Chairs & Committee Members
The Technical Program Chairs and Committee Members are integral to the success of the meeting. These volunteers dedicate countless hours to planning, including such critical activities as raising funds to support the event, securing invited speakers, reaching out to colleagues to encourage submissions, reviewing papers, and scheduling sessions. On behalf of OSA, its Board, and its entire staff, we extend enormous gratitude to the following members of the IPR Technical Program Committee.
On this page:
Program Committee
Information for Conference Chairs and Committee Members
Information for Session Chairs/Presiders
Program Committee
General Chairs
Dan-Xia Xu, National Research Council Canada
Anatoly Zayats, King's College London, UK
Program Chairs
Valery Tolstikhin, OneChip Photonics, Canada
Hung-Chun Chang, National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan
Committee Members
Subcommittee 1: Photonic Integration
Christopher Doerr, Alcatel-Lucent, USA; Subcommittee Chair
Doug Gill, IBM, USA
Lionel Kimerling, MIT, USA
Yamada Koji, NTT, Japan
Damien Lambert, Infinera Inc., USA
Xaveer Leijtens, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Milan Masanovic, Freedom Photonics, USA
Zetian Mi, McGill University, Canada
Subcommittee 2: Devices and Components
Michael Watts, MIT, USA; Subcommittee Chair
Solomon Assefa, IBM T. J. Watson Research, USA
Ray Beausoleil, HP Labs, USA
Jurgen Michel, MIT, USA
Joyce Poon, University of Toronto, Canada
Laurent Vivien, Institut d'Electronique Fondamentale, University of Paris Sud, France
Lars Zimmermannm, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany
William Zortman, Sandia National Labs, USA
Subcommittee 3: Theory, Modeling & Simulations
Dmitry Chigrin, University of Wuppertal, Germany; Subcommittee Chair
Sven Burger, Zuse-Institut Berlin (ZIB), Germany
Masafumi Fujii, University of Toyama, Japan
Stephen O'Brien, Tyndall National Institute, Ireland
James Pond, Lumerical, Canada
Christopher Poulton, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Rolf Schuhmann, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Subcommittee 4: Nanophotonic Devices and Applications
Gary Wiederrecht, Argonne National Laboratory, USA; Subcommittee Chair
Sailing He, Zhejiang University, China and Joint Research Center of Photonics of the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Masaya Notomi, NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Japan
Milos Popovic, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Edwin Pun, City University of Hong Kong, China
John Rogers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Din Ping Tsai, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
William Whelan-Curtin, Univ. of St. Andrews, UK
Subcommittee 5: Slow Light Photonics
Thomas Krauss, University of St. Andrews, UK; Subcommittee Chair
Ben Eggleton, Sydney Universit, Australia
Kobus Kuipers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Christelle Monat, Lion, France
Susumu Noda, Kyoto University, Japan
Marco Santagiustina, University of Padova, Italy
Holger Schmidt, UC Santa Cruz,USA
If you are a member of the committee and have any questions or concerns at any point along the way, please refer to the information below or contact your program manager.
Information for Conference Chairs and Committee Members
Session Presider/Chair Information
The role of the session presider (or session chair) is an important one. In many ways, the success of the session and the presentations within it depends on the presider. First and foremost, OSA recognizes the significance of the role of the session presider, and we thank you for volunteering to serve in this critical role!
The information on this page is arranged in the following sections and is intended to assist you in managing a successful session:
Arriving at Your Session Room
Presiders are requested to identify themselves to the audiovisual personnel at least 20 minutes before the session begins for a quick review of equipment and procedures.
Guidelines for Presiding over a Session
Remember to introduce yourself as the presider and announce the session. The total amount of time allotted for each presentation is listed in the online program as well as in the conference program book, and start times for each presentation are listed on the presider check-in sheet at the podium. A 60-minute mechanical timer will be available for your use. We recommend that the timer is set two minutes prior to the end of the presentation time in order to provide a warning to wrap up the talk and start the discussion period. Notify the authors of this warning system. It is also important to remind the speaker to repeat the questions asked from the audience.
Maintaining the scheduled timing of papers is very important. In cases where the paper is withdrawn or the speaker does not show, use the time for an extended question period for authors of previously presented papers or call a break. PLEASE DO NOT START TALKS EARLIER THAN THEY ARE SCHEDULED. All requests to modify the program schedule should be directed to the program chair.
We will have presider check-in sheets in your session room to complete and return to management at the completion of your session. When monitoring the session we ask that you note any changes or no-shows on this sheet for our records.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Due to licensing restrictions, the use of music in presentations, including video presentations, is prohibited. If a speaker uses music during his/her presentation, please inform Meeting Management immediately.
Completing the Presider Check-in Sheet
Once you arrive at your session room, you will find a folder marked “Presider Check-In” at the podium or on the table at the front of the room. This folder will contain a sheet for each session in that room. Please be sure to remove only the sheet that applies to the session you are chairing, and leave the others in the folder. The check-in sheet will list the talks within your session, the order in which they will be given, and the name of the author giving the presentation. Please complete the check-in form as follows:
- Estimate the number of attendees in the session at the start of the session, about halfway into the session, and at the end of the session; note these counts where indicated in the upper right corner.
- Check the box in the rightmost column to indicate which speakers presented during the session.
- Make note of any no-show speakers or replacement speakers.
- Leave the completed sheet in the folder in the pocket marked “Completed.”
- Leave the folder on the podium or table for the next session presider. (If you are chairing the last session of the day, please leave the folder in the room for meeting management.)
The check-in form serves two purposes: 1) to assist you in running an effective session and 2) to help OSA ensure that the appropriate speakers’ files are archived on OSA Optics InfoBase after the meeting. Only those authors who attend and present are included in the InfoBase, so it’s important that you make note of any presenters who are absent.
View a sample check-in sheet.
Again, we appreciate your assistance in serving as a session presider!
