Invited Speakers

confirmed by March 31, 2010

1. Jean-Luc Adam
   Universite de Rennes (France)
   Chalcogenide glass phoTOnic crystal fibers
2. Valery Barachevsky
   Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow (Russia)
   Light-sensitive organic recording media for 3D optical memory
3. Sergei Baranovski
   Philipps University Marburg (Germany)
   Generalized Onsager-Frenkel recombination of optically generated electron-hole pairs
4. Nikolay Dmitruk
   ISP NAS Ukraine, Kijev (Ukraine)
   Plasmonic photovoltaics: relief-induced transparency & photocurrent enhancement by metal nanoparticles on solar cell interface
5. Andrew Edgar
   Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand)
   New Materials and Structures for Optical Detection of Ionising Radiation
6. Stephen Elliott
   University of Cambridge (UK)
   Recent result of phase-change memory
7. Harold Haugen
   McMaster University, Hamilton (Canada)
   Femtosecond Laser Ablation and Micromachining of Semiconductors and Dielectrics
8. Jong Heo
   Pohang University of Science and Technology (Korea)
   Multiphase Semiconductor Quantum Dots in Glasses
9. Animesh Jha and Gin Jose
   University of Leeds (UK)
   Rare-earth doped tellurite glass near and mid-IR fibre lasers
10. Andrew Knights
    McMaster University, Hamilton (Canada)
    Sub-micron Silicon Photonic Device Structures
11. Joseph Salzman
    Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa (Israel)
    Nano-cavities in Diamond for Quantum Electrodynamic Experiments
12. Krisztian Kohary
    University of Exeter (UK)
    Crystallisation kinetics of phase-change materials
13. Giancarlo Righini and Simone Berneschi
    CNR, Insitute of Applied Physics, Firenze and Institute of Photonics & Nanotechnologies, Trento (Italy)
    Erbium-doped glass-ceramic materials and waveguides
14. Roger Lewis
    University of Wollongong (Australia)
    Optical Rectification for Terahertz Generation
15. David Lockwood
    NRC, Ottawa (Canada)
    Self-assembled silicon-germanium nanostructures for CMOS compatible light emitters
16. Pal Andor Maak
    Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary)
    Novel acousto-optic devices targeting applications of high standard
17. Maria Mitkova
    Boise State University, Idaho (USA)
    Optically induced processes in chalcogenide glasses - from visible light to x-rays
18. Kazuo Morigaki University of Tokyo (Japan)and
    Harumi Hikita Meikai University, Chiba (Japan)
    Stretched Exponential Relaxation Processes in Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon and Hydrogenated Polymorphous Silicon
19. Hiroyoshi Naito
    Osaka Prefecture University (Japan)
    Localized-state distributions and charge carrier mobilities of organic bulk heterojunction solar cells
20. Arokia Nathan
    University College London University (UK)
    Advances in Nanocrystalline Silicon Devices for Optoelectronics Applications
21. Diana Nesheva
    Bulgarian Academyc of Sciences, Sophia (Bugaria)
    Photoluminescence from SiOx layers containing amorphous silicon nanoparticles
22. Annie Pradel
    Université Montpellier (France)
    IR waveguide based upon chalcogenide thick films deposited by co-thermal evaporation
23. Victor Ralchenko
    Prokhorov General Physics Institute RAS (Russia)
    Chemical vapor deposited (CVD) diamond - the material for optics and optoelectronics
24. Ramaswami Sammynaiken
    University of Saskatchewan (Canada)
    Secondary optical processes and application of x-ray excited optical luminescence in medicinei
25. Jai Singh
    Charles Darwin University (Australia)
    Advances in organic and polymeric light emitting devices
26. Oleh Shpotyuk
    Institute of Materials of SRC, "Karat" , Lviv (Ukraine)
    Pseudo-self-adaptive topological phases in glassy selenides for IR photonics
27. Stephen Sweeney
    University of Surrey (UK)
    Novel III-V semiconductors for next generation photonic devices
28. Keiji Tanaka
