ICONO/LAT 2005 INVITED SPEAKERS

1. Nonlinear Optical Phenomena
   
   
   
   • KEYNOTE: "Nonlinear-optical transformations of ultrashort pulses in photonic-crystal fibers", Alexey Zheltikov, M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
     
   • David Grie, New York University, USA
     
   • "Optical characterization of spin dynamics and nonlinear optical processes in GaMnAs", Jean Benoit Heroux and Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami, University of Tokyo, Japan
     
   • "Nondegenerate single-cell photonic crystal resonator and its application", Yong-Hee Lee, KAIST, Korea
     
   • "Microstructural ferroelectric domain engineering", Yongyuan Zhu, Nanjing University, China
     
   • "Self-focusing and trapping of Raman-shifted pulses in periodic nonlinear waveguides", Shimshon Bar-Ad, Tel Aviv University, Israel
     
   • "Neutral atom optical clocks", Leo Hollberg, NIST, USA
     
   • "Nonlinear microscopy with shaped femtosecond pulses", Yaron Silberberg, Weizmann Institute, Israel
     
   • "Continuous-wave Raman generation in solid-state mediums", Alexander Grabtchikov, B.I. Stepanov Institute of Physics, Belarus
     
   • "Optical spatial petterns and switching in quadratic media: New effects and applications", Anatoly Sukhorukov, M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
     
   
   
2. Nonlinear Space-Time Dynamics
   
   
   
   • "Nonlinear conical waves for modern optical technology", Paolo Di Trapani, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy
     
   • "Title will be announced", Marc Haelterman, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
     
   • "Discrete solitons in waveguide arrays and optical lattices", Demetrios Christodoulides, CREOL/University of Central Florida, USA
     
   • "Polarization pattern of complex singular light fields:topology, morphology and transformations under small perturbations", Marat Soskin, Institute of Physics, Ukraine
     
   • "Dissipative temporal solitons in a laser cavity", Philippe Grelu, Université de Bourgogne, France
     
   • "Cavity solitons in broad area VCSEL’s", Jorge Tredicce, Institut Non Lineaire de Nice, France
     
   • "Title will be announced", J. S. Aitchison, University of Toronto, Canada
     
   
   
3. Novel Photonics Materials
   
   
   
   • "Photophysics of semiconductor quantum dots", Christian von Borczyskowski, Chemnitz University, Germany
     
   • "Photonic molecules doped with semiconductor nanocrystals", Ulrike Woggon, Universität Dortmund, Germany
     
   • "Plasmonic nanophotonics: Coupling light to nanoscale via plasmons", Vladimir Shalaev, Purdue University, USA
     
   • "Dispersive and nonlinear effects in photonic crystal waveguides", Thomas Krauss, University of St Andrews, Scotland
     
   • "Silicon photonic crystals and photonic wires for ultradense optical integration", Yurii Vlasov, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
     
   • "Materials with optically induced phase transitions", Jacob Khurgin, Johns Hopkins Univeristy, USA
     
   • "Surface polaritonic crystals: linear and nonlinear optical properties", Anatoly Zayats, The Queen's University of Belfast, UK
     
   • "Phase coupling and control of light speed in photorefractive media", Guoquan Zhang, Nankai University, P.R.China
     
   • "Dynamics of light in strongly scattering random media: Breakdown of diffusion, Anderson localization, and random lasers", Sergey Skipetrov, CNRS, France
     
   • "Sculptured thin films - novel polarization functionality through photonic engineering", Martin McCall, Imperial College, UK
     
   • "Discretizing light in light-induced photonic lattices", Zhigang Chen, San Francisco State University, USA
     
   
   
4. Quantum and Atom Optics
   
   
   
   • KEYNOTE: "Quantum control of light using atomic memory", Mikhail Lukin, Harvard University, USA
     
   • "Dark area and quantized dark singularity in coherent lambda-system pulses", V.Kozlov, St. Petersburg State Univ., Russia
     
   • "Trapping atoms in micro dipole traps", Antoine Browaeys, Institut d'Optique, France
     
   • "Quantum communication protocols with linear optics and squeezed light", Gerd Leuchs, Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany
     
