices as new sample environment, of sensors and lab on chips presenting advanced functional materials in desired areas, and for the development of novel materials for applications in chemistry and biology. She is Associate Editor for the specialty Nanofabrication of Frontiers in Nanotechnology. She has published 40+ articles in SCI journals. She has presented over 30 orals or posters at conferences.
Title of talk: Interdisciplinary research by combining Small Angle X-ray Scattering and Deep X-ray Lithography
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Prof. Mustafa Muradov Bayram, Nano Research Center, Baku State University, Baku, Azerbaijan.
He is the head of a Nano Research Center at Baku State University. He graduated from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (1981), received his Doctor Degrees in Physics & Mathematics. His academic and research interests are in the areas of nanomaterials, nanoelectronics, material science. He has published over 100 papers in highly reputed journals and international conferences. He was coordinator and participant many European Comission and other international projects. His current research interests include optics, nanophotonics, nanomaterials growth technology, influence of growth condition and technology to structure and optical properties of nanomaterials.
Title of talk: Some features of the growth and optical properties of nanomaterials
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Dr. Beatriz Olmos Sanchez, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Tübingen, Germany
Main research interests:
The study of dense atomic gases coupled to the radiation field. Here, the exchange of virtual photons among the atoms lead to long-ranged exchange dipole-dipole interactions among them. Moreover, the emission of photons back into the environment happens collectively: either very quickly (superradiant modes) or extremely slowly (subradiant modes). The phenomenon of subradiance. Almost independently of the external geometry of the atoms, the atomic system features large subradiant manifold of states. I am particularly interested in exploting this for the long-lived transport of excitations through a atomic arrays. Moreover, these subradiant manifolds can be shown to be robust against disorder, including the motion induced by the temperature in an atomic gas. The coupling of atoms to surfaces, nanofibers, and other enviroments. These modify the collective properties of the dense gas of atoms, which can be used to find new parameter regimes that feature, e.g., flat bands, or preferred directions in the couplings (chirality). Topology in the presence of long range hoppings. Again based on the systems studied above, one can ideate situations that feature topological properties. However, here the dipole-dipole interactions are typically long-ranged, where topological concepts are not always well defined. I am interested in the characterization of topological properties and edge states in these situation.
Title of talk: Collective coupling of an array of atoms near a nanofiber
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Prof. Prasanta K. Panigrahi, Department of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, India
Prof. Prasanta K. Panigrahi completed his doctoral work in 1988 at the University of Rochester. After Post-doctoral stints in U.S.A and Canada, he joined the School of Physics, University at Hyderabad in 1993. Subsequently, he moved to the Physical Research laboratory, where he headed the division of Quantum Optics and Quantum computation till 2007. Since then he has been a Professor of Physics at Indian institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata. Prof. Panigrahi’s current research interests lie in the areas of Nonlinear dynamics, Quantum Optics, Quantum Computation and Large-scale data analysis involving wavelet Transform and tools of Artificial Intelligence (AI). He has applied many body tools to physical problems and in that process he has shown an exact equivalence of the interacting algorithm and model with free oscillators. Prof. Panigrahi is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NASI), Allahabad and the Gujarat Academy of Sciences. He has reviewed research projects for Austrian Academy of Sciences in the area of quantum information and has been a referee for the prestigious journals. Currently he is Professor at IISER Kolkata.
Title of the Talk: Photon added cat state: phase space structure and statistics
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Dr. Ana Predojevic, Department of Physics, Stockholm University, Sweden.
