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|| Author: Kim LaCapria|Tags: Web Series
Canceled Soaps 'One Life to Live' and 'All My Children' Web Plans Scrapped
Bad news for soap fans planning to follow their favorite, now-cancelled programs onto the web.
It seems the frankly shaky-sounding plans to move the high-cost soaps to the internet for a new life have been quashed, yanking the plug from the long running shows' last hope of new life for good. Originally, the production company Prospect Park had planned the revival on the web after One Life to Live and All My Children got a final curtain notice, but it seems the plans have fizzled entirely due to an inability to finance the initiative.
Prospect Park released a lengthy statement explaining how high production costs and drastically reduced revenues meant the ambitious plans were a no-go after All My Children's wrap up in September and One Life to Live's planned end in January of 2012. In response to the statement from Prospect Park, below, the Writers' Guild released a statement saying it was "disappointed" that Prospect Park's "financing fell through." The shows were replaced with lifestyle-centric programming like The Chew.
"After five months of negotiations with various guilds, hundreds of presentations to potential financial and technology partners, and a hope that we could pioneer a new network for the future, it is with great disappointment that we are suspending our aspirations to revive One Life to Live and All My Children via online distribution. It is now becoming clear that mounting issues make our ability to meet our deadlines to get OLTL on the air in a reasonable time period following its Jan. 13, 2012 ABC finale impossible.
"We believed the timing was right to launch an Online TV Network anchored by these two iconic soap operas, but we always knew it would be an uphill battle to create something historical, and unfortunately we couldn't ultimately secure the backing and clear all the hurdles in time. We believe we exhausted all reasonable options apparent to us, but despite enormous personal, as well as financial cost to ourselves, we failed to find a solution.
"While we narrowed in on a financial infrastructure, the contractual demands of the guilds, which regulate our industry, coupled with the program's inherent economic challenges ultimately led to this final decision. In the end, the constraints of the current marketplace, including the evolution and impact of new media on our industry simply proved too great a match for even our passion.
"In our opinion, new models like this can only work with the cooperation of many people striving to make them happen, and we would like to thank and praise the numerous people who tried to help and showed us incredible support. We are extremely grateful to the fans and media who showed great support to us through this process, to ABC who did everything in their control to help, and we are especially grateful for the support and encouragement from many of the soaps' cast and crew themselves.
"We hope that our efforts are not lost, and that we somehow created a dialogue and movement on the feasibility of first run, network quality content online. Of special note, we would like to thank Frank Valentini (Executive Producer), Ron Carlivati (Head Writer of OLTL), Agnes Nixon, many of the cast of OLTL including Michael Easton, Ted King, Kelley Missal, Melissa Archer, and of course Erika Slezak all of whom signed on quickly and did all they could to help, as well as our own Christine Sacani. Cameron Mathison and Lindsay Hartley also get our sincerest thanks for their support. We feel terrible we couldn't come through for them and we were very much looking forward to working together."


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Day 1: September 10, 2018
3rd International Conference on
Quantum Optics and Quantum Computing
September 10-11, 2018 London, UK
Theme: Towards Full Stack of Computing and Optical Science in Quantum Era
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OCM for Quantum Optics Series Conferences
Ling Hao
Principal Research Scientist
National Physical Laboratory
Biography Research Interest
Ling received the BSc degree in general physics and the MSc degree in solid state physics from Beijing Normal University, China. She moved to the UK in 1992 and received the PhD degree at the Department of Physics and Applied Physics, University of Strathclyde, UK, for research on electronic noise in superconducting devices in 1995. Since then she has worked at NPL. She has published more than 100 papers in refereed journals and two book chapters. Ling is also a visiting professor at Imperial College and a member of the Superconductivity Committee of the Institute of Physics. She is leading work on applications of nanoscience, superconducting electronics and microwave technology for precision measurements, aimed at single particle measurements and metrology with Nano SQUIDs and nanoelectromechanical system (NEMS) resonators. She is also working on low dimensional carbon, including carbon nanotubes and graphene transport measurements.
Quantum Detection,Applications of Nano science, Superconducting electronics. Microwave technology for precision measurements
Thomas Baeck
Leiden University
Thomas Bäck is full professor of computer science at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University,The Netherlands, since 2004. His research interests are in the areas of evolutionary computation and related heuristic search and optimization methods, and in algorithm configuration and predictive analytics – with a strong emphasis on industrial applications. In combinatorial optimization, he is also working on exploring the potential of quantum annealing for solving such problems. In his work with industrial partners in the industry 4.0 domain, he collaborates with companies such as, e.g., BMW, Daimler, Honda, Tata Steel, and KLM. Thomas Bäck has more than 300 publications and authored a book on evolutionary algorithms, (Evolutionary Algorithms: Theory and Practice). He is co-editor of the Handbook of Evolutionary Computation and the Handbook of Natural Computing, and co-author of the book Contemporary Evolution Strategies (Springer, 2013). He is editorial board member of a number of journals and has served as program chair for major conferences in evolutionary computation. He received the best dissertation award from the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) in 1995 and is an elected fellow of the International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation for his contributions to the field. In 2015, he received the IEEE Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award for his contributions in synthesizing evolutionary computation.
Evolutionary computation and related heuristic search and optimization methods, and in algorithm configuration and predictive analytics – with a strong emphasis on industrial applications
Claudio Verzegnassi
University of Udine
Claudio Verzegnassi did his diploma in Diploma di Maturità at Liceo Classico F. Petrarca, Trieste, Italy in the year 1959. Also he gained his university degree in Theoretical physics, at University of Trieste in 1964. He started his working career in the year 1965, from University of Trieste, dept. of Theoretical Physics as a professor. Recently, he is working as a researcher at University of Udine, Polytechnic of Engineering and Architecture.
Jamal Berakdar
Jamal Berakdar is a theoretical physicist with research interests in various aspects of electronic many-body systems with emphasis on time and spin-dependent processes. After the undergraduate years at the Universities of Heidelberg and Freiburg in Germany, he took a PhD in theoretical Physics in 1994 from the University of Freiburg followed by a postdoctoral period at the Royal Holloway College, University of London. From 1995-1997 he spent a research stay on a Humboldt fellowship at the Australian National University, Canberra, and from 1997-2006 he was a staff scientist at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany. From 2006- present he has been a full professor of theoretical physics at the Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany.
Quantum and classical many body systems, Quantum information, Optics and magnetism
Dmitry M. Gitman
Chief Researcher
P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute
Dmitry Maximovitch Gitman had done his PhD and Doctor in Sciences in Physics and Mathematics. At present he is Chief Researcher at I.E. Tamm Theory Division of P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia. He is a Senior Professor at Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo, Brazil. He has published more than 300 articles in International Physical Journals and he published 8 books. At present, his research interest focuses on Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory, particularly on Quantum Electrodynamics.
Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory
Yoshihisa Yamamoto
Yoshihisa Yamamoto received his B.S. degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology and his M.S. and Ph. D. degrees from the University of Tokyo in 1973, 1975 and 1978, respectively. He is a Program Manager for Impulsive Paradigm Change through Disruptive Technologies Program (ImPACT) of the Council for Science, Technology and Innovation of Cabinet Office of Government of Japan. He is currently a Professor (emeritus) of Stanford University and National Institute of Informatics, and NTT R&D fellow. His research interest has been in quantum optics and quantum information processing, especially quantum neural network and coherent Ising machine.
Quantum Optics, Quantum Information
Organizing Committee - Quantum Physics 2016
Manijeh Razeghi
Center for Quantum Devices Northwestern University
Walter P. Murphy Professor and Director Center for Quantum Devices, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University.
Quantum Cascade Lasers
Patrick SIARRY
University Paris
Prof. Patrick Siarry was born on May 28, 1952, in Pertuis. His research area is relatively (since 1982) new "metaheuristic" optimization such as simulated annealing, which are indicated for the so-called problems of "hard optimization" because of their ability to avoid in principle, trapping in sub-optimal solutions. This topic is multidisciplinary in nature, both by the source of the methods studied (physics, biology, ethology). Much of his work is explicitly one or the other keywords – in particular, modeling, identification, learning rule bases (artificial intelligence), control, nondestructive testing and maintaining the biological and medical engineering.
Automatics, Theory and Signal Processing, Electronics, Programming in FORTRAN, numerical analysis, applied statistics, etc
Labonté Laurent
University of Nice Sophia Antipolis
Dr. Laurent Labonté studied in the University of Limoges (FRANCE) where he received a Master's degree in "optical and high frequency telecommunication" (University of Limoges, France). He obtained the PhD degree in Physics in 2005 on both experimental and numerical study of microstructured fiber for non-linear optics and astronomy. From 2005 to 2006, he was an assistant professor. In 2006, he joined the group "Quantum Information with Light & Matter" of the Laboratory of condensed matter physics (LPMC), as an associate professor of the University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis. His research activities focus on generating, distributing and manipulating quantum information at telecom wavelength.
M. Zahid Hasan
M. Zahid Hasan is a Professor of Physics at Princeton University. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2002 from Stanford University, working at SLAC and Brookhaven National Laboratory. He is an expert in the physics of quantum matter, emergent phenomena in electron systems, and advanced spectroscopic high resolution imaging techniques. His research has focused on quantum Hall-like topological phases, exotic superconductors, quantum phase transitions, and topological quantum matter. He played a pioneering role in the experimental discoveries of bulk topological insulators, helical topological superconductors, Weyl fermion materials and related new forms of quantum matter. A highly-cited researcher world-wide, he has published more than 120 papers in many reputed journals.