   • "Single-mode biphotons as qutrits", Maria Chekhova, M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
     
   • "Continuous variable
     quantum cryptography without measurement switching", Ping Koy Lam, The Australian National University, Australia
     
   • "Entanglement of light and atomic spin waves via off-resonant coherent forward scattering", Dmitry Kupriyanov, St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University, Russia
     
   • "Interaction of single trapped ions with cavity vacuum fields", Christoph Becher, Universitaet Innsbruck, Austria
     
   • "Optical read-out of single spin dynamics", Alexander Nizovtsev, B.I.Stepanov Institute of Physics, Belarus
     
   • "Improving quantum microscopy and lithography via Raman photon pairs", Marlan Scully, Texas A&M University, USA
     
   • "Photoassociation in an ultracold gas of metastable helium: measuring and changing the interactions between particles", Michele Leduc, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
     
   
   
5. Engineering of Quantum Information
   
   
   
   • KEYNOTE: "Using continuous laser beams for quantum information processes, communication, and sensing", Hans Bachor, The Australian National University, Australia
     
   • "Simulation of quantum many-body systems", Ignacio Cirac, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Quantenoptik, Germany
     
   • "Ttitle will be announced", Anton Zeilinger, Universität Wien, Austria
     
   • "Quantum memory for light", Eugene Polzik, Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark
     
   • "Trapped-ion quantum information processing", John Chiaverini, NIST, USA
     
   • "Title will be announced", Michel Brune, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS, France
     
   • "Title will be announced", Andrew White, University of Queensland, Australia
     
   • "Quantum information processing with entangled ions", Christian Roos, Universität Innsbruck, Austria
     
   • "Tailoring interactions of trapped atoms in high Q cavities", Helmut Ritsch, Universitaet Innsbruck, Austria
     
   
   
6. Physics and Optical Diagnostics of Nanostructures
   
   
   
   • KEYNOTE: "Nanoscale engineering of multiparticle and interfacial interactions using semiconductor nanocrystals", Victor Klimov, Los Alamos National Lab, USA
     
   • "Nanostructure generation with an atomic nanopencil", Dieter Meschede, University of Bonn, Germany
     
   • "Magnetophotonic crystals"Mitsuteru Inoue, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan
     
   • "Extraordinary optical properties of structured metals", Francisco J. Garcia-Vidal, Universidad Autonomia de Madrid, Spain
     
   • "Tailoring and probing self-assembled nanostructures with laser light", Frank Traeger, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
     
   • "Nanooptics and nanolithography in near fields: state of art and perspectives", Yurii Lozovik, Institute of Spectroscopy, Russia
     
   • "Enhanced nonlinear optical interactions in nanostructured semiconductors", Pavel Kashkarov, M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
     
   • "Magneto-optical effects in cyanide-bridged metal assemblies: Magnetization-induced second harmonic generation and Photo-induced ferromagnetism", Shin-ichi Ohkoshi, University of Tokyo, Japan
     
   • "Nano-cube photonics", Nikolay Zheludev, University of Southampton, UK
     
   • "Nanoshells: a geometry for systematically controlling optical fields at the nanoscale", Naomi Halas, Rice University, USA
     
   • "Ultrashort optical pulse dynamics in materials with embedded nano-structures", Ildar Gabitov, University of Arizona, USA
     
   • "Solitons and nonlinear optics in photonic crystal fibers", Dmitry Skryabin, University of Bath, UK
     
   
   
7. Nonlinear Laser Spectroscopy and High-Precision Measurements
   
   
   
   • "High-resolution spectroscopy and atom optics
     of Mg: Applications for optical frequency standard", Andrei Goncharov, Institute of Laser Physics, Russia
     
   • "Nano localized optical fields in laser spectroscopy", Victor Balykin, Institute of Spectroscopy, Russia
     
   • "Precision Spectroscopy of Li I & II", William van Wijngaarden, York University, Canada
     
   • S"pectroscopy of ultracold collisions with neutral atoms", Luis Marcassa, Vanderlei Bagnato, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
     
   • "Spectrally resolved two-colour femtosecond photon echoes", Peter Hannaford, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
     
