Invited Speakers
Frontiers in Optics Invited Speakers
Laser Science Invited Speakers
FiO 1: Optical Design and Instrumentation
1.1: Novel Optical Architectures in Emerging Technologies (Joint with FiO 7)
Invited Speakers:
Advances: Endoscope Design, Sadik Esener; Univ. of California at San Diego, USA
Advances in Microendoscope Design and Application, Art Gmitro; Univ. of Arizona, USA
Miniaturization of Adaptive Optics Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope, Austin Roorda; Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA
1.2: Novel Optical Architectures Using Free-Form Surfaces
Tutorial Speaker:
Fabrication and Testing of Large Free-Form Surfaces, James Burge; Univ. of Arizona, USA
Invited Speakers:
Free-Form Surface Description, Ozan Cakmakci; CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, Univ. of Central Florida, USA
Novel Descriptions of Aspheric Surfaces, Gregory Forbes; QED Technologies, Inc., Australia
1.3: Optics for Renewable Energy
Keynote Speaker:
Mass Production of Collectors, Roger Angel; Univ. of Arizona, USA
Invited Speaker:
High Efficiency of Solar Cells, Jeffrey Gordon; Ben Gurion Univ. of the Negev, Israel
Solar Production of Fuels, Melis Tasios; Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA
1.4: Polarization and Birefringence in Optical Design
Invited Speakers:
Title to Be Announced, Russell Chipman; Univ. of Arizona, USA
Photoaligned Liquid Crystals for Space Variant Polarization Control, Scott McEldowney; Microsoft, USA
Optical Imaging Instrumentation with Spatially Engineered Polarization, Qiwen Zhan; Univ. of Dayton, USA
1.5: Lighting and Illumination Engineering: Design and Simulation of Lighting Systems and Lit Environments
Invited Speakers:
Spectral Considerations for Transportation Lighting Systems, John Bullough; Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., USA
Problems in Physically Based Simulations of Real-World Environments, Donald P. Greenberg; Cornell Univ., USA
Illuminating Cameras, Srinivasa Narasimhan; Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA
1.6: Diffractive and Holographic Optics
Live Cell Imaging with Field-Based 3-D Microscopy, Michael Feld, Wonshik Choi; MIT, USA
Applications and Engineering of Three-Dimensional Optics, Eric Johnson; Univ. of North Carolina Charlotte, USA
Dynamic Holograms, Guoqiang Li¹, Peng Wang²; ¹Univ. of Missouri–St. Louis, USA, ²Nitto Denko Technologies, USA
Role of Surface Plasmon Polariton in the Diffraction of a Metal Nano-Slit, Yunlong Sheng; Univ. Laval, Canada
FiO 2: Optical Sciences
2.1: Extreme Light Sources (Joint with FiO 6)
Tutorial Speaker:
High Peak Power Laser Technologies: New Directions, Christopher Barty; Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab, USA
Invited Speakers:
The Extreme Light Infrastructure Project, Jean-Paul Chambaret; Lab. d'Optique Appliquée, France
The GEMINI Petawatt Laser and Applications to High Intensity Laser Science, John Collier; Rutherford Appleton Labs, UK
The Texas Petawatt Laser, Todd Ditmire; Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA
Status of the National Ignition Facility, Edward Moses; Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab, USA
2.2: Short Wavelength—Generation and Applications
Tutorial Speaker:
EUV Lithography–The Next Generation of Computer Chip Manufacture, Martin Richardson; CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, Univ. of Central Florida, USA
Invited Speakers:
Soft X-Ray Laser Sources and Applications, James Dunn; Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab, USA
Coherent X-rays from Ultrafast Lasers, and Applications– Attosecond Science Meets Nonlinear Optics, Henry Kapteyn; Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Nanoscale Extreme Ultraviolet Microscopy with Table-Top Lasers, Carmen Menoni; Colorado State Univ., USA
Extreme High Harmonics from Surfaces, Matt Zepf; Queen's Univ. Belfast, UK