Prof. Yoshihisa Yamamoto is working at E.L. Ginzton Laboratory of Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA and National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan. His group is primarily concerned with studying quantum dynamics of spin and exciton in semiconductor nanoscale systems. His experimental project combines ultrafast optical spectroscopy with semiconductor microcavities with artificial atoms (quantum dots or impurities) at low temperatures and high magnetic fields.
Yamamoto's current research interests are in the areas of quantum information, quantum optics, and mesoscopic physics such as squeezed states, quantum nondemolition measurements, cavity quantum electrodynamics, quantum computers, and mesoscopic electron transport and tunneling.
Khalil I hajim
Scientific consultant
Quantum optics and Laser applications in industry and medicine
P.Sanjeevikumar
Ohm Technologies
Padmanaban Sanjeevikumar (M'12, SM'15) received B.E., M.Tech. (with distinction), and Ph.D degree in electrical engineering from University of Madras (India), Pondicherry University (India), and University of Bologna (Italy), in 2002, 2006, and 2012 respectively. He pursued his doctoral degree with full comprehensive grant successfully obtained from Ministry of University Research (MIUR), from the government of Italy (Jan. 2009 - Dec. 2011) by securing 120/130 with the merit of first rank among International Competition devoted for one foreign Ph.D scholarship position. After completing his Ph.D degree he worked as Associate Professor with VIT University from August 2012 to May 2013. Furthermore he joined as Faculty with National Institute of Technology, Pondicherry, from July 2013 to December 2013. He was invited as visiting researcher at Department of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, Qatar from January 2014 to February 2014 funded by Qatar National Research Foundation (Government of Qatar). He continued his research activities with Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland from April 2014 to September 2014. Presently, from September 2014, he is Project Head in Research & Development and Consultant with Ohm Technologies, Chennai, India.He has received the Best Paper cum Most Excellence Research Paper Award of IET-SEISCON 2013. He was invited as honorary program committee/technical committee/steering committee member/chair for more than 400 plus various international, national conferences and includes IEEE.
Design of HVDC (Bi-polar, Uni-Polar) transmission systems and Multi-terminal HVDC transmission networks.
Mary Eshaghian-Wilner
Dr. Mary Mehrnoosh Eshaghian-Wilner has over 26 years of research experience in various areas within the field of Computer Engineering. Additionally, she has worked in the area of patent law for several years. She has published numerous scientific papers, including two books, and has handled the prosecution and infringement analysis of many complex U.S. and international patents. Dr. Eshaghian-Wilner currently is a Professor of Engineering Practice at the Electrical Engineering-Systems Department at the University of Southern California (USC), and since 2004 has been an Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Prior to joining UCLA, she was a tenured full Professor and Department Head at the Computer Engineering Department of Rochester Institute of Technology. Professor Eshaghian-Wilner is best known for her pioneering contributions to three areas of Optical Computing, Heterogeneous Computing, and Nanoscale Computing. In the area of Optical Computing, she produced one of the first theses that dealt with the computational aspects of optical interconnects for VLSI chips. The OMC model was developed by Professor Eshaghian-Wilner as part of her Ph.D. work, and since then, many architectures and algorithms have been designed by on that model.
Bio-inspired and Nanoscale Computing, MEMS, Optical Interconnects, VLSI and Reconfigurable chips, Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property, Patent Reform, Digital Rights, Cyber Law/Crimes, Internet Privacy
Yukio Tomozawa
University of Michigan, USA
Yukio Tomozawa obtained DSc in 1961 from Tokyo University. He was Assistant at Tokyo University (1956- ), and at Tokyo University of Education (1957-1959): Member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (1964-1966). He was Assistant Professor (1966- ), Associate Professor (1968- ), Professor (1972- ) and Emeritus Professor (2003- ) at the University of Michigan, USA. Research Interest: Dr. Tomozawa found that the Schwarzschild metric does not fit the data of time delay experiment in the field of general relativity. He has introduced a physical metric which fits the data. It was constructed with the constraint that the speed of light on the spherical direction is unchanged from that in vacuum. This modification changes the way we understand the nature of gravity drastically. In particular, the nature of compact objects, neutron stars and black holes, is very different from that described by the Schwarzschild metric. It also explains the dark energy, supernova explosion and high energy cosmic ray emission from AGN (Active Galactic Nuclei), massive black holes.
Black hole theory
Vladimir V. Rumyantsev
A.A. Galkin Donetsk Institute for Physics and Engineering
V.V. Rumyantsev is Professor in Nanophysics Department at Donetsk National University (DonNU) and Head of Physics Technology Subdivision at A.A. Galkin Donetsk Institute for Physics and Engineering (DonPhTI). He received PhD in Physics (1988) from DonNU and Dr. Sci. in Solid State Physics (2007) from DonPhTI. He has published more than 200 scientific publications. Prof. Rumyantsev is Group Leader of International project in the framework of the European program FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES (2013-2016).
Light-matter coupling in imperfect lattice of coupled microcavities containing quantum dots
Osamu Hirota
Quantum ICT Research Institute of Tamagawa University
O.Hirota has received his PhD at 1979 from Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan). He is director of the Quantum ICT Research Institute of Tamagawa University, and one of pioneer of quantum information science. He has established in 1990 International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing (QCMC). Number of his published papers in particular on quantum state discrimination theory and entangled coherent state are more than 100.
Non-orthogonal quantum states in infinite dimensional space.
Organizing Committee - Optics 2016
Director, Center for Quantum Devices
Manijeh Razeghi joined Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, as a Walter P. Murphy Professor and Director of the Center for Quantum Devices in Fall 1991, where she created the undergraduate and graduate program in solid-state engineering. She is one of the leading scientists in the field of semiconductor science and technology, pioneering in the development and implementation of major modern epitaxial techniques. Her current research interest is in nanoscale optoelectronic quantum devices. She has authored or coauthored more than 1000 papers, more than 31 book chapters, and 18 books. She holds 55 U.S. patents and has given more than 1000 invited and plenary talks. She received the IBM Europe Science and Technology Prize in 1987, the Achievement Award from the SWE in 1995, the R.F. Bunshah Award in 2004 and many best paper awards. Dr. Razeghi is an elected Fellow of SWE (1995), SPIE (2000), IEC (2003), OSA (2004), APS (2004) IOP (2005), IEEE (2005) and MRS (2008). And IBM teacher of excellence 2013, and the 2016 Jan Czochralski Award. She is editor , associate, and Board member of many journals, including Nano Science and Nano technology.
Pioneer in the area of III-V compound semiconductors and optoelectronic devices from the deep ultraviolet to the far infrared spectral bands, including in particular InP and GaAs based semiconductors and devices, which were at the heart of the optical fiber telecommunication revolution of the late 20th Century and the rise of the information age.
Vladislav E. Bougrov
Director of School of Photonics
Prof. Vladislav E. Bougrov, Director of School of Photonics, Head of Chair of Light Technologies and Optoelectronics at the ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia, a leading Russian University in the filed of Photonics, Photonics Materials, and Quantum Informatics; 42 years old; Master degree in optoelectronics from Department of Optoelectronics chaired by Nobel Prize Laureate Professor Zhores Alferov, Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI"; Ph.D. in 1999 and D.Sc. in 2013 in physics from Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia; holder of the prize of the Government of Russian Federation in science and engineering; highly qualified in material physics and engineering of semiconductor optoelectronics devices; author of more than 60 papers in reputed journals, inventor in more than 100 patent applications, including more than 30 granted patents; extensive experience with dynamic management of growing international start-up companies, founder of Optogan.
III-nitride based semiconductor heterostructures, ultrahigh performance light-emitting diodes (LEDs), development of novel MOCVD growth technique, advanced laser device structures, bulk materials growth: gallium nitride and gallium oxide.
Douglas R McCarter
Vice-President and Co-Founder
McCarter Machine & Technology Inc.
Dr. Douglas R McCarter, Dhc, is the Technical Integrator of McCarter Machine & Technology Inc. , founded in 1981. McCarter's patented and proprietary silicon processes achievements were documented by published technical papers and over 50 oral presentations. In turn, McCarter has won many awards, mentioned in Forbes.com, Kiplinger Letter, Entrepenuer.com, Nasa Tech Briefs, Missile Defense Briefs Open and Classified, and recognized as the current world expert in precision silicon components. McCarter has served as member of editorial staff of Advanced Optical Technology, in Munich Germany since 2012. In 2016, Dr. Babin, Congressman District 37 and leader of Nasa Funding, endorsed McCarter and staffers are working directly with backing of the development of McCarter Silicon Space Systems. In addition to over 3000 hours of Technical Schools, McCarter has been directly mentored by the late Frank Anthony, Bell Labs and past 10 years Roger Paquin Perk & Elmer retired Materials Expert.
Inventor of processes to enable the use of Silicon in Optics and Opto-mechanical structures. McCarter's Silicon Components are Modular, Scalable and Producible. In particular, McCarter has developed a glass frit bonding process for building meter class systems for ground, flight or space missions.
Branislav Vlahovic
NASA University Research Center for Aerospace Device
Branislav Vlahovic is Director of the National Science Foundation Computational Center of Research Excellence, NASA University Research Center for Aerospace Device, and NSF Center Partnership for Research and Education in Materials at North Carolina Central University. In 2004, he was awarded by the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina Oliver Max Gardner statewide award for his research and contribution to science. He has published more than 300 papers in peer reviewed journals.