   • "Time-dependent Mie scattering", Wolfgang Kiefer, Universitaet Wuerzburg, Germany
     
   • "Application of high precision optical frequency measurement to a new determination of the Boltzmann constant by Doppler spectroscopy", Christian Chardonnet, Universite Paris-Nord, France
     
   • "Optical clock and precision measurements", Victor Pivtsov, Institute of Laser Physics, Russia
     
   
   
8. Ultrafast Phenomena and Physics of Superintense Laser Fields
   
   
   
   • KEYNOTE: "Optics in the relativistic regime", Sergey Bulanov, Advanced Photon Research Center, Japan
     
   • "Dependence upon molecular and atomic ground-state of HHG in the few optical cycle regime", Jon Marangos, Imperial College, UK
     
   • "Ionization by intense few-cycle laser pulses with stable carrier-envelope phase", Wilhelm Becker, Max-Born-Institut, Germany
     
   • "Manipulation of molecules and its applications", Hirofumu Sakai, The University of Tokyo, Japan
     
   • "Acceleration and ionization of fast ions in femtosecond laser plasma created at purified target surface", Andrei Saveliev, M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
     
   • "Energy distributions of charged particles from rare gas cluster explosions induced by short laser pulses", Jan-Michael Rost, Max-Plank-Institut fuer Physik Komplexer Systeme, Germany
     
   • "Molecular structure effects on strong field non-sequential double ionization", Horst Rottke, Max-Born-Institut, Germany
     
   • "Laser plasma accelerators: status and progress", Victor Malka, ENSTA LOA, France
     
   • "Dynamic acceleration effects in explosions of laser irradiated heteronuclear clusters", Todd Ditmire, University of Texas, USA
     
   • "Strong field ionization of molecules: the role polarizability", Ravi Bhardwaj, Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, NRC, Canada
     
   • "Dependence on laser intensity and pulse duration in proton acceleration using ultrafast laser pulse", Koshichi Nemoto, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Japan
     
   • "Quantum electrodynamical and nuclear processes in strong laser fields", Christoph Keitel, Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Germany
     
   • "Interaction of high-power femtosecond laser pulses with gas and plasma in dielectric capillary tubes", Daniil Kartashov, Institute of Applied Physics, Russia
     
   • "Ultrafast spectroscopy and interferometry of femto-picosecond laser gas-breakdown microplasma", Sergey Garnov, General Physics Institute, Russia
     
   • "High intensity lasers generating enormous currents in matter: We're finally beginning to understand the essential physics", Richard Freeman, The Ohio State University, USA
     
   • "Radiative recombination in strong laser fieldes", Gaetano Ferrante, University of Palermo, Italy
     
   • "Experimental and theoretical studies on particle acceleration by laser in preformed plasmas", Antonio Giulietti, Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici, Italy
     
   • "The physics of femtosecond laser filamentation and its potential applications", See L. Chin, Laval University, Canada
     
   • “Reaction microscopes”: Pathways to double and multiple ionization in ultra-short intense fields", Joachim Ullrich, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik, Germany
     
   
   
9. Laser Biomedicine and Chemistry
   
   
   
   • KEYNOTE: "Title will be announced", Michael Feld, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
     
   • "Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy using a supercontinuum generated from a photonic crystal fiber", Hideaki Kano and Hiro-o Hamaguchi, Tokyo University, Japan
     
   • "Clinical and experimental basis of OCT application in medical practice", Natalia Shakhova, Institute of Applied Physics, Russia
     
   • "Aqueous colloids of single walled carbon nanotubes: transient absorption spectra and dynamics of femtosecond relaxation", Victor Nadtochenko, Institute of Chemical Physics, Russia
     
   • "Optical spectroscopy on individual self-assembled molecular aggregates", Ken Takazawa, National Institute for Material Science, Japan
     
   • "Recent progress in terahertz time-domain spectroscopy: terahertz spectrochronography", Alexander Shkurinov, M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
     
   • "Dynamics of the phenomena induced by hydrogen bond and acid-base interactions in biological active 8-azasteroids", Sergei Tikhomirov, Institute of Molecular and Atomic Physics, Belarus
     