2.3: Biomedical Applications of Ultrafast Optics (Joint with FiO 3 and 7)
Invited Speakers:
Nanosurgery with Femtosecond Lasers, Eric Mazur; Harvard Univ., USA
Multi-Photon Microscopy, Jerome Mertz; Boston Univ., USA
Tissue Imaging with Shaped Femtosecond Laser Pulses, Warren Warren; Duke Univ., USA
FiO 3: Optics in Biology and Medicine
3.1: Optics in Interventional Medicine
Photodynamic Therapy: A Bridge between Technology and Medicine, Tayyaba Hasan; Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Title to Be Announced, Vasan Venugoplan; Univ. of California at Irvine, USA
3.2: Optical Trapping and Micromanipulation
Invited Speakers:
Optical Trapping and Manipulation Using Microfabricated Optical Tweezers Based on Diffractive Optics and Surface Plasmons, Ken Crozier; Harvard Univ., USA
High-Resolution, High-Stability, High-Frequency Optical Tweezers Methods with a Simple Video Camera, Wesley Wong; Rowland Inst., Harvard Univ., USA
Optical Phase Conjugation for Tissue Turbidity Suppression, Changhuei Yang; Caltech, USA
Multimode Light in Action, Roberta Zambrini; CSIC-UIB, Spain
3.3: Optical Biosensing
Invited Speakers:
Title to Be Announced, Ashutosh Chilkoti; Duke Univ., USA
3.4: Tissue Imaging and Spectroscopy
Invited Speakers:
Imaging Metal Nanoparticle Distribution within Tumors, James Tunnell; Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA
3.5: Microscopy and OCT
Invited Speakers:
Title to Be Announced, Max Diem; Northeastern Univ., USA
Advances in High-Speed Imaging by Objective-Coupled Planar Illumination Microscopy, Timothy Holy; Washington Univ. in St. Louis, USA
Nonlinear Coherent Imaging of Nanostructures and Single Molecules, Eric Potma; Univ. of California at Irvine, USA
3.6: Molecular Imaging and Nanomedicine
Invited Speakers:
Molecular Probes for Microendoscopy, Chris Contag; Stanford Univ. School of Medicine, USA
Title to Be Announced, Phillip B. Messersmith; Northwestern Univ., USA
FiO 4: Optics in Information Science
4.1: Optical Information Processing and Transport in the Age of Nanophotonics and Metamaterials
Invited Speakers:
Optofluidic Nano-Plasmonics for Biochemical Sensing, Yeshaiahu Fainman; Univ. of California at San Diego, USA
4.2: Optical Signals and System in Four Dimensions
Invited Speakers:
Title to Be Announced, Aristide Dogariu; CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, Univ. of Central Florida, USA
Multi-Channel Incoherent Digital Holography, Joseph Rosen; Ben Gurion Univ. of the Negev, Israel
4.3: Computational Imaging and Photography (Joint with FiO 1)
Invited Speakers:
Emerging Integrated Computational Imaging Systems, Nicholas George; Univ. of Rochester, USA
Optimization and Application of Hybrid Optical-Digital Imaging Systems, Andrew Harvey; Heriot-Watt Univ., UK
Lightfield Analysis of Computational Cameras, Anat Levin; MIT, USA
4.4: Wavefront Design for Information Transport and Sensing
Invited Speakers:
Modulation of Polarization Properties of Beams for Laser Communications and LIDAR Systems Operating in Random Media, Olga Korotkova; Univ. of Miami, USA
Optimal Transmission of Light through Disordered Materials, Allard Mosk; Univ. of Twente, Netherlands
SLM Microscopy: Wavefront Shaping for Microscopy with Spatial Light Modulators, Monica Ritsch-Marte; Innsbruck Medical Univ., Austria
Vectographic Computer-Generated Optical Elements, Grover Swartzlander; Ctr. for Imaging Science, Rochester Inst. of Technology, USA
FiO 5: Photonics
5.1: Novel Fiber and Integrated-Optical Devices
Invited Speakers:
Fiber Optic Sensors Based On Surface Plasmon Resonance, B. D. Gupta; Indian Inst. of Technology, India
Principal Modes in Graded-Index Multimode Fibers, Joseph Kahn, Mahdieh Shemirani; Stanford Univ., USA
Why Use Photonic Crystal Fibers for Sensing? Jonathan Knight; Univ. of Bath, UK
Novel Fiber Lasers with Advanced Glasses and Fiber Designs, Axel Schulzgen; Univ. of Arizona, USA
