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 Optics and Quantum Information
11. Nano-opto-mechanics

1. Fundamentals and Applications of Photonic Crystals

  • Periodic Structures in Plamonics, Pierre Berini, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada
  • Recent Progress in Photonic Crystals and their Device Applications, Susumu Noda, Kyoto Univ., Japan
  • Cavity QED and Lasing in Single Quantum Dot Photonic Crystal Nanocavity Coupled Systems, Yusuhiko Arakawa, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
  • Photonic Crystals in Biosensing, Philippe Fauchet, Vanderbilt Univ., USA
  • Open-system quantum optics in photonic crystal chips with embedded quantum dots, Stephen Hughes, Queen's Univ. of Kingston, Canada
  • Nanophotonic sensing structures: photonic crystal principles and metamaterial principles compared, Richard De La Rue, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia
  • Nonlinear Optics in Photonic Crystals - Opportunities and Limitations, Thomas Krauss, Univ. of St. Andrews, UK
  • Enhancing Optical Functionalities of Silicon with Photonic Crystal Cavities., Matteo Galli, Univ. of Pavia, Italy
  • Applications of Photonic Crystals for Spectroscopoy, Zhimin Shi, Univ. of Rochester, USA

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

  • Darryl J. Bornhop, Vanderbilt Univ., USA
  • Brian Cunningham, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
  • Peter Kiesel, PARC, USA
  • Benjamin Miller, Univ. of Rochester, USA
  • Martin Richardson, Univ. of Central Florida, USA
  • Yuze (Alice) Sun, National Inst. of Health, USA
  • M. Selim Ünlü, Boston Univ., USA
  • John X.J. Zhang, Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA

3. Solid-State Quantum Optics

  • Quantum Optics with Cavity-coupled Spin Qubits in Diamond, Victor Acosta, HP Labs, USA
  • Alberto Amo, CNRS, France
  • Antonio Badolato, Univ. of Rochester, USA
  • Quantum Optics of Semiconductor Excitons, Steve Cundiff, JILA/Univ. of Colorado and NIST, USA
  • Michael Grinolds, Harvard, USA
  • Quantum Correlated Photons in Arrays of Wealkly Nonlinear Cavities, Vincenzo Savona, Laboratory of Theoretical Physics of Nanosystems, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
  • Optical Control of the Electronic and Nuclear States in a Single Quantum Dot, Duncan Steel, Univ. of Michigan, USA
  • Jake Taylor, NIST, USA

4. Cold Atoms and Molecules

  •  A. Kumarakrishnan, York Univ., Canada
  • Dominik Schneble, SUNY Stony Brook, USA
  • Jim Shaffer, Oklahoma Univ.., USA
  • Mukund Vengalattore, Cornell Univ., USA
  • Patrick Zabawa, Rochester Univ., USA

5. Optics and Alternative Energy Sources

  • Title to be Announced, Harry Atwater, Caltech, USA
  • Light Trapping in Thin Crystalline Si Photovoltaic Cells, Gang Chen, Michigan Inst. of Technology, USA
  • Supercell Gratings for Light Trapping, Thomas Krauss, Univ. of St. Andrews, UK
  • Taming the Blackbody with Metamaterials for Energy Harvesting Applications, Willie Padilla, Boston College, USA
  • Design and Modeling of Nanowire-array Solar Cells, Michelle Povinelli, Univ. of Southern California, USA
  • 3D Photonic Crystals for Photon Management in Solar Cells, Ralf Wehrspohn, Fraunhofer Inst. for Mechanics of Materials Halle, Germany

6. Attosecond and Strong Field Physics

  • Zhengu Chang, Univ. of Central Florida, USA
  • Dimitris Charalambidis, FORTH-IESL and Univ. of Crete, Greece
  • Per Johnsson, Lund Univ., Sweden
  • Nick Karpowicz, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Germany
  • Bastian Manschwetus, CEA Saclay, France
  • Katsumi Midorikawa, Riken, Japan
  • Electron dynamics investigated by attosecond pulses, Giuseppe Sansone, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