   • "IR femtosecond spectroscopy on hydrogen-bonded systems", Maxim Pshenichnikov, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
     
   • "Dynamic light scattering techniques for tissue functional diagnostics", Dmitry Zimnyakov, Saratov State University, Russia
     
   • "Strong field control of chemical reactivity", Robert Levis, Temple University, USA
     
   • "Title will be announced", Bruce Tromberg, Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic, USA
     
   
   
10. Symposium on "Quantum Imaging"
    
    
    
    • "Transmission and noiseless amplification of an image through an optical parametric oscillator", Claude Fabre, Ecole Normale Seperieure, France
      
    • "Ghost imaging with a splitted thermal-like beam", Luigi Lugiato, Universita del 'Insumbria, Italy
      
    • "Optimising multimode spatial squeezing for displacement measurements and optical storage", Hans Bachor, Australian National University, Australia
      
    • "Momentum-position entanglement imaging", John Howell, Rochester University, USA
      
    • "Aberration cancellation in two-photon quantum imaging", Bahaa Saleh, Boston University, USA
      
    • "Quantum imaging", Ivan Sokolov, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
      
    • "Quantum limits on optical super-resolution", Mikhail Kolobov, Universite de Lille, France
      
    
    
11. Symposium on "Attosecond Pulses: Generation and Applications"
    
    
    
    • KEYNOTE: "Attosecond synchronization of high harmonics", Pierre Agostini, Max-Born-Institut, Germany
      
    • "Attosecond molecular photoelectron spectroscopy", Andre Bandrauk, Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada
      
    • "High harmonic and attosecond pulse generation in dense medium", Andreas Becker, Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Germany
      
    • "On the 2nd order autocorrelation of an XUV attosecond pulse train", Dimitris Charalambidis, University of Crete and FORTH-IESL, Greece
      
    • "Attosecond pulses for time-resolved atomic physics", Markus Drescher, Universitaet Bielefeld, Germany
      
    • "Spectral, temporal and spatial methods in attosecond experimental studies", Leszek Frasinski, The University of Reading, UK
      
    • "Isolated attosecond pulses: Metrology and applications", Eleftherios Goulielmakis, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Quantenoptik, Germany
      
    • "Tomographic imaging of molecular orbitals using high harmonic generation", Jiro Itatani, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan
      
    • "Attosecond phenomena in the relativistic lambda-cubed regime", Natalia Naumova, University of Michigan, USA
      
    • "Using semiconductors to control the carrier-envelope phase of ultrashort pulses", Peter Roos, JILA/University of Colorado, USA
      
    • "Generation and application of attosecond pulse trains", Pascal Salieres, CEA-SPAM, Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, France
      
    • "Theory of attosecond pump-probe measurements", Armin Scrinzi, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
      
    • "Engineering of electron wave packets in atoms and molecules for highly efficient attosecond pulse production", Alexander Sergeev, Institute of Applied Physics, Russia
      
    • "Attosecond pulse characterization by XUV nonlinear optics", Taro Sekikawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
      
    • "Attosecond XUV and electron wavepackets", Katalin Varju, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
      
    • "Attosecond measurements without attosecond pulses: Using particle correlations", Olga Smirnova, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
      
    
    
12. Symposium on "THz Radiation: New Sources, Methods, and Applications"
    
    
    
    • KEYNOTE: "THz Photonics: Capabilities, Accomplishments and Opportunities", Daniel R. Grischkowsky, Oklahoma State University, USA
      
    • "Recent progress on THz Optoelectronics", Xi-Cheng Zhang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
      
    • "Optical rectification at metal surfaces investigated in the terahertz frequency range", Jean-Louis Coutaz, Université de Savoie, France
      
    • "Phase-resolved observation of intersubband Rabi oscillations in semiconductor quantum wells", Thomas Elsaesser, Max-Born-Institute, Germany
      
    • "Analysis of biomolecular behavior using terahertz radiation and development of integrated terahertz optics", Nobuhiko Sarukura, Institute for Molecular Science, Japan
      
    • "Photomixing experiments for spectroscopy and gaz pollutant detection", Robin Bocquet, ULCO/CNRS, France
      