Multimaterial Fiber Devices and Systems, Ofer Shapira; MIT, USA
5.2: Photonic Devices for Sensing Applications
Invited Speakers:
Plasmonics on Optical Fibers: New Tools for Biochemical Sensing, Jacques Albert; Carleton Univ., Canada
Optical Manipulation using Silicon Nanophotonics, David Erickson; Cornell Univ., USA
Advances in Chemical and Biological Sensing Using Emerging Soft Glass Optical Fibers, Tanya Monro, Yinlan Ruan; Adelaide Univ., Australia
5.3: All-Optical Signal Processing Devices and Applications
Invited Speakers:
Nonlinear Optics on a Chip: Breaking the Terabit per Second Barrier, Benjamin Eggleton; Univ. of Sydney, Australia
Advances in High-Confinement Fibers, Masaaki Hirano; Sumitomo Electric, Japan
Polychromatic High Speed Sampling, Stojan Radic; Univ. of California at San Diego, USA
All-Optical Header Processing Using Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers, R. P. Webb; Tyndall Natl. Inst., Ireland
5.4: Optical Communication
Invited Speakers:
Key Optical Networking Technologies for Radio-over-Fiber Access Networks, G. K. Chang; Georgia Tech, USA
Next-Generation Optical Access Network, Leonid Kazovsky; Stanford Univ., USA
Extended Reach Passive Optical Networks, Chang Hee Lee; KAIST, Korea
Flexible Optical Metro Network Architecture, Shan Zhong; Ciena Corp., USA
5.5: Silicon Photonics
Invited Speakers:
Light Emission from Silicon Nanostructures, Luca Dal Negro; Boston Univ., USA
Title to Be Announced, Sasan Fathpour; CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, Univ. of Central Florida, USA
Title to Be Announced, Mario Paniccia, Haisheng Rong; Intel, USA
Photonic Signal Processing in CMOS-Compatible Silicon, Mahmoud Rasras; Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Erbium Doped Silicon Photonic Crystals for Light Sources and Amplifiers, Jelena Vuckovic¹, Maria Makarova¹, Yiyang Gong¹, Selcuk Yerci², Rui Li², Luca Dal Negro²; ¹Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Ginzton Lab, Stanford Univ., ²Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston Univ., USA
5.6: Design and Fabrication of Plasmonic Devices and Metamaterials (Joint with FiO 6)
Invited Speakers:
Active Terahertz Metamaterials, Hou-Tong Chen; Los Alamos Natl. Lab, USA
3-D Metamaterials–Coupling Matters: From Simple to Complex, Harald Giessen; Univ. Stuttgart, Germany
Terahertz Electromagnetic Phenomena near Metallic Nanogap Structures, Dai-Sik Kim; Seoul Natl. Univ., Korea
Exciton–Surface-Plasmon-Polariton Interaction in Hybrid Metal-Semiconductor Nanostructures, Christoph Lienau; Oldenburg Univ., Germany
About the Transfer of Energy, Linear Momentum and Massby Electromagnetic Waves in Media with Negative Index of Refraction, Victor Veselago; Moscow Inst. of Physics and Technology, Russian Federation
3-D Negative Refractive Index Metamaterial Fabricated in a Fishnet Structure, Xiang Zhang; Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA
FiO 6: Quantum Electronics
6.1: High-Power Continuous-Wave and Fiber Lasers
Invited Speakers:
High Power CW and Pulsed Fiber Lasers with Double Cladding Fiber Made in China, Qihong Lou, Jun Zhou, Bin He, Songtao Du; Shanghai Inst. of Optics and Fine Mechanics, China
Spatial Filtering Properties of Large-Mode-Area Fibers with Confined Gain Dopants, John R. Marciante; Inst. of Optics, Univ. of Rochester, USA
100-kW Coherently Combined Nd:YAG MOPA Laser Array, Stuart McNaught; Northrop Grumman Corp., USA
High-Power Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers, Andreas Tuennermann, Jens Limpert; Fraunhofer Inst. for Applied Optics, Germany
6.2: Microcavity Devices
Invited Speakers:
Simultaneous Oscillation of Wavelength-Tunable Single-Mode Lasers Using Er:ZBLALiP Whispering Gallery Mode Resonator, Patrice Feron; ENSSAT, France
Applications of High-Q Optical Microresonators in Communications, Mani Hossein-Zadeh; Univ. of New Mexico, USA