Computer simulations of nanostructures, tunneling and charge transfer between nanostructures, pulsed laser deposition of nanostructures, nonlinear optics, detectors and devices based on quantum confinement, nanophotonics, semiconductor structures, and photovoltaics.
Mahmoud Fallahi
Mahmoud Fallahi is a professor in the college of optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Toulouse and LAAS-CNRS, in 1988. He joined the National Research Council of Canada in 1989 and became a member of technical staff as a Research Scientist during 1992-1995. He joined the University of Arizona as an Assistant professor in 1995. His research has been extensively published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, reported in invited talks and published in international conference proceedings. He has authored or co-authored several book chapters, patents and invention disclosures. He has served as Conference Chair and Program Committee member in several international conferences in the field of semiconductor lasers and integrated optics. Since August 2014 he has been with the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a Program Director of the photonics program in the ECCS Division of Engineering Directorate. As a Program Director he is promoting and managing translational research in the field of optics and photonics.
He has over 28 years of active research in the field of photonic components, integrated optics and heterogeneous integration. His recent research interests are in high power semiconductor lasers, tunable sources, nonlinear frequency generation, photonic integrated circuits, micro/nanofabrication, and hybrid organic-inorganic components for heterogeneous integration.
Devki N. Talwar
Devki N. Talwar conducts research on defects in semiconductor materials used in various electronics and opto-electronics applications. He has been with IUP for almost twenty nine years, and is the author of more than 130 refereed journal articles, three book chapters, and review articles. His expertise in the sophisticated Green's function technique is considered very useful for providing information on the electronic and vibrational properties of defects in semiconductors, quantum wells, and superlattices. He is recognized by the international community as a prolific researcher.
Electronic, Vibrational and Optical properties of Nano-structured Semiconductor materials and Superlattices
Ortwin Hess
Leverhulme Chair
Ortwin Hess is a theoretical physicist in condensed matter quantum optics. He currently holds the Leverhulme Chair in the Blackett Laboratory (Department of Physics) at Imperial College London. He heads a team of researchers working on light-matter interaction in quantum nano-photonics, plasmonics and metamaterials, semiconductor nano-photonics and nano-laser dynamics and is Co-Director of Imperial's Centre for Plasmonics & Metamaterials. He obtained the PhD degree from the Technical University of Berlin (Germany) in 1993, while spending extended time (1990 – 1992) in Edinburgh (UK). After a post-doc at the University of Marburg (Germany) he obtained his Habilitation in Theoretical Physics at the University of Stuttgart in 1997. He was Visiting Professor at Stanford University (1997/98) and at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich (1999/2000). Before moving to Imperial College in January 2011 he was from 2003 to 2010 Professor of Theoretical Condensed Matter and Optical Physics at the University of Surrey (Guildford, UK).
• quantum nano-photonics (nanoplasmonics, plasmonic nano-lasers, quantum plasmonics) • optical, electronic and phononic metamaterials, • ultrafast semiconductor nano-photonics and nano-laser dynamics.
Shien-Kuei Liaw
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Shien-Kuei Liaw received double doctorates in photonics engineering from National Chiao-Tung University in 1999, and in mechanical engineering from National Taiwan University in 2014, respectively. He joined the Chunghua Telecommunication, Taiwan, in 1993. Since then, he has been working on optics communication and fiber based devices. He joined the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology since 2000 and served as the directors of Optoelectronic Center and Technology Transfer Center, respectively. Currently, he is a distinguished Professor at the same university and Taipei Chapter Chair of the IEEE Photonic Society. He was an academic visitor of University of Oxford, Nanyang Technological University, Tsing Hua University and Bellcore (now Telcordia). He has been awarded about 37 patents and has published 240 journal articles and international conference presentations. His research interests are in optical sensing, optical communication and reliability testing. He is a senior member of IEEE, OSA and SPIE.
optical sensing, optical communication and reliability testing
Peng-Sheng Wei
National Sun Yat-Sen
Dr. Peng-Sheng Wei received Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering Department at University of California, Davis, in 1984. He has been a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical Engineering of National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, since 1989. Dr. Wei has contributed to advancing the understanding of and to the applications of electron and laser beam, plasma, and resistance welding through theoretical analyses coupled with verification experiments. Investigations also include studies of their thermal and fluid flow processes, and formations of the defects such as humping, rippling, spiking and porosity. Dr. Wei has published more than 80 journal papers. He is a Fellow of AWS (2007), and a Fellow of ASME (2000). He also received the Outstanding Research Achievement Awards from both the National Science Council (2004), and NSYSU (1991, 2001, 2004), the Outstanding Scholar Research Project Winner Award from National Science Council (2008), the Adams Memorial Membership Award from AWS (2008), the Warren F. Savage Memorial Award from AWS (2012), and the William Irrgang Memorial Award from AWS (2014). He has been the Xi-Wan Chair Professor of NSYSU since 2009, and Invited Distinguished Professor in the Beijing University of Technology, China, during 2015-2017.
1.Thermal science in manufacturing and materials processing 2.Interactions between laser and surfaces 3.Plasma physics 4.Controlling of surface patterns and porosity Phase change across interfaces
Huikai Xie
Huikai Xie is a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Florida. He received his BS, MS and Ph.D. degrees all in electrical engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, Tufts University, and Carnegie Mellon University, respectively. Before he joined the University of Florida in 2002, he worked at Tsinghua University (1992-1996), Bosch Corporation (2001), and Akustica Inc. (2002). His research interests include MEMS/NEMS, integrated inertial sensors, microactuators, optical MEMS, biophotonics, optical microendoscopy, microspectrometers, and micro-LiDAR. He has published over 250 technical papers and holds 30 US patents. He has served on the technical program committees of various international conferences including IEEE Transducers, IEEE Optical MEMS, and IEEE Sensors, and the editorial boards of several international journals. He is a senior member of IEEE and OSA
Optical MEMS, optical imaging, microspectrometers, micro-LiDAR
Jingsi Li
Scientific R&D Manager
Lumentum
Dr. Jingsi Li is currently working as a Scientific R&D Manager in Integrated Photonics Chip Design Team at Lumentum. Lumentum is a market-leading manufacturer of innovative optical and photonic products enabling optical networking and commercial laser customers worldwide. Dr. Li has completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, focusing on design, fabrication, and characterization of integrated distributed feedback laser arrays for wavelength division multiplexing systems.
Optical Communications, Photonic Integrated Circuits
Kimberley C. Hall
Kimberley Hall completed her Ph.D. at the University of Toronto in 2002, followed by postdoctoral studies at the University of Iowa. Since 2004, Hall has been a faculty member in the Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science at Dalhousie University and holds a Canada Research Chair in Ultrafast Science. At Dalhousie University, Dr. Hall directs a research group focused on ultrafast spectroscopy and quantum control in semiconductor materials.
Electron spin coherence and relaxation, Quantum information, Photonic and spintronics devices, Magnetic semiconductors, Ultrafast dynamics in semiconductors, nanostructures.
Y. Shaya Fainman
Y. Fainman received M. Sc and Ph. D degrees from Technion, Israel in 1979 and 1983, respectively. Currently he is a Cymer Professor of Advanced Optical Technologies and Distinguished Professor in ECE at UCSD. He is directing research of the Ultrafast and Nanoscale Optics group at UCSD and made significant contributions to near field optical phenomena, nanophotonics and plasmonics, and non-conventional imaging. The research applications target information technologies and biomedical sensing. He contributed over 250 manuscripts in peer review journals and over 450 conference presentations and conference proceedings. He is a Fellow of OSA, IEEE, and SPIE, and a recipient of the Miriam and Aharon Gutvirt Prize, Lady Davis Fellowship, Brown Award, Gabor Award and Emmett N. Leith Medal.
Ultrafast and Nanoscale Optics
Luís Carlos
University of Évora
Luís António Dias Carlos got his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Évora, Portugal, in 1995 working on photoluminescence of polymer electrolytes incorporating lanthanide salts. Currently, he is Full Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Aveiro and vice-director of the CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials (Portugal). He is member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences and of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences. His current research interests include luminescent nanothermometers, luminescent solar concentrators, organic-inorganic hybrids for green photonics (solid-state lighting and integrated optics), and luminescent/magnetic nanoparticles, as new probes for multimodal imaging. He has published around 370 papers and 6 patents, which have received ca. 10,500 citations (Hirsch' index h of 53), and co-guest editor of a RSC book on Nanoscale Thermometry (Nanoscience & Nanotechnology series) and special issues of the Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology (2010) and of the Journal of Luminescence (2015).
Luminescent nanothermometry Applications of organic-inorganic hybrids in luminescent solar concentrators, solid-state lighting, and integrated optics Light emission of organic-inorganic hybrids, silicates, nanocrystals and metal organic frameworks Crystal-field, local coordination and energy transfer in lanthanide-based compounds Luminescent, magnetic and luminescent/magnetic nanoparticles as new probes for multimodal imaging Self-assembly and emergence of complexity in organic/inorganic hybrids
Junpeng Guo
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Junpeng Guo earned his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He joined Rockwell International Science Center in Thousand Oaks, California as a Research Scientist after receiving his Ph.D. and later moved to Sandia National Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff. Since 2005, he has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Optics at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Dr. Guo has worked in many areas of optics, including ultrafast fiber laser, semiconductor lasers, RF/Photonics, photonics crystals, waveguide optics, micro-ring resonators and sensors. He fabricated the first high resolution micropolarizer array device, which enabled the industrial development of 3D TV displays. Currently, Dr. Guo's research is nanostructure plasmonics, photonics, metamaterials, and spectrometer sensors. He received Alan Berman Research Publication Award in 2012 and was the sole recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Research Award of the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2016. Currently, he serves as an Associate Editor of Photonics Research.