    Hokkaido University (Japan)
    Photodeformations in As2S3: from atomic, nano, to macroscopic
29. Janis Teteris
    University of Latvia, Riga (Latvia)
    Photoinduced Mass Transfer in Soft Materials
30. Heinz von Seggern
    University of Darmstadt (Germany)
    Oxygen in CsBr:Eu, its influence on photostimulated luminescence
31. Rui Almeida
    Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon (Portugal)
    Properties and applications of sol-gel derived active photonic crystals
32. Lluis Marsal
    Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain)
    Template-assisted fabrication and characterization of photoluminescent conducting polymer nanopillars
33. Lorenzo Pavesi and Paolo Bettotti
    University of Trento (Italy)
    Nanosilicon: a new platform for photonics
34. Emanuele Pelucci
    Tyndall National Institute (Ireland)
    Fabrication and Characteristics of Site-controlled (111)B quantum dots by high purity MOVPE
35. Robert Horvath
    Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science, Budapest (Hungary)
    Optical waveguide biosensors for proteins and cells
36. Harry Ruda
    University of Toronto (Canada)
    Toward fundamental limits on the optoelectronic characteristics of single nanowires
37. Janos Volk
    Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest (Hungary)
    Highly ordered ZnO nanostructures for UV photonic devices
38. Janos Veres
    PolyPhotonix (UK)
    Organic semiconductors and light emitting diodes in applications
39. Darren Bagnall
    University of Southampton University (UK)
    Plasmonic and photonic light-trapping for photovoltaics
40. Andriy Kryuchyn
    Institute for Information Recording, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
    Application of thin films of chalcogenide vitreous semiconductors in optical recording systems
41. Peter Domaschuk
    University of Sydney (Australia)
    Silk Photonics: Biopolymer Optofluidics and Applications
42. Alla Reznik
    Thunderbay Regional Health Sciences Centre and Lakehead University (Canada)
    Recent advances in x-ray photoconductors: selected examples on PbO and a-Se
43. Yoonchan Jeong
    Optoelectronics Centre, University of Southampton (UK)
    Recent advances in high power optical fibers
44. Mihail Trunov
    Uzhgorod National University (Ukraine)
    Photoplastic effect, giant photodeformation and mass-transport phenomena in amorphous chalcogenides
45. Taiichi Otsuji
    Tohuku University (Japan)
    Observation of amplified stimulated terahertz emission from optically pumped graphene
46. Wieslaw Krolikowski
    Australian National University (Australia)
    Second and Third Harmonic Generation in Nonlinear Crystals with Random Distribution of Ferroelectric Domains
47. Peter Brodie
    Advantechus, Pittsburgh (USA)
    Historical and Conceptual Roots of Active Matrix Technology: Science to Technology and AMOLEDs
48. Volkan Demir
    Bilkent University, Ankara (Turkey)
    Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) enhanced white LEDs using semiconductor quantum dot nanophosphors
49. Mahi Singh
    University of Western Ontario (Canada)
    The study of optoelectronic nanoscale devices made from polaritonic nanowires
50. Geza Mark
    MFA Research Institute for Technical Physics and Materials Science, Budapest (Hungary)
    Ordered and disordered biological and biomimetic photonic nanoarchitectures
51. Nobuyoshi Koshida
    Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo University of A&T, Koganei, Tokyo (Japan)
    Photonic and Related Applications of Quantum-sized Nanosilicon
52. Osamu Wada
    Kobe University (Japan)
    Quantum Dot Photonic Devices for Ultrafast Signal Transmission and Processing Systems
53. Q. Y. Zhang
    South China University of Technology (China)
    Broadband sensitization of near infrared emission through energy transfer from transition metal to rare-earth ions in LiYbMo2O8 phosphors

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