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Plenary and Invited Speakers – ICO2008

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Ursula Keller   (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich) “Ultrafast lasers: hitting harder, faster and broader”
Costas Fotakis   (IESL-FORTH and University of Crete)  “Micro- and nano processing of materials by ultrafast lasers: From optical to biological and cultural heritage applications”
Michael Feld   (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "Spectral Interferometry in biology and Medicine: Past, Present and Future"
Martin Wegener   (University of Karlsruhe) "Photonic Metamaterials: Optics Starts Walking on Two Feet"
Hideyuki Sotobayashi   (Aoyama Gakuin University and National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan): ICO Prize winner 2006 "All-band photonic transport system"
Susana Marcos   (Instituto de Optica, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient�ficas, Madrid): ICO Prize winner 2007 "Using optics to understand vision"
 
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Brian Wilson   (University of Toronto) 2-Photon Photodynamic Therapy: Photophysics, Photochemistry and Photobiology
Eugénie Dalimier   (University of Galway) Adaptive optics in the eye: measuring, understanding and correcting higher-order aberrations
Gail McConnell   (University of Strathclyde) Tailoring laser sources to improve nonlinear optical microscopy
Sergey Mirov   (University of Alabama) New Frontiers of Middle-Infrared Lasers based on transition metal doped II-VI semiconductors
Graham Marshall   (Macquarie University)   A new approach to fabricating glass photonics
Xiang Jhang   (University of California Berkeley) Metamaterials, Plasmonic optics and Superlens
Peter Török   (Imperial College) Polarimetric imaging using confocal microscopes
Satoshi Kawata   (Osaka University) Tip-enhanced Raman microscopy: a step beyond plasmonics
Kiyoshi Asakawa   (University of Tsukuba)  Metamaterials
Nikolai Zheludev   (University of Southampton) Planar nanostructured photonic meta-materials
Andrew Peele   (La trobe University) X-ray Vortices - science and applications
Rajiah Simon   (Indian Institute of Mathematical Sciences) Three avatars of optical phase space and their interplay
Karen Kheruntsyan   (University of Queensland) Quantum-atom optics with fermions
Ken Baldwin   (Australian National University)   Precision measurement with cold atoms
Matt Sellars   (Australian National University) Quantum memory with solid state systems
Nick Robins   (Australian National University) High quality atom lasers
David Kielpinski   (Griffith University) Quantum Information
Stan Whitcomb   (California Institute of Technology)  Interferometric gravitational-wave detectors: new levels of sensitivity in optical measurements
Tom Baer   (Stanford) Advances in Cancer Detection and Diagnosis: The Revolution in Bio-imaging and Micro-molecular Analysis
Duncan Moore   (Rochester) Gradient-index optics- in nature and man-made
H�ctor Moya-Cessa   (Instituto Nacional de Astrof�sica, �ptica y Electr�nica, MEXICO)
"Quantum optical methods in classical optics: Optical realizations of quantum systems"
David Miller   Stanford University, USA,
"Fundamental Limits to Optical Components"
James Fienup   University of Rochester, USA,
"HERALDO, a novel approach for holography with an extended reference"
P Andres   Universidad de Valencia, Spain
"Metamaterial Bragg Fibers"
Shahraam Afshar   University of Adelaide
"Emerging waveguides with subwavelength and high index features: extensions of standard models and new applications"
 
 
   
 
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