Plasmonics, Metamaterials, Nanophotonics, and Sensors
Björn Manuel Hegelich
Prof. Manuel Hegelich, an experimental laser physicist, very successfully joint with his group the exploration of the laser interaction with ultra-thin foils (produced at MAP). We are observing very dense laser-induced ion beams, the breakout of dense electron bunches and the production of high harmonics at different lasers, exploring this new coherent physics. The ultrashort dense secondary beams promise to have new properties in nonlinear interactions.
Interaction of ultra-intense electromagnetic fields with matter; high-energy density physics; laser-particle acceleration
Minvydas Ragulskis
Prof. Minvydas Ragulskis received his Ph.D. (Doctor of Sciences) degree at Kaunas University of Technology. In 2008 he has been a professor at Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. In 2012 he has elected as Member of Lithuanian Academy of Science, in 2013 he received award from Official Expert at the Committee of National Science Awards. In 2015 he is Invited as Expert for Horizon 2020 projects (European Commission)
Optics has traditionally been an important research area for our Group. Our field in optics could be shortly described as modelling of optical effects in virtual computational environments. The utilization of three basic components – numerical models of elastic dynamically interacting bodies, a physical model describing interference effects occurring whenever optical whole field fringe based experimental techniques are used to investigate these bodies, and the construction of digital graphical representations helps to mimic realistic optical processes taking place in those systems. And not only – such tools help to interpret complex optical phenomena and help to develop new measurement techniques. We managed to propose several new measurement techniques and improvements of existing measurement techniques – time average photoelasticity; time average stochastic moire; time average geometric super moire; the generalization of Abel transform for vibrating tubes; corrections of classical formulas describing time average projection moire and time average geometric moire. The range of investigated systems is quite wide: from MEMS up to fluids, membranes, or bodies with fractal surface geometry. Investigations of optical phenomena originated new numerical cryptographic methods and initiated the development of specialized numerical techniques.
Organizing Committee - Optics-2015
Douglas R. McCarter
McCarter Technology, Inc.,
Doug McCarter, Vice-President and co-Founder, serves as technical integrator and customer liaison. He has worked in and with the petrochemical industry for over 30 years providing troubleshooting expertise on reciprocating equipment as well as supplying custom-machined parts. Since 1999, he has co-authored and authored seven technical papers concerning SCSi processing and its application. Recently, he was designated as a "Senior Member" in SPIE that honors those who have significantly contributed to the optics and photonics community.
Manijeh Razeghi joined Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, as a Walter P. Murphy Professor and Director of the Center for Quantum Devices in fall 1991, where she created the undergraduate and graduate program in solid-state engineering. She is one of the leading scientists in the field of semiconductor science and technology, pioneering in the development and implementation of major modern epitaxial techniques. Her current research interest is in nanoscale optoelectronic quantum devices. She has authored or coauthored more than 1000 papers, more than 30 book chapters, and 16 books. She holds 30 U.S. patents and has given more than 1000 invited and plenary talks. She received the IBM Europe Science and Technology Prize in 1987, the Achievement Award from the SWE in 1995, the R.F. Bunshah Award in 2004 and many best paper awards. Razeghi is an elected fellow of SWE (1995), SPIE (2000), IEC (2003), OSA (2004), APS (2004), IOP (2005), IEEE (2005) and MRS (2008).
Pioneer in the area of III-V compound semiconductors and optoelectronic devices from the deep ultraviolet to the far infrared spectral bands, including in particular InP and GaAs based semiconductors and devices, which were at the heart of the optical fiber telecommunication revolution of the late 20th Century and the rise of the information age
Paul Michael Petersen
Paul Michael Petersen has more than 30 years of research experience in laser physics, nonlinear optics, and optical measuring techniques and he has headed several collaborative research projects within laser physics. Until 1989 he worked in the fields of optical chaos and nonlinear optics in semiconductors. In 1994 he joined the Optics and Fluid Department at Risø National Laboratory. From 2001 until 2007 he was head of Laser Systems and Optical Materials at Risø National Laboratory and in 2008 he became head of research at DTU Fotonik at the Technical University of Denmark. From 2002 to 2012 he was adjunct professor in Optics at the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University. In 2011 P.M.Petersen was appointed Full Professor in New Light Sources at DTU Fotonik at the Technical University of Denmark.
high power diode lasers based on nonlinear optics and Diode lasers used for lighting.
Sergey Mirov
Sergey Mirov received Ph.D. in Physics in 1983, from the P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Since 1993, Mirov is a faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Currently, he is a university Professor of Physics at the UAB and director of the Center for Optical Sensors and Spectroscopies. He is a fellow of the Optical Society of America, and member of the American Physics Society, and SPIE. He has authored or co-authored over three hundred ninety scientific publications, has published 1 book, several book chapters, and holds twenty patents.
Laser physics-Novel lasers and applications
Vladimir Falko
Vladimir Fal'ko is a condensed-matter theorists, who was responsible for advances in the theory of electronic and optical properties of graphene (including discovery of bilayer graphene, in 2006) and theory of localisation and quantum transport in mesoscopic systems. Educated at Moscow Physical Engineering Institute and the Institute for Solid State Physics RAS, he worked as a research fellow at Max-Planck-Institut in Stuttgart and Oxford University and, now, he holds the post of Distinguished Professor of Condensed Matter Theory at Lancaster University (UK). His current interest includes modelling heterostructures of graphene and other atomically thin two-dimensional crystals, as part of the Horizon2020 European Graphene Flagship Project.
Graphene and related two-dimensional atomic crystals: electronic transport and optical properties.Heterostructures of two-dimensional atomic materials (grapheen-hBN, etc).strongly correlated states of electrons in two-dimensional materials, quantum Hall effect.Fundamentals of nanoelectronics, spintronics, and nano-electro-mechanical systems. Quantum optics and optical properties of semiconductor quantum dots.
Mahi R Singh
Mahi R Singh received Ph.D. (1976) degrees from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in condensed matter physics. After that he was awarded an Alenxander von Humbold Fellow in Stuttgart University, Germany from 1979 to 1981. Currently, he is Professor in this university. He was a visiting Professor at University of Houston, He also worked as a chief researcher at CRL HITACHI, Tokyo and he was a visiting Professor and Royal Society Professor at University of Oxford, UK. He was the Director of the Centre of Chemical Physics and theoretical physics program at Western. Singh has worked in many research are of science and technology including nanoscience, nanotechnology, nanophotonics, optoelectronics, semiconductors structures, high temperature superconductors, nanophotonics, plasmonics, polarotonics and nanoscience and technology.
Nanoscience, nanotechnology, nanophotonics, optoelectronics, semiconductor structures, high temperature superconductors, nanophotonics, plasmonics, polarotonics and nanoscience and technology
J.K. Heinrich Hoerber
J.K. Heinrich Hoerber is a Professor of Nanobiophysics, School of Physics University of Bristol, UK. He is Editor of the Journal "Molecular recognition", published by Wiley. He is an Honorary Professor of University College London (UCL) 2003 - 2008.
Current research interest: Interactions between light and nanostructures i) surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy on nanostructures ii) sensor development for biomedical applications iii) use of optical properties to produce large quantities of mono disperse nanostructures for industrial applications 2. Electron transport in non-conducting materials i) data storage ii) photo voltaic iii) chemical catalysis 3. Mechanical properties of proteins connecting structure and function
Devki N. Talwar, Indiana U of Pennsylvania (IUP), Chair of Department of Physics, conducts research on optical/electronic properties of defects and phonons in semiconductor materials used for various electronic and opto-electronic devices. He has been with Indiana U of Pennsylvania (IUP), Department of Physics, for almost 27 years and is the author of more than 120 refereed journal articles, 3 book chapters and review articles. His expertise in the sophisticated Green's function technique is considered very useful for providing information on the electronic and vibrational properties of defects in semiconductors, quantum wells and superlattices.
Devki Talwar conducts research on defects in semiconductor materials used for various electronics and opto-electronics.
Fedor V Kusmartsev
Fedor V Kusmart is Vice Head of Physics Department, Loughborough University, Uk. For ten years Kusmartsev has been leading and managing the large multi-stakeholder research consortium – the European Network-Programme "Arrays of Quantum Dots and Josephson Junctions"(AQDJJ). This very large consortium included 75 research teams with very different cross-disciplinary background, from Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, Mathematics and Computing Departments of 75 EU universities distributed over 12 EU countries (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and UK) and have very different cultural, academic and industrial backgrounds. The European Science Foundation assessment reports unanimously stated that the strong success of the AQDJJ consortium work was "due to the leadership of the AQDJJ chairman, Prof Fedor v Kusmartsev".He is a Member of International Editorial Advisory Boards: journal N1: Advances in Condensed Matter Physics (since 2007); journal N2: Econophysics, New Economy and Complexity (since 2010). N3: Scientific Reports (NATURE, since 2013); was a guest editor of several high profile journals: Journal of Physics A(2003), Superconducting Science and Technology(2009), J. of Modern Physics B(2008).
His current topics of research include: Many body and classical dynamics, motion, stability, Saturn Rings, Protoplanetary disks, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Quantum Computing, Cosmology, Dark Matter and Dark energy, Chaos and Nonlinear Physics, Magnetic materials, Graphene, Nanophysics, Metamaterials, Topological Insulators. Magnetic Nanoparticles and their application inNanomedicin, Internet and other Networks and other Complex Systems, Communications, Sociophysics and Econophysics.
