LS Invited Speakers

  1. Fundamentals and Applications of Photonic Crystals
  2. Optical and Laser-Based Approaches in Chemical and Biological Sensing
  3. Solid-State Quantum Optics
  4. Cold Atoms and Molecules
  5. Optics and Alternative Energy Sources
  6. Attosecond and Strong Field Physics
  7. Ultrafast Chemical Dynamics
  8. Physics with Ultrafast X-rays
  9. Precision Measurements and Metrology Using Lasers
  10. Quantum Information with Photons
  11. Nano-opto-mechanics
  12. General Laser Science

1. Fundamentals and Applications of Photonic Crystals

  • Photonic Crystal Nanolasers for Sensing Applications, Toshihiko Baba; Yokohama National Univ., Japan

  • A Diamond Quantum Photonic Interface for Nitrogen Vacancy Solid State Qubits, Dirk Robert Englund; Columbia Univ., USA

  • Photonic Crystal Waveguides: From Passive to Active, from Even to Odd, and from Rough to Fine, Wei Jiang; Rutgers Univ., USA

  • The Good Bits and Pieces of Microstructured Fibers, Jonathan C. Knight; Univ. of Bath, UK

  • Title to be Announced, Thomas F. Krauss; Univ. of St Andrews, UK

  • Femtojoule-per-bit Optical Communication in a Photonic Crystal Chip, Masaya Notomi; NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Japan

  • Experimental Demonstration of Light-assisted Templated Self Assembly Using a Photonic-crystal Slab, Michelle Lynn Povinelli; Univ. of Southern California, USA

  • Multi-hole Defect Photonic Crystals with Enhanced Surface Area for Biosensing Applications, Sharon M Weiss; Vanderbilt Univ., USA

2. Optical and Laser-Based Approaches in Chemical and Biological Sensing

  • Plasmon-enhanced Fluorescence Permits Super-resolution Imaging in vitro and in Cells, Julie Biteen; Univ. of Michigan, USA

  • Silicon Photonic Crystal Open Sensors for High Sensitivity Multiplexed Chem-Bio Sensing, Swapnajit Chakravarty; Omega Optics, Inc, USA

  • Title to be Announced, David Erickson; Cornell Univ., USA

  • Quantitative, Functional Biomarkers of Stem Cell Differentiation in 3D using Multi-modal Non-linear Imaging with Endogenous Contrast, Irene Georgakoudi; Tufts Univ., USA

  • Advances in Terahertz Medical Imaging, Warren S. Grundfest; Univ. of California Los Angeles, USA

  • Waveguide Biosensors for Medical Diagnostics, Harshini Mukundan; Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

  • Optofluidic Integration for Single-particle Analysis, Holger Schmidt; Univ. of California Santa Cruz, USA

3. Solid-State Quantum Optics

  • Title to be Announced, Rufus L. Cone; Montana State Univ., USA

  • Enhancing Magnetometry with Single Spins in Diamond, M. V. Gurudev Dutt; Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA

  • Quantum Information Processing with NV Centers at Room Temperature, Liang Jiang; Yale Univ., USA

  • Quantum Memory via Phase-matching Control, Olga Kocharovskaya; Texas A&M Univ., USA

  • Nanoscale Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, John Mamin; IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, USA

  • Towards a Long-Lived Quantum Memory for Single Photons in Rare Earth Doped Crystals, Alan L. Migdall; National Inst of Standards & Technology, USA

  • Technologies for Ultralow Power Integrated Nonlinear Optical Circuits, Jason Pelc; Hewlett Packard Company, USA

4. Cold Atoms and Molecules

  • Experiments on Bose-Einstein Condensates in Synthetic Spin-Orbit and Gauge Fields: Transport and Dynamics, Yong Chen; Purdue Univ., USA

  • Atom Interferometry: From Practical Applications to Fundamental Tests of Gravity and Quantum Mechanics, Paul Hamilton; Univ. of California Berkeley, USA

  • Optical Feshbach Resonances and Coherent Photoassociation in a Strontium BEC, Optical Feshbach in Sr Condensate, Thomas C. Killian; Rice Univ., USA

  • Impurities in Ultracold Fermi Gases, Han Pu; Rice Univ., USA

  • Spin Transport in a Unitary Fermi Gas, Joseph H  Thywissen; Univ. of Toronto, Canada

  • Superfluid Circuits of Ultra-cold Atoms, Kevin Wright; Dartmouth College, USA

5. Optics and Alternative Energy Sources

  • Solar Cells as Light Emitters: The Key to Record Efficiencies and Approaching the Shockley-Queisser Limits, Owen Miller; Univ. of California Berkeley, USA

  • Spontaneous Hyper-Emission, Optical Antenna-Accelerated Spontaneous Emission, Ming Wu; Wuhan National Lab for Optoelectronics, China

6. Attosecond and Strong Field Physics

  • Sub-cycle Electron Dynamics Probed by Isolated Attosecond Pulses, Michael Chini; Univ. of Central Florida, USA

  • Attoclock Reveals a Real and Not Instantaneous Electron Tunneling Time with a Probability Distribution, Ursula Keller; ETH Zurich, Switzerland

  • Attosecond Spectroscopy on Surfaces and Interfaces, Reinhard Kienberger; Max-Planck-Institut fur Quantenoptik, Germany

  • All Optical Measurement of Arbitrary Optical Waveforms, Kyung Taec Kim; Univ. of Ottawa, Canada

  • Attosecond Transient Absorption of Field-manipulated Excited States, Stephen R. Leone; Univ. of California Berkeley, USA

