We are pleased to announce the participation of the following Plenary Speakers:
Joss Bland-Hawthorn
University of Sydney, Australia
Joss Bland-Hawthorn is the recipient of a Federation Fellowship at the University of Sydney where he is a Professor in Physics. He is an Associate Director and a founding member of the Institute for Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS). Joss has over 200 research papers, and is world renowned for his breakthroughs in astrophysics and in instrumentation. In 1986, he obtained his PhD in astrophysics from the Royal Greenwich Observatory prior to taking up faculty appointments in Hawaii and Texas. In 1993, he moved to the Anglo-Australian Observatory where he was Head of a highly successful group that pioneered astronomical concepts with names like WFMOS, FMOS, Nod & Shuffle, Dazle, Starbugs, Honeycomb. Joss has carried out pioneering work on tunable filters, gratings and interplanetary laser communications. In 2002, he proposed the new field of astrophotonics that sits at the interface of astronomy and photonics – in Feb 2009, this field was featured in the Focus Issue of Optics Express. Joss is a recipient of the 2008 Muhlmann Award for experimental astronomy, and a recipient of the inaugural 2008 Group Achievement Award from the Royal Astronomical Society. In 2010, he is the Leverhulme Visiting Professor to Oxford and the Merton College Fellow. In 2011, he is the Brittingham Scholar to the University of Wisconsin.
Mark Kasevich
Stanford University, USA
Mark Kasevich is a Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University. He received his B.A. degree (1985) in Physics from Dartmouth College, his M.A. (1987) in Physics and Philosophy from Oxford University and his Ph.D. (1992) in Applied Physics from Stanford University. He joined the Stanford Physics Department faculty in 1992. From 1997-2002 he was a member of the Yale Physics Department faculty. He returned to Stanford in 2002. His current research interests are centered on the development of quantum sensors of rotation and acceleration based on cold atoms (quantum metrology), application of these sensors to tests of General Relativity, investigation of many-body quantum effects in Bose condensed vapors (including quantum simulation), and investigation of ultra-fast laser-induced phenomena. He currently serves as Consulting Chief Scientist at AOSense, Inc. and as a National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow.
Ken-ichi Kitayama
Osaka University, Japan
Ken-ichi Kitayama received the M.E. and Dr.Eng. degrees from Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, in 1976 and 1981, respectively. In 1976, he joined the NTT Laboratory. In 1995, he joined the NICT, Japan. Since 1999, he has been the Professor of Osaka University, Japan. His research interests are in photonic label switchings, optical signal processings, OCDMA, and RoF. He has published over 250 papers in refereed journals and holds more than 30 patents. He currently serves as the Associate Editor of the IEEE/OSA JLT and JOCN. He is the Fellow of the IEEE and the Fellow of the IEICE.
Ferenc Krausz
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Germany
Ferenc Krausz was born in Hungary in 1962. He studied Electrical Engineering and Physics. In 1991 he obtained his doctorate in Quantum Electronics and Laser Technology and became a professor in 1999 at the Vienna University of Technology. In 2003 Professor Krausz was appointed director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching and holds a Chair in Experimental Physics (Laser Physics) at LMU Munich since 2004. He is also director of the Cluster of Excellence: Munich Centre for Advanced Photonics. Ferenc Krausz has made pioneering contributions to advancing femtosecond and creating attosecond technology.
Ed Moses
National Ignition Facility, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Dr Moses is the Director of the National Ignition Facility, the world’s largest and most energetic laser system. He is also the National Director of the National Ignition Campaign to achieve fusion ignition in the laboratory. Dr Moses is internationally recognised in laser and optical sciences and holds several patents and many honors including the Fusion Power Associates 2008 Leadership Award and the Memorial DS Rozhdestvensky Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Lasers and Optical Sciences. Dr Moses is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of SPIE and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Oskar Painter
California Institute of Technology, USA
Oskar Painter received his BSEE from the University of British Columbia in 1994, his Master’s Degree of Science from the California Institute of Technology in 1995, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 2001. In 2000 he helped found Xponent Photonics, an optical start-up company developing surface-mount photonics for telecom and data networking applications. In 2002 he returned to the California Institute of Technology, where he is currently a Professor of Applied Physics and Executive Officer of the Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science.
Dr Painter’s general research interests lie in studying new and interesting ways in which light behaves within micro- and nano-scale dielectric and metallic structures. Specific areas of research include semiconductor cavity QED, integrated microphotonics, surface-plasmon physics and devices, and most recently cavity optomechanics.
Jun Ye
University of Colorado, USA
Jun Ye is a Fellow of JILA and Physics Professor Adjoint at the University of Colorado. He is also a Fellow of NIST, of the American Physical Society, and of the Optical Society of America. His research includes precision measurement and metrology, ultracold matters, ultrafast science and quantum control. He has co-authored over 200 papers and delivered over 250 invited talks. Honors include I. I. Rabi Prize (APS), European Frequency & Time Forum Award, Carl Zeiss Award, W. F. Meggers Award, A. Lomb Medal (OSA), A. S. Flemming Award, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, Gold Medal (U.S. Commerce Department), F. W. Bessel Award (Humboldt Foundation), S. W. Stratton Award (NIST), and Frew Fellowship (Australian Academy of Science).