Mehdi Anwar
Anwar serves as an Editor of IEEE Journal of Electron Devices and has served as an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (2001 – 2010). He serves as the conference chair of the international conference on Terahertz Physics, Devices and Systems: Advanced Applications in Industry and Defense of the SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012). He has also chaired the 2006 and 2007 Terahertz Physics, Devices and Systems Conference as part of SPIEs Optics East. Anwar is a SPIE fellow.
Localization of one-dimensional structures, transport in semiconductor devices, impurity diagnostics in quantum well structures, Sb-based type–II infrared detectors, noise in semiconductor devices, power performance of GaN-based HFETs and circuits.
Luís António Dias Carlos
Luís António Dias Carlos got his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Évora, Portugal, in 1995 working on photoluminescence of polymer electrolytes incorporating lanthanide salts. Currently, he is Full Professor at the University of Aveiro, Physics Department. Since 2009 he has been the vice-director of the CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials, Portugal (with ca. 420 people, CICECO, http://www.ciceco.ua.pt/, is one of the largest European institute in the Materials and Nano fields). He is member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences (Physics section) since 2011 and was visiting professor of S. Paulo State University (UNESP), Araraquara, S.P. Brazil (1999, 2012 and 2013), University of Montpellier 2, France (2008). Luís Carlos is co-author of 2 international patents, ca. 370 papers and book chapters with ca. 8900 citations (Hirsch' index h of 49) and co-guest editor of special issues of the Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology (2010) and of the Journal of Luminescence (2015). He received the Portuguese Science Foundation prize for Scientific Excellence (2004) and a CNPq Special Visiting Researcher Grant, Science Without Borders Program, Brazil (2013).
His current scientific interests include nanothermometry, light emission of functional organic–inorganic hybrids, silicates and nanocrystals, applications of hybrid materials in green photonics (solid-state lighting, luminescent solar concentrators and integrated optics), self-assembly and emergence of complexity in organic/inorganic hybrids, and luminescent/magnetic nanoparticles as new probes for multimodal imaging.
Debesh Choudhury
Neotia Institute of Technology, Management and Science
Debesh Choudhury earned his M.Sc.Tech. (optics & optoelectronics) degree in 1989 and Ph.D. (applied optics) degree in 1995 respectively from University of Calcutta and Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He served as a scientist at Instruments R&D Establishment, Dehradun, India. He worked at the Department of Information and Communication Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan for postdoctoral research. Presently, he is a professor at the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Neotia Institute of Technology, Management and Science, West Bengal, India. He experienced a variety of research areas in and around signal and image processing, pattern recognition, holography, laser instrumentation, microwave imaging, VLSI circuits and systems. He also handled projects in adaptive optics and imaging through turbulent media. He is an avid user and a promoter of GNU/Linux, free and open source software. He is a senior member of SPIE, member of IEEE, Optical Society of India, Optical Society of America, Indian Laser Association, Instrument Society of India, ACM, FOSET.
Image processing, digital holography, pattern recognition, microwave imaging, VLSI circuits and systems.
Center for Quantum Devices, Northwestern University, USA
Frank K Tittel
Rice University,USA
Frank K Tittel is the Josephine S. Abercrombie Professor of Electrical Computer Engineering at Rice University, where he also holds a joint faculty appointment in the Department of Bioengineering. He obtained his bachelors, masters, and doctorate degrees in Physics from the University of Oxford in 1955 and 1959, respectively. From 1959 to 1967, he was a Research Physicist with General Electric Research and Development Center, Schenectady, New York. Since 1967, he has been on the faculty at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Current research interests include various aspects of quantum electronics, in particular laser spectroscopy, nonlinear optics, and laser applications in environmental monitoring, industrial process control, and medicine. Tittel is a fellow of the IEEE, the Optical Society of America and the American Physical Society.
Quantum electronics, in particular laser spectroscopy, nonlinear optics, and laser applications in environmental monitoring, industrial process control, and medicine
Hans Schuessler
Texas A&M University,USA
Hans Schuessler earned a Ph.D. in Physics in 1964 from the University of Heidelberg. He held faculty appointments at the Technological University of Berlin, and the University of Washington, before joining Texas A&M University in 1989, where he currently heads the SIBOR (Stored Ion Bio Optical Research) and Atto-Second laser laboratories. His collaborations include TAMUQ at Doha, Qatar, the MPQ at Garching, Germany, and RIKEN at Tokyo, Japan. He holds a chair in Optical and Biomedical Physics at TAMU, is eminent scientist at RIKEN, and distinguished scientist at JAERI, and fellow of APS. He has published about 200 papers.
Atomic physics and laser spectroscopy: on-line spectrosacopy of short-lived isotopes, measurement of nuclear moments, spins and charge distributions, cross-sections for spin dependent atomic collisions, ion storage spectroscopy and laser cooling, low energy ion and atom collisions, highly charged ion spectroscopy and Wigner crystals
Devendra K Sadana
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center,USA
Devendra Sadana obtained his Ph.D. from the IIT, New Delhi in 1975. He has worked at the University of Oxford, England, University of California, Berkeley, Microelectronics Center of North Carolina, and Philips Research Labs, Sunnyvale, CA during 1975-87 in various capacities. He joined IBM Research in 1987, where he is currently a Senior Staff & Manager of the Advanced Substrate Research group. His research work covers research in Si and III-Vs including ion implantation, advanced epitaxy, SOI materials, photovoltaics, CMOS technology among many others. He has published over 200 journal/conference papers and is a co-inventor of over 300 issued/submitted patents.
Si and III-Vs including ion implantation, advanced epitaxy, SOI materials, photovoltaics, CMOS technology among many others
North Carolina Central University,USA
Branislav Vlahovic is director of the National Science Foundation Computational Center of Research Excellence and director of the NASA University Research Center for Aerospace Device at North Carolina Central University. In 2004, he was awarded by the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina Oliver Max Gardner statewide award for his research and contribution to science. He has published more than 250 papers in peer reviewed journals.
Computer simulations of nanostructures, tunneling and charge transfer between nanostructures, pulsed laser deposition of nanostructures, nonlinear optics, detectors and devices based on quantum confinement, nanophotonics, semiconductor structures, photovoltaics
Center for Optical Sensors and Spectroscopies
Center for Optical Sensors and Spectroscopies,Albama
Matthew Brenner
University of California,USA
Indiana University of Pennsylvania Indiana
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana
Ray T Chen
Tel: 512-471-7035, 512-471-4349
University of Texas,USA
Ray Chen is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas Austin, and holds the Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professorship in Engineering. From 1988 to 1992 Chen worked as a research scientist, manager, and director of the Department of Electro-Optic Engineering at the Physical Optics Corporation in Torrance, California. Chen served as the CTO, Founder, and Chairman of the Board of Radiant Research, Inc. from 2000 to 2001, where he raised 18 million dollars A-Round funding to commercialize polymer-based photonic devices involving over twenty patents, which were acquired by Finisar in 2002, a publicly traded company in the Silicon Valley (NASDAQ:FNSR). He also serves as the founder and Chairman of the Board of Omega Optics Inc. since its initiation in 2001. Omega Optics has received over five million dollars in research funding. His research work has been awarded over 100 research grants and contracts from such sponsors as DOD, NSF, DOE, EPA, NIH, NASA, the State of Texas, and private industry. Chens group at UT Austin has reported its research findings in more than 650 published papers, including over 85 invited papers. He holds 20 issued patents. He has chaired or been a program-committee member for more than 100 domestic and international conferences. He has served as an editor, co-editor or coauthor for over twenty books and special issues. Chen is a Fellow of IEEE, OSA, and SPIE. He was the recipient of the 1987 UC Regents Dissertation Fellowship and the 1999 UT Engineering Foundation Faculty Award, for his contributions in research, teaching and services. He was also the recipient of the 2008 IEEE Teaching Award, and the 2010 IEEE HKN Loudest Professor Award. He was elected as an Honorable Citizen of the city of Austin in 2003. During his undergraduate years at the National Tsing Hua University, he led the 1979 university debate team to the Championship of the Taiwan College-Cup Debate Contest. Chen has supervised and graduated 39 PhD students from his research group at UT Austin.
Electromagnetics & Acoustics, Plasma/Quantum Electronics and Optics, and Solid-State Electronics
Kal Renganathan Sharma
Texas Southern University,USA
Kal Renganathan Sharma received his B.Tech in chemical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India in 1985 and M.S and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering from West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV in 1987 and 1990 respectively. His post-doctoral research training was under former chair and Prof. R. Shankar Subramanian, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, Chemical Engineering. He is the author of 12 Books, 537 Conference Papers, 143 Articles/Bibliographic Archivals (7 Book-Chapters, 3 Review Articles) and 112 other presentations. He has instructed 2830 students in India and USA in 103 courses. He is a Fellow of Indian Chemical Society and listed in Who in America. He has reviewed over 30 Journal Articles. He serves on Editorial Boards such as, ChemXpress, Rajkot, India. Editorial Board, Caspian Journal of Applied Science and Research, Penang, Malaysia. Associate Editor, Journal of Scientific Research and Reports, Oxford/New York/Delhi. He serves as Adjunct Faculty at Lone Star College, University Park and instructs Industrial Electronics among other courses. He has held high level positions in academia. He has received cash awards from Monsanto Plastics Technology, Indian Orchad, MA, SASTRA University, Thanjavur, India, Prairie View A & M University, Prairie View, TX. He has received 14 press citations. His works have been cited more than 218 times in refereed journals. His book is required text in the graduate level course in electronics in Mumbai University, Mumbai, India.