  • Generation and Application of Intense High Harmonics and Attosecond Pulses, Katsumi Midorikawa; RIKEN, Japan

  • Development and Applications of a Femtosecond PW Laser at Center for Relativistic Laser Science, Chang Hee Nam; Gwangju Inst of Science & Technology, South Korea

  • Attosecond Pulses for the Investigation of Electron Dynamics: from Diatomic Molecules to Biomolecules, Mauro  Nisoli; Politecnico di Milano, Italy

  • Probing Chiral Molecules by High Harmonic Generation, Ravi Bhardwaj; Univ. of Ottawa, Canada

  • Toward High Energy Attosecond Laser Pulse Driven with High Contrast Ratio Ultrastrong Femtosecond Laser, Zhiyi Wei; CAS Institute of Physics, China

7. Ultrafast Chemical Dynamics

  • Strong Laser Field Strategies to Control Reaction Dynamics, Luis Bañares; Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

  • Femtosecond time-resolved X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy Studies of Charge, Oliver Gessner; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

  • Delayed Ultrafast X-ray Induced Auger Probing, Markus Guehr; PULSE Institute, Stanford Univ., USA

  • Theory of High-order Harmonic Generation from Vibrating Polyatomic Molecules, Chii Dong Lin; Kansas State Univ., USA

  • Tunneling Ionization and Fragmentation of Molecules in Strong Laser Fields, Lars Madsen; Aarhus Universitet, Denmark

  • Simulation of Laser Induced Quantum Dynamics of the Electronic and Nuclear Motion in the Ozone Molecule on the Attosecond Time Scale, Ágnes Vibók; Univ. of Debrecen, Hungary

  • Where Are the Electrons? Charge Transfer and Dissociation from a Femtosecond Electronic-structure Perspective, Philippe Wernet; Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Germany

  • Imaging Ultrafast Dynamics Using Laser-Induced Electron Diffraction, Junliang Xu; Ohio State University, USA

8. Physics with Ultrafast X-rays

  • Clusters in Intense X-ray Pulses, Christoph Bostedt; SLAC, USA

  • One and Two Color Pump-probe Spectroscopy in the X-ray Regime, Ryan Neal Coffee; SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA

  • Probing the Fastest Spin, Charge and Energy Flow Processes in Advanced Materials using Ultrafast X-rays, Henry C. Kapteyn; Kapteyn-Murnane Laboratories, USA

  • Mapping Electronic States and Associated Dynamics of Non-linearly Ionised Atoms and Molecules, Melanie Mucke; Uppsala Universitet, Sweden

  • Title to be Announced, Vladimir Osipov; Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V., Germany

  • Title to be Announced, Jan Michael Rost; Max-Planck-Inst Physik des Lichts, Germany

  • Charge and Energy Transfer in Dissociating Molecules upon Core-Shell Photoionization, Artem Rudenko; Max-Planck Advanced Study Group at CFEL, Germany

  • Nonlinear Excitation of Neon Using the FEL FERMI@ELETTRA, Giuseppe Sansone; Politecnico di Milano, Italy

  • Transient Core level Spectroscopy at M-edges of 3D Metals, Emily Frances Sistrunk; SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA

  • SACLA: New Opportunities for Atomic, Molecular, and Cluster Science with XFEL, Kiyoshi Ueda; Tohoku Univ., Japan

9.  Precision Measurements and Metrology Using Lasers

  • Title to be Announced, Ben Bloom; Univ. of Colorado at Boulder JILA, USA

  • High Gradient Acceleration of Electrons in a Laser-driven Dielectric Accelerator, Robert L Byer; Stanford Univ., USA

  • Determination of System Hamiltonian with Multi-dimensional Spectroscopy, Steven T. Cundiff; Univ. of Colorado at Boulder JILA, USA

  • Title to be Announced, Jérôme Lodewyck; Institut d'Optique, France

  • LIGO, Nergis Mavalvala; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

  • Precision Measurements using Atoms and Photons, Holger Müller; Univ. of California Berkeley, USA

  • Optical Atomic Clocks and the Quest for Ultrastable Lasers, Fritz Riehle; Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany

  • The H2 Molecule; Test of QED and Varying Constants, Wim Ubachs; Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam , Netherlands

  • Spin Squeezing, Cavity QED and Quantum Optics, Vladan Vuletic; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United Stated

10. Quantum Information with Photons

  • Weak Values and Direct Measurement of the Quantum Wavefunction, Robert W. Boyd; Univ. of Ottawa, Canada

  • Title to be Announced, Duncan England; National Research Council Canada, Canada

  • Title to be Announced, Alexander L. Gaeta; Cornell Univ., USA

  • Ultrafast Coherent Control of an Ultracold Rydberg Gas, Kenji Ohmori; Institute for Molecular Science, Japan

  • Title to be Announced, Steven Prawer, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia

  • Title to be Announced, Christoph Simon; Univ. of Calgary, Canada

  • Rydberg-Mediated Quantum Manipulation of Atom Pairs and Ensembles, Thad G. Walker; Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

11. Nano-opto-mechanics

  • Title to be Announced, Tal Carmon; Univ. of Michigan, USA

  • Experimental Demonstration of Squeezed Light Using Optomechanics, Simon Gröblacher; Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria

  • Title to be Announced, Tobias J.A. Kippenberg; Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland

  • Title to be Announced, Marko Loncar; Harvard Univ., USA

  • Title to be Announced, Oskar Jon Painter; California Institute of Technology, USA

  • Title to be Announced, Hong Tang; Yale Univ. , USA

12. General Laser Science