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

  • Nick Bigelow, Univ. of Rochester, USA

LS 5: Optics and Alternative Energy Sources

  • Shanhui Fan, Stanford Univ., USA

LS 6: Attosecond and Strong Field Physics

  • Eleftherios Goulielmakis, Max Planck Inst. of Quantum Optics, Germany

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