    • "Terahertz generation with semiconductor lasers: photomixing and new methods", Stefan Hoffmann, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
      
    • "Ultrafast far-infrared dynamics probed by terahertz pulses: Methodology and applications", Hynek Nemec, Institute of Physics, Czech Republic
      
    • "Active two-terminal devices for sources at THz frequencies: Concepts and performance", Heribert Eisele, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
      
    • "Status of the Novosibirsk high-power free electron laser", G. Kulipanov, RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
      
    • "Terahertz emission from semiconductor surfaces illuminated by femtosecond laser pulses", Arunas Krotkus, Semiconductor Physics Institute, Lithuania
      
    • "Applications of Terahertz Spectral Imaging - Diagnostics in Dentistry", Nickolay Zinov'ev, A.F.Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, Russia
      
    
    

1. Advanced Lasers and Systems
   
   
   
   • "Novel solid state lasers", I.Scherbakov, General Physics Institute, Russia
     
   • "Praseodymium-doped solid-state lasers in the visible spectral range", Guenter Huber, Hamburg University, Germany
     
   • "Ceramic lasers for IFE power plant", Ken-ichi Ueda, Institute for Laser Science, Japan
     
   • "Title will be announced", Ursula Keller, Institute of Quantum Electronics, Switzerland
     
   • "Nonlinear optical elements based on polymer-filled nanoporous glass for control of laser radiation", M.F.Koldunov, A.A.Manenkov, General Physics Institute, Russia
     
   • "Raman fiber lasers", I.A.Bufetov, E.M.Dianov, Fiber Optics Research Center, Russia
     
   • "Diode pumped microchip- and mini-Raman lasers", V.A. Orlovich, B.I.Stepanov Institute of Physics, Belarus
     
   • "Ultraviolet-green semiconductor lasers", A.L.Gurskii, B.I.Stepanov Institute of Physics, Belarus
     
   • "Defect control of LiNbO3 and LiTaO3 for frequency conversion devices", Kenji Kitamura, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
     
   
   
2. Laser Systems for Precision Measurements
   
   
   
   • "Trapped ion optical clocks", Patrick Gill, National Phys. Lab., United Kingdom
     
   • "Coherent control and precision spectroscopy in ultracold atoms", Jun Ye, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
     
   • "Absolute length measurements with the help of a femtosecond laser", A.K.Dmitriev, Inst. of Laser Physics, Russia
     
   • "Towards Compact Optical Clocks with ultra low phase noise", М.A. Gubin, P.N.Lebedev Physical Institute, Russia
     
   • "Absolute measurements of optical frequencies and limitations for the fine structure constant drift", N.N.Kolachevskiy, P.N.Lebedev Physical Institute, Russia
     
   • "Multipair phase-coherent oscillation in the divide-by-3 self-phase-locked OPO: toward a cw mode-locked OPO?", J.-J. Zondy, Observatoire de Paris, France
     
   • "Laser cooling and application of cold atoms in quantum
     frequency standards", Yu.S.Domnin, IMVP GP "VNIIFTRI", Mendeleevo, Russia
     
   • "Precision measurements with solid-state laser systems", Stephan Schiller, Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf, Germany
     
   • "On optical atomic clocks", Franz Kaertner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
     
   • "On precise transfer of atomic clock signals via optical fiber network", David Jones, University of British Columbia, Canada
     
   
   
3. Laser Sensing, Imaging and Information Technologies
   
   
   
   • "The information aspects of optical coherence tomography", Yury Mazurenko, S.I. Vavilov State Optical Institute, Russia
     
   • "Optical spatial heterodyned interferometry for applications in semiconductor inspection and metrology", Kenneth Tobin, Jr., Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
     
   • "Recent developments in digital holography for metrological applications", Sergio De Nicola, Istituto di Cibernetica “E. Caianiello” del CNR, Italy
     
   • "Information processing with ultrashort laser pulses", Yeshaiahu Fainman, University of California, USA
     
   • "Biological cell characterization and sorting by optically induced forces", Sadik Esener, University of California, USA
     
   • "Laser techniques in conservation: an example of sustainable innovation in full development in Europe", Renzo Salimbeni, Institute of Applied Physics "N. Carrara" del CNR, Italy
     