7. Ultrafast Chemical Dynamics

  • Phil Bucksbaum, Stanford Univ., USA
  • Henry Kapteyn, JILA, Univ. of Colorado, USA
  • Matthias Kling, Kansas State Univ., USA
  • Jochen Küpper, Center for Free Electron Laser Science, Germany
  • Controlled Molecule Imaging, Jochen Mikosch, National Research Council, Canada
  • Ring opening of cyclohexadiene probed by time-resolved optical and x-ray fragmentation, Vladimir Petrovic, Stanford Univ, USA
  • Henrik Stapelfeldt, Aarhus Univ., Denmark
  • Theory of Nonadiabatic Electronic and Nuclear Dynamics in Laser Fields; Observation and Control, Kazuo Takatsuka, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan
  • Molecular Orbital Imaging by High-order Harmonic Generation, Caterina Vozzi, IFN-CNR & Politecnico di Milano, Italy

8. Physics with Ultrafast X-rays

  • Ali Belkacem, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
  • Raimund Feifel, Uppsala Univ., Sweden
  • Markus Guehr, SLAC, Stanford Univ., USA
  • Brendan P. Murphy, SLAC, Stanford Univ., USA
  • Alicia Palacios, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
  • Kevin Prince, Elettra, Italy
  • Nina Rohringer, Centre for Free Electron Laser Science, Germany
  • Time-Resolved Photoelectron Diffraction of Laser-Aligned Molecules, Daniel Rolles, Max Planck Advanced Study Group, Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Hamburg, Germany
  • Robin Santra, Univ. of Hamburg, Germany

9. Precision Measurements and Metrology Using Lasers

  • Progress in Gravitational Wave Detection at LIGO, Stephan Ballmer, Dept. of Physics, Syracuse Univ., USA
  • Optical Lattice Clocks at LNE-SYRTE, Sebastien Bize, LNE-SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris, France
  • Making a New SI System of Measurement by Learning from the Metre Redefinition,  John Hall, 2005 Nobel Laureate in Physics, JIST/NIST, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, USA
  • Application of Optical Frequency Comb Technology, David Jones, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of British Columbia, Canada
  • Atom Interferometry, Mark Kasevich, Dept. of Physics, Stanford Univ., USA
  • Ultra-stable Laser Local Oscillators, David Leibrandt, National Inst. of Standards and Technology, Boulder, USA
  • Precision Measurements of the Fine Structure Constant Usint Atom Recoil, Francois Nez, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Ecole Normale Superieur, France
  • Ultra-accurate References using Laser Cooled Neutral Atoms, Jun Ye, NIST/JILA, Univ. of Colorado, USA

10. Quantum Optics and Quantum Information

  • Robert Boyd, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada
  • Philip Bustard, National Research Council, Canada
  • Ignacio Cirac, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Germany
  • Nicholas Gisin, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland
  • John Howell, Univ. of Rochester Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, USA
  • Virginia Lorenz, Univ. of Delaware Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, USA
  • Mikhail Lukin, Harvard Univ., USA
  • Ian Walmsley, Oxford Univ., UK
  • Jorg Wrachtrup, Universität Stuttgart, Germany

11. Nano-opto-mechanics

  • Ultrahigh-Q Mechanical Oscillators Through Optical Trapping of Tethered Membranes, Darrick Chang, ICFO, Spain
  • Gallium Arsenide NanoOptomechanical Systems, Ivan Favero, Universite´ Paris Diderot, France
  • Title to be Announced, Tobias Kippenberg, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Traveling-wave Phonon Emission at the Nanoscale, Peter Rakick, Sandia National Laboratory, USA
  • Title to be Announced, Hong Tang, Yale Univ., USA
  • Quantum Optomechanics with Microwave Photons, John Teufel, NIST Boulder, US
  • Title to be Announced, Kerry Vahala, Caltech, USA