Research and interests:
Quantum communicaton and quantum sensing; Quantum optics and quantum information with quantum dots; Generation of entangled photon pairs; Hybrid quantum interfaces; Interaction of non-classical light with quantum memories;
Awards and prizes
Title of talk: Entanglement generation in semiconductor nanostructures
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Dr. Bhavin J. Shastri, Assistant Professor | Queen’s University, Canada
Bhavin J. Shastri is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Physics at Queen's University, Canada. He earned the Honours B.Eng. (with distinction), M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering (photonics) from McGill University, Canada, in 2005, 2007, and 2012, respectively. He was an NSERC and Banting Postdoctoral Fellow (2012-2016) and an Associate Research Scholar (2016-2018) at Princeton University. With research interests in silicon photonics, photonic integrated circuits, neuromorphic computing, and machine learning, he has published more than 65 journal articles and 80 conference proceedings, 4 book chapters, and given over 40 invited talks and lectures including 2 Keynotes. He is a co-author of the book, Neuromorphic Photonics (Taylor & Francis, CRC Press, 2017). Dr. Shastri is the winner of the 2020 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics "for his pioneering contributions to neuromorphic photonics" from the ICO. He is a Senior Member of the OSA and IEEE, a recipient of the 2014 Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Government of Canada, the 2012 D. W. Ambridge Prize for the top graduating Ph.D. student, an IEEE Photonics Society 2011 Graduate Student Fellowship, a 2011 NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship, a 2011 SPIE Scholarship in Optics and Photonics, a 2008 NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship, including the Best Student Paper Awards at the 2014 IEEE Photonics Conference, 2010 IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, the 2004 IEEE Computer Society Lance Stafford Larson Outstanding Student Award, and the 2003 IEEE Canada Life Member Award.
Title of talk: Silicon Photonics for Machine Learning and Neuromorphic Computing
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Dr. Alka Swanson, Kelvin Nanotechnology, Glasgow, UK,
Dr. Swanson has over 25 years of experience in optoelectronics industry, working various roles in the many different companies. She was a general manager of a two hundred million dollar division for a leading component supplier. She has made significant impact on manufacturing start-ups, and consulted with many companies regarding both engineering and business development. Most recently, Dr. Swanson was a director at Princeton Lightwave(Lidar Company) which was acquired by Argo(A Ford funded company) and went on to join Kelvin Nanotechnology in November of 2018.
Title of talk: Kelvin Nanotechnology Ltd: Provider of Nanofabrication Services for over Two Decades
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Dr. Christos Tserkezis, Center of Nano Optics, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark,
Christos Tserkezis obtained his BSc, MSc, and PhD from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece in 2005, 2007, and 2012 respectively. From 2012 to 2015 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Donostia International Physics Center in San Sebastian, Spain, while from 2015 to 2017 he was a Marie Curie fellow at the Technical University of Denmark, before moving to the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) in 2017. Since 2019, he is an assistant professor of Theoretical Condensed-Matter Physics at SDU. He has published approximately 60 peer-reviewed articles with more than 1200 citations to date, mostly focused on classical and quantum plasmonics, metamaterials, and extreme light-matter interactions at the nanoscale. He has served as guest editor for International Journal of Modern Physics B and Frontiers in Photonics, and is currently an assistant editor for Journal of the Optical Society of America B. He has received numerous awards for his reviewing services. Since 2020 he is an Optical Society of America (OSA) Senior member.
Title of talk: Quantum-informed Plasmonics for Extreme Light-Matter Interaction
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Prof. Raşit Turan, Department of Physics, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey
He completed B. Sc. and M. Sc. degrees at the Physics Department of Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey. He received his Ph.D degree from University of Oslo, Norway in 1990. He worked as Post. Doc. at Linköping University, Sweden. He joined METU Physics Department as faculty member in 1991. He worked as a visiting scientist at the Material Science Department of Toronto University, Canada in 1996. His main research interests have been physics and technology of semiconductor materials and devices including solar cells. He has published more than 300 scientific papers in this field in the internationally recognized journals. Rasit Turan has coordinated many national and international projects. Among them, European FP6 projects SEMINANO, and METU-CENTER have been among the largest research and support projects coordinated by Dr. Turan. In 2009, he founded a new research center called Center for Solar Energy Research and Applications (GUNAM) on METU campus. GUNAM has attracted nationwide and international attention.