   • "New ways in optical non-destructive testing", Wolfgang Osten, Universitat Stuttgart, Germany
     
   • "Laser imaging and mapping", Ove Steinvall, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden
     
   • "The current status of photopolymer glasses for holographic data storage and photonic applications", Maria L. Calvo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
     
   • "Ultra-fast procedures for direct and inverse problems of diffusion optical tomography", Vladimir Shuvalov, M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
     
   • "Three-dimensional computer-generated hologram display of real existing color objects", Toyohiko Yatagai, University of Tsukuba, Japan
     
   • "Two lateral coupled diode laser following the European project FALCON", Lamela Horacio, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
     
   
   
4. Laser-Assisted Micro- and Nanotechnologies
   
   
   
   • KEYNOTE: "Laser Processing and Chemistry: applications in nanopattering, material synthesis and biotechnology", Dieter Baeuerle, Johannes-Kepler-Universitat, Austria
     
   • "SNOM probes: fabrication and possibilities for imaging, diagnostics and modification of sample surface", Dryakhlushin Vladimir, Institute for Physics of Microstrustures RAS, Russia
     
   • "New high precision and high speed laser micro joining processes", Arnold Gillner, Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology in Aachen, Germany
     
   • "Laser micro patterning of protein microcrystals: Toward highly integrated protein chip and micro bio-module", Y.Hosokawa, Osaka University, Japan
     
   • "Laser-based nanotechnology", K.Murakami, Tsukuba University, Japan
     
   • "MEMS and nano-scale device fabrication based on UV laser direct write", H.Helvajian, Aerospace Corporation, USA
     
   • Picosecond laser plasma: diagnostic and applications", N.Vogel, Technical University Chemnitz, Germany
     
   • "Fabrication of 3D photonics structures by fs-pulses", H.Misawa, Hokkaido University, Japan
     
   • "Laser ignition of engines - a realistic option!", E.Wintner, Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria
     
   • "New type of BN films with excellent electron field emission properties prepared by plasma-assisted laser CVD", Shojiro Komatsu, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
     
   • "Doped multicomponent glass thin films deposited by pulsed laser ablation", M. Martino, University of Lecce, Italy
     
   • "3-D integration of microfluidics and microoptics by femtosecond laser for Lab-on-a-chip application", K. Sugioka, RIKEN, Japan
     
   • "Development of biomimetic implants by laser technologies: new materials, new characterisations in-vitro and in-vivo", I. Mihailescu, National Institute for Lasers, Plasma and Radiation Physics, Romania
     
   • "Embedding Electronic and Micropower Components Using Laser Direct-Write", Alberto Pique, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
     
   • "Mechanisms of carbon and BN nanotube nucleation and growth by laser ablation synthesis", Oleg Louchev, National Insitute for Materials Science, Japan
     
   • "Laser-assisted synthesis of biofunctional nanomaterials in aqueous environment", Andrei Kabashin,
     Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
     
   
   
5. Laser Technologies for Environmental Monitoring and Ecological Applications
   
   
   
   • "Lidar remote sensing technologies for earth and planetary remote sensing", Upendra N. Singh, NASA Langley Research Center, USA
     
   • "The application of lasers to the study of Earth and
     planetary surfaces and their land cover", David E. Smith, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
     
   • "Long-distance laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy with filaments", Kamil Stelmaszczyk, Freie Universitet Berlin, Germany
     
   • "Lidar fluorosensor and satellite integrated approach: seven years of Southern ocean investigation", Antonio Palucci, ENEA, C.R.Frascaty, Italy
     
   • "Some application laser sounding and laser spectroscopy methods for investigation Ocean and atmosphere over the ocean", Oleg Bukin, Far Eastern State University, Russia
     
   • "Modern trends in tunable diode lasers applications", Alexander V. Nadezhdinskii, General Physics Institute, Russia
     
   • "Nonlinear optical technologies for high bitrate free-space communications", Alexander Dudelzak, Canadian Space Agency, Canada
     
   • "Control of multiple filaments in a high-power femtosecond laser pulse", Valery Kandidov, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
     