Anadi Mukherjee
Infrasign
Infrasign,USA
Anadi Mukherjee has over 30 years experience and leadership roles in R&D relating lasers, photonic materials and devices, optoelectronics, integrated optics – new concepts, fabrication and processing, quantum cascade lasers, trace gas/HAZMAT detection, new biomedical imaging and diagnosis technique. As a research Assistant Professor at the Center for High Technology materials & EECE Departments at University of New Mexico he initiated new R&D projects in different areas of optoelectronics including Mu-Lasers, very low loss polymeric waveguides and devices etc. Recently as a Senior Scientist at Pranalytica Inc., he developed single-mode tunable external cavity quantum cascade lasers and multiplexed them for multigas detection with high sensitivity and selectivity.
Lasers, photonic materials and devices, optoelectronics, integrated optics – new concepts, fabrication and processing, quantum cascade lasers, trace gas/HAZMAT detection, new biomedical imaging and diagnosis technique
Peter A. Bokhan
Principal Scientist
Institute of Semiconductor Physics (ISP), Russia
Peter A. Bokhan, is a Principal scientist in the Institute of Semiconductor Physics (ISP) Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science (SB RAS). From 1975-1972, he was senior scientist of IAO, the best known achievement that has been performed at this time were an investigation on lasing mechanism of the pulse – periodic metal vapor lasers on the self-terminating transitions, including copper vapor lasers. The large project that was realized in 90th of last century is a laser isotope separation of lead to remove radioactive isotope 210Pb from natural lead. Along with his colleagues he developed the technologies to produce a lot of other isotopes of different elements, for example rubidium, calcium, ytterbium and so on. From 2008-2000, he was the head of Quantum Electronics Division. Currently, Peter Bokhan is a Principal scientist in the Institute of Semiconductor Physics (ISP) Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science (SB RAS).
Physics of gaseous and semiconductor laser, laser isotope separation, physics of gas discharge, electron emission from cold cathodes, atomic collisions, fast processes in plasma physics. He is actively involved in the field of generation of powerful electric and electron beam pulses with subnanosecond rise time at high repetition rate (up to 50kHz), and pumping different lasers, especially semiconductor lasers and metal vapour lasers.
University of Connecticut,USA
Anwar serves as an Editor of IEEE Journal of Electron Devices and has served as an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (2001 – 2010). He is the Guest Editor of an upcoming issue of Optical Engineering. He serves as the conference chair of the international conference on Terahertz Physics, Devices and Systems: Advanced Applications in Industry and Defense of the SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012). He has also chaired the 2006 and 2007 Terahertz Physics, Devices and Systems Conference as part of SPIEs Optics East. Anwar is a SPIE fellow.
Localization of one-dimensional structures, transport in semiconductor devices, impurity diagnostics in quantum well structures, Sb-based type–II infrared detectors, noise in semiconductor devices, power performance of GaN-based HFETs and circuits
Prakash C Sharma
Tuskegee University,USA
Prakash C Sharma has completed his Ph.D. from one of the leading Asian Centers of Advanced Physics, Banaras University, India and postdoctoral studies from Sweden. He is currently working as Professor and Head, Physics, College of Arts & Sciences. He has more than 75 peer reviewed publications.
Sustainable Energy - Solar Energy, Phonon Interactions/ Wide Gap, Semiconductors e.g. SiC, Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics, Lattice & Superconductivity, Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
University of Western Ontario,Canada
Gary R Pickrell
Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing
Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing,USA
Gary R Pickrell completed his Ph.D. in 1994 from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia. He has 14 issued patents with around 150 publications. He served as the Program Committee member for 24 International Conferences and is an Editorial Board member for 6 journals. He served as Advisor or Co-advisor of seven graduate students from underrepresented groups, and graduate committee member for over 25 graduate students from underrepresented groups. He also received Virginia Tech Outstanding Assistant Professor Award in 2005 for his teaching. He was also honoured as R&D 100 Award winner October, 2004 (for a fiber optic sensor suite - one of the top 100 products developed in the world). He has served as a reviewer for proposals from US (DOE), Chinese and Russian governments and has been an invited presenter/participant in several DOE, NSF, and USGS workshops. Currently, he is Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Director of Surface Engineering, Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Director, for NanoBioMaterials Laboratory.
Specialty optical fiber fabrication, fiber Optics, and fiber optic sensors
Ian W Boyd
University of Brunel
Tel: +44-(0)1895267419
Fax: +44-(0)1895812544
University of Brunel,United Kingdom
Ian W Boyd is currently Director of the ETC at the University of Brunel. Prior to that he was a cofounder and Director of Nanoelectronics at the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) where he also headed the Materials & Devices group as Professor of Electronic Materials in the department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering at University College London (UCL), before becoming the inaugural Director of the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication (MCN) in 2009. He has 30 years of experience in lasers, nanotechnology and materials science. Professor Boyd obtained first class BSc (1979) and PhD (1982) degrees at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh where he received the Watt Medal for distinction and class prize for best student. Subsequent to working in Medical Physics and as a Microelectronics Device Engineer, he became a research scientist at the University of North Texas, prior to obtaining faculty tenure at UCL. He has contributed significantly to research at international level in several fields, having presented more than 50 invited papers, written and/or edited 8 books, and published more than 300 papers in major scientific journals. He has served on numerous advisory committees and as a consultant world-wide, as president of the European Materials Research Society (EMRS) in Strasbourg where he is currently a member of the executive board and co-chairs the 2014 international conference. He also served as a member of the board of Directors of the Materials Research Society (MRS) from 2008-2011 and is currently a fellow of both the Institute of Physics (IoP) and the Institute of Electrical Technology (IET). Professor Boyd holds Honorary Professorial Chairs on several continents and was recipient of the Senior Yarwood medal for pioneering contributions to thin film growth by the British Vacuum Society in 2005.
Development and applications of lasers, in particular towards the interaction of light with matter, and materials processing. Laser applications in surface modification, annealing, oxidation, deposition, etching and ablation, especially in thin film technology. Fundamental properties of deep UV excimer lamp sources and their applications.
Periodic Structures, Inc. and RenderStream
Periodic Structures, Inc. and RenderStream ,USA
John Petersen has extensive experience in all aspects of lithography and a strong modeling background. John has been heavily involved in advanced design and manufacturing of photomasks for extremely high resolution optical lithography. He has experience from Texas Instruments, Shipley Company, SEMATECH and Petersen Advanced Lithography, Inc. John is co-developer of the 2006 SEMI Innovation Award winning Maxwell equation solver EMF3. He began his direct involvement with interference lithography working with Steve Brueck at the UNM as a technical advisory board member of the Nanolithography MURI. John is a fellow of SPIE. He has published more than sixty-five papers, often an invited speaker, taught advanced optical lithography for many years holds seven patents. He is known worldwide for describing the chemical-physics of chemically amplified resists (Byers-Petersen Reaction Diffusion Equations) and for his work in advanced optical lithography. His current research uses multi-wavelength optical lithography to extend resolution to the 10 nm half-pitch.
Lithography, Semiconductors,Modeling and Nanotechnology
Igor Sukhoivanov
Universidad de Guanajuato
Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico
Full Professor in Laser and Optoelectronic Devices, Dr. Sc. (2002), Ph.D (1985). Currently, he is with the University of Guanajuato, Mexico. Author of 1 book, 8 chapters in books and more than 130 journal papers. Senior member of IEEE and OSA, Member of SPIE. Postdoctoral study in the Humboldt-Universitat, Berlin and visiting Professor-researcher fellows of DAAD in University Karlsruhe, Germany (1994, 1997, 1998, 2002); University Montpellier, France (2001); University Juvjaskula, Finland,(TEMPUS/TASIS – 2001); Sabbatical year researcher in the University of Valencia, Spain (2012-13). Founder of the IEEE Photonics Soc. (LEOS) Ukraine chapter, founder and advisor of the SPIE Guanajuato Student Chapter; Organizer, chairman of International Conf. Laser and Fiber Optical Networks Modeling (1999 –2013), International Conf. on Advanced Optoelectronics and Lasers (2003 – 2013),etc.; Co-organizer of separate topics in IEEE/LEOS Summer Topicals 2008 and IEEE/PHO Summer Tropicals 2010.
Photonic devices, semiconductor lasers and theory of quantum confinement structures, photonic crystal elements including design of photonic crystal fibers, ultra short pulse generation and propagation and their reshaping in fibers
Charles M. Falco holds a Named Professorship -- UA Chair of Condensed Matter Physics -- at the University of Arizona, where he has been a Professor of Optical Sciences since 1992, and a joint appointment in Physics. He received his Ph.D. in experimental condensed matter physics in 1974 from the University of California, Irvine, after which he joined Argonne National Laboratory as Assistant Physicist (1974–77), and Physicist (1977–82) (Group Leader, Superconductive and Novel Materials Group 1978–82). He held visiting positions as Maitre de Recherche (May–July, 1979) and Professeur Invité (May–June, 1986) at the Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, and was an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the Technical University of Aachen, Germany, June–November, 1989. He has served on a number of scientific panels, advisory boards, and review committees for various government agencies and universities, the editorial boards of seven journals, and as a member of organizing, program, advisory, etc. committees of 20 international conferences and workshops. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Optical Society of America, and the Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) and served two-year terms as Councillor of the APS and Member of the Executive Committee of the Division of Condensed Matter Physics of the APS (1992–1993), and four years as Secretary/Treasurer of the Forum on International Physics of the APS (1994–1998). Very recently he was a member of the panel that issued the report "Optics and Photonics: Essential Technologies for Our Nation" (The National Academies Press, 2013). He has authored or co-authored over 250 papers, six book chapters, six U.S. patents, and co-edited two books, as well as given over 400 invited talks at conferences, research institutions, and cultural organizations in 30 countries.