Title of talk: Light management strategies for high efficiency Si solar cells
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Prof. Canan Varlıklı, Department of Photonics, İzmir Institute of Technology, İzmir, Turkey
Received her BSc and MSc degree from Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir in 1995 and 1998, respectively. She has been awarded with NATO A2 scholarship, completed some part of her PhD thesis in Prof. Dr. C.S. Foote Laboratories in University of California at Los Angeles, CA, USA (2001-2002) and obtained her Ph.D. degree in 2003. She held postdoctoral researches in Imperial Collage London, Electronic Materials Section, UK and University of Patras, Engineering Science Department, Patras, Greece. She acts as the Molecular Photonics research group leader on since 2005 and works as a full professor at İzmir Institute of Technology, Department of Photonics since 2016.Research interests comprise; photonic materials and their application in heterogeneous photocatalysis, DSSCs, OPVs, OLEDs. She acted as supervisor in nearly 20 graduate theses completed in this field, served as an inventor in 3 patents and as an author in 50+ international publications.
Title of talk: White Light Generation from Perylenediimide Derivatives: Frequency Down-Conversion and Electroluminescence
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Prof. Deepa Venkitesh, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
Deepa Venkitesh received the degree of MSc in Physics, University of Kerala, India and the PhD degree from Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. She joined IIT Madras from 2020.
Awards and Honours:
Title of talk: Phase manipulations with Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers
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Prof. Alexander Vladimirovich Volyar, Head of the General Physics Department in the Crimean Federal University named after V.I. Vernadsky. Ukraine
Alexander Vladimirovich Volyar was given the degree of the Candidate of Technical Sciences in the field of physical and quantum electronics at the Moscow Institute of Radioelectronics in 1981; the degree of Doctor of the Physico-Mathematical Science in the field of optics and laser physics – at the Institute of Physics of the Academy of Science of Ukraine in 1992.
Since 1993, he works as the Professor of the Department of General Physics. Beginning from 1999 he is the Head of the Department of General Physics. A.V Volyar is the author of more than 170 scientific articles in the sphere of the nonlinear optics, fiber and singular optics. Title of Talk: Geometry of structured and spiral beams: structural stability and energy flows
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Prof. Halime Gül Yağlıoğlu, Physics Eng. Department, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey
After receiving her B.S. degree in Ankara University Engineering Physics Department in 1993 H. Gül Yağlıoğlu completed master program in 1995 in the same department. She received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering Department in The City University of New York, NY, USA in 2001. She worked as a research assistant during her studies at CUNY and her studies were supported by CUNY science fellowship. She studied ‘Characterization and Time Resolved Dynamics of Nanostructures for Nonlinear Optical Applications’ during her studies for PhD. After completing PhD, she joined to Lucent Technologies Bell Labs Innovation Optical Networking Division in Holmdel, NJ, USA in 2001. She was a member of a team developing next generation ultra long haul wavelength division multiplexing product called LambdaXtreme Transport in Lucent technologies until 2005. After returning to Turkey in 2005, she joined Engineering Physics Department in Ankara University as a faculty member. She has been teaching and doing research in the same department in the field of linear, ultrafast and nonlinear optics.
Title of talk: Ultrafast Dynamics in Solutions and Thin Films
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Prof. Fahrettin Yakuphanoğlu, Physics Department, Elazığ Fırat University, Elazığ, Turkey
He is a Full Professor of Solid State Physics at Fırat University, Elazığ, TURKEY. His academic and research interests are in the areas of nanomaterials, nanoelectronics, organic electronics, liquid crystal technology. He has published over 500 papers in highly reputed journals and international conferences and has won a number of best papers awards in international conferences. He has given more than 50 invited talks at international conference and universities. He becomes editor more than 10 international journals. Research Interest: Nanomaterials, nanoelectronics, organic electronics, liquid crystal technology Devices, Solar cells, Thin Film Sensors, Gas Sensors, Supercapacitors, Lithium Battery, Biosensors, Photodedectors, Photodiode, pn Junction Diode, Schottky diode, Biomaterials, Electromagnetic Shielding Materials, Radar Absorbing Materials, DNA sensors.
Title of talk: Integrating nanostructured electrodes in photoresponse devices for enhancing UV-VIS-IR photoresponse
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Last Updated : 5/26/2022