   • "Atmospheric mechanisms of admixters transfer above central Asia region: Methods of control and results of monitoring", Kazimir Karimov, Institute of Physics, Kyrgyz Republic
     
   • "Ground- and space-based lidar system of atmospheric monitoring", Georgy F. Tulinov, Gennady G. Matvienko, Applied Geophysical Institute, Russia
     
   • "Application of laser guide star technique for Cn2 vertical distribution monitoring in atmosphere", Vladimir Lukin, Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Russia
     
   • "Lidar return analysis using incoherent spatial filtering", Alexander Tikhomirov, Insitute for Optical Monitoring, Russia
     
   • "High spectral resolution fluorescence LIDAR technique and its applications to the monitoring of environment", Giovanna Cecchi, IFAC-CNR “Nello Carrara”, Italy
     
   • "Mobile ground-based lidar complexes for the ecological atmospheric monitoring", Andrew V. Savin, "Laser Systems" Ltd, Russia
     
   • "Amplification and pulse shortening in filaments", Andre Mysyrowicz, ENSTA, France
     
   • "Study of filamentation in gases as a function of pressure", Bernard Prade, ENSTA, France
     
   
   
6. Laser Technologies for Medicine
   
   
   
   • "New laser technologies for treatment of epithelial skin tumor", S. Kluchareva, I.I Mechnik, St. Petersburg Medical state Academy, Russia
     
   • "Excimer laser applications in ophthalmology and dermatology", S. Vartapetov, Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russia
     
   • "Adaptive optics for ophthalmology", N. Irochnikov, Moscow state University, Russia
     "Early detection and conservative removal of dental decay with lasers", Daniel Fried, University of California, USA
     
   • "Laser treatment--the method of choice for the removing of some benign and malignant tumors", Laima Bloznelyte-Plesniene, Vilnius University, Lithuania
     
   • "Laser and supercritical fluid technologies for fabrication of custom-design implants and scaffolds for tissue Engineering", Vladimir Popov, Institute of Laser and Information Technologies, Russia
     
   • "Laser engineering of cartilage", Victor Bagratashvili, Institute on Laser and Information Technologies, Russia
     
   • "Doppler diagnostics of laser-ablated biotissues: fundamentals, equipment, and medical testing", Valery Ul’yanov, Institute on Laser and Information Technologies, Russia
     
   • "Fluorescence Diagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy for the management of cancer", Herbert Stepp, Laser-Forschungslabor Urologische Klinik der LMU, Germany
     
   
   
7. High-Power Lasers and Applications
   
   
   
   • "Mobile high–power chemical lasers", A.Boreisho, Baltic State Technical University, Russia
     
   • "Scaleable monochromatic coherent photon generation in multimode fiber through nonlinear conversion process", W.B.Roh, Air Force Institute of Technology, USA
     
   • "Super power avalanches discharge and its application for the excitation of gas lasers", V.Tarasenko, High-Current Electronic Institute, Russia
     
   • "High-power carbon monoxide lasers: state of the art", A.Napartovich, Troitsk Institute of Innovation and Fusion Research, Russia
     
   • "Large aperture excimer laser system", V. Losev, Institute of High Current Electronics, Russia, Jingru Liu, Northwest Institute of
     Nuclear Technology, Xian, China
     
   • "Advances in industrial high power lasers (8 kW) for
     cutting of thick steel", A. Orishich, Institute of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics, Russia
     
   • "COIL and its possible applications", B. Vyskubenko, Russian Federal Nuclear Center, Russia
     
   • "Physical and chemical problems of high power COIL", M.Zagidullin, Dr. V.Nikolaev, Lebedev Physical Institute, Samara, Russia
     
   • "High-power CO2 and CO lasers for industrial applications in TRINITI", V.A. Gurashvili, V. Naumov, A. Rodin, Troitsk Institute of Innovation and Fusion Research, Russia
     
   • "Application capability of the gas lasers for launching of sattelites", Y. Rezunkov, NIIEFA, Russia
     
   • "Some recent studies on laser cladding and dissimilar joining", Rakesh Kaul, CAT, Indore, India
     
   • "Studies in TEA CO2 laser: An indispensable tool for laser photochemistry", Manoj Kumar, CAT, Indore, India
     