Crystalline Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators: Recent Advances and Future Trends, Lute Maleki; OEwaves, Inc., USA
Quantum Computing with Rydberg Atoms in Cavities, Ben Varcoe; Univ. of Leeds, UK
6.3: Nonlinear Statistical Optics
Invited Speakers:
Simulating Rare Events in Optical Systems, Gino Biondini¹, Richard Moore²; ¹SUNY Buffalo, ²New Jersey Inst. of Technology, USA
Optical Rogue Waves, John Dudley; Univ. de Franche-Comte, France
Freak Ocean Waves in One and Two Dimensions, Peter Janssen; European Medium-Range Weather Ctr., UK
Thermodynamic Approach of Statistical Nonlinear Optics, Antonio Picozzi; CNRS, Lab de Physique, Univ. de Bourgogne, France
Gravity-Like Effects on Light and Fiber Supercontinuum, Dmitry Skryabin; Univ. of Bath, UK
6.4: Quantum Optics in Waveguides
Invited Speakers:
Quantum Logic Gates in Fibers, Prem Kumar; Northwestern Univ., USA
Photon Pair Generation in Birefringent Fiber: A Route to Better Photons, Jeffrey Lundeen; Natl. Res. Council, Canada
Quantum Information Science with Photons on a Chip, Jeremy O’Brien; Univ. of Bristol, UK
Quantum Optics in Waveguide Lattices, Yaron Silberberg; Weizmann Inst. of Science, Israel
6.5: Entanglement Generation and Measurement
Tutorial Speaker:
Efficient Algorithms for Quantum State and Process Tomography, Andrew Doherty; Univ. of Queensland, Australia
Invited Speakers:
Strong Interactions of Single Atoms and Photons with Toroidal Micro-Resonators, H. Jeff Kimble; Caltech, USA
Hyperentangled Photons for Communication and Metrology, Paul Kwiat; Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Synthesizing Arbitrary Photon States in a Superconducting Resonator: The Quantum Digital to Analog Converter, John Martinis; Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Measurement-Based Entanglement and Quantum Information Processing with Remote Ions, Peter Maunz; Univ. of Maryland at College Park, United States
Quantum Field State Control and Measurement in a Cavity, Jean-Michel Raimond; École Normal Supérieure Paris, France
6.6: Anderson Localization of Classical and Quantum Waves
Invited Speakers:
Multiple Scattering of Light in Atomic Gases: From Levy Flights to Random Lasers, Robin Kaiser; CNRS Inst. de Non Linéaire de Nice, France
Probing Localization in Absorbing Systems via Loschmidt Echos, Tsampikos Kottos¹,²; ¹Wesleyan Univ., USA, ²Max-Planck-Inst., Germany
Quantum Optics of Random Media, Sergey Skipetrov; CNRS Grenoble, France
Photons, Dust and Honey Bees, Diederik Wiersma; European Lab for Non-Linear Spectroscopy, Italy
FiO 7: Vision and Color
7.1: Molecular Imaging in the Eye (Joint with FiO 3)
Tutorial Speaker:
Molecular Imaging in the Eye, Fred Fitzke; Univ. College London, UK
Invited Speakers:
Molecular Imaging with OCT, Joe Izatt; Duke Univ., USA
Cellular Imaging of the Rodent Retina, Jason Porter; Univ. of Houston, USA
7.2: Advances in Adaptive Optics Imaging of the Living Retina
Invited Speakers:
Adaptive Optics Instrumentation, Steve Burns; Indiana Univ., USA
Adaptive Optics Psychophysics, Heidi Hofer; Univ. of Houston, USA
Adaptive Optics-OCT, Don Miller; Indiana Univ., USA
7.3: Light in the Eye
Tutorial Speaker:
ANSI Standard for Light Exposure to the Eye, David Sliney; US Army Ctr. for Health Promotion, USA
Invited Speakers:
Light Exposure in the Retina, Jacque Duncan; Univ. of California at San Francisco, USA
Unexpected Retinal Damage below the ANSI Standard, Jennifer Hunter; Univ. of Rochester, USA
LS 1: Optical Probes of Molecular Chirality and Supramolecular Chiral Assemblies
Invited Speakers:
Circularly Polarized Luminescence from Single Chiral Molecules, Michael Barnes; Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Probing Molecular Chirality by Conventional and Fluorescence Detected Electronic Circular Dichroism, Nina Berova; Columbia Univ., USA
Optical Activity at Interfaces, Peer Fischer; Rowland Inst. at Harvard, USA
