Committees
Frontiers in Optics Chairs
FiO 1: Optical Design, Fabrication & Instrumentation
FiO 2: Optical Sciences
FiO 3: Optics in Biology and Medicine
FiO 4: Optics in Information Science
FiO 5: Fiber Optics & Optical Communications
FiO 6: Integrated Photonics
FiO 7: Quantum Electronics
FiO 8: Vision and Color
Laser Science Chairs
Frontiers in Optics 2012 Chairs
- Colin Mckinstrie, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, USA, General Chair
- Donna Strickland, University of Waterloo, Canada, General Chair
- Alfred U'Ren, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, Program Chair
- Adam Wax, Duke Univ., USA, Program Chair
Laser Science XXVIII Chairs
- Philippe M. Fauchet, Univ. of Rochester, USA, General Chair
- David M. Villeneuve, National Research Council Canada, Canada, General Chair
2012 Frontiers in Optics Subcommittees
FiO 1: Optical Design and Instrumentation
- Qiwen Zhan, Univ. of Dayton, USA, Subcommittee Chair
- Peter Blake, NASA, USA
- Thomas Brown, Univ. of Rochester, USA
- Bruce Dean, NASA, USA
- Andrew Forbes, Nat’l Laser Center, South Africa
- John Koshel, Univ. of Arizona, USA
- Alan Kost, Univ. of Arizona, USA
- Byoungho Lee, Seoul National Univ., South Korea
- Guoqiang Li, Univ. of Missouri - St. Louis, USA
- Ronguang Liang, Univ. of Arizona, USA
- Zhaolin Lu, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
- Krzysztof Patorski, Warsaw Univ. of Technology, Poland
FiO 2: Optical Sciences
- Gor Jovanovic, Penn State Univ., USA, Subcommittee Chair
- Selçuk Aktürk, Istanbul Technical Univ., Turkey
- Ian Coddington, NIST, USA
- Carlos Lopez Mariscal, Naval Research Lab., USA
- Rodrigo Lopez-Martens, École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées, France
- Carl Schroeder, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
- Laszlo Veisz, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, USA
- Koichi Yamakawa, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan
FiO 3: Optics in Biology and Medicine
- Bernard Choi, Univ. of California Irvine, USA, Subcommittee Chair
- Elliot Botvinick, Univ. of California Irvine, USA
- Alvaro Casas-Bedoya, Univ. of Sydney, Australia
- Andrew Dunn, Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA
- Dan Hammer, Physical Sciences, Inc., USA
- Nozomi Nishimura, Cornell Univ., USA
- Aydogan Ozcan, Univ. of California Los Angeles, USA
- Alvin Yeh, Texas A&M Univ., USA
FiO 4: Optics in Information Science
- Scott Carney, Univ. of Illinous at Urbana Champaign, USA, Subcommittee Chair
- Mark Anastasio, Wash Univ. in St Louis, USA
- Randy Bartels, Colorado State Univ., USA
- Johannes Courtial, Univ. of Glasgow, Scotland
- Greg Gbur, Univ. of North Carlonia at Charlotte, USA
- David Fischer, NASA Glenn Research Center, USA
- Michael Gehm, Univ. of Arizona, USA
- Olga Korotkova, Univ. of Miami, USA
- Daniel Marks, Duke Univ., USA
- Dan Marom, Hebrew Univ. of Jeruslaem, Israel
- Amy Oldenburg , Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
- Sapna Shroff, Ricoh Innovations, USA
- Markus Testorf, Dartmouth College, USA
FiO 5: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications
- Nikola Alic, Univ. of California at San Diego, USA, Subcommittee Chair
- Mikhail Brodsky, ATT Research, USA
- Goery Genty, Univ. of Tempere, Finland
- Yannik Lize, Applied Micro Corp., USA
- John Marciante, Univ. of Rochester, USA
- Thomas Murphy, Univ. of Maryland, USA
- Siddarth Ramachandran, Boston Univ., USA
- Chongjin Xie, Alcatel-Lucent Labs, USA
- Lianshan Yan, Jiamtong Southwest Univ., China
FiO 6: Integrated Optics
- Mihaela Dinu, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, USA, Subcommittee Chair
- Ivan Biaggio, Lehigh Univ., USA
- Long Chen, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
- Luca Dal Negro, Boston Univ., USA
- Nicholas X. Fang, MIT, USA
- Nicolae Panoiu, Univ. College London, UK
- Joyce Poon, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
- Mahmoud Rasras, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
- Ron Reano, Ohio State Univ., USA
- Shuang Zhang, Univ. of Birmingham, USA
FiO 7: Quantum Electronics
- Shayan Mookherjea, University of California - San Diego, USA, Subcommittee Chair
- Tal Carmon, Univ. of Michigan, USA
- Lev Deych, CUNY Queens College,USA
- Josh Rothernberg, Northrop Grumman Corp., USA
- Christine Silberhorn, Univ. Paderborn, Germany
- Kartik Srinivasan, NIST, USA
- Hong Tang, Yale Univ., USA
- Paul Voss., Georgia Inst. Of Technology - Lorraine, France
- Stephen Walborn, Univ. Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Shuang Zhang, Univ. of Birminigham, UK
FiO 8: Vision and Color
- Jennifer Hunter, Univ. of Rochester, USA, Subcommittee Chair
- David Andrew Atchison, Queensland Univ. of Technology, Australia
- Melanie Campbell, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada
- Alfredo Dubra, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
- Rafael Navarro, Consejo Superior Investigaciones Cientificas, Spain
- Jason Porter, Univ. of Houston, USA
- Brian Vohnsen, Univ. College Dublin, Ireland
- Alex Wade, Univ. of York, UK
2012 Laser Science Topic Organizers
LS 1: Fundamentals and Applications of Photonic Crystals
- Robert W. Boyd, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada and Univ. of Rochester, USA
LS 2: Optical and Laser-Based Approaches in Chemical and Biological Sensing
- Sharon M. Weiss, Vanderbilt Univ., USA
- Jeremy W. Mares, Vanderbilt. Univ., USA
LS 3: Solid-state Quantum Optics
- Nick Vamivakas, Univ. of Rochester, USA
LS 4: Cold Atoms and Molecules
LS 5: Optics and Alternative Energy Sources
LS 6: Attosecond and Strong Field Physics
LS 7: Ultrafast Chemical Dynamics
- Hans Jakob Worner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
LS 8: Physics with Ultrafast X-rays
- Nora Berrah, Western Michigan Univ., USA
LS 9: Precision Measurements and metrology Using Lasers
- Alan Madej, National Research Council, Canada
LS 10: Quantum Optics and Quantum Information
- Ben Sussman, National Research Council, Canada
LS 11: Nano-opto-mechanics
- Qiang Lin, Univ. of Rochester, USA