   • "Optical pumping of high pressure CO2 Laser", Mikhail A. Azarov, Russian Scientific Center "Applied Chemistry", Russia
     
   • "High power excimer lasers: Industrial applications", Ivan Tassy, Laser, Plasma and Photonic Processes Laboratory Parc Scientifique et Technologique de Luminy, France
     
   • "Pulsed mode of COIL operation", N.Yuryshev, Lebedev Physical Institute, Russia
     
   • "OMEGA extended performance (EP): Adding high-energy, short-pulse capability to OMEGA", Andrey Okishev, University of Rochester, USA
     
   • "Innovations in laser hybrid welding" Farson, Ohio State University, USA
     
   • "Laser isotope separation", Vladimir Baranov, Russian Scientific Center “Kurchatov Institute”, Russia
     
   • "New developments on laser assisted forming", Dieter Schuoker, University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
     
   • "Design features and problems in the development of high-power autonomous mobile CW DF laser systems", A. Bashkin, NPO "Energomash", Russia
     
   • "Recent experiments and post-discharge Modeling of the electricoil laser system", Carroll David, CU Aerospace, USA
     
   • "Petroleum industry applications of high-power lasers", Graves Ramona M., Colorado School of Mines, USA
     
   
   
8. Optical Bio- and Chemical Sensors
   
   
   
   • "Molecular recognition and sensing systems employing phosphorescent probes and lasers", Dmitri Papkovsky, University College Cork, Ireland
     
   • "Micro and nanooptical biosensor devices for real applications", Laura Lechuga, Centro Nacional de Microelectronica, Spain
     
   • "Biological applications of colloidal nanoparticles", Wolfgang J Parak, Ludwig Maximilians University, Germany
     
   • "Bio- and chemical analytical applications of infrared fiber sensors", Leonid Butvina, Fiber Optics Research Center, Russia
     
   • "Applications of a spectral-phase interferometer in pharmacy and medicine", Michael Keusgen, University of Marburg, Germany
     
   • "Applications of bioluminescent sensors in rapid analysis of microbial contaminations in food and environment", Nataliya Ugarova, Valeriy Froundjian, M.V.Lomonossov Moscow State University, Russia
     
   • "Interferometric sensors for monitoring our environment", Daniel Campbell, Georgia Tech Research Instutute, USA
     
   • "Gel-based biochips for medical diagnostics and fundamental research", Alexander Zasedatelev and Viktor Barsky, Institute of Molecular Biology, Russia
     
   • "Optical Techniques for Large-Scale Chemical Detection", Robert Lieberman, Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc. USA
     
   • "Nanodesign of a new type of optical biosensing units based on double-stranded DNA molecules", Yuri Yevdokimov, Institute of Molecular Biology, Russia
     
   • "Planar lightwave platforms for bio- and chemical sensing", James Wilkinson, University of Southampton, UK
     
   • "Some novel developments in integrated optical sensors", Paul V.Lambeck, University of Twente, The Netherlands
     
   • "Integrated optical sensors for micro-total analysis systems", Klaus Mogensen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
     
   • "Affinoscopes, new family of label-free biosensors", Petr Nikitin, General Physics Institute, Russia
     
   • "Nanosensors and nanoprobes: frontiers in real-time cellular signaling and nanomedicine", Tuan Vo-Dinh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
     
   • "Potential roles for nanophotonic and photonic-crystal devices in sensor applications, including the biosciences", Richard DeLaRue, University of Glasgow, UK
     
   
   
9. Symposium on "Optical discharge (fiber fuse) propagation in fiber waveguide"
   
   
   
   • "In-situ observation of fiber-fuse propagation", Shin-ichi Todoroki, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
     
   • "Propagation of optic discharge along the core of fiber waveguide", I.A. Bufetov, E.M. Dianov, A.A. Frolov, Fiber Optics Research Center at the A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russia
     
   • "Plasma in the bright spot and the nature of voids chain in fiber fuse track", S.I. Yakovlenko, A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russia
     
   
   
10. Joint ICONO/LAT Symposium on "Femtosecond laser pulse filamentation: Phenomena and applications"