Bernauer's Bands Assayed by Mueller Matrix Imaging Polarimetry, Bart Kahr; Univ. of Washington, USA
Title to Be Announced, Garth Simpson; Purdue Univ., USA
Structural Origin of Circularly Polarized Iridescence in Jeweled Beetles, Mohan Srinivasarao; Georgia Tech, USA
Intrinsic Chiroptical Response and Its Mediation by Extrinsic Perturbations, Patrick Vaccaro; Yale Univ., USA
LS 2: Single-Molecule Biophysics
Invited Speakers:
Investigating Nucleation and Growth of Amyloid Nanotubes Using Fluorescence Fluctuation Spectroscopy, Keith Berland; Emory Univ., USA
3-D Localization in Fluorescence Photoactivation Localization Microscopy and Particle Tracking, Joerg Bewersdorf; The Jackson Lab, USA
Optically Resolving Axonal Microtubules at Single Molecule Level, Bianxiao Cui; Stanford Univ., USA
Probing Cellular Events with Single Quantum Dot Imaging, Maxime Dahan; Lab Kastler Brossel, École Polytechnique, France
Imaging Gene Transcription, Chris Fecko, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Structured-Illumination Microscopy of Live Cells, Mats Gustafsson; Univ. of California at San Francisco, USA
Fluorescence Nanoscopy: Breaking the Diffraction Limit, Samuel Hess; Univ. of Maine, USA
Tracking Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy of Individual Biomolecules, Hideo Mabuchi; Stanford Univ., USA
Molecules and Methods for Superresolution Imaging in Cells by Single-Molecule Photoswitching, W. E. Moerner; Stanford Univ., USA
Non-Scanning Two-Photon Microscopy for Imaging in Live Cells, Christine Payne; Georgia Tech, USA
Total Internal Reflection with Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy, Nancy Thompson; Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
DNA Repair Protein Dynamics through Single-Molecule Fluorescence, Keith Weninger; North Carolina State Univ., USA
Tracking Single Quantum Dots in Three Dimensions: Following Cell Receptor Traffic and Membrane Topology, James Werner; Los Alamos Natl. Lab, USA
Real-Time 3-D Single-Particle Tracking Spectroscopy for Cellular Dynamics, Haw Yang; Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA
Observing the Movement of Motor Proteins with High Precision Fluorescence Microscopy, Ahmet Yildiz; Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA
LS 3: Micro- and Nanofluidic Systems
Invited Speakers:
Micro- and Nanofluidics for Single Biomolecule Analysis, Yoshinobu Baba; Nagoya Univ., Japan
Applications of Silicon Photonic Technology for Clinical Diagnostics and Highly Multiplexed Biomolecular Detection, Ryan Bailey; Univ. of Illinois, USA
Title to Be Announced, Lane Baker; Indiana Univ., USA
Optical and Microfluidic Techniques for Cellular Analysis, Daniel Chiu; Univ. of Washington, USA
Single Molecule Tracking as a Probe of Free Volume Transitions in Stimulus-Responsive Polymers—Do Single Molecules Behave Like Caribou? Lindsay C. C. Elliott, Paul Bohn; Univ. of Notre Dame, USA
Probing Ultrafast Nanoscale Dynamics Using Single-Shot Coherent X-Ray Diffraction, Alan Hunt; Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab, USA
Optical and Electrical Characterization of Fluid Transport in Nanoscale Channels, Steven Jacobson; Indiana Univ., USA
Optical Microcavities: Label-Free Detection down to Single Virus Particles, Frank Vollmer; Rowland Inst., Harvard Univ., USA
Title to Be Announced, Steve Wereley; Purdue Univ., USA
LS 4: Second-Order Nonlinear Optics
Invited Speakers:
Title to Be Announced, Steve Baldelli; Univ. of Houston, USA
Polarization-Rotation and Two-Dimensional IR-Visible Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy for Surface Analysis, Keng Chang Chou; Univ. of British Columbia, Canada
New Perspectives on Vibrational Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy, John Fourkas; Univ. of Maryland at College Park, USA
Vibrationally-Electronically Doubly-Resonant SFG Spectroscopy of Organic Thin Films, Taka-Aki Ishibashi; Hiroshima Univ., Japan