Charles Falco's principal research interests are the growth (by Molecular Beam Epitaxy-MBE and sputtering), structure (using a wide range of probes, including x-ray and electron diffraction, in situ and ex situ surface probes, electron microscopy, scanning probe microscopies, etc.), and studies of the physical properties of metallic superlattices and ultra-thin films, including research on magnetism, superconductivity, x-ray optics, elastic properties, and nucleation and epitaxy of thin films, as well as computerized image analysis.
Rainer Martini
Stevens Institute of Technology,USA
Ultrafast switching devices based on semiconductor and semiconductor heterostructures, ultrafast laser sources (100fs and below) and their application in spectroscopy, communication, material testing, generation, detection, and application of time-resolved terahertz (100 GHz - 5000 GHz) radiation, free Space Optical Communication using new wavelength (infrared) as well as ultrashort pulses, Infrared laser communication at ultrahigh speed, Infrared camera system using new alternate approaches
Vladimir V Rumyantsev
Donetsk Physics & Technology Institute (DonPhTI)
Tel: +380-62311-5277
Fax: +380-62342-9018
Donetsk Physics & Technology Institute (DonPhTI),Ukraine
Vladimir V. Rumyantsev is Professor in Nanophysics Department at Donetsk National University (DonNU) and Head of Physics Technology Subdivision at A.A. Galkin Donetsk Institute for Physics and Engineering of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (DonIPE NANU). He received Ph.D. in Physics (1988) from DonNU and Dr. Sci. in Solid State Physics (2007) from DonIPE NANU. He has authored/co-authored 3 books, 2 chapters in books and about 200 scientific publications. Prof. Rumyantsev is Co-coordinator of joint Russian-Ukrainian project (2012-2013) and Group Leader of International project in the framework of the European program FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES (2013-2016), he is a member of the Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics as well as a member of the American Physical Society.
Various aspects of solid state physics, crystallooptics, photonics; more particularly- theoretical study of the effects of disorder in quasi-two-dimensional nanofilms and layered structures caused by the propagation of electromagnetic and acoustic excitations, light-matter coupling in composite nanostructures.
Leonas Valkunas
Vilnius University, Lithuania
Leonas Valkunas has completed his Ph.D. at the age of 27 years from Vilnius University. He is the head of the Department of Theoretical Physics of Vilnius University and the deputy director of the Center for Physical Sciences and Technology in Vilnius. He has published more than 250 papers in reputed journals.
2D coherent spectroscopy of disordered molecular aggregates and photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes
Boris Fainberg
Holon Institute of Technology
Tel: 972-350-26576
Holon Institute of Technology, Israel
Boris Fainberg received his Ph.D. (1977) from the State Optical Institute named for S. I. Vavilov (St.-Petersburg, Russia). In 1991, he moved to the School of Chemistry at Tel-Aviv University where he is a visiting Professor. In 1998, he joined the staff of the Holon Institute of Technology (Israel) where he works as a Professor of Chemical Physics. He published more than 115 papers in reputed journals. He was a visiting Professor at Institute of Atomic and Molecular Science, Taipei; Institute of Physics and Chemistry of Materials, Strasbourg; Humboldt University of Berlin; University of Augsburg; Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
Dissipative and many-body effects in optical control with intense chirped and non-chirped pulses of molecules and semiconductors, molecular electronics, molecular and quantum dots nanojunctions, nanophotonics, dissipative and nonlinear Landau-Zener problems, optical control and activation of nonradiation transitions by strong radiation, Non-Markovian theory of four-photon spectroscopy of complex molecules and superconductors, Nonlinear spectroscopy of linear and nonlinear solvation dynamics, effects of phase modulation in lasers for ultrashort light pulses, interference effects in nonlinear scattering, quantum expansions for calculating vibronic spectra and distribution functions for molecular systems with multiwell potentials
Gagik G Gurzadyan
Nanyang Technological University
Nanyang Technological University,Singapore
Gagik G Gurzadyan received his Ph.D. degree from Moscow State University in 1983 and Dr. Sci. from Yerevan State University in 1996. He was a post doc at Max-Planck-Institute of Radiation Chemistry (Germany) and CEA/Saclay (France). During 2002-11, he was a Senior Scientist at Technical University of Munich (Germany), and from 2008 Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). His research interests include nonlinear optics, ultrafast laser spectroscopy, and nonlinear photochemistry. Last years he was focused on femtosecond relaxation processes in graphene and singlet fission in organic crystals. He has authored/co-authored six books and about 80 scientific articles. His Handbook of Nonlinear Optical Crystals (Springer-Verlag) is used as a textbook in University courses of over than 10 countries.
Nonlinear optics, ultrafast laser spectroscopy, and nonlinear photochemistry
Vladimir G Chigrinov
HKUST
HKUST,Hong Kong
Vladimir Chigrinov Graduated From Faculty of Applied Mathematics, Moscow Electronics Institute, the Diploma of Engineer-Mathematician in 1973. He was Head of Division, "Fine Chemistry for Electronics" in Organic Intermediates and Dyes Institute, Scientific-Research Center of Russia (1988-1996) and expert in Flat Panel Technology in Russia, recoginzed by World Technology Evaluation Centre, 1994; He has 4 books, 14 reviews and book chapters, 209 refereed papers, 485 Conference presentations and 75 patents in the field of liquid crystals since 1974. He has been Visiting Associate Professor in EEE Dept, HKUST, Hong Kong since 1.06.99 and Associate Professor in EEE Department, HKUST, Hong Kong since 1.07.02. He is Senior Member of the Society for Information Display (SID) since 10.10.04 and Associate Editor of J. of SID since 06.2005. He is SID fellow since 02.08. He is Professor in ECE Dept, HKUST, Hong Kong since 1.07.08. The paper of M.Schadt, K.Schmett, V.Kozenkov, V.Chigrinov, Surface-induced parallel alignment of liquid crystals by linearly polymerized photopolymers, Jap. J.Appl. Phys. P.I., Vol.31, pp. 2155-2164 (1992) is number 4 among the most heavily-cited and has been influential papers published in JJAP since the first volume (1962) and has been selected from the various fields of applied physics by the JJAP Editorial Board. HKUST FYP team was awarded by Varitronix (2009, 2010, and 2012) in Displays. He was given the Research Excellence Award of SENG, HKUST that recognizes the efforts of an outstanding faculty member with a proven record of research excellence in May 2012. He had been Chair of LC Photonics Conferences in Hong Kong, 2010, 2012.
Computer modeling of various electrooptical effects in Liquid Crystals (LC); Photo-aligning technique for LCD applications; LC devices in fiber optics; Fast multistable ferroelectric liquid crystal devices
Department of Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical Engineering
National Sun Yat-Sen University
National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan
Peng-Sheng Wei received Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering Department at University of California, Davis, in 1984. He has been a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical Engineering of National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, since 1989. He has published more than 70 journal papers. He is a fellow of AWS (2007), a fellow of ASME (2000), and a senior member of IEEE (2008). He also received the Outstanding Research Achievement Awards from both the National Science Council (2004), and NSYSU (1991, 2001, and 2004), the Outstanding Scholar Research Project Winner from National Science Council (2008), and Adams Memorial Membership Award from AWS (2008), Warren F. Savage Memorial Award from AWS (2012). He holds the position of the Xi-Wan Chair Professor of NSYSU in 2009.
Advancing understanding of and to the applications of electron and laser beam and resistance welding through theoretical analyses coupled with verification experiments, studies of their thermal and fluid flow processes, and formations of the defects such as humping, rippling, spiking and porosity.
Siva Umapathy
Indian Institute of Science
Indian Institute of Science,India
Senior R&D Reliability Engineer
Senior R&D Reliability Engineer,JDSU ,USA
Jingsi Li has completed his Ph.D from electrical engineering and postdoctoral studies from, The University of Texas at Austin. He is working as a Senior R&D Reliability Engineer, Integrated Photonics R&D Chip Design Team, and JDSU which is based in JDSU Worldwide Headquarter in Milpitas, CA, USA. He has published more than 6 papers in reputed journals and serving as a Reviewer in Optics Letter, Optics Express, IEEE Photonics Journal, Applied Optics, Optics Communications, Optics & Laser Technology, Optical Engineering, Chinese Optics Letters, Science China Technological Sciences, etc.
