Invited Speakers

Confirmed Invited Speakers and tentative titles

• Marco Bazzan, Università di Padova (Italy) and VIRGO Collaboration
  Nonlinear optics for improved gravitational wave interferometry
  

• Ivan Biaggio, Lehigh University, Bethlehem (USA)
  The life and times of excitons in organic semiconductors: fission, fusion, entanglement, transport, and dissociation

• Emmanuelle Deleporte, Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, ENS Cachan (France)
  Excitons in hybrid halide perovskites

• Dean Evans, Air Force Research Laboratory, Dayton (USA)
  Understanding the mysteries of ferroelectricity in zero dimensional nanoparticles and their role in electro-optical applications
  

• Alexander Grabar, Uzhhorod National University (Ukraine)
  How doping and post-growth treatments modify the photorefractive performance of Sn₂P₂S₆

• Rachel Grange, ETH Zürich (Switzerland)
  Beyond metals and semiconductors: nano-oxides for nonlinear photonic devices

• Michel Gross, Université de Montpellier (France)
  Holographic methods (Digital and Dynamic holography) applied to acousto optic imaging in scattering media
  

• Christoph Merschjann, Freie Universität, Berlin (Germany)
  From photorefractive oxides to carbon-based photocatalysts: shedding light on transport and function by transient optical spectroscopy

• Christophe Moser, EPFL Lausanne (Switzerland)
  Multimode fibers: learning image transmission and spatio-temporal lasers
  

• Sébastien Popoff, ESPCI, Institut Langevin, Paris (France)
  Wavefront shaping in complex media for analog computation
  

• George Valley, Aerospace Corp., Los Angeles (USA)
  Optical signal processing from photorefractive materials to speckle in multimode waveguides
  

• Guoquan Zhang, Nankai University, Tianjin (China)
  Coherent optical field manipulation and optical information processing via EIT-induced atomic coherence gratings

Special evening session (June 19th)

• Peter Günter, ETH Zürich (Switzerland)
  Photorefraction, a workhorse for nonlinear optics
  
  
• Jean-Pierre Huignard,  Jphopto, Paris (France)
  Seminal contributions of photorefractive nonlinear optics
  
  
• Marvin Klein, Intelligent Optical Systems, Torrance (USA)
  Adaptive Laser Ultrasonic Receivers For Industrial Inspection: a PR Crystal in Every One

• Roland Ryf, Nokia - Bell Laboratories, Holmdel (USA)
  Nonlinear effects in km-long multimode fibers