Electronically Resonant Hyper-Raman Scattering in Solution, Anne Myers Kelley; Univ. of California at Merced, USA
Resonant UV SHG Studies of Ion Adsorption at Aqueous Interfaces, Richard Saykally; Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA
Title to Be Announced, Ben Schwartz; Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA
Optical Wave Mixing in Metamaterials, Yuen-Ron Shen; Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA
Title to Be Announced, Garth Simpson; Purdue Univ., USA
Sum Frequency Generation (SFG) Vibrational Spectroscopy and Its Application in Surface Science and Catalysis, Gabor Somorjai; Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA
Measurement of Surface Chirality with Nonlinear Spectroscopy: A Quantitative Approach, Hongfei Wang; Inst. of Chemistry, CAS, China
LS 5: Cavity Optomechanics
Invited Speakers:
Title to Be Announced, Markus Aspelmeyer; Univ. of Vienna, Austria
Measurement of Attractive and Repulsive Casimir Forces and Applications to Nanomechanics, Federico Capasso; Harvard Univ., USA
Optomechanical Correlations between Light and Mirrors, Antoine Heidmann; Lab de Spectroscopie Hertzienne, CNRS, France
Resolved-Sideband Laser Cooling and Measurement of a Micromechanical Oscillator Close to the Quantum Limit, Tobias Kippenberg1,2; ¹EPFL, Switzerland, ²Max-Planck-Inst. fur Quantenoptik, Germany
Sensing Nanomechanical Motion with a Shot-Noise Limited Microwave Cavity Interferometer, Konrad Lehnert; JILA, Univ. of Colorado and NIST, USA
Cavity Opto-Mechanics on Giant Scales, Nergis Mavalvala; MIT, USA
Quantum Control and Sensing of Ultracold Atoms and Molecules by Nanomechanical Cantilevers, Pierre Meystre; Univ. of Arizona, USA
Title to Be Announced, Oskar Painter; Caltech, USA
Title to Be Announced, Keith Schwab; Cornell Univ., USA
Silicon Optomechanics, Hong Tang; Yale Univ., USA
Cooling Acoustic Oscillators with Electromagnetic Parametric Transducers and Prospects of Measuring below the Standard Quantum Limit of Displacement, Michael Tobar; Univ. of Western Australia, Australia
Cavity Optomechanics with Ions, Kerry Vahala; Caltech, USA
LS 6: Optoelectronic Materials Characterization
Invited Speakers:
4-D Imaging of Transitional Structures with Ultrafast Electron Diffraction, Peter Baum; Max-Planck-Inst. für Quantenoptik, Germany
Title to Be Announced, Bert Koopmans; Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands
Non-Blinking and Ultra-Small Semiconductor Quantum Dots, Todd Krauss; Univ. of Rochester, USA
Quantum Dots, Experiments, Theory, Predictions, Tests and Unknowns, Rudolph A. Marcus; Caltech, USA
Using Fluorescence Microscopy of Oligomer Aggregates to Understand the Properties of Conjugated Polymers Used in Photovoltaic Devices, Linda Peteanu; Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA
Ultrafast Photoemission Electron Microscopy: Imaging Light with Electrons on the Femto/Nano Scale, Hrvoje Petek; Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA
Strong Coupling of Propagating Laser Light to Single Emitters: From Absorption to Stimulated Emission, Vahid Sandoghdar; ETH Zurich, Switzerland
New Interface-Selective Electronic Spectroscopy and its Extension to Femtosecond Time-Resolved Measurements, Tahei Tahara; RIKEN, Japan
Hybrid Plasmonics: New Routes to Nanoscale Imaging and Energy Propagation, Gary Wiederrecht; Argonne Natl. Lab, USA
Single Quantum Dots for Probing Local Environments, Haw Yang; Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA
LS 7: Ultrafast X-Ray Science
Invited Speakers:
Magnetization Dynamics on the Nanoscale, Yves Acremann; PULSE Inst., Stanford Linear Accelerator Ctr., USA
Title to Be Announced, Majed Chergui; Lab of Ultrafast Spectroscopy, EPFL, Switzerland
Femtosecond Charge, Orbital and Spin Excitation in Complex Materials, Hermann Duerr; BESSY, Germany
Title to Be Announced, Alexander Foelisch; Univ. of Hamburg, Germany
The X-Ray Pump-Probe Instrument at LCLS, David Fritz; SLAC Natl. Accelerator Lab, Stanford Univ., USA
Title to Be Announced, Jerry Hastings; SLAC Natl. Accelerator Lab, USA
Time-Resolved X-Ray Solution Scattering Reveals Solution-Phase Structural Dynamics, Harry Ihee; KAIST, Republic of Korea
Watching Atoms Move: Using X-Ray Diffraction to Observe Structural Dynamics in Crystals on Fundamental Time Scales, Steven L. Johnson; Paul Scherrer Inst., Switzerland
Ultrafast Photochemical Dynamics in Solution, Munira Khalil; Univ. of Washington, USA
Structural Tracking of Chemical Reactions in Solution by Time-Resolved X-Ray Scattering, Martin Meedom Nielsen; Nano-Science Ctr., Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark
Ultrafast Soft X-ray Spectroscopy of Spin-Crossover Dynamics in Solvated Transition-Metal Complexes, Robert Schoenlein; Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab, USA
LS 8: Multidimensional Spectroscopy
Invited Speakers:
Exciton Relaxation and Energy Transfer Dynamics in Size Selected Polythiophenes, Dave Blank; Univ. of Minnesota, USA
Ultrafast Spectral Interferometry for Vibrational Optical Activity Free-Induction-Decay Measurements, Min Haeng Cho; Korea Univ., Republic of Korea
Optical Two-Dimensional Fourier Transform Spectroscopy of Semiconductors, Steven Cundiff; JILA, Univ. of Colorado and NIST, USA
Watching Ultrafast Molecular Dynamics with 2-D IR Chemical Exchange Spectroscopy, Michael D. Fayer; Stanford Univ., USA
Water and Hydrogen-Bond Dynamics in Aqueous Solutions, Damien Laage; École Normale Supérieure, France
Ultrafast Dynamics of Hydrogen-Bond Exchange in Aqueous Ionic Solutions, Sungnam Park; Korea Univ., Republic of Korea
Correlating Energy Transport Time on a Molecular Level with Distance Using Relaxation-Assisted 2DIR, Igor Rubtsov; Tulane Univ., USA
Electronic Coherence in Energy Transfer, Greg Scholes; Univ. of Toronto, Canada
Investigating Light Harvesting Complexes with 2-D Electronics Spectroscopy, Gabriella Schlau-Cohen; Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA
LS 9: Coherent X-Ray Imaging
Invited Speakers:
Probing Ultrafast Nanoscale Dynamics Using Single-Shot Coherent X-Ray Diffraction, Anton Barty; Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab, USA
The Coherent X-Ray Imaging Instruments at LCLS, Sebastien Boutet; SLAC Natl. Accelerator Lab, USA
What Can We Do with Millions of Diffraction Patterns when Each One is a Record of Only Dozens of Photons? Veit Elser; Cornell Univ., USA
Title to Be Announced, Stefan Hau-Riege; Lawrence Livermore Natl. Lab, USA
Ptychographic Imaging in Materials and Life Sciences, Andreas Menzel; Paul Scherrer Inst., Switzerland
Oversampling, Lensless Imaging and the Application of X-Ray Free Electron Lasers, John Miao; Univ. of California at Los Angeles, USA
Imaging of Domain Structures by Coherent X-Ray Diffraction, Ian Robinson; Univ. College London, UK
LS 10: X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy
Invited Speakers:
Title to Be Announced, Simon Mochrie; Yale Univ., USA
The X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy Instrument at LCLS, Aymeric Robert; Stanford Linear Accelerator Ctr., USA
Using X-Ray Correlation Spectroscopy to Test Dynamical Scaling, Mark Sutton; McGill Univ., USA
LS 11: High Field Dynamics
Invited Speakers:
First Science with the LCLS X-Ray Free Electron Laser, John Bozek; SLAC Natl. Accelerator Lab, Stanford Univ., USA
Title to Be Announced, Louis DiMauro; Ohio State Univ., USA
X-Ray Probing of High Field Ionization in the Attosecond Limit, Stephen R. Leone; Univ. of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab, USA
Probing Coupled Electronic and Nuclear Dynamics Using Coherent Electrons and X-Rays, Wen Li; JILA, Univ. Colorado, and NIST, USA
Fast Electron Migration in Finite Systems Under Attosecond and XFEL Light Pulses, Jan-Michael Rost; Max-Planck-Inst. Dresden, Germany