Invented regrowth-free and e-beam-free InP DFB laser and WDM laser arrays with quarter-wave phase shifts Developed complete set of fabrication processes for laterally-coupled DFB lasers by interference lithography Fabricated GaAs/AlGaAs/InGaAs VCSELs with sub-milliamp threshold and high temperature operation ability Conducted research in Quantum-Well-Intermixing, wafer-bonding, substrate transfer, silicon photonics Also his research interst is in Microwave-Photonics Tech Lab, Nanjing University, China Led semiconductor laser and tunable laser research in Microwave-Photonics technology Lab Invented DFB semiconductor laser and laser arrays with equivalent phase shift Invented multi-exposure technology for efficiency enhancement of sampled Bragg gratings
Eliade Stefanescu
Senior Scientist I
Center of Advanced Studies in Physics of the Romanian Academy
Eliade Stefanescu, graduate of Faculty of Electronics, Section of Physicist Engineers in 1970, and PhD in Theoretical Physics in 1990, is a professional with multidisciplinary openness. In 1975 he followed a specialization course in physics of semiconductor devices, and, as a Scientist from 1976, and a Senior Scientist III from 1978, he worked in the field of dynamical characterization of semiconductor devices. From 1978, he worked in physics of optoelectronic devices, especially in optical bistability. From 1987, and from 1990 as a Senior Scientist II, he worked in the field of open quantum physics. In 1989 he predicted a phenomenon of amplification of a coherent electromagnetic field on the account of the environmental heat, and in 1991 discovered that the penetrability of a potential barrier can be increased by coupling to a dissipative system – thus, he described the decay spectrum of some cold fission modes. As a Senior Scientist I, from 1997 he developed a microscopic theory of open quantum systems, discovered a physical principle for the heat conversion into usable energy, invented semiconductor devices, and gave an analytical, microscopic description of the involved phenomena. In 2014, he produced a unitary relativistic quantum theory. In the years 1995-2000, he held a course called Dissipative Systems, in a program of the Polytechnic University of Bucharest for the master degree. He collaborated with scientists from the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Giessen, Germany, and the Department of Theoretical Nuclear Physics of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
Open Quantum Physics, with applications in Quantum Optics and Nuclear Physics – quantum mechanics, relativistic theory, field theory, dissipation theory, quantum optics, nuclear physics, and energy production.
Rodney Loudon
University of Essex
Professor Rodney Loudon MA DPhil Oxf, FRS is an Emeritus Professor at the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering of University of Essex. Rodney Loudon's work focuses on various aspects of theoretical solid state and laser physics, and particularly on light scattering. His 1964 paper on the Raman effect was one of the 100 most cited papers in all areas of physical science between 1960 and 1969. He has published more than 190 papers and 3 books, one of which(the three editions of The Quantum Theory of Light) has a very high international reputation and has been translated into Russian and Japanese. His Early work on excitons, phonons and magnons and his later treatments of non-classical effects in the statistical properties of light have attracted many citations. His most recent work on surface excitations and on optical amplification, attenuation and detection has also proved to be important. Rodney has played a full role at the University of Essex as Professor, Chairman and Dean. He has also workedat BT, RRE, Bell Telephone Laboratories and RCA.
Lasers and Optoelectronics. Mathematical and Theoretical physics. Applications of quantum optics theory in information technology.
Roderick Melnik
MS2Discovery Interdisciplinary Research Institute
Wilfrid Laurier University
Professor in the Faculty of Science and Tier I Canada Research Chair, Roderick Melnik is an applied mathematician and scientist with over 25 years of academic and industrial research experience. He is the director of the MS2Discovery Interdisciplinary Research Institute. Prior to his appointment in Canada, Melnik held full professorships in the U.S.A. and Denmark, while in the late 1990s, he held the position of senior mathematician at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Sydney, Australia. He received his PhD in Computational Mathematics and his MSc in Applied Mathematics from Kiev State University in 1989 and 1985, respectively. Melnik has been a recipient of a number of awards, including prestigious fellowships in Italy, Denmark, England and Spain. He has published over 300 refereed research contributions in the field of applied mathematics, computational science and mathematical modelling in sciences and technology. He serves on editorial boards and has been a guest editor of many international journals and book series. He is a member of such professional societies as SIAM, ASME, CAIMS, AustMS and its ANZIAM Division. Roderick Melnik is head of the M2NeT Laboratory (Mathematical Modelling for New Technologies) and is affiliated with the University of Waterloo and the University of Guelph, as well as with the Guelph-Waterloo Institute of Physics.
Applied and computational mathematics with its enrichments in sciences and technologies; Partial differential equations and approximation theory; Non-smooth control, Mathematical biology and complex dynamic systems.
Vladimir Korepin
C. N. Yang Institute of Theoretical Physics of the Stony Brook University
Accomplished undergraduate study in Sankt Petersburg State University. In 1974 graduated from the University with the diploma in theoretical physics. In 1974 was em- ployed by the Mathematical Institute of Academy of Sciences of Rus- sia. Accomplished his graduate and Post Doctoral studies in this Institute. He worked in this Institute until 1989. Currently, he is a full professor with tenure in the Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics of State University of New York at Stony Brook. PI obtained Ph.D. degree in mathematical physics in 1977 from Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Russia in Moscow. His Ph. D adviser was L.D. Faddeev. In 1985 was awarded the degree of doc- tor of sciences in mathematical physics by the Council of Ministers of Russian Federation. In 1978 his paper 'Quantum Solitons' was recognized as the best paper of the year by Russian Academy of Sci- ences. PI published about 265 papers in theoretical and mathematical physics. Currently works on quantum entanglement. He also have re- sults important for mathematics: In 1982 he introduced domain wall boundary conditions for six vertex model, which played a major role in algebraic combinatorics [Alternating Sign Matrices, domino tiling, Young diagrams].
He was elected fellow of American Physical Society in 1996.
He was elected fellow of International Association of Mathematical Physics in 1993.
He was elected fellow of of the Institute of Physics in 19998.
He is an Editor journals: Quantum Information Processing and Reviews in Mathematical Physics.
Izergin-Korepin model
Six vertex model with domain wall boundary conditions was first introduced by Korepin in 1982
Quantum inverse scattering method
Vertex models of statistical mechanics
Correlation functions in exactly solvable models
Fermi Hubbard model in one dimension
Quantum search algorithms
Hazel Cox
Senior Lecturer in Chemistry
Dr Hazel Cox is a Senior Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Sussex. Her first degree is in mathematics and for her PhD she used computer algebra to solve the Schrödinger equation for three particle systems. Her research interests involve using quantum chemistry to determine the underlying chemical and physical properties responsible for the structure, reactivity and spectroscopy of metal-ligand complexes and to probe the boundaries of current methodologies by exploring the fundamental interactions in few particle Coulomb systems.
Quantum Chemistry, Computational Chemistry, Theoretical Chemical Physics
John R. Sabin
John R. Sabin is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Florida and Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern Denmark.
His main research interest is in the interaction between high energy radiation and matter, in particular the stopping power of materials. The characteristics of the deposition of energy in matter by swift, massive particles is of interest in areas ranging from design of inertial confinement fusion devices to radiation therapy. The understanding and prediction of the processes involved in such energy deposition provide the unifying theme of the research. The research program has three distinct but interrelated parts dealing with: • stopping in atoms and molecules, with especial emphasis on aggregation effects • stopping in ultra-thin (several atomic layers) films as models for imbedded layers, overlayers and interfaces and as intermediates between gas and solid targets • trajectory dependent stopping if swift ions under channeling conditions in bulk targets
Lukasz Andrzej Glinka
American Association of International Researchers
Lukasz Andrzej Glinka, born on October 5, 1984 in Poland, is internationally recognized as a voluntary editor and reviewer at the think tanks of open-access journals, science author, non-fiction and philosophy writer. He is the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Astrophysics and Aerospace Technology of the OMICS Group, and an Organizing Committee Member to the International Conference on Astrophysics and Particle Physics, December 8-10, 2016, Dallas, Texas, USA. He gave more than 25 oral presentations to scientific conferences, either authored or co-authored more than 40 journal articles and papers, and authored 4 books in science and humanities among which one can find a comprehensive monograph in theoretical physics and applied mathematics. He holds BSc in physics from the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, is a biographee of Marquis Who's Who, and a member at the American Association of International Researchers which belongs to the American Research Institute for Policy Development.
Cultural Study, Ethics and Moral Philosophy, Mathematical Physics, Philosophy of Mind, Political Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Psychology of Emotions, Pure and Applied Mathematics, Social Science, Theoretical Cosmology, Theoretical Physics
Arun Kumar Pati
Harish Chandra Research Institute
Arun Kumar Pati is an Indian physicist notable for his research in quantum information and computation, the theory of geometric phases and its applications, as well as quantum mechanics. He is considered an important physicist in the field of quantum information and quantum computation in India, perhaps the first. Pati obtained his PhD from the University of Bombay, Mumbai. In 1989, he took up a position as a theoretical physicist in the Theoretical Physics Division, BARC, Mumbai, India. From 1998-2000, he was a visiting scientist and an EPSRC fellow at the University of Wales, Bangor, UK. He was a visiting scientist at the Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India from 2001-2010. Currently, he is a Professor of Quantum Information at the Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India since 2011. He is honored with K. P. Chair Professorship at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China during the period 2013-2015.
Current research topics include all aspects of quantum information, in particular quantum entanglement, quantum correlations, quantum speed limit, weak measurements, stronger uncertainty relations, monogmy and polygamy of various correlation measures, quantum coherence, entanglement in non-Hermitian quantum theory and their consequences. I have been also collaborating with experimentalists to test some of our theoretical predictions.
Na Young Kim
Dr. Na Young Kim leads Quantum Innovation (QuIN) laboratory, aiming to build large-scale quantum processors based on novel materials and advanced technologies. Two projects are under way: (1) the semiconductor quantum processors project establishes controllable optical and electrical domains, where we learn the insights of exotic materials and fundamental nature of symmetries; (2) the project of the multi-functional classical and quantum device arrays establishes a planar architecture comprising of nano-scale devices with electrical, optical, thermal and mechanical functionality. Her major contributions in quantum information science were published in Nature, Nature Physics and Physical Review Letters. She has delivered more than 50 invited speeches at international venues, and organized international conferences.
Quantum Electronics, Quantum Optics, Solid-state Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics, and Quantum Information Science and Technology
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