Daniel Gauthier, Duke Univ., USA, General Chair
Daniel Gauthier is Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics at Duke University. He obtained his BS (1982), MS (1983), and PhD (1989) in Optics from the Institute of Optics, University of Rochester. He was a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Oregon from 1989-1991, and moved to Duke as an Assistant Professor of Physics in 1992. His research interests include quantum nonlinear optics, slow and fast light, quantum communication, and chaos and complexity in dynamical systems. He was a Young Investigator with the National Science Foundation and the Army Research Office, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and Optical Society of America. He is currently a Topical Editor for Optics Letters, past member of the Editorial Board for Physical Review A (2003-2008), and has served on the technical program committees for numerous conferences, including the European Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Meeting (2005, 2008-2010), Nonlinear Optics (2007, 2009), the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Meeting (1996, 1999, 2000, 2008), the Optical Science of America Nonlinear Optics Technical group (2000-2003), Dynamics Days (2001, 2004, 2010), and Dynamics Days Europe (2008). He has also served as a member of the Executive Committee of the APS Division of Laser Science (2005-2008) and the Division of Biological Physics (1998-2003).
Takunori Taira, Inst. for Molecular Science, Laser Res. Ctr., Japan, General Chair
Takunori Taira received his PhD from Tohoku Univ. and is an Associate Professor of Institute for Molecular Science, Japan where he is engaged in research on Micro Solid-State Photonics. Prof. Taira was on the Program Committee of ASSP (2005-2009, 2008 Program Chair, 2009 General Chair), on the CLEO Program Committee of Application Nonlinear Optics (2006-2008), and was Chair of the Nonlinear Optics Technical Group. He received the “2004 Commendation” Award of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, for scientific and technological research merits (Japan), and “OSA Fellow” in 2010 (USA).
Benoît Boulanger, Univ. de Grenoble, France, Program Chair
Benoit Boulanger was born in 1961. He received the Ph.D. degree in Material Sciences from Université Nancy University, France, in 1989. He joined the Lab of Crystallography in Nancy as CNRS researcher (1989-1993), the Ginzton Laboratory in Stanford University as Visiting Scientist (1993-1994) and the Physics Lab of Burgundy University as CNRS researcher (1994-2000). From 2000 he is full Professor at Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble where he joined first the Lab of Physics Spectrometry (2000-2007). From 2007 he is deputy director of the department Condensed Matter Materials & Functions of Néel Institute in Grenoble. Pr. Boulanger has authored over 150 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. He served on several conferences committees : CLEO/IQEC (2005-2006-2007), Non Linear Optics (2009), EUROPHOTON (2010) and ASSP (2009-2010-2011). His researches are at the interface between material engineering and physics of devices, between fundamental optics and applications. His main achievements concern the crystal growth of KTP family compounds, the development of the field factor formalism for symmetry analysis, the invention of the sphere method for phase-matching characterization, the study of gray-tracking in KTP, the development of angular-quasi phase-matching, the study of absorption and fluorescence singularities in monoclinic crystals and the first demonstration of triple photon generation.
Steven Cundiff, JILA/Univ. of Colorado and NIST, USA, Program Chair
Steven T. Cundiff is a Fellow of JILA, a joint institute between the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado. He is also a Physicist in the NIST Quantum Physics Division and a Professor Adjoint in the Department of Physics and the Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at the University of Colorado. His research group works in the area of ultrafast optics, ranging from ultrafast spectroscopy to carrier-envelope phase stabilization. He was Program Co-Chair (2006) and General Co-Chair of the Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of American and the American